Date and place of birth: 1977 - Turin, Italy

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Education:

July 1996
School-leaving Certificate Liceo Scientifico statale "Galileo Galilei" Bitonto (Bari)
December 2001
Degree in Computer Science - University of Bari, Faculty of Sciences
Grade 110/110 with honours
Dissertation title:
Association rule discovery: the problem of unsupervised and context-dependent discretization of numerical data
December 2002
Masters in "Quantative Methods and Informatics for supporting economic decisions"
University of Bari, Faculty of Sciences
March 2004
Specialistic Degree in Computer Science - University of Bari, Faculty of Sciences
Grade 110/110 with honours
Dissertation title:
Association rule discovery: the problem of unsupervised and context-dependent discretization of numerical data: new results.
January 2006
Qualification to the pratice of engineering profession, class 23/S

Working experiences

From January 2009 (in progress)
Software Engineer at Visiant Groups Services (Visiant Group: http://www.visiant.it).
Activities: design and development of the enterprise information system, using the Agile development method. Platforms: Java with PostgreSQL DBMS; Technologies: EJB3 (on Apache Geronimo), GWT, EXT, GoogleAPI (docs+mail).

December 2007 - December 2008
Recruited as analyst/programmer at Sapient Italia S.p.A. (http://www.sapient.it).
Activities: developing a data warehouse, using Microsoft SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) as ETL tool; DBMS used: Microsoft SQL Server 2000, 2005. Porting a .NET + Oracle 10g web application to .NET + SQL Server 2005. Portal administration through Magnolia content management system (running on Apache-Tomcat). Developing integration infrastractures among different applications.
Main customers: Terna, Brico, SynergoSgr.

December 2005 - November 2007
Recruited at Exhicon s.r.l. (www.exhicon.it), I worked for IBM at Banca Intesa in Milan, as J2EE developer in a heterogeneous environment (z/OS, Linux, Windows), using IBM WebSphere Application Server (WAS) and WebSphere Application Developer (WSAD). I dealt with ordinary and non-ordinary maintenance of IXP (Interactive Cross Platform), a proprietary middleware that interfaces host systems and distributed systems in two main modalities (synchronous and asynchronous).
During my activity, I dealt with both colleagues and the customers, represented by other developers.

4th November 2003 - 3rd November 2005
Recruited as Oracle (PL/SQL) programmer at Svimservice S.p.A. (Bari).
I worked actively in a team developing an application for the management of human resources (wages, in particular) of local authorities (municipalities, provincial administrations,...). The DBMS used was Oracle (7.3.4, 8.1.7, 9i, 10g), and the application was developed using Oracle Developer (Forms & Reports), both in Client/Server and Web environments. I gained significant experience in the main areas related to the automation of Human Resource management.
Main customers: Municipality of Milan, Municipality of Bari, Provincial administration of Bari, Provincial administraion of Taranto, ASL NA/5.

4th April 2002 – 3rd November 2003
Research grant-holder in the Department of Computer Science, University of Bari.
Projects implementation by using Object-Oriented technologies, UML langage for design and Java for programming. Integration of C/C++ portions of pre-existing code within Java projects. Implementation of remote services through Web Services (SOAP protocol) using Apache Axis framework (for Java projects) and nu-soap (for PHP projects). Implementation of remote services through RMI.

January 2002 – March 2002
Temporary contract with the Department of Computer Science, University of Bari for the following assignment:
"Optimization of the performance of the RUDE algorithm in the contextual, unsupervised discretization of numerical attributes, within the SPIN! Project."

Courses attended

29th August 2002 – 4th September 2002
Doctoral Summer School "Information Environments: Analysis and Design", ETH Zurich

24th March 2003 – 3rd April 2003
Advanced Course on New Frontiers of Information Society Technology. Department of Computer Science of University of Torino (Italy).

December 2003 – January 2004
Oracle 9i: Java Programming, Create Servlet and Java Server Pages, Data Warehouse Fundamentals, Warehouse Builder

20th May 2005 – 21st May 2005
Training course Developing personal expertise, delivered by Profingest Management School

Other experiences
Delivering a seminar with CFU at the Department of Computer Science - University of Bari, on 22nd May 2003.
Title of the seminar: Multidimensional structure for image processing

Foreign languages

  • Native speaker of Italian
  • Good command of spoken and written English
  • Spanish language: Cuadro común europeo de las lenguas: Nivel B2

Knowledge of Informatics:

Operating Systems
Windows (9x, NT/2000/XP), Linux, Sun Solaris, IBM AIX
Programming languages
C, C++, SQL (PL/SQL, T-SQL), Java, Visual Basic.NET, Perl, PHP, HTML, XHTML, Javascript, Prolog, VBScript/JScript (from within ASP)
DBMS
Oracle (7.3.4, 8.1.7, 9i, 10g), MySQL, Microsoft SQL Server 2000/2005
Analysis and design
UML language.
Development environments
Oracle Developer (Forms & Reports), Eclipse, JBuilder, Visual Studio.NET
Middleware
SOAP, RMI
Office and Internet applications
MS Office, OpenOffice, LaTeX, Explorer, Firefox

Publications:

  • F. Sblendorio, Controlli ActiveX, DEV n. 80 (Dicembre 2000), Gruppo Editoriale Infomedia
  • F. Sblendorio & G. Vitiello, Umano vs Computer: la sfida, DEV n. 85 (Maggio 2001), Gruppo Editoriale Infomedia
  • F. Sblendorio & G. Vitiello, Umano vs Computer: un esempio pratico, DEV n. 86 (Giugno 2001), Gruppo Editoriale Infomedia
  • F. Sblendorio & N. Tino, Realizzare il drag'n'drop in DHTML, Login n. 31 (Novembre/Dicembre 2001), Gruppo Editoriale Infomedia
  • F. Sblendorio, Realizzare un menu a tendina con DHTML, Login n. 33 (Marzo/Aprile 2002), Gruppo Editoriale Infomedia
  • F. Sblendorio, JNI: un ponte tra due mondi, DEV n. 95 (Aprile 2002), Gruppo Editoriale Infomedia
  • F. Sblendorio, Vent'anni fa..., DEV n. 95 (Maggio 2002), Gruppo Editoriale Infomedia
  • D. Malerba, F. A. Lisi, A. Appice, F. Sblendorio, Mining Spatial Association Rules in Census Data: A Relational Approach, ECML/PKDD'02 Workshop on "Mining Official Data", Helsinki, 20th August 2002.
  • Donato Malerba, Francesca A. Lisi, Annalisa Appice and Francesco Sblendorio. MINING CENSUS AND GEOGRAPHIC DATA IN URBAN PLANNING ENVIRONMENTS (2003). Terza conferenza nazionale su informatica e pianificazione urbana e territoriale - costruzione e gestione della conoscenza - input 2003, Pisa, 5-7 giugno 2003
  • A. Appice, F.A. Lisi, D. Malerba, F. Sblendorio. Analyzing Geo-referenced Census Data: a Case Study. Analisi Statistica Multivariata per le Scienze Economico Sociali, le Scienze naturali e la Tecnologia, Convegno intermedio della società italiana di statistica, Napoli, 9-11 giugno 2003

Websites:

http://www.sblendorio.eu
Personal web site
http://fsblendorio.blogspot.com
Personal blog
http://www.francescopazienza.net
Official web site of Francesco Pazienza and his orchestra
http://www.retrocensimento.bbk.org
Census of old computers' italian collectors (with a web service for queries)