Date and place of birth: 1977 - Turin, Italy
Contacts:
Address: Via Teodosio 102 – 20131 Milano – Italy
Email: 
Education:
- January 2006
- Qualification to the pratice of Engineering profession, class 23/S
- December 2002
- Masters in "Quantitative Methods and Computer Science for economic decisions processes"
University of Bari, Faculty of Science - December 2001
- Degree in Computer Science - University of Bari, Faculty of Science
Grade 110/110 with honours
Current employment (September 2012 - in progress)
Senior Developer at DS Group (Milano)
Previous employments:
July 2011 - August 2012
Senior Developer, consultant in Serin SA (Lugano) for an important world-wide Swiss credit institute. Main project:
- Credit Risk Management - System for computing potential risk exposure of the Institute's counter-parties. It's an international project involving world-wide sites. Work team is extended to Switzerland, London and Singapore.
Technologies: Java (J2EE), Struts, MS SQL Server, Sybase, UNIX, Perl, Apache Ant.
January 2009 - June 2011
Software Engineer at Visiant S.p.A. (http://www.visiant.it). My main activity consists in designing and developing the SOA-oriented enterprise internal information system, using the Agile development method. Other activities are configuration and maintenance of test and production environments on VMWare cloud and virtualized Linux-based servers and supporting / managing internal IT infrastructure, networking and applicative support desk. Main projects:
- HRSuite - Web-based suite for the management of human resources: timesheet, jobs, expenses, documents. The system is integrated with the ERP Navision / NAV (Microsoft)
- Recupero Crediti - Web-based application to support the activity of managing credits
- RDA - Web-based application to support the activity of managing internal expenses
Techologies: J2EE, PostgreSQL, JPA, EJB3 (on Apache Geronimo), GWT, GXT, OpenLDAP, GoogleAPI (docs+mail), Trac, Continuum, Apache Ant.
December 2007 - December 2008
Recruited as analyst/programmer at Sapient Italia S.p.A., now Sempla - Consulting Technology Outsourcing (http://www.sempla.it). Main projects:
- ETIP - Single sign-on system for authentication on several portals, developed for several customers
- Websites - Customers: Brico Center, SynergoSgr
- Data Warehouse for the optimization of enterprise expenses.
Technologies: Microsoft SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS), SQL Server 2000/2005, Oracle 10g, Magnolia CMS, Apache-Tomcat
December 2005 - November 2007
Recruited at Exhicon s.r.l. (www.exhicon.it), I worked for IBM at Intesa Sanpaolo in Milan, as J2EE developer. Main projects:
- IXP - middleware (in a heterogeneous environment: z/OS, Linux, Windows) for interfacing host to distributed systems
During my activity, I dealt with both colleagues and the customers, represented by other developers.
Technologies: Java (J2EE), C, IBM Websphere Application Server (WAS), WebSphere Studio Application Developer (WSAD), Solaris, IBM AIX
November 2003 - November 2005
Recruited as Oracle (PL/SQL) programmer at Svimservice S.p.A. Main project:
- GIPEL - Application for the management of human resources (wages, in particular) of local authorities (municipalities, provincial administrations)
During the activity I gained significant experience in the main areas related to the automation of Human Resource management.
Technologies: Oracle (7.3.4, 8.1.7, 9i, 10g), Forms & Reports
Main customers: Municipality of Milan, Municipality of Bari, Provincial administration of Bari, Provincial administraion of Taranto, ASL NA/5.
January 2002 – November 2003
Research grant-holder in the Department of Computer Science, University of Bari. Main project:
- SPIN!: Data mining on data of public interest (census data)
Technologies utilizzate: Java, JNI, C/C++, RMI, SOAP
Courses attended
- 2005 - Developing personal expertise - Profingest Management School
- 2003 - Advanced Course on New Frontiers of Information Society Technology - Department of Computer Science of University of Torino (Italy)
- 2004 - Java Programming, Create Servlet and Java Server Pages, Data Warehouse Fundamentals, Warehouse Builder - Oracle
- 2002 - Doctoral Summer School Information Environments: Analysis and Design, ETH – Zurigo
Foreign languages
- Native speaker of Italian
- Good command of spoken and written English
- Spanish language: Cuadro común europeo de las lenguas: Nivel B2
Technical knowledge:
- Operating Systems
- Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, Solaris, IBM AIX
- Programming
- Java EE, C, C++, SQL (PL/SQL, T-SQL), Visual Basic.NET, Perl, Prolog
- Web Development
- Google Web Toolkit (GWT), (X)HTML, CSS, Javascript, Ext GWT, XML, XSL, PHP, ASP, PmWiki
- Middleware
- EJB 3 (OpenJPA), SOAP, RMI
- Development process
- Continuous Integration, Agile methodology, Scrum
- Virtualization and Cloud
- VMware, vSphere, VirtualBox
- Server
- IBM Websphere Application Server, Apache HTTPD, Apache Geronimo, Apache Continuum, Redhat JBoss, OpenLDAP
- DBMS
- Oracle (7.3.4, 8.1.7, 9i, 10g), PostgreSQL, MySQL, Microsoft SQL Server (2000, 2005, 2008)
- Analysis and design
- UML, Database design, ER modeling, OO design patterns
- Development environments and tools
- Eclipse, IBM WebSphere Studio Application Developer, Visual Studio.NET, Oracle Developer (Forms & Reports), JBuilder, SVN, Trac, Google Sites
- Office and Internet applications
- Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Internet Explorer, Google Docs, MS Office, OpenOffice, LaTeX
Publications:
- F. Sblendorio, Controlli ActiveX, DEV n. 80 (Dicembre 2000), Gruppo Editoriale Infomedia
- F. Sblendorio & G. Vitiello, Umano vs Computer: la sfida, DEV n. 85 (Maggio 2001), Gruppo Editoriale Infomedia
- F. Sblendorio & G. Vitiello, Umano vs Computer: un esempio pratico, DEV n. 86 (Giugno 2001), Gruppo Editoriale Infomedia
- F. Sblendorio & N. Tino, Realizzare il drag'n'drop in DHTML, Login n. 31 (Novembre/Dicembre 2001), Gruppo Editoriale Infomedia
- F. Sblendorio, Realizzare un menu a tendina con DHTML, Login n. 33 (Marzo/Aprile 2002), Gruppo Editoriale Infomedia
- F. Sblendorio, JNI: un ponte tra due mondi, DEV n. 95 (Aprile 2002), Gruppo Editoriale Infomedia
- F. Sblendorio, Vent'anni fa..., DEV n. 96 (Maggio 2002), Gruppo Editoriale Infomedia
- D. Malerba, F. A. Lisi, A. Appice, F. Sblendorio, Mining Spatial Association Rules in Census Data: A Relational Approach, ECML/PKDD'02 Workshop on "Mining Official Data", Helsinki, 20th August 2002.
- Donato Malerba, Francesca A. Lisi, Annalisa Appice and Francesco Sblendorio. MINING CENSUS AND GEOGRAPHIC DATA IN URBAN PLANNING ENVIRONMENTS (2003). Terza conferenza nazionale su informatica e pianificazione urbana e territoriale - costruzione e gestione della conoscenza - input 2003, Pisa, 5-7 giugno 2003
- A. Appice, F.A. Lisi, D. Malerba, F. Sblendorio. Analyzing Geo-referenced Census Data: a Case Study. Analisi Statistica Multivariata per le Scienze Economico Sociali, le Scienze naturali e la Tecnologia, Convegno intermedio della società italiana di statistica, Napoli, 9-11 giugno 2003