Paolo Tagliaferri M.Sc

Software Engineer with a MsC in Computer Science Engineering. I have a deep interest for Web Technologies developed through a yearly experience and a keen personal interest. Currently focusing in application analysis, development and technical managing and project delivery for high load, transactional, online gambling systems. 

Main technologies currently used: TCL / Java / IBM Informix / SQL / SOAP / HTML and Javascript / AJAX

You can contact me at +44 (0) 20 3129 9256

IT SKILLS

• Excellent knowledge of Object Oriented programming paradigm
• Languages: TCL, Java
• Basic Knowledge of: Phyton, PHP, C
• SQL, PSQL
• XML / SOAP
• Eclipse / Netbeans

• UML tools and best practices
• Project Versioning (SVN, CVS)

• HTML / XHTML standards, CSS , Javascript.
• Basic Knowledge of web Frameworks (Turbogears, MooTools, Django, jQuery)
• RDBMS (IBM Informix, PostgreSQL, MySQL) 
• SEO techniques
• Microsoft Office (excellent command of Excel, Word, Access, PowerPoint)

• LaTeX, OpenOffice

• Linux: active member on Gentoo and Ubuntu Forums.
• Microsoft Windows XP/Vista

WORK EXPERIENCE

 

TECHNICAL LEAD @ OpenBet

February 2009 – Present  (London, United Kingdom)

Leading a team of 6 developers. I am responsible for timely delivery and technical review of all the projects assigned to the team, as well as conducting regular performance reviews for the employees. In my position I also monitor the capacity of the live systems and maintain a strong relationship with our customer (William Hill)

 

 

FREELANCE CONSULTANT / TUTOR               

(03/2006 – 06/2006)     Politecnico di Milano  -  Milan (Italy)
I’ve been a teaching tutor in the “Advanced Programming” course, where I’ve also assessed student‘s level.

(Oct-Nov 2007)              Khamsa Italia SRL -  Milan (Italy)
I’ve reorganized the documentation in a software project

(November 2004)         Howarmind Solutions SRL  - Milan Area (Italy)
I’ve prepared and presented a custom course for personnel of a third party firm. It was a web development course amied to provide basic and intermediate skills (Basic XHTML/CSS, W3C standars, layout techniques, FTP) to untrained people.

(Summer 1999)              Team SRL - Milan Area (Italy)
I’ve realized an help desk ticket system (ASP) to maintain and assist request allocation to available technicians.

WEB DEVELOPER / WEB DESIGNER

 

(1999 - 2008)

Freelance Web Design & Development for local companies.

FREELANCE WRITER

 

(2000 - 2008)
I‘ve written some articles (technical articles, video game reviews, news commentaries) for various websites in Italian

 

EDUCATION

POLITECNICO DI MILANO -  Milan (Italy)
(2005 - 2008) Master's Degree in Computing Systems Engineering
In the final thesis I've developed an advanced graphical web interface for network intrusion detection supervision & correlation duties, with extensive use of asynchronous interactions & legacy database integration (Supervisor: Prof S.Zanero)

POLITECNICO DI MILANO - Milan (Italy)

(2000 - 2005) Bachelor's Degree in Computing Systems Engineering
In the final thesis I've developed an integration layer for eterogeneous components in a Small Portable Database System for handheld devices (PoLiDBMS)(Supervisors: Prof.F.A.Schreiber)

 

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

 

• Languages: Italian (native), English (fluent), French (Fluent), Russian (Basic)
• Sports: I like gym and I’m an amateur cyclist.
• Interests: Travelling, photography, social web, LINUX and Open Source.
• Driving Licence: Italian driving licence (Cat. B)

 

 

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