Simone Chiaretta

Current

Solution Developer at Avanade Italy
Developer and Build Master at Subtext Project
Technical Writer and Speaker at various editors

Developer at OpenSource projects

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Past

Chief Software Architect at Calcium Software Limited
Software architect at Softpeople Esperia
Owner at self-employed (Sole Proprietorship)

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Education

Politecnico di Milano
Politecnico di Milano
Politecnico di Milano

Liceo Scientifico di Gallarate

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Simone Chiaretta’s Summary

I have a long experience in developing enterprise level web applications using Microsoft technologies.
I'm currently Solution Developer at Avanade and I previously I was Chief Software Architect at Calcium Software Ltd in Wellington (NZ) where I lead the development of one of the most innovative integrated mail/web marketing of the market and I designed and lead the development of the CMS that is driving some high traffic websites for Esperia in Milano (Italy).

Simone Chiaretta’s Specialties:

.NET 1.1, .NET 2.0, .NET 3.0, ASP.NET, ASP.NET Ajax, C#, Web Services, Javascript, XHTML, CSS, Continuous Integration Practices, NHibernate, DotNetNuke, Subtext, Community Server

Simone Chiaretta’s Experience

Solution Developer

Avanade Italy

(Privately Held; 5001-10,000 employees; AVND; Information Technology and Services industry)

November 2007 — Present (1 year 9 months)
Developer and Build Master

Subtext Project

(Non-Profit; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)

October 2005 — Present (3 years 10 months)

I'm part of the core team of Subtext, a popular open-source blogging engine written in .NET and at the moment I'm working on the next big feature of the product: the plugin framework
I'm also in charge of the maintenance of the Continuous Integration process.
Technical Writer and Speaker

various editors

(Publishing industry)

November 2004 — Present (4 years 9 months)

I wrote programming related articles for printed computer magazines and for online magazines.
At the moment I'm writing a book for Wrox Wiley.
I also spoke at a few usergroup meetings.
I wrote for Computer Programming, MokaByte, DotNetSlackers and presented at Xe.NET, dotnetmarche, DOT.NET.NZ, JUG Milano.
And I also write frequent articles on my own blog http://codeclimber.net.nz
Developer

OpenSource projects

(Non-Profit; Internet industry)

February 2002 — Present (7 years 6 months)

I worked on many OSS Project both in Java and .NET technologies.
The main are FCKEditor (a WYSIWYG web html editor), jGossip (a Java Forum), jClubhouse (a Java personal CMS), Subtext (a popular .NET Blogging Engine) and CC.NET Monitor (a Vista Gadget to monitor a CC.NET Server)
Chief Software Architect

Calcium Software Limited

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

January 2007 — October 2007 (10 months)

I ported the products from .NET 1.1 to .NET 2.0, and now I’m designing the next generation of products which will be web-based, with ASP.NET 2.0 and Ajax.
And I’m also responsible for the high level design of all products and I’m setting up an “enterprise level” development, build and testing environment.
Software architect

Softpeople Esperia

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

March 1998 — December 2006 (8 years 10 months)

I started my professional career in Esperia and I grew with the company, from a startup with 3 people to a big web agency with around 60 people.
At the beginning I was an all round developer/system engineer, but then when the company grew in size I became "only" a developer and later team leader and software architect.
I developed a lot of websites based both on ASP/VB6 and later based on ASP.NET, C#.
I also built the company's CMS platform that is used for all the websites developed, including a big site with more than 1 million visitors a day
Owner
self-employed (Sole Proprietorship)

(Sole Proprietorship; Myself Only; Internet industry)

June 1996 — February 1998 (1 year 9 months)

During the early days of the web, I built web sites, both static HTML and dynamic with ColdFusion.

Simone Chiaretta’s Education

Politecnico di Milano

Laurea di primo livello , Ing Informatica , 2003
Politecnico di Milano

Diploma Universitario , Computer Engineering , 1997 — 2001
Politecnico di Milano

None , Science of Materials , 1993 — 1997

Completed 3 years of studies, then decided I liked Computer and Programming more than Materials, so quit this field of studies and started again University in another field
Liceo Scientifico di Gallarate

Maturità , 1987 — 1993