Antonio Ferraro Software Developer / IT Professional

Rue Du Village, 6, 4600 - Lanaye – Belgium +32 4 3791181 +32 479 122523 [email protected]

→ PROFESSIONAL PROFILE

• Independent, experienced, committed IT professional. • Eager to learn new tools and new technologies. • Positive, adaptable, respectful and team-minded. • Extensive experience in the field of NATO Military Tactical Data Links. • Other: ◦ Driving License type B ◦ NATO Security Clearance: NS ◦ Linkedin profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/antonio-ferraro-860b1825 ◦ Company’s web page: http://safits.be

→ IT / PROFESSIONAL SKILLS

• Programming Languages: ( RCP, Swing, Spring, Hibernate...), , Python (, Pandas...), , some C++ and Javascript, VB / VBA, Pascal ( and other dialects), Powerbuilder, XML/HTML/CSS/Bootstrap, data representation in XML/JSON. • Scripting: Perl, bash • Databases: MS SQL, MySQL, Postgresql, SQLLite. • IDEs: Eclipse (for Java and C), IntelliJ Idea. Pycharm//Wing IDE (Python), Jupyter Notebook (Python, R, Nodes), Rstudio (R), Source Navigator and more. • Virtualization: VirtualBox, Vmware. • OS Administration: Oracle Solaris 8, 10, 11, UNIX/ (Red Hat and Ubuntu families current versions), Windows up to 2012, OS User Experience: All of the above and Mac OS X, IOS, Android. • : , SVN, CVS, RCS, MS Sharepoint 2016. • Network Administration: CISCO and network design and administration (CCNA), RAD Megaplex Configuration and Administration, Network services design / reorganization. • CMSs: Wordpress, Joomla, Hugo. • Graphics and Design: MS Visio, Inkscape, GIMP, Photoshop, Ms Publisher, Dia, Draw.io. • Office / Desktop Applications / Typesetting systems: MS Office, Libreoffice, Adobe, Gimp, Inkscape, Latex and more.

→ NATO / EXPERIENCE HIGHLIGHTS

• Air Defense Systems, Communication Remote Control Solutions, Tactical Data Links (TDL) Link 11/11B, Link 1, Link 22, Link 16/JREAP-C, integration of AIS sources, TDL Systems interoperability tests and assessments, support to acceptance tests, verification of test plans and procedures, requirement specifications, documentation. • Project management (for both cyclic baseline releases and ad-hoc projects) . • Team lead experience.

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01/07/2019 – (Belgium) • Founder and CTO of SaF IT Services.

07/10/2019 – 31/01/2020 • External Consultant for the NATO NCIA/SSSB Section. Software Documentation, Testing and Training, minor developments

01/07/2019 – 31/12/2019 • Senior Java Analyst for Lampiris in the “Finance” tribe. (Lampiris - Liege) • Technologies: Java/Spring/Hibernate, microservices, Gitlab, Postgresql.

06/2007 – 06/2019 • NATO - Deputy Chief of a Section of 11 employees, Software (mainly Java and some C) and System Analyst. NPC Glons (Belgium • Requirement collection and analysis, customer relations, travel to customers’ sites, project lead.

07/2003 – 06/2007 • NATO - Section Chief DHDS Cell. Project Manager and Senior Analyst Programmer. Technologies: C, Perl, Unix scripting, SQL. NPC Glons (Belgium)

05/2000 – 06/2003 • NATO - Analyst Programmer, C. NPC Glons (Belgium) • Technologies: C, Perl, Unix scripting, SQL.

11/1995 – 05/2000 • NATO - Software Developer within the Operational Research Department. NATO STO/CMRE - La Spezia (Italy) • Technologies: Delphi, in C. Linear optimization.

02/1994 – 11/1995 • Consultant / Developer. Responsible for the Client-Server development area. Iris Technologies – Milan, (Italy) • Technologies: VB / VBA / Powerbuilder / MS SQL Server / Sybase.

02/1992 – 02/1994 • External Localization coordinator, in the Workgroup Business Unit. Microsoft Ireland - Dublin • Responsible for several projects (MS Mail / Schedule+ etc).

→ EDUCATION

Pisa University (Italy) COMPUTER SCIENCES DEGREE (in today's term similar to a MS) 1985 - 1991 Computer Science (Scienze dell'Informazione), with focus in Theory of Models and Simulation University of Pisa – ITALY (https://www.di.unipi.it/en) 1980- 1985 SECONDARY EDUCATION I.P.C. Axel Munthe, Anacapri (NA) - Italy (http://www.istitutoaxelmunthe.edu.it/index.php?lang=en) Certificates Data Science Specialization (John Hopkins University – Coursera) Machine Learning (Stanford University – Coursera) Statistical Learning (Stanford University – lagunita.stanford.edu) Developing Websites Using Python and (Microsoft Virtual Academy) Applied Data Science with Python (IBM) (https://cognitiveclasses.ai, badges visible on https://www.youracclaim.com/users/antonio-ferraro/badges) And more (most of the certifications can be found on my LinkedIn profile). Academic Interests Programming, optimization, user interfaces, data Science

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Mother tongue Italian Foreign languages English Excellent command, comprehension, written and spoken French Excellent command, comprehension, written and spoken. German Basic knowledge (certificate A2), comprehension written and spoken Dutch Basic knowledge, reading and understanding, weak written and spoken (Certificate A1) Spanish Good knowledge, comprehension and reading, weak written and spoken. Self- taught (no certificate)

→ REFERENCES

• Mr. Christophe THOMAS (BEL) – Finance Tribe Lead Lampiris time frame 2019 T. +32 485 65 46 85 - E. [email protected] • Mrs. Naziha DEGROOTE (FRA) – Deputy director NATO/NCIA AMDC2 – time frame 2008 – 2019 T. +31 703 741 991 – E. [email protected] • Mr. Michael BAUER (DEU) – Chief Mission Assurance Branch (now retired) – time frame 2000 – 2019 T. +32 491 22 25 55 – E. [email protected]

→ PERSONAL INTERESTS AND HOBBIES

No Profit: In the wake of the COVID-19 emergency, I developed ideessuspendues.be, a social platform to collect ideas to help the little local economy to resume business safely. Personal interest: Data Science blog. I am gathering a Data Science understanding by means of online courses and certifications and I run a blog about this experience: Personal interest: Python blog. Teaching Python to my son and his friends, two hours every week-end. I keep the highlights of our lessons in this blog: Hobbies: Music (playing guitar), travel, football, gardening.

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