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Rome Area, Italy

Rome, Italy

Coordinate the provision of IT services to a specific department in FAO (NR) and bring back to the IT division (CIO) the departmental IT needs that accommodate their business.

Rome Area, Italy

2009-2011 Contribute to the coordination and delivery of IT and IS services for the FAO Knowledge Departments. In particular on the area of Collaborative tools, Web Analytics, and Content and Web Management Systems. Detailed activities covers:► Analysis of service requirements, editing of associated activities proposals and reports, follow up with the service delivery;► Web 2.0 tools set-up;► Web Traffic Analysis tools/services evaluation and setting for the web analytics;► 2nd and 3rd level support for content and web management systems;► Full lifecycle support of Typo3 applications.Invited by the OEK office to the Joint WIPO-ITU Accessibility Workshop (Geneva, February 2 to 5, 2010) to discuss current status of accessibility within UN agencies and other international organizations, and to gather ideas and recommendations for further actions.2007-2009 Technical supervision, including analysis of requirements and planning of activities, of the development of Semantic Web applications and Knowledge Representation related projects, and coordination of tasks for the FAO biennial outputs and for Extra-budgetary projects (mostly EU). Main working areas:► Semantic Web technologies and Standards, Information and Knowledge Management.► Representation of multilingual subject knowledge with domain specific ontologies.► Re-engineering and mapping of traditional Knowledge Organization Systems.► Project management, in particular for IT related projects and European Funded projects.

Rome Area, Italy

Within the GILW/KCEW division, under general guidance of the Information Systems Officer (AGRIS/CARIS and Documentation Group), I worked as an Information Management Specialist on the management and implementation of several projects related to Information Systems, Knowledge Organization Systems, Standards and Technologies, with a particular emphasis on Semantic Web and Ontologies.In addition to that, I am in charge of the maintenance and distribution of the WAICENT AGROVOC database, web site and tools; of the implementation of new web interfaces including web services; of the planning of the migration to the AGROVOC Concept Server (an ontology based service).I performed extended work on metadata and metadata standards, in particular in adapting metadata schemes, as well as to produce and manage classification schemes.I have participated and chaired international conferences and workshops, notably related to thesauri, terminology and knowledge systems, free and open source software, semantic technologies, etc.; I have collaborated with several Universities all over the world and gained some international visibility.I participated in the conception and development of the Agricultural Information Management Standards (AIMS) portal, promoting common information and knowledge standards, protocols and methodologies for knowledge management. I have also collaborated to some AGRIS activities, including the customization of the WebAGRIS system.I have been involved in the guidance of partners and collaborators to develop projects related to knowledge management, such as domain specific ontologies, mapping different KOS, and promoting the interaction between two of the main FAO terminology resources (FAOTERM and AGROVOC).

Rome Area, Italy

Under direct supervision of the FODA Director, employed as Forestry Information Officer on an EC-funded project to support joint activities with the International Union of Forestry Research Organisations, Special Programme for Developing Countries (IUFRO-SPDC, Vienna, Austria) on the implementation of a Global Forest Information Service (GFIS) intending to facilitate access to distributed scientific information on forests, by establishing five African regional web servers to allow interoperability search over distributed databases. Specific duties: - Development and organisation of a work plan for implementing the activities of the project; - Liaise with IUFRO Task Force responsible for developing a strategy for GFIS and provide expert knowledge on technical standards in internet applications and metadata standards; - Participate in the definition of standards for forestry information; - In collaboration with all GFIS partners and with guidance from the Task Force, participate in designing and building an internet interface to facilitate access to distributed forestry research metadata and data; - Assist IUFRO in establishing five GFIS nodes in Africa advising on specification and acquisition of selected software and hardware and oversee the deployment of this equipment; - Prepare tools for metadata conversion and data exchange (for import and export between applications); - Undertake all needed travels for meetings, working workshops, and training; - Design and provide all needed training (also to Web Masters on specific technical tools and languages) to African partners to make the web servers and the web sites operational; - Remote support (messaging tools); - Collaborate with FAO/WAICENT and CABI for the Multilingual Forestry Thesaurus project.

Ispra, Italy

Employed by the European Commission at the Ispra Joint Research Centre as GIS expert working for the Global Vegetation Monitoring Unit (GVM) of the Space Application Institute (SAI) to develop an Information System as a structured repository of metadata for geographical data and other resources (documents, websites, images, cartographic maps, etc.) with standalone and web based interfaces.Specific duties: - Revision of the project database structure to enable it to store new types of information and data, such as satellite images and publications and further development of an MS Access interface to allow users to search the satellite image metadata held in the database;- Development of tools to allow the System Administrator and the users to populate the database with specific data types, e.g. GIS layers and satellite images; - Development of a prototype web system for performing queries on catalogues and visualisation of interactive maps (Web Mapping) and GIS analysis with ESRI products; - Responsibility of the development of the new web site of the GVM unit; - Internal training of the GVM unit staff to the use of MS Access.

French Guiana

Consultant for several companies:- System Administration (SunOS) & Configuration Management Facility Administration (CMF): software release and versions control and maintenance. - Development of hypertext applications.- Trainer for computer specialists (VB, VBA) and non specialists (WORD, EXCEL, MS ACCESS).- Project management of the EU-sponsored research project “Professional applications based on new telecommunication technologies” (HPCN/APAT) on high bandwidth networks and concurrent engineering over ATM networks, in collaboration with Pirelli S.p.A. (Milano, Italy) and Cisi Ingénierie (Grenoble, France), and on the “Earth Observation Training for Wildlife Preservation”, in collaboration with ENEA and WWF (Roma, Italy).(WORD, EXCEL, MS ACCESS, POWERPOINT, VB, VBA, WINDOWS NT, MS EXCHANGE SERVER and CLIENT, BACK OFFICE TOOLS, JAVA, ATM NETWORKS)

Nice Area, France

Development of a Graphical User Interface for an OSI (Open Systems Interconnect Model) product on AIX platform: "OSIMF Motif GUI". Fellowship granted within the COMETT project funded by the University of Milano.(UNIX AIX, RISC/6000, MOTIF, C)

Milan Area, Italy

Development of a semi-automatic system for the elaboration of gravimetrical digital images for AGIP.(UNIX SunOs SPARC, XWINDOWS, C)

Several Courses (See Specific Section), Information Technology, Computer Science, Mathematics

Activities and Societies: Stanford University, Duke University, The University of Edinburgh, University of Virginia, Vanderbilt.

Master'S Degree, Information Science/Studies

Activities and Societies: Diving sport teamInformation Science