Roberto Lupi

Current

Software Architect at Dagomedia
Owner at Lupi Software

Past

Owner at Kitten Lulu in Second Life
Virtual Worlds Consultant at VASMine S.p.a.
CTO at Partecs

IT Manager at SuperFast Ferries
Developer at Dagomedia

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Education

Università Politecnica delle Marche

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Industry

Computer Software

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Roberto Lupi’s Summary

Roberto Lupi’s Specialties:

software engineering, web development, agile software development, open source, IT security, emerging technology, Python, Zope, Ruby, PHP, Second Life, Linux, Virtual Worlds, iPhone.

Roberto Lupi’s Experience

Software Architect

Dagomedia

(Computer Software industry)

August 2001 — Present (8 years 4 months)

Software architecture, design and development. Project estimation and risk assessment. Agile project management.

We mainly work on web-based applications. We have three product lines: document management and intranet solutions for banks and medium enterprises, resource planning and time tracking solutions for small and medium businesses (SMB), e-commerce solutions for SMB.

20 banks in Italy use our products for their public websites or intranets.

Hands-on development in Python, PHP, Zope, Javascript, Actionscript, C, C#, Delphi, VB, Smalltalk.
Owner

Lupi Software

(Computer Software industry)

February 1999 — Present (10 years 10 months)

I work as a freelance IT consultant in software and systems design, technical evaluations and training.

I develop and sell applications for the iPhone and iPod touch. I have been accepted by Apple in their iPhone SDK from the start of their beta program.
Owner

Kitten Lulu in Second Life

(Computer Software industry)

July 2005 — August 2008 (3 years 2 months)

Second Life - http://www.secondlife.com/ - is a online virtual world with a real economy. It's possible to build products and sell it to other "residents", the earning can be traded for US$ on a public currency exchange.

Among other possibilities, it's quite interesting as a place to experiment with business ideas and test viral marketing strategies.
Virtual Worlds Consultant

VASMine S.p.a.

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

May 2007 — May 2008 (1 year 1 month)

Second Life: project management, project staff selection, 3d content creation and software development, training and courses teaching.
CTO

Partecs

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

March 2004 — December 2004 (10 months)

Software architecture, hiring and training of programmers, offshore development branch kickstart, project management, Python & Zope software development.

The product being developed by Partecs was an e-democracy platform: mixing tools to cooperatively create documents with a voting platform, plus a knowledge base and content aggregator for decision support. It was a multi-language system with automatic translation and planned multi-media support (web, email, mobile phones).
IT Manager

SuperFast Ferries

(Public Company; 51-200 employees; Maritime industry)

February 1999 — August 2001 (2 years 7 months)

I was the IT manager of SuperFast Ferries' General Sales Agent in Italy, this subsidiary company owned a nation-wide WAN connecting four sites (port and backend offices) in major ports and towns in Italy (port offices in Venice, Bari, Ancona, Brindisi; a sales office in Milan).

Duties: advising the CEO on technology policies and IT purchasing decisions, network management.
Developer

Dagomedia

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)

January 1998 — February 1999 (1 year 2 months)

Software Developer (Delphi, VB, Macromedia Director, Macromedia Dreamweaver).
Multimedia CDs, web sites, custom software for small and medium businesses.

Roberto Lupi’s Education

Università Politecnica delle Marche

Bachelor Degree , IT and Automation Engineering , 2004 — 2006

Before aquiring my Bachelor Degree, I attended to a 5-years Degree (the Italian equivalent of a MsC) at Università Politecnica delle Marche, I did 2/3 of the course but had to abandon it before finishing it due to personal reasons.