Thomas Di Giacomo

Current

IPTV Development Manager at Swisscom

Past

Senior Service Manager at Swisscom
System Engineer at Ville de Genève
Senior Researcher at MIRALab

Research Assistant at MIRALab
Assistant at University of Geneva
R&D Engineer at INRIA Grenoble / ATARI
White-room operator at CEA / LETI

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Education

University of Geneva
Institut national polytechnique de Grenoble
Université Joseph Fourier (Grenoble I)

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Thomas Di Giacomo’s Summary

After years of research and development in networked virtual worlds and multimedia, including large project management and initiatives, standardization activities, lectures and training, as well as web-related projects and management of IT architectures, I'm now dedicated to Swisscom IPTV, an HD IPTV/VOD/multimedia solution proposed by Swisscom in the hospitality world.

Thomas Di Giacomo’s Specialties:

Project and service management and initiatives, Software architecture and development, Research in computer sciences, Technical training, lectures and support, System administration and management.

Thomas Di Giacomo’s Experience

IPTV Development Manager

Swisscom

(Public Company; SCMN; Telecommunications industry)

January 2009 — Present (7 months)

Managing the development of Swisscom IPTV, our internal dev team (5 pers.) and technological partners (STBs, TVs, servers, etc.).
Senior Service Manager

Swisscom

(Public Company; 201-500 employees; SCMN; Telecommunications industry)

February 2008 — December 2008 (11 months)

Content delivery network and solutions, management of complex demo environments (including mobile ones), quality check, partners and clients relationships, assistance to program direction and management for Swisscom IPTV.
System Engineer

Ville de Genève

(Government Agency; 1001-5000 employees; Computer Networking industry)

June 2007 — January 2008 (8 months)

Solutions and management of Linux Web and Domino servers, Netware and OES Novell servers and workstations.
Senior Researcher

MIRALab

(Educational Institution; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

March 2007 — June 2007 (4 months)

Lead and management of research projects in virtual reality. European projects administrative and technical initiatives, co-organization and management.
Research Assistant

MIRALab

(Educational Institution; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

March 2002 — March 2007 (5 years 1 month)

Research and development of new virtual reality and networked multimedia and graphics methods and technologies. European projects administrative and technical initiatives, co-organization and co-management. Contributions to international standards and publications in international books, journals and conferences.
Assistant

University of Geneva

(Computer Software industry)

March 2002 — March 2007 (5 years 1 month)

Teaching assistantship, system administration of ~ 30 workstations and 8 servers, web management and development.
R&D Engineer

INRIA Grenoble / ATARI

(Public Company; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

September 2000 — September 2001 (1 year 1 month)

Specification and implementation of real-time innovative solutions for video-games. Collaborative work and development with ATARI (ex-Infogrames) R&D department. Publications in international workshops.
White-room operator

CEA / LETI

(Nanotechnology industry)

1997 — 1998 (1 year)

Electronic microscope control of chipset components.
Technical support and staff training on new devices.

Thomas Di Giacomo’s Education

University of Geneva

PhD , Computer Science , 2002 — 2007

Computer Graphics and Multimedia Networking :
<< Dynamic Adaptation of Virtual Human Animation >>

Activities and Societies:

Research and development of new virtual reality and networked multimedia and graphics methods and technologies.

Teaching assistantship, contributions to international standards and publications in international books, journals and conferences.
Institut national polytechnique de Grenoble

MSc , Computer Science (Image, Vision, Robotics) , 2000 — 2001

Computer Graphics :
<< Multi-Resolution Animation of Hierarchical Models. >>

Activities and Societies:

Advanced rendering and animation, mathematical tools for computer graphics, computational geometry, and numerical optimization.
Université Joseph Fourier (Grenoble I)

BSc, MSc , Computer Sciences (Applied Mathematics) , 1996 — 2000

<< Hierarchical View-Frustum Culling of Bounded Volumes >>

Activities and Societies:

Computer systems, algorithms and complexity, cryptography, web development and networking, compiler programming, videogame programming.