Giovanni Pirola

Current

• SSG Manager Italy & Iberia at Thomson Reuters

Past

• Director of Italian Operations at Sourcesense
• Practice Manager at Sun microsystems
• senior software engineer at ST Microelectronics

• software engineer at honeywell

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Education

• Università degli Studi di Milano

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Connections

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Industry

Computer Software

Websites

• My Company

Giovanni Pirola’s Summary

Technical Practice Manager with solid background in design and development of Open Systems based on Solaris, Linux and the Java Platform. Enthusiast of Agile Methods and Test Driven development.

Giovanni Pirola’s Specialties:

Object Oriented Design, Java Platform, Open Source Technologies, Agile Methods, Financial Solutions

Giovanni Pirola’s Experience

• SSG Manager Italy & Iberia

  Thomson Reuters

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

  2008 — Present (less than a year)

  Deliver solutions based on Reuters' products stack, for the financial market. Run the Italy & Iberia Consultancy team.

• Director of Italian Operations

  Sourcesense

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

  December 2006 — March 2008 (1 year 4 months)

  Define the Business Proposition of Sourcesense for the Italian market, manage the sales and delivery process.
  Present and Propose Sourcesense's services to customers at CxO level.
  Define partnerships with major Open Source Organizations and vendors for the Italian market

• Practice Manager

  Sun microsystems

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Computer Hardware industry)

  September 1995 — November 2006 (11 years 3 months)

  Started at Sun back in 1995, I've had the chance to witness and support the rise of the Java Platform, in various roles.
  First as Consultant, then as Architect, then as Practice Lead of the Java Consulting group.
  My current focus is on SOA and related technologies

• senior software engineer

  ST Microelectronics

  (Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; Semiconductors industry)

  July 1989 — September 1995 (6 years 3 months)

  Designed and developer of IC CAD software on Unix and XWindows platform. focus on Code Generators

• software engineer

  honeywell

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Computer Hardware industry)

  April 1987 — July 1989 (2 years 4 months)

  Designer of PCB CAD solutions on various workstations types and graphics platforms

Giovanni Pirola’s Education

• Università degli Studi di Milano

  Computer Science, Computer Science, 1982 — 1987

Additional Information

Giovanni Pirola’s Websites:

• My Company