Thomas M Alisi

Current

founder and managing director at RedNoodles.com
post-doc researcher and project manager at Media Integration and Communication Center, University of Florence

Past

principal lecturer at University of Florence
member of the staff, system administrator at Master in Multimedia, University of Florence

Education

Università degli Studi di Firenze
Università degli Studi di Firenze

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Thomas M Alisi’s Summary

Trained as a researcher with specific attitude for project management and entrepreneurship, I started my career at the University of Florence, after graduating in 2002. While working at the University as a research assistant, I took a Ph.D. in Informatics Engineering, Multimedia and Telecommunications.

My skills were developed mainly while working as a post-doc researcher and project manager at the Media Integration and Communication Center, University of Florence, where I was appointed member of the Board of Operations at the Master in Multimedia Content Design.

I am constantly pursuing further development of skills and therefore searching for a stimulating work environment. In order to complete institutional formation in the chosen field of study, my objective is to take an executive MBA in the next few years, compatibly with work commitments.

Thomas M Alisi’s Specialties:

IT projects production and management. Web development and technical direction for projects in HTML, CSS, AJAX, FLEX, J2EE, PHP.

Thomas M Alisi’s Experience

founder and managing director

RedNoodles.com

(Information Technology and Services industry)

August 2007 — Present (2 years 6 months)

Red Noodles is a small digital agency that elaborates solutions for multimedia projects and installations, interaction design and natural interaction systems.

Activities and responsibilities
- define strategy and partnerships of the company
- write proposals for regional and national funding programmes
- scouting and recruitment
- project manager / producer for interactive environment projects, most notably: interactive installations at Pitti Immagine Uomo fuori salone c/o Studio Fotografico Quagli
post-doc researcher and project manager

Media Integration and Communication Center, University of Florence

(Information Technology and Services industry)

November 2002 — Present (7 years 3 months)

The Media Integration and Communication Center works as an interdisciplinary focus, connecting Information and Communication Technology, Human sciences, Social Sciences, Law and Regulations, researches and innovations.
The center aims to develope qualified Research and Innovation Transfer. It cooperates with National and International Universities, Research Institutions and Companies, as well as high-level education, such as the Master in Multimedia of the University of Florence.

Activities and responsibilities
- management and development of technology transfer projects, among others:
 -- Accademia Della Crusca - search engine for the Crusca Vocabularies;
- - Dept. of studies on Italian Language - tools for video transcription and streaming, semantic annotation and search engine; 
-- Dept. of historical and geographical studies - natural interaction surface with computer vision technologies for the exhibition “From Petra to Shawbak”
- management and development of research projects, most notably 2 FIRB projects of the Italian Ministry of Research regarding web applications for semantic based digital libraries access
- research and development with special focus on semantic web, information architecture, interaction design, media transcoding and streaming, most notably: EU 6th Framework Programme project VIDI-Video for semantic access to large annotated video archives
- system administration of servers and intranet systems
- development of web sites and web applications for internal use

For more informations please visit our website: www.micc.unifi.it
principal lecturer

University of Florence

(Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)

January 2004 — October 2009 (5 years 10 months)

Principal lecturer for the module “Information Architecture”, Faculty of Architecture, Industrial Design

Principal lecturer for the module “Web programming languages”, Faculty of Engineering, Master in Multimedia Content Design

Lecturer for the module “Multimedia project production”, Faculty of Engineering, Informatics

Principal lecturer for the module “Java programming”, Faculty of Engineering, Master in Internet Engineering
member of the staff, system administrator

Master in Multimedia, University of Florence

(Education Management industry)

January 2003 — October 2009 (6 years 10 months)

The Master in Multimedia Content Design was founded at the University of Florence in 1997. It has two different tracks: interactive environments (web programming) and video post-production. Starting from 2006 its courses include fundamentals of natural interaction for interactive installations.

Activities and responsibilities
- definition and implementation of the study plan and relationship with companies for students internship
- system administration of servers and intranet systems

For more infos, please visit our website: www.mmm.unifi.it

Thomas M Alisi’s Education

Università degli Studi di Firenze

PhD , Informatics Engineering, Multimedia and TLC , 2004 — 2007

Thesis on semantic based multimedia transcoding: a video surveillance system that adapts the transcoding of media streams according to semantic descriptors of both the observed scene and the observer environment and device (technologies: Java EE, Flex RIA, Streaming server, RDF/OWL).

Activities and Societies:

Tutor: Prof. Alberto Del Bimbo
Università degli Studi di Firenze

MSc , Informatics Engineering , 1994 — 2002

Thesis on a natural/markerless motion capture system: the video analysis focuses on blob colour and size data, then a best-fit 3D model in a multi-camera calibrated environment gives informations about body posture (technologies: pure C++ and MS DirectShow for video acquisition).

Activities and Societies:

Tutor: Prof. Alberto Del Bimbo, Prof. Enrico Vicario

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Thomas M Alisi’s Interests:

indie music & festivals, cinema, books, comics, squash, skiing and someone says I am quite a good cook

Thomas M Alisi’s Groups:

media boulevard, mmm community

Interaction Design Association - Italy
Master in Multimedia Content Design Alumni
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