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Personal information

Name: Luca Pinotti.

Address: Residenza Ripa 411 - I-20080 Basiglio, Milan - Italy.
Phone: +39-3472282265 (mobile)
Fax: +39-0290750414
E-mail: luca@pinotti.eu

Date and place of birth: Milan, August 28, 1955.

Marital status: Single.

Studies: Degree in Medicine and Surgery in 1982 at University of Milan.

Courses:

"Workshop on Nuclear Magnetic Resonance" at the University of Mons, Belgium (1983), "Computer Science" at the Faculty of Physics, University of Milan (1984),
"Common Lisp" and "Artificial Intelligence" at Sperry in Birmingham, UK (1985),
"Oracle for System Analysts" at Unisys European Training Centre in Milton Keynes, UK (1990).
"Computer forensics and digital investigations" at University of Milan, School of Law, Italy (2011)

Languages

Fluent English, written and spoken (Upper intermediate level in business English - LSI, London, 1996).

Basic understanding of French and Spanish.

Objective

Technical manger (CIO) in a very competitive and dynamic company.

Professional experience

2006-

Consultant to the Town Council of Milan, department of Health, for ICT and new technologies.

Consultant for the feasibility of the connection of rural areas to the phone network and to the internet; Managua and Palos Ralos, Nicaragua. The project started after The Wold Bank approval of $7 Million for Telecommunications in rural areas of Nicaragua.

Consultant to the ASL of Como (Province of Como office of the Public Healthcare System) for reliability and security of the SIS (Healthcare Information System) and network.

1999-2005

Consultant to BMW Group Italia for Office Automation and Networking. Involved in many projects included Extranet implementation and LAN/WAN upgrade and integration, several Company-wide applications. I have to manage suppliers (IBM, Cisco, AT&T, BT Ignite, T-System, Albacom (now BT Italy) etc.) and over 280 car and bike-dealers and 450 users, included a warehouse, the connection to the Corporate Network (Munich) and to implement new security rules for external partner and suppliers. As a consequence of the new networking frame I had to revise the framework of the BMW LAN in Milan: routing, security, re-cabling, naming convention and protocols.
In the first half of 2005 I’ve been involved in the migration to Internet connection of the dealers (S-Gate project) and new MPLS and VPN connection for the external partners and suppliers including ISP selection and security issues. I have given support to the VoIP project of BMW Italy (Milan, Verona and Rome VoIP connection and migration).

1997-1999

EniData (now EDS group)/EniChem (Eni Group): installation and management of a double NW 4.11/NT 3.51 Compaq Proliant 5000/1500 server with Lotus Notes and cc:Mail), over 300 clients, 370 users.

Consultant of a Member of the European Parliament for the liberalizations of the telecommunications services market.

1996-1997

Editor for the newspaper "L'indipendente" on business and economics of telecommunications. Good knowledge of marketing and strategies on telecommunications.

Consultant for telecommunications, networking and internetworking; Cegelec (AEG group), Gates Italia, ELEA (Olivetti group), UCAR (Union Carbide).

1993-1996:

Consultant for artificial intelligence and medical application of IT with experience in new technologies. Consultant to the Town Council of Milan for telecommunications and "tele-aid".

1990-1993:

Consultant System Analyst at Unisys for 4GL and DTP. In charge of translation of user's manuals of the software packages.

1985-1990:

System Analyst for Artificial Intelligence and Knowledge Engineer within the Professional Services at Sperry/Unisys . For my job I attended to the development of Expert Systems (ES) for many firms and in different fields: FF.SS. (National Railroads) on railway's traffic control, Aeritalia (Consultant System in avionics engineering), Fincantieri, CERVED (automatic management of an EDP centre) and TELECOM Italia (National Telephone Co.) for an ICAI Hypermedial System.

Experience as trainer and teacher: courses held on AI, Lisp, EDP basics, many office automation packages, professional DTP, etc. Experience in pre-sales and post-sales support.

1984-1985:

Product Specialist on Medical Instrumentation for critical care at Instrumentation Laboratory (Allied Group). I reported to the Product Manager for the Critical Care Line.

1983-1984:

Researcher with a Research Fellowship at Hospital S. Raffaele in Milan for Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) with Fonar Corp. and Digital Imaging in medicine with the team of the candidate Nobel prize Raymond Damadian.

1980-1983:

Consultant to some pharmaceutical firms on statistics and EDP. Responsible for computer management and network connection at the Pharmacology department of the University of Milan.

Professional memberships

Former member of the National Co-ordination Program for Youth Informatics.
Member of an European Commission for Health-care.
President of the European Medical Informatics Society (EMIS).
Co-ordinator of AISTel: Italian Association for Telecommunications Development. considered one of the best Internet sites dealing with telecommunication regulations (over 19,000 accesses). The Association has been classified as "Italian regulating Authority" (Total Telecom) and provided information to Japanese Ministry of P&T, Nortel, Olivetti Group, Telefonica de España, European Radiocommunications Office (ETO).

Technical knowledge

Programming Languages

Fortran, Common Lisp, Visual Basic, C Language, HTML level 3.2. Little knowledge of Visual C, C++, SmallTalk V, Java/JavaScript.

PC applications

Several office, business and graphics applications. Lotus Notes and cc:Mail.
Microsoft OSs s ince Windows 95 (beta release), Windows Server families.

Telecomm and Networking

Novell Netware 4.1/4.11 and Personal Netware, Lantastic 6.0, Win95 and 7.0, Microsoft NT 4.0 server NT 5.0 beta (ArcServe v5 and v6.1 and 6.5 for NT, Quota Manager), TCP/IP and IPX/SPX, ChaosNet, asynchronous communications on leased and switched phone lines and Euro-ISDN. Technical knowledge of mobile telecommunications (ETACS/GSM/DCS/GPRS 1800/DECT), Networking (CSMA, token passing, FDDI, fastEthernet) and Internetworking (bridges, switches, routers and gateways), security (firewalls and IDS). Little knowledge of switched packet networks, ATM and Frame relay.

Bibliography:

Co-author of: "Common Lisp Principles", Gruppo Editoriale Jackson, Milan, 1988 - "Common Lisp Reference Guide", Gruppo Editoriale Jackson, Milan, 1990 - "Ventura 3.0", Gruppo Editoriale Jackson, 1991 - "Ventura 4.1", Gruppo Editoriale Jackson, 1994, "Word 6, Instant Guide", Gruppo Editoriale Jackson, 1994 - "Word 6 DOS", Gruppo Editoriale Jackson, 1994. Author of "Medical Informatics", 2 volumes, Piccin Nuova Libraria, Padova, 1991. Editor of: "Computer Programming" 1992-1993; "Sanità & Salute" (Health care) 1994.

Other skills...

Good knowledge of Italian legislation and European recommendations on telecommunications.

... and Hobbies

Classical music and video: I collect about a four hundred CDs ad two hundred DVDs. I produce myself DVDs of my holidays videos.