Senior Web Developer April 2014 – Present Full stack design and development of web applications; Web servers and databases configuration; Performance testing and optimizing. Pane&Design, Catania (Italy) www.paneedesign.com Project: CharityStars I’m involved in the platform development including the core functions like database, back-end MVC framework, RESTful API for mobile apps, Social integration and the browser client. Tech: PHP, MySQL, TWIG, JavaScript, jQuery, AngularJS, NodeJS, Socket.io, WebRTC, Couchbase, AWS, nginx, Bower, Grunt, Gulp, JasmineJS, LESS, SASS, Bootstrap Framework, Facebook API, Twitter API, SMS API, Firebase API. http://www.charitystars.com Project: Nextwin I’m involved in the platform development including the core functions like database, back-end MVC framework, RESTful API, 3rd-party API integration and the browser client. Tech: PHP, MySQL, TWIG, JavaScript, AngularJS, NodeJS, MongoDB, AWS, Apache, Bower, Grunt, LESS, Bootstrap Framework, Facebook API, Firebase notifications API. https://www.nextwin.com Project: Salty I’m involved in the platform development including the core functions like database, back-end MVC framework, RESTful API for Mobile Apps, App Indexing. Tech: PHP, MySQL, JavaScript, jQuery, Bower, Grunt, LESS, Bootstrap Framework, Facebook API, SMS API, Firebase notifications API. https://www.saltyapp.com

Software Engineer, Systems Integrator November 2009 – March 2014 Design and development of a web app for e-book, landing page and newsletters creation, management and analysis; Android App creation; Web sites restyling; Development, customization and management of CRM; VoIP and instant messaging systems configuration; Video surveillance systems configuration; Web servers setup and maintenance. I partecipated in Google DevFest Sicilia 2012 in Sant'Agata di Militello (Italy) to explain results achieved by projects in which group is involved and the deployed technologies. Tech: PHP, MySQL, JavaScript, jQuery, AngularJS, Bootstrap Framework, Joomla, Wordpress, SugarCRM, Android, Asterisk. JO Group, Catania (Italy) www.jogroup.eu

Software Engineer, Web and Mobile Developer January 2012 – March 2014 Design and development of e-commerce/e-learning integrated web platforms; Learning Objects creation; Research on semantic technologies in order to produce cloud applications based on innovative semantic solutions. P.M.F. S.r.l., Catania (Italy) www.pmftraining.eu Project: Semantic Sicily I was involved in the realization of the website/forum/wiki integrated system. I was also involved in the development of a web platform able to automatically enrich media contents with their semantic entities in order to produce affinity levels between media and/or users. Tech: PHP, MySQL, JavaScript, jQuery, Apache Stanbol, VIE.js, RDFs, Microdata, Bootstrap Framework. http://www.semanticsicily.eu Project: SMILEY Social Mindedness In LEarning communitY. – I was involved in the maintenance of ICT platforms used for management of the project, revision of newsletters and websites contents, technology management of the dissemination plan. Tech: Joomla. http://www.smileyschool.eu

Software Engineer and Developer, e-Learning Specialist November 2009 – January 2014 Data modeling; UX/UI design and development; Design and development of HTML5 players for video and audio streaming and for slide presentation (iPad compatible); Design and development of e-commerce/e-learning/social integrated web platforms; Design and development of webconferencing systems; W3C standards; Design and development of mobile applications (Android); Arduino programming and testing; VITECO S.r.l., Catania (Italy) www.vitecoelearning.eu Project: Indoor Location I was involved in the development of the hardware/software architecture for indoor geolocation and in the development of the web client and of the Android applications. Tech: PHP, MySQL, JavaScript, jQuery, Android, Arduino, Google Maps API, Bootstrap Framework. http://indoorlocation.vitecoelearning.eu Project: Youth 2 Work I was involved in the realization of a responsive e-learning platform, website and social network integrated system. I participated in 2nd Consortium Meeting in Porto (Portugal) to showcase platform technical features. Tech: PHP, MySQL, JavaScript, jQuery, Joomla, MediaWiki, Dokeos, Bootstrap Framework, Facebook API. http://www.youth2work.eu Project: FE:MALE Female Entrepreneurs: Mentoring and Lifelong Learning across Europe. – I was involved in the development of the e-learning platform, website/forum and social network integrated system. I was also involved in the creation of e-learning excercises. Tech: PHP, MySQL, JavaScript, jQuery, Joomla, MediaWiki, Dokeos, Bootstrap Framework, Facebook API, Articulate. http://www.femaleproject.eu Project: e-Logos rev.2 Development and creation of new features and new learning object for an e-learning platform. Customer service. Tech: ASP, ASP.NET, PHP, MySQL, JavaScript, jQuery, SMIL, Actionscript 3, Articulate. http://www.elogos.it 

Software Engineer, UX/UI Designer and Developer January 2013 – November 2013 Design and development of responsive websites and web applications and service-oriented software architectures; Development and management of CRM and CMS; Joomla! components and plugins creation; Design and development of mobile applications (Android); Third-party API integration; VoIP systems configuration. HT S.r.l., Catania (Italy) www.htinnovazione.eu Project: RESIMA Smart sensor networks and mobility assistant to the elderly and disadvantaged people. – I was involved in the implementation of an HTML5 administration interface to manage input parameters and to produce a graphical view of the results obtained, linked to a mediated statistical analysis between the different sensors. Through the interface, the supervisors can view user movements and user-ambient interactions and can take action to support and/or protect the user. Tech: PHP, Java, MySQL, JavaScript, jQuery, XML. http://resima.htinnovazione.eu

• IT Manager, e-Learning Specialist January 2011 – October 2013 Education system's quality evaluation; Development and support to Open and Distance Learning (ODL); Accreditation of the Continuing Medical Education (CME) provider. SEMORI, Taormina (Italy) http://www.semori.it http://aiorao.elogos.it

Education • Università di Catania Degree in Computer Engineering 2003 – 2008 I developed my thesis at the Department of Computer Engineering and Telecommunications at the University of Catania. I worked on the design and implementation of a semantic courseware application for e-learning systems. Tech: Java, RDFs, OWL, Protege, Jena. Università degli studi di Catania, Catania (Italy) Academic internship at DIEEI, Catania (Italy) www.dieei.unict.it Project: WebTrip Development of a peer to peer system, accessible by desktop or dedicated mobile apps, for car sharing management. Integration of intermediate routes computation using Bing Maps API. Project: Object detection and shadow removal from video stream Development of a C++ application for video processing, object detection, pattern recognition and shadow removal using OpenCV library. Project: WallDrink! Development of a Java server side e-commerce application. Development of an Android application to search products based on proximity computed by GPS or Wifi network. This project was submitted to the “Telecom Sinfonia Toolkit” contest. Project: Users to users Recommendation in Attention Metadata based Recommender System Development of a web service and of an HTML5 interface for users profiling and for

Independent Courses o Advanced Power Searching with Google Google Online Courses o Digital Analytics Fundamentals Analytics Academy Courses o Mobile Web Development Udacity Courses o Website Performance Optimization Udacity Courses

Languages o Italian Mother tongue o English Professional working proficiency

Technical skills • Excellent knowledge of web and mobile applications development and testing (PHP, Java, HTML5, JavaScript, Ajax, jQuery, AngularJS, Polymer, Node.js, Express, Socket.io, TWIG, WebRTC, Grunt, Bower, Yeoman, JasmineJS, Chart.js, Morris.js, LESS, CSS3, Bootstrap Framework, Responsive Web Design, Symfony, Yii, CodeIgniter, UX/UI design and development, Android); • Excellent knowledge of development of service-oriented architectures (distributed systems, RESTful API, web services (servlet, SOAP, REST, WSDL), JSON, cloud computing, Arduino programming); • Excellent knowledge of web 3.0 oriented application development (semantic research, ontology development (RDF, OWL, JSON-LD, Microdata, Apache Stanbol), attention profiling, artificial intelligence); • Excellent knowledge of API integration in social and cloud platforms (Facebook, Google Apps (App Engine, Analytics, AdSense, AdWords, Google+, Drive, Maps, Search Console), Twitter, Bing); • Good knowledge of Chrome Extension development; • Excellent knowledge of application development framework and MVC pattern; • Good knowledge in developing Augmented Reality applications; • Excellent knowledge of operating systems script (Unix/Linux, Mac OS X); • Excellent knowledge of components and plugins development for open source software (Joomla!, Wordpress, MediaWiki, Elgg, SugarCRM, Dokeos, Oxwall); • Excellent knowledge of Web Server setup and maintenance (CentOS, Ubuntu Server, Windows Server, AWS, Apache, Tomcat, IIS, security policy); • Excellent knowledge of network systems configuration (intranet, VPN); • Excellent knowledge of design and development of SQL and NoSQL databases; • Excellent knowledge of git, subversion and versioning systems; • Good knowledge of techniques for image processing, object detection and pattern recognition (OpenCV); • Good knowledge of VoIP and instant messaging systems