Paolo Marino

Current

• Senior Technical Consultant at Engineering.it

Past

• Senior Analyst at SNAM Rete Gas
• "Citizen" at Second Life
• Analyst/DBA at Costa Crociere

• Analyst / Team Leader at Costa Crociere
• Technical Consultant at Costa Crociere
• Technical Consultant at Costa Crociere
• Technical Consultant at Eli Lilly and Co Ltd
• Technical Consultant / Project Technical Leader at Telecom Italia Lab
• Developer / Analyst at FIAT
• N/A at Various (Self-employed)

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Education

• Università degli Studi di Torino

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Connections

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Industry

Information Technology and Services

Websites

• My Aikido dojo

Paolo Marino’s Summary

A Senior IT Analyst with first class experience in manufacturing, services and e-solutions fields. Able to work on own initiative and as part of a team. Proven analytical, design and problem solving skills. Dedicated to maintaining high quality standards. Good knowledge of both spoken and written English.

On average, 4% of my net income is constantly “re-invested” in self-improvement activities (including technical books, magazines, courses, English language practice).

I live and work in Turin (Torino), Italy

Paolo Marino’s Specialties:

Object Oriented Design (OOD), Java, RDBMS, Server Side development

Paolo Marino’s Experience

• Senior Technical Consultant

  Engineering.it

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  January 1991 — Present (17 years 9 months)

  I joined Engineering.it (formerly Atos Origin Italia, Atos, Sligos, Mesarteam) in 1991.
  I have always worked on "external" projects, though, either developing solutions internally for one of our customers, or joining external groups located at the customer's premises.

• Senior Analyst

  SNAM Rete Gas

  (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; SRG; Utilities industry)

  August 2006 — May 2007 (10 months)

  Technical migration of Internet and Intranet sites from static HTML and Lotus Domino to Oracle Portal

• "Citizen"

  Second Life

  (Educational Institution; Myself Only; Internet industry)

  October 2005 — January 2007 (1 year 4 months)

  I spent a little over one year inside Second Life, part for fun, part as a research. I got knowledgeable with most of the technical infrastructure and dabbled into scripting and building.
  I also managed to keep myself up to date about the "social" aspects of Second Life, and while I don't spend much time in it anymore, I still have contacts and tend to follow the main trends and news about this "place".

• Analyst/DBA

  Costa Crociere

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; CCL; Leisure, Travel & Tourism industry)

  January 2006 — July 2006 (7 months)

  TQS - A Total Quality Management System to audit company quality indicators.
  Technology: .NET, SqlServer, Oracle

• Analyst / Team Leader

  Costa Crociere

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; CCL; Leisure, Travel & Tourism industry)

  December 2003 — December 2005 (2 years 1 month)

  Analysis and design of a set of functional and technical enhancements of the Costa Crociere corporate-level Reservation System.
  Platform/Infrastructure: webMethods, Progress 4GL, Java
  Responsibilities / Achievements: Managed requirements gathering and formalization phase for various self-contained sub- projects, working together with Costa Business Analysts in defining new Enterprise Integration efforts and specific eveolutive maintenance sub-projects to enhance the current booking system.

• Technical Consultant

  Costa Crociere

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; CCL; Leisure, Travel & Tourism industry)

  March 2003 — April 2004 (1 year 2 months)

  Platform/Infrastructure: WebMethods, Progress 4GL, Java, XML
  Responsibilities / Achievements:
  Complete implementation (from analysis/inception to maintenance) of an EI solution to automate flights booking, fully integrated with the existing reservation system.
  The system uses a set of user-defined rules, plus constraints based on time and business requirements, to find out and book flight seats through Amadeus brokering API.

• Technical Consultant

  Costa Crociere

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; CCL; Leisure, Travel & Tourism industry)

  July 2002 — February 2003 (8 months)

  Responsibilities / Achievements:Designed and specified a high-level categorization system of the current portfolio of products offered by the customer.
  Worked on a series of prototypes to enhance the current B2E infrastructure.
  Platform/Infrastructure: Progress 4GL, Java

• Technical Consultant

  Eli Lilly and Co Ltd

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; LLY; Pharmaceuticals industry)

  June 2001 — May 2002 (1 year)

  Design and development of information sites for Eli Lilly
  Platform/Infrastructure: J2EE – Servlets/JSP, Oracle, SunOs.
  Responsibilities / Achievements: Managed requirement gatherings, design, development, testing and maintenance.
  The web application were deployed remotely to customer’s IT site. English was the official language for both projects, including all the documents, conference calls and face-to-face meetings.

• Technical Consultant / Project Technical Leader

  Telecom Italia Lab

  (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Telecommunications industry)

  August 1998 — May 2001 (2 years 10 months)

  S.M.A.L.L. (Service Manager for AdsL Lines); joint Tilab/Telecom Italia project for ADSL lines provisioning and fault diagnosis. The project serviced the entire national ADSL infrastructure.
  Platform/Infrastructure: J2SE, Oracle, Perl, SunOS. Later enhanced with Servlets front-end.
  Responsibilities / Achievements: Full technical responsibility for the application.
  Design and development from the first prototype to full maturity. Developed and maintained a set of related utilities for data analysis, help-desk support, source code control, deployment and quality assurance.
  Maintained a good compromise between time-to-market and quality, with high level of satisfaction among the end-users.
  Sophisticated application with high availability requirements, working in a heterogeneous environment: provisioning operations required 5-6 operations through different protocols (SNMP, telnet, TL-1) on diverse network nodes (Marconi, Alcatel, Cisco etc.).
  Overview: http://tinyurl.com/69yv7

• Developer / Analyst

  FIAT

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; FIA; Information Technology and Services industry)

  January 1991 — April 1998 (7 years 4 months)

  S.I.M. (Sistema Informativo Meccaniche) and G.O.A.L. (Gestione Ordini a Listino) for Fiat Auto. The first was a large-scale project for planning, managing and monitor production for automotive sub-assemblies plants. The latter was a financial system for tracking and managing corporate-level procurement pricing.
  Platform/Infrastructure: Cobol, SQL*Forms, Oracle, C, on VAX-VMS.
  Responsibilities / Achievements: Designed and developed ad-hoc algorithms to schedule workloads on assembly lines.
  Careful design and maintenance effort to ensure high availability and robustness of application, due to the distributed nature of the application (S.I.M. modules run in up to a dozen different plants all over Italy).

• N/A

  Various (Self-employed)

  (Self-Employed; Myself Only; Information Services industry)

  January 1984 — December 1990 (7 years)

  Since the end of high school I worked on various small projects, either as a sort of self-employed consultant or for small IT companies.
  
  Among the rest, I translated technical literature to an from English, wrote small business application, offered expertise in the then booming personal computing field.
  
  I used Apple ][ computers, early IBM PCs, PDP-11 and medium sized mainframes.
  
  I translated the first Italian Edition of the Call of Cthulhu RPG (licensed from Chaosium and published in Italy by Stratelibri).

Paolo Marino’s Education

• Università degli Studi di Torino

  -, Computer Science (Scienze dell'Informazione), 1982 — 1986

  I dropped out after 4 years, did my Army stint and then started working in IT.

Additional Information

Paolo Marino’s Websites:

• My Aikido dojo

Paolo Marino’s Interests:

Aikido, Role playing games, Animal Rights, Vegetarian, Mac OSX, Second Life

Paolo Marino’s Groups:

ACM (Association for Computing Machinery), ENPA (Italian Animal Rights association), JUG Torino, Wikipedia contributor, Illumio Early Adopter

•    Bizbureau
•    JUG Torino
•    TorinoIN
•    Link2Europe
•    SKYPE user
•    IT Specialist
•    Association of Virtual Worlds
•    Engineering Ingegneria Informatica s.p.a
•    Former and current Atos-Origin employees

Paolo Marino’s Honors:

* IBM Certified Solution Designer for e-Business
* Brainbench certification
Detailed skill assessment available at: http://www.brainbench.com/transcript.jsp?pid=5099806

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