Alessandro Accardo alessandro@accardo.it · aaccardo@acm.org

Professional Objective

A position as Software Architect that will capitalize on acquired expertise and experience.

Computer Expertise

·  VC++ / C
·  MFC
·  ATL
·  COM
·  ActiveX DLL

·  OpenGL
·  Pixar RenderMan
·  XML
·  HTML
·  SQL
·  Crystal Reports

·  MS Access
·  MS Excel
·  MS Word
·  MS PowerPoint
·  Windows
·  Unix

Education

University - Pisa, ITALY
Computer Science ·1995
Emphasis: Programming Languages, Software Engineering, Virtual Reality

High School - Florence, ITALY
Scientific High School ·1984-89


Employment History

2/2006 to (current) Retail Fueling Systems Manufacturer Florence, IT
Software Architect
·  Analize client business needs, design software project, using UML diagrams.
·  Third parties technical interface.

2004 to 2/2006 R&D Laboratory of SCADA Systems Florence, IT
Software Analist and Architect
·  Designed and developed one of the five systems of S.C.E.D.E.(the Energy Management System of RFI, Rete Ferroviaria Italiana). The system deals with simulation and analisys of Power Flow over the italian A.T. network.
·  Defined client business needs, gathered requirements and delivered technical strategies/solutions.
·  Developed the software interface to exchange power network model and data with PSAF (Power Systems Analysis Framework) by CYME.
·  Used Wonderware products IAS Archestra.

9/98 to 3/2004 Software House Florence, IT
Project Manager / Software Developer
·  Designed and co-developed a CAM application for metal cutting machines equipped with CNC.
·  Conducted on-site analyses, defined client business needs, gathered requirements and delivered technical strategies/solutions.
·  Managed all phases of project planning, R&D, system design and architecture, user-interface design, coding, documentation, implementation, user training, marketing and support functions.
·  Trained new resources with courses on Object Oriented Programming ,ATL-COM Programming anf Computer Graphics Systems.
·  Ordinary software maintenance of previously developed applications in use by hundreds customers.

6/97 to 9/98 Communications Company Florence, IT
Customer Service / Software Verification and Validation Test
·  Conducted on-site installation and configuration of a Client-Server SCADA system for remote control of radio equipment of Airports used for Ground-Air-Ground communications.
·  Debugged and developed the solution of the system.
·  Designed and developed the database of projects of my group in Lotus Notes.

9/96 to 6/97 Finances Company Florence, IT
Database Designer / Software Developer
·  Designed and developed an application for the calculation of rates, retrive and storage of payments. The application was developed in visual Pascal with Delphi by Borland™. To retrieve information from the database I used queries SQL on Oracle™ DBMS. The application was complete of documentation of all the main functions with Flow Diagrams and Entity-Relation Diagrams.

6/96 to 9/96 Software House Rome, IT
Database Designer / Software Analyst
·  Designed, developed and deployed a database-driven application for Eli Lilly Italia S.p.a., one of the major pharmaceutic company known worldwide. Replaced a manual system for counting biological contamination.

1996 Scientific Visualization Company Florence, IT
Freelancer Developer
·  Designed and developed Visual Basic Interfaces for graphic presentation of Arno river levels over seasons.

1996 CNUCE Institute - CNR Pisa, IT
Freelancer Developer
·  System Administrator of the office.
·  Involved in CATS European Project as junior software analyst.