Mattia Gentilini	http://www.mg55.net/
(+39) 328 4279095	mg@mg55.net

Mattia Gentilini

Curriculum Vitae

Last CV version available at http://www.mg55.net/cv/

Personal Data

Full name	Mattia Gentilini
Birth	Bologna, Italy, November 6th, 1980
Address	via Massimo D’Azeglio 25, 40026 Imola (BO), Italy
Nationality	Italian
Current job	Unemployed
Home phone	(+39) 0542 33781
Mobile phone	(+39) 328 4279095
E-mail	`mg@mg55.net`
Homepage	`http://www.mg55.net/`
Military Service	not required
CV last update	June 2011

School career

July 2006 Laurea Specialistica (MSc) in Computer Science (class 23/S), University of Bologna, Italy. Evaluation 110/110, cum laude. Thesis: “Operating Systems Zoo: study and realization of a virtual machine support with Web access”
March 2003 Laurea triennale (BS) in Computer Science (class 26), University of Bologna, Italy. Evaluation 110/110, cum laude. Thesis: “Linguistic Annotations: a review”
July 1999 Maturità scientifica (High School degree), Liceo Scientifico statale (High School) “B. Rambaldi - L. Valeriani”, Imola (BO), Italy. Evaluation 100/100.

Works

Paid Works

April 2008 - May 2010 Dada.net, Firenze, Italy: Quality Assurance Assistant in functional checks and service testing during pre-production and production stages, for back-end software, mobile value-added services (VAS), on-line music selling, download and streaming
February 2007 - December 2007 INFN-CNAF, Bologna, Italy: Collaboration in the ETICS project (phase 1) by CERN
September 2006 - January 2007 ASTEC s.s., Imola (BO), Italy: Consultant on Web Services Development

Unpaid Works

2006 - 2010 Free Operating Systems Zoo project (by Renzo Davoli, University of Bologna, Italy): Web site development for testing Free/Open Source OSes GNU/Linux, *BSD, Minix, FreeDOS, OpenSolaris...) under virtual machines.
1999 - Present Parrocchia di Santo Spirito (Catholic Parish of the Holy Spirit): Web master. Host master since 2003.
1999 - Present Personal site Web master. Host master since 2001. Personal blog (with self-developed management system) since 2004.

Foreign Languages

English: Very good knowledge of spoken and written language (in particular, technical language).
Spanish: Basic knowledge of spoken and written language.

Computer science knowledge

Main interests: Writing and maintaining static and dynamic Web sites (Apache, PHP, XHTML/XML, CSS, XSL) focusing on browser interoperability and standards compliance; Human - Computer Interaction; virtualization for Operating Systems experimentation; FLOSS (Free/Libre/Open Source Software); software testing and study in test automatization. Interested in a more deep learning of known programming languages (especially Python) and in being taught and using new languages and technologies (especially AJAX).
Operating Systems: GNU/Linux (Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, Scientific Linux CERN), excellent knowledge; Microsoft Windows, excellent knowledge; Mac OS X, good knowledge.
Programming languages: C, C++, PHP, Python (very good knowledge), Bash, Java (good knowledge), markup languages ([X]HTML, CSS, XSL, RSS, Atom).
Networking: Experience in configuring TCP/IP networks (routing, DHCP), firewalls (IPTables), services (HTTP, FTP, SSH, SMTP, POP3/IMAP).
Other applications: Office applications (OpenOffice.org, Microsoft Office), especially OpenOffice Writer and Impress, Microsoft Word and PowerPoint, Adobe Acrobat; Graphics (The Gimp, Inkscape); Web Browsers (Internet Explorer, Firefox/Mozilla, Opera, Google Chrome, Safari).

Personal Interests

Music: Classical, especially organ music
Sports: Swimming, skiing
Movies/Books: Sci-fi, fantasy, comic
Games: Role-playing games, Q&A
Collectibles: LEGO, Trans Formers, sugar bags, stamps, coins
Volunteer: Catechist/educator from 1996 to 2010 at Parrocchia di Santo Spirito (Catholic Parish of the Holy Spirit) in Imola (BO), Italy. President of the Azione Cattolica Catholic Association in the parish from 2008 to 2010.

Professional targets

Development of software solutions (mainly, Web services) aiming to complete platform independence (both hardware and software, client and server). Spreading computer science knowledge (particularly FLOSS) in order to make people “active” in using computer systems and independent from a particular vendor's solutions.

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