Resume

Founder and CEO of Sourcesense, a System Integrator acting on a European level on Open Source technologies. Responsible for the overall international business strategy, execution of the business plan, partner network build out and management of a team of 30+ people. During its first year of activity, Sourcesense acquired a number of blue chip customers and nearly tripled the initial business goals: the company is now growing at a fast pace both in business and in european coverage to achieve the goal of becoming the leading Open Source System Integrator in Europe.

Leading a team of 50 people devoted to system integration for the enterprise market, with a peculiar focus on Open Source technologies. Notable results include founding of the Orixo consortium (http://www.orixo.com) and constant growth of business and awareness of the Pro-netics brand as a major player in the italian SI market, working with enterprise-class customers to build complex solutions.

Leading the network and security groups of KSolutions S.p.a., a Kataweb group company. My responsibilities included oversight and QA of the whole delivery process other than specific duties in coordinating the network & security business unit for the whole Ksolutions group, leading a team of seven people and managing a complex multi-site and multi-company environment.

Responsible for the software development and system/network administration groups. Duties included fostering the technical department of the company, which eventually grew up to 20 people handling complex projects with customers as Terra Netwoks, KataWeb, Mediaset, RAI, De Agostini and many more. Also responsible for synergies with major HW/SW vendors (Sun, IBM, Oracle, ISP, Apache Software Foundation).

Started as a second level technical support engineer, while being responsible for the company DNS and domain/network registrations. On January1999 assigned to the colo cation business unit, as a large account technical project manager. Involved in planning, deployment and production phases of the most important Internet portals in Italy, such as KataWeb, Jumpy, Spray and Freedomland, and of other large customers such as Unicredito, Costa Crociere and more.