Michele Baldessari - Résumé


Contact Information:

Michele Baldessari
via Brennero 34/I, 39049 Vipiteno (BZ)
 Italy
		

Mobile Phone: 0039 340 XXXXX
Home Phone: 0039 XXXX
Email: michele@baldessari.info
Email: michele@pupazzo.org
URL: http://michele.pupazzo.org/
Jabber: michele@jabber.pupazzo.org


Informatics Skills:

    Programming: C, C++, Java, Php, Prolog, Python, Shell, System
    programming Unix and Linux, XML, SGML, HTML.
  
    Network: TCP/IP, OSI, Cisco IOS, VPN (Ipsec, Openvpn), Layer 2 -
    Vlan.
  
    Database: JDBC, SQL, Oracle, DB2, Postgresql, Mysql.
  
    Software: Linux, Solaris, Irix, Windows NT/2000/2003/XP, Apache,
    Bind, DHCP, Samba, Postfix, Clustering, LDAP, NFS, SSH, Bacula,
    Kerberos, PKCS#11, SSO, SGI Performer.
  
    Certifications: RHCE - Red Hat Certified Engineer, RHCX - Red Hat
    Certified Examiner.
  

Employment History:

    Senior System Administrator
    Xsec s.r.l.
    June 2003 - Present
    
    Senior System Administrator, doing security related tasks, managing
    networks and firewalls, mailservers and samba file servers, HA
    clusters, web applications and authentication services.
    
    Projects:
    * ldapcheck - postfix 1.x sasl module to do sasl authentication
      through ldap.
    * Xems - An administration interface to manage mail users with
      postfix, openldap, courier-imap.
    
    
    Translator
    Bowneglobal
    June 2003 - August 2003
    
    Worked on the italian translation of some parts of the book 101
    applications with Visual Basic .NET.
    
    
    Programmer, System Administrator
    Red Hat, Italy
    September 2001 - July 2002
    
    System administration work for various customers, ranging from small
    to medium sized businesses, consulting for migration towards Open
    Source Environments, developing of software for internal use,
    developing of a few customized distributions for third parties, QA
    work on different software packages. Teaching of programming courses
    on Linux [RH143]
    
    Projects:
    * Custom distribution for Zucchetti.com http://www.zucchetti.com
    * DB2 Cluster solution distribution
      http://www.redhat.it/ibm/db2redhat
    
    
    Instructor
    Red Hat, Italy
    May 2001 - September 2001
    
    Teaching of all the networking, security and administration courses
    offered by Red Hat RH033, RH133, RH253, RH300, RHS333, RH604, RHS346
    
    Achievements:
    * RHCE - Red Hat Certified Engineer
    * RHCX - Red Hat Certified Examiner
    
    
    Translator and writer
    PC Professional - Italia - Ziff Dafis
    March 1999 - September 1999
    
    Worked for PC Professional computer magazine as a translator from
    the german edition to the italian one. Also written a couple of
    articles about GNU/Linux systems.
    
    
    Programmer
    Leitner Lifts S.p.A.
    June 1998 - August 1998
    
    Worked as a Java programmer in a mixed environment [IBM AS/400 and
    Microsoft Windows]. Developed java applications that extracted
    information from existing DB2 databases.
    

Education:

    Erasmus, September 1999 - July 2000
    Johannes Kepler University - Linz - Austria
    
    Bachelor in Informatics Engineering, September 1995 - Present
    Politecnico of Milan
    
    Scientific High School Degree, July 1995. Final score 60/60
    Liceo Classico Publio Virgilio - Vipiteno - Italy
    
    U.S. High School Diploma, June 1994
    Eastwood High School - El Paso, TX - U.S.A.
    

Publications:

    Michele Baldessari & Simo Sorce. "Samba - VFS - 2nd Part". Linux
    Magazine n. 46.

    Michele Baldessari & Simo Sorce. "Samba - VFS". Linux Magazine
    n. 45.

    Michele Baldessari & Simo Sorce. "Samba - Authentication". Linux
    Magazine n. 42.

    Michele Baldessari & Simo Sorce. "Samba - Advanced topics".
    Linux Magazine n. 41.

    Michele Baldessari & Simo Sorce. "Samba - Primary Domain
    Controller". Linux Magazine n. 40.

    Michele Baldessari & Simo Sorce. "Introduction to Samba 3".
    Linux Magazine n. 39.

    Michele Baldessari. "Booting Linux - What really happens during
    the boot process". Linux & C n. 11.


Languages:

    Italian: Mother Tongue.
  
    German: Excellent written and spoken skills, Diplom
    Wirtschaftssprache Deutsch - Institut für Fachsprachen - J. Kepler
    Universität Linz June 2000, Bilingual [German/Italian] exam of the
    province of Bolzano Level A September 2000.
  
    English: Excellent written and spoken skills, *TOEFL*Test of English
    as a Foreign Language [score 637] March 1997, *SAT*- Scholastic
    Assessment Test - Collegeboard [score 1020] January 1994.
  

Interests:

    * Reading
    * Music
    * Soccer
    * Snowboard
    * Traveling
    

Last modified 20 June 2005.

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