Engineer Software

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Roberto Garofalo

Mobile phone: 334-***-****

e-mail: *******.*********@*****.***

Practitioner with 18th years of job experience in Information Technologies at international groups who

would like to work on advanced software projects with full self -direction and that required a personal

continuous technical upgrade

He could offer:

Ability to face complex software projects and give complete solutions.

Good attitude to team-working and create good technical synergy among various teams

integrating different Company responsibility level.

Attention toward the Customer requirements and problems leveraging a significant job

experience in Technical Support Engineering team.

Actual Job Position

Senior Software Engineer and Oracle Certified Professional at Cisco Network Management

Technology Group and technical leader at Cisco Optical Prime platform team on Database and

persistence.

Over ten years of extensive experience in the full life cycle of software design process

including Requirements, Design, Implementation, Testing and Maintenance in OOA/OOD and

Structural programming at Important Multinational Telecommunications firms.

Over ten years of extensive experience on Database Design Configuration, Maintenance and

Tuning. Especially on Oracle family products.

Achieved the Oracle Certified Professional (OCP) certification on Oracle10g

System Manager on Unix and Linux and VMS Operating Systems.

Open mind approach, constant technical upgrade, curiosity allow me to face a wide range of

working experiences: from Network Element as embedded software engineer and Field

Engineer to high-end Network Management Software Applications and CAD mathematical

Software libraries using MFC and STL

Agile methodologies and XP programming used.

Collaboration and communication skill allow me to interface in effective way with all level from

Director to all Managers and Technical Leaders.

Experience

From 2001 year to now Senior Software Engineer at Cisco Systems:

Software Engineer specialized on Database and Persistence.

Technical leader of Database and persistence in the Platform group of Cisco NMTG Optical Prime

Division.

Results achieved:

Improvement of Installation, configuration and maintenance of our product.

Decreased the licensing and product cost introducing the Oracle Embedded configuration. Our

product now is more affordable than in the past on the Network Management market

Expanded the market of our product with the porting of our product on Linux platform from

Solaris.

New solution for High Availability GEO configuration for Linux platform using RedHat Cluster

and Oracle Data Guard.

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Award for technical ownership and team communications and collaboration.

Previously I leaded the integration of Fault Management, Performance Monitoring, Inventory and

Provisioning on Cisco Optical Prime of Cisco network element IOS-based ONS15530 and ONS15540

using the SNMP protocol. Then I worked on Inventory and Fault Management of Cisco network

element ONS15454 based on Corba.

From 2001 to 2007 year Software Engineering/Sustaining at Cisco Systems:

Software Engineer on Embedded environment on synchronization management of Cisco Cross

Connector 15600SDH based on Cisco System Richardson laboratories (Texas)

Field Engineer to support all Optical Cisco products 15454 SONET/SDH and 15800/15808.

Results achieved:

Awards for the Customer satisfaction.

From 1994 to 2000 year Software Engineering at Alcatel:

Worked on R&D Department Network Management System Division of Alcatel Italy.

Specialist on SUN OS System and HP.

Specialist on Oracle RDB Database and on OOP/OOA Design.

Expert on GDMO/ ASN1 and Q* interfaces and TL1.

Specialist on VMS Operating System and Cluster.

Results achieved:

Better integration of our product with the entire Alcatel Network View suite.

Technical Specializations

Databases and Related technologies:

Oracle Database: Design, Configuration, Installation and Tuning and Optimizations and HA

solution using Oracle Data Guard. Oracle RAC.

Persistence specialist using ORM, OC4J, JPublisher, JDBC, JPA

Hibernate and Spring, Toplink.

PostgreSQL: Design, Configuration, Installation and interface with Python

MySQL knowledge

SQLite and MongoDB knowledge.

Expert in SQL and PL/SQL programming and optimization.

Network and Distributed Programming:

Network and Distributed Programming: TCP/IP servers, clients and middle-ware. CORBA,

Advanced Message Queuing protocol.

Network Equipment Knowledge: SONET, Optical/DWDM, ADSL.

Network Management Protocols: TL1, SNMP.

Embedded development VxWorks

Application Servers and Web:

Oracle Application Server

JBOSS knowledge

Django knowledge

Tomcat knowledge

GlassFish knowledge

Software Design and methodologies:

Object Oriented Analysis and Design

Design Pattern

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UML

Agile methodologies and XP programming

SOA (Service Oriented Architecture) knowledge

ASP (Aspect Oriented Programming)

Programming Languages:

Languages: C, C++, Java, J2EE, Python, PL/SQL, Perl, ADA

Certifications and Membership

Oracle Certified Professional

Oracle Certified Associate

Codility Golden Certificate (Omega 2013 certFZCMFC-EKBXFHFYQ8J8TJ72)

Post Graduate Telecommunication certification (Alcatel University with Belgium University)

Regional Certification on C++ and OOA/OOP (EMIT)

Member of IEEE Computer Science 2011

Courses and Personal Formation

Oracle University complete suite courses on Oracle9i version: Administration I and II, Tuning,

PL&SQL and SQL, Tuning on SQL queries.

Oracle University complete suite on Oracle10g version: Administration I and II, Tuning

Oracle University Master-class on Oracle: Tuning and Performance with Haley and Craig

Shallahamer

Oracle University course on Oracle11g version: new features.

Python Italy 4 and EuroPython 2011 congress: followed some specific workshop and specific

training on MongoDB, Postgres, Puppet and Python.

Sun/Oracle Java Courses: Java Programming and Design, Web Design, and JPA

Master-class on C++ Advanced Design and Programming with Carlo Pescio.

Sun Solaris Courses: Basic and Advance Solaris Administration courses, Logical Domain and

virtualization.

Cisco IOS courses: IOS © commands and specific training on Cisco ONS15330 and

ONS15340 networks elements

Sessions of Coaching training to improve personal soft skills.

Pattern-Oriented Software Architectures for Concurrent and Networked Software

(Coursera Course by VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY - DR. DOUGLAS C. SCHMIDT)

Education

Universita’ Degli Studi di Milano.

MSc Computer Science, 1993

1987 – 1993 (6 years)

Liceo Scientifico “A .Volta” di Milano

Baccalaureate

1982-1987 (5 years)

Personal Information

Born: 10 December 1965 in Milan

Address: Via Aldo Moro 21/d 20096 Pioltello (MI)

Cell Phone: 334-***-****

e-mail: *******.********@*****.***

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