
SOA / Integration Architect
Milan Area, Italy

SOA / Integration Architect
Milan Area, Italy
I'm a senior Solutions Architect with long term international and multicultural experience in SOA, EAI, BPM projects around Europe. I have worked in different roles: architect, sales engineer, software developer, team leader and/or project manager.
- Team leadership and project management
- Complex EAI & SOA implementations
- Architecture design and quality assurance
- Performance tuning, high availability, load balancing
- Expert advice on EAI, SOA, ESB, BPM, EDA, BPEL
- SeeBeyond ICAN, Sun Java CAPS, Sun Open ESB
- Web-Services, WSDL, SOAP, REST, XML processing
- Java EE specialist with C/C++ and Python background.
(Information Technology and Services industry)
July 2007 — Present (2 years 6 months)
- Independent SOA / EAI consulting services. Helping customers to align information technology with their business needs.
- Provide strategic, tactical and operational consulting services in the areas of enterprise architecture, system integration and collaboration.
- Custom software development
- Java CAPS and Open ESB consulting and training partner for Sun Microsystems
(Information Technology and Services industry)
January 2008 — April 2009 (1 year 4 months)
- Fluxology.Net is a selected group of independent experts providing consulting services in the areas of enterprise architecture, multi-layered integration and collaboration, the enabling frameworks and the technologies involved.
- The network is Sun’s premium partners for SeeBeyond eGate, ICAN and JavaCAPS related business, technology and training throughout the EMEA region.
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; JAVA; Computer Hardware industry)
August 2006 — June 2007 (11 months)
- Sun Italy Lead Architect for ICAN and Java CAPS SOA / EAI solutions delivery in the Italian market. Member of the EMEA SOA/BI Consulting Practice, technical manager for all major SOA / EAI projects in Italy.
- Designing and implementing software and hardware solutions based on Sun and former SeeBeyond products. Supporting sales activities in case of complex requirements, responsible to train Italian partners.
* Sun Microsystems has acquired SeeBeyond in August 2005
Main customers include: Accenture Italy, Bank of Valletta (Malta), Siemens Informatica, Lottomatica, Hera Group.
(Public Company; 501-1000 employees; Computer Software industry)
September 2004 — August 2006 (2 years )
SeeBeyond Professional Services, EMEA / Southern Europe.
- Delivery of high quality billable product-related services to major SeeBeyond European customers and partners for what concerns ICAN and Java CAPS projects delivery during the following main steps: architecture, design, implementation, best practices, development team mentoring, problem investigation, facilitation of incident resolution situations between SeeBeyond product support & customer.
- Contributing to SOA/BI knowledge capitalisation / lessons learned feedback / product implementation experience feedback within the EMEA SOA/BI delivery team to ensure consistent and repeatable delivery of services.
Main customers include: OCP Celesio (France), Atos Origin France, Carrefour France, Carrefour Italy, Reale Mutua Assicurazioni (Italy), Santer – Lombardia Informatica, AEM Milano, Cadbury Schweppes (UK), Vittoria Assicurazioni (Italy), Telefonica Wholesales (Spain), Ar Telecom (Portugal),
(Information Technology and Services industry)
February 2004 — August 2004 (7 months)
Freelance senior consultant for the Vodafone-Italy Mobile Framework project:
- development of a distributed, scalable system for asynchronous messages processing and delivering, based on Java Jini technology, integrated with a multi-device dynamic content provider.
- The team developed a custom distributed, highly multi-threaded and self-healing system, processing and billing millions of SMS and MMS messages per day, to serve Vodafone's customers and VAS partners (ICMF project).
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)
August 2001 — January 2004 (2 years 6 months)
- In charge to drive company's web technologies and skills transition to J2EE web applications, Linux, Tomcat, MySQL and open-source tools, coaching junior software developers and enforcing best design practices and patterns.
- Co-architect of the "CommuniThink project": XML / XSLT based web content and community management system integrated with multi-channel instant messengers and participation tools, based on a custom JDBC-based object-relational mapping framework.
- Architect of the Tiscali Web Messenger Java AWT Applet and developer of profiling / advertising / management backend tools for the Tiscali Instant Messenger Platform (JSP, MySQL)
- Architect and main developer of the Mobile / SMS dating & chat Java platform (TIM and Wind games).
(Computer Software industry)
April 1998 — August 2001 (3 years 5 months)
- Development of C++ 3-D graphics real-time visualization and navigation algorithms for huge geometric models (GIS terrain models, car and aerospace industry models) in stereoscopic, distributed environments, on SGI IRIX, Linux and Windows OpenGL workstations, using both OpenGL and the VTK library.
- Research and presentation of new technologies, open-source tools and software (VTK, wxWindows, Python) to both developers and management.
- Development of GUI and Oracle database front-ends for healthcare applications (CUPS, HL7) using Borland Delphi 5, and a custom C++ HL7 parser.
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/freeabs_all.jsp?tp=&arnumber=976102&isnumber=21054
(Educational Institution; Research industry)
April 1997 — November 1997 (8 months)
Probabilistic learning system prototype based on “Adaptive Boosting of Neural Networks”. An internally funded R&D project to test and document the possibility for a PAC learning algorithm (AdaBoost) to augment the patterns discovery capacity of neural networks at borders of training sets.
(Government Agency; 10,001 or more employees; Military industry)
August 1992 — August 1993 (1 year 1 month)
Mandatory Italian military service.
MS , Information Science - Laurea in Scienze dell'Informazione , 1993 — 1999
My specialization area was mathematical logic and cognitive science. I was interested in artificial intelligence (neural networks, PAC-learning), soft computing (genetic algorithms, fuzzy-logic), 3-D computer graphics and virtual reality systems.
Thesis titled: "Sviluppo di un sistema per un alto livello di realismo della navigazione visiva di oggetti tridimensionali stereoscopici". (supervisors: Prof. Francesco Gardin, Prof. Daniele Marini).
Professional Certification , UNIX Systems Administration and Programming , 1990
technology, software, programming, cognitive science, personal development, scuba diving, running, skiing, bikes, motorbikes, Italian wines, slow food.
Publication:
"Visualisation of Geographic Information in a Dynamic 3-Dimensional Environment"
(Ioannis Kanellopoulos, Arthur Stein, Maurizio Turatti)
7th EC-GI & GIS Workshop. Potsdam, Germany.13 - 15 June 2001
http://www.ec-gis.org/Workshops/7ec-gis/papers/pdf/kanellopoulos.pdf