Michele Sciabarrà

Current

• Senior Consultant at Ixxus

Past

• Senior Fatwire Consultant at Sciabarra Software
• Development Director at Mobix
• Senior JavaEE Consultant at Sciabarra Consulting

• Senior Java/J2ee Consultant at Unione Fiduciaria spa Milan
• CTO at ePrometeus srl
• Java / Linux Trainer at Sciabarra Consulting
• Java Developer at Satori Network Solutions snc
• System Administrator at Sinet snc

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Education

• Sun Professional Certification
• Istituto CNUCE
• Università di Pisa

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Recommended

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Connections

268 connections

Industry

Computer Software

Websites

• My Website

Michele Sciabarrà’s Summary

- Java Architect and Developer (Web, Gui, Mobile)
- CMS expert: Fatwire, Alfresco, Magento, Plone, OpenCMS
- Experienced Technical Trainer
- Linux System Administrator
- Scripting: Perl, PHP, Python and Erlang
- Mobile: Symbian C++, iPhone Objective-C
- Coach and Team Leader

Books:
- "Linux e Programmazione Web" ("Linux and Web Programming"),
on the LAMP platform plus Java and XML,
1st Ed. 1999 ISBN 88-386-4091-2 ,
2nd Ed. 2001 ISBN 88-386-4177-3
Edited by McGrawHill Libri Italia

- "il Software Open Source e gli standard aperti" ("Open Source Software and Open Standards")
1st Ed 2004 ISBN 88-386-4374-1
by McGrawHill Libri Italia,

Skills:
- Java/J2EE: Struts, JSF, Hibernate, Spring, Axis, Ant
- Application Server: Tomcat, JBoss, Jetty, Resin, Weblogic
- Database: MySQL, Postgresql, Oracle, DB2/400
- Linux: Apache, Qmail, Squid, Firewalls, VPN
- CMS: Fatwire, Alfresco, Magento, Plone, OpenCMS

Technical Writer: more than 100 Articles published on Java, Linux
Technical Trainer: more than 100 training classes on Java, Linux

Web Sites:

- http://www.symbiatutorial.org
(english) a tutorial on Symbian C++ programming
- http://www.corsojava.it
(italian)a free Java video tutorial, a Java book and an XML/XSLT tutorial.
- http://www.corsolinux.it
(italian) tutorials on PHP, Python and some articles

Michele Sciabarrà’s Specialties:

Framework design: defined guidelines, coded frameworks and set standard for a development team.
High Availability: experienced in creating high availability and handling high traffic web site, solving performance and memory problems.

Content Management: implemented many kind of CMS, including Ecommerce and Elearning systems.

Negotiations and Customer Relationship: experienced in interfacing a customer with a development team.

Michele Sciabarrà’s Experience

• Senior Consultant

  Ixxus

  (Privately Held; Information Technology and Services industry)

  January 2010 — Present (3 months)

  Bringing my expertise on Web Content Management into the Alfresco world. Working on improving performances, web publishing and the like.

• Senior Fatwire Consultant

  Sciabarra Software

  (Computer Software industry)

  January 2002 — February 2010 (8 years 2 months)

  Consultant for Fatwire Italy and now for Fatwire France, providing training, architecture design, system administration and performance tuning to a number of clients worldwide, including:
  - Euromut (Belgium)
  - Conexus (UK)
  - DreamFire (India)
  - Virtusa (India)
  - Lombardia Informatica (Italy)
  - Elsag Datamat (Italy)
  - H3G (Three) (Italy/UK)
  - Sogei (Italy)
  - Finsiel (Italy)
  - BorsaItaliana (Italy)

• Development Director

  Mobix

  (Telecommunications industry)

  April 2008 — December 2008 (9 months)

  Managing the development in a UK company providing Conferencing Mobile Applications.

• Senior JavaEE Consultant

  Sciabarra Consulting

  (Computer Software industry)

  April 2005 — April 2007 (2 years 1 month)

  As a freelance developer I worked in a number of contract projects:
  - Developer of Clotho, an application to process invoice data from customer for Salmoiraghi&Vigano (Java/GWT/Spring), Milan (custom development project)
  - Senior Java Developer for Acision, Reading, UK (6 months project)
  - Senior Java Developer in the Vodafone Live Team for Vodafone GSP, Dusseldorf, Germany (3months project)
  - Developer of PecHandler, a component of a SOA to interface a front end with IMAP and LDAP backend (Java/Web Services) for Actalis spa, Milan, Italy (6 months project)
  - Trainer and Framework Designer for a Java Team (Java/J2EE) for Sigma spa, Fermo, Italy (3months project)
  - Developer of TrackSal, a workflow system for Salmoiraghi&Vigano (Java/Swing), Milan (custom develoment project)
  - Developer of a prototype of an interactive mobile character, (Java/J2ME) for Kallideas , Milan (custom development project)

• Senior Java/J2ee Consultant

  Unione Fiduciaria spa Milan

  (Financial Services industry)

  May 2005 — December 2006 (1 year 8 months)

  As a consultant, I trained internal people in the Java language, and assisted the project manager in choosing framework and defining methodologies for the development of a new product. I worked in two projects: Antiriciclaggio (an application to comply italian legislation about money laundry) and and E-Learning portal (also aimed to teach italian laws about money laundry).

• CTO

  ePrometeus srl

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)

  January 2000 — April 2005 (5 years 4 months)

  In this position I was in charge of many projects, with a technical management role.
  
  The major projects, where I also played an active development role, were:
  - Rikorda Portal, a large b2b ecommerce portal for the largest italian group of photographic laboratories serving 1000 stores
  - IberoBroker, a broker to connect the Sabre GDS with the Iberostar's Mirto (Iberostar is the largest spanish tour operator, and Sabre is the oldest online prenotation system)
  - Piuprezzi, a portal of the Milan Chamber of commerce spreading official price lists for the various good.
  
  I also built and managed Linux systems for a number of clients, including:
  - Java Application Server for the Rikorda Portal
  - Email Systems for Ospedale San Paolo, Milan, Italy
  - Proxy/Firewall for Ospedale Mazzone, Ascoli Piceno, Italy
  - Email Systems of OkCom, Rome, Italy

• Java / Linux Trainer

  Sciabarra Consulting

  (Education Management industry)

  July 1996 — April 2005 (8 years 10 months)

  I trained people on Java and Linux running hands-on classes. These classes were usually short (3-5 days) and very practical. I taught more than 100 of these classes for a large number of clients all around Italy.

• Java Developer

  Satori Network Solutions snc

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  February 1997 — August 1998 (1 year 7 months)

  I worked as a Java Developer creating Web Applications in the early internet age.
  
  In this position I created an XML-based application server, named Zen, that was the foundation of other application developed at the company.
  
  I built a major application, Gestione Delibere, using this system. This application was a system aimed to handle deliberation for the Architecture Institute of the Venice University.

• System Administrator

  Sinet snc

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  July 1996 — March 1998 (1 year 9 months)

  I was part-time system administrator for a small ISP

Michele Sciabarrà’s Education

• Sun Professional Certification

  94% Score , Sun Programmer for Java Platform , 2000 — 2000

• Istituto CNUCE

  Scholarship on Software Engineering 1995 — 1996

  Activities and Societies:

  I developed a tool to calculate code metrics on fortran programs.

• Università di Pisa

  Laurea , Informatica , 1988 — 1995

  As a Thesis developed a complete analyzer of C source code, to calculate metrics of C programs.

Additional Information

Michele Sciabarrà’s Websites:

• My Website

Michele Sciabarrà’s Groups:

cobra, jmdf

•    Content Management Professionals
•    Nuxeo Community
•    Open Source
•    J Architect
•    Pega PRPC Professionals
•    Erlang Developers
•    Linux Users
•    UK Content Management Group
•    Erlang/OTP Professionals
•    Alumni Università di Pisa
•    NonSoloCodice.it
•    Infomedia Professional Association
•    SUN Certified java professionals
•    JIA - Java Italian Association
•    GWT Users
•    Linux Italia
•    Fatwire Professionals !!!
•    Fuga Dei Talenti
•    Mobile Developers Italy
•    ECM and WCM Professionals
•    NoSQL
•    Corporate Simulators

Michele Sciabarrà’s Honors:

My Book (Linux and Programmazione Web) was one of the best selling book in 2001 for the category.
My Symbian Tutorial is mentioned in the Symbian web site.

Michele Sciabarrà’s Contact Settings

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