Post-doc researcher & project manager
Bologna Area, Italy
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- principal lecturer at University of Florence
- member of the staff, system administrator at Master in Multimedia, University of Florence
- post-doc researcher and project manager at Media Integration and Communication Center, University of Florence
- Past
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- founder and managing director at RedNoodles.com
- Education
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- Università degli Studi di Firenze
- Università degli Studi di Firenze
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Thomas M Alisi’s Summary
Half researcher and half entrepreneur, split between Florence and London both for work and for love. Born in 1976, I started my career at the University of Florence, where I graduated in 2002 and, while I was working there as research assistant, I obtained a Ph.D. in Informatics Engineering and Multimedia in 2008.
At the moment I am working as post-doc researcher and project manager at the Media Integration and Communication Center, University of Florence. I am also member of the Board of Operations at the Master in Multimedia Content Design, University of Florence. I worked for years as a freelance web professional and I am progressively focusing more on project management than development.
Got married in 2007 with a wonderful wife who lives in London and works as producer for digital advertising.
I am in constant pursuit of skills and education improvement, thus making me comfortable in a stimulating work environment. I would love to attend an executive MBA within 3 years since I feel that I miss an institutional formation in the treated fields of study, but I am still looking for the job that let me pay the tuition.
Thomas M Alisi’s Specialties:
IT projects production and management. Web development and technical direction for projects in HTML, CSS, AJAX, FLEX, J2EE, PHP.
Thomas M Alisi’s Experience
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principal lecturer
University of Florence
(Educational Institution; Research industry)
January 2004 — Present (5 years 11 months)
Principal lecturer for the module “Information Architecture”, Faculty of Architecture, Industrial Design
Principal lecturer for the module “Web programming languages”, Faculty of Engineering, Master in Multimedia Content Design
Lecturer for the module “Multimedia project production”, Faculty of Engineering, Informatics
Principal lecturer for the module “Java programming”, Faculty of Engineering, Master in Internet Engineering -
member of the staff, system administrator
Master in Multimedia, University of Florence
(Education Management industry)
January 2003 — Present (6 years 11 months)
The Master in Multimedia Content Design was founded at the University of Florence in 1997. It has two different tracks: interactive environments (web programming) and video post-production. Starting from 2006 its courses include fundamentals of natural interaction for interactive installations.
Activities and responsibilities
- definition and implementation of the study plan and relationship with companies for students internship
- system administration of servers and intranet systems
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post-doc researcher and project manager
Media Integration and Communication Center, University of Florence
(Information Technology and Services industry)
November 2002 — Present (7 years 1 month)
The Media Integration and Communication Center works as an interdisciplinary focus, connecting Information and Communication Technology, Human sciences, Social Sciences, Law and Regulations, researches and innovations.
The center aims to develope qualified Research and Innovation Transfer. It cooperates with National and International Universities, Research Institutions and Companies, as well as high-level education, such as the Master in Multimedia of the University of Florence.
Activities and responsibilities
- management and development of technology transfer projects, among others:
-- Accademia Della Crusca - search engine for the Crusca Vocabularies;
- - Dept. of studies on Italian Language - tools for video transcription and streaming, semantic annotation and search engine;
-- Dept. of historical and geographical studies - natural interaction surface with computer vision technologies for the exhibition “From Petra to Shawbak”
- management and development of research projects, most notably 2 FIRB projects of the Italian Ministry of Research regarding web applications for semantic based digital libraries access
- research and development with special focus on semantic web, information architecture, interaction design, media transcoding and streaming, most notably: EU 6th Framework Programme project VIDI-Video for semantic access to large annotated video archives
- system administration of servers and intranet systems
- development of web sites and web applications for internal use
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founder and managing director
RedNoodles.com
(Information Technology and Services industry)
August 2007 — August 2009 (2 years 1 month)
Red Noodles is a small digital agency that elaborates solutions for multimedia projects, interaction design and natural interaction systems. Interactive environments and innovative projects are experimented and developed together with the Media Integration and Communication Center, University of Florence
RedNoodles founders come from the Master in Multimedia of the University of Florence and afford different competences in multimedia production at master level in the sectors of new media, arts and interactive environments
Activities and responsibilities
- define strategy and partnerships of the company
- write proposals for regional and national funding programmes
- scouting and recruitment
- project manager / producer for interactive environment projects, most notably: interactive installations at Pitti Immagine Uomo fuori salone c/o Studio Fotografico Quagli
Thomas M Alisi’s Education
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Università degli Studi di Firenze
PhD , Informatics Engineering, Multimedia and TLC , 2004 — 2007
Thesis on semantic based multimedia transcoding: a video surveillance system that adapts the transcoding of media streams according to semantic descriptors of both the observed scene and the observer environment and device (technologies: Java EE, Flex RIA, Streaming server, RDF/OWL).
- Activities and Societies:
- Tutor: Prof. Alberto Del Bimbo
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Università degli Studi di Firenze
MSc , Informatics Engineering , 1994 — 2002
Thesis on a natural/markerless motion capture system: the video analysis focuses on blob colour and size data, then a best-fit 3D model in a multi-camera calibrated environment gives informations about body posture (technologies: pure C++ and MS DirectShow for video acquisition).
- Activities and Societies:
- Tutor: Prof. Alberto Del Bimbo, Prof. Enrico Vicario
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Thomas M Alisi’s Interests:
indie music & festivals, cinema, books, comics, squash, skiing and someone says I am quite a good cook
Thomas M Alisi’s Groups:
media boulevard, mmm community
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Mind the Bridge foundation
