Curriculum Vitæ (concise) Updated on September 29, 2010 Marco Amadori

Marco Amadori

Via Ippolito Nievo, 1833170 — Pordenone (PN) — Italye-mail : marco.amadori@gmail.comtel : +39-328-9344211

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Current Job:

• Release Manager, Software Engineer and Senior Developer at VDA Multimedia1: EmbeddedLinux Programming, Web Services, TVs and VOD (2007 — Today).

Previous Job:

• Release Manager and Core Linux early userspace developer for SafeDesks2, in the Netboot ofThin Clients field, an application of Debian Live system with Network boot.

Education and Training:

• Computer Science High School (title: Perito Capotecnico in Informatica) at I.T.I.S. G. Marconiof Rovereto (TN) with final result of 60/60 (1991 — 1996);

• Software Engineering (Ingegneria Informatica) at the University of Padua, Thesis on DebianLive Systems (1996 — 2002).

Work Experiences:

• Worked during high school holidays at SED Srl3 as DBA migration consultant (1994);

• System Administrator and Consultant (1996 — 2007);

• Collaboration with Kynetiks (Padova) in the embedded field and with the integration of propri-etary systems with open-source platforms for call-centres and CRM softwares (2003);

• WEB Developer (Zope + Python + PostgreSQL) for a national car drivers services company;

• Analist, Project Manager and Senior Developer for the Free Software project Debian Live.

Languages:

Italian: mother tongue;

English: very good level;

French: school level;

German: school level.

1Located in Pordenone (PN) – Italy, website: http://www.vdavda.com2Located in Spokane, Washington – USA, website: http://www.safedesk.com3Located in Verona – Italy, website: http://www.sed.it

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Curriculum Vitæ (concise) Updated on September 29, 2010 Marco Amadori

Computer Science skills:

First steps: at 8 years old with Logo, at 9 Basic C64, at 10 Assembly 6510, and at 11 with C onAmigaOS.

Languages

Mainstream: Bash, C, C++, C#, Java, Perl, Python, PHP, XSLT;

Other: Assembly Z80, 80x86, 680x0, Pascal, Ruby, Zope;

Fun: Logo, Lisp, Haskell, Nemerle;

Markup/Typesetting: HTML, XHTML, XML Docbook, CSS, LATEX.

Operating Systems

Knows: Windows 95/98/XP, Sun Os (Unix);

Owns: GNU/Linux, AmigaOS.

Applications/Softwares

Calculus: Matlab/Octave, Spreadsheets;

Graphic: GnuPlot, GIMP, CADs;

Databases: PostgreSQL, MySQL, MSSQL/Access;

Other: Office Suite, vi, sed, awk, git, bugzilla and most admin command line software.

Internetworking

Skills: from practice (modem 75bps to modern switch/routers) to theoric level of most relevant pro-tocol and/or network algorithms.

Personal Attitude

• Eager to learn;

• Good Communication skills;

• Attitude to work in teams;

• Likes problem solving and puzzles.

Talks Held

2006: Debian Live @ italian minidebconf;

2007: Debian Live @ Debconf in Ediburgh;

2010: Git for Teams @ VDA Conference Hall;

2010: Linux administration crash course @ VDA Conference Hall;

References:

• Maurizio Battistella <battistellam@vdavda.com>, CTO @ VDA;

• Tony Wei <tony.wei@comtrend.com, Chief Engineer Set Top Boxes @ Comtrend4;

• Daniel Baumann <daniel@debian.org>, Debian Developer and Debian-Live co-creator;

4http://www.comtrend.com/

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Curriculum Vitæ (concise) Updated on September 29, 2010 Marco Amadori

Personal Interests and Hobbies:

• Open Source software and Free (libre) knowledge;

• Board games;

• Books;

• Fingerstyle Guitar and A Cappella songs;

• Technology and Science;

• Psicology, Artificial Intelligence.

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