CTO, software and telecom (ISP)

Location:

Italy

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July 30, 2016

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Curriculum Vitae Paolo DI FRANCESCO

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Sex Male Date of birth 27/01/1973 Nationality Italian WORK EXPERIENCE

References Industrial

DLR, German Aerospace Center, Germany, http://www.dlr.de

Thales, France, https://www.thalesgroup.com

Alcatel Lucent BellLabs, France, https://www.alcatel-lucent.com

Agenzia Spaziale Italiana (Italian Space Agency), Italy, http://www.asi.it

ZyXEL, Italy, http://www.zyxel.it

Open Sky, Italy, http://www.open-sky.it

FON, UK/Spain, https://fon.com

ZON Cabo TV, Portugal, http://www.zon.pt

Caixa Mágica Software, Portugal, https://caixamagica.pt

6Wind, France, http://www.6wind.com

SFR (Société Française du Radiotéléphone), France, http://www.sfr.com

XCSE, Germany, http://xcse.de

Universities

University of Kent, UK, https://www.kent.ac.uk

COPELABS, University Lusófona/COFAC crl, Portugal, http://copelabs.ulusofona.pt

Technische Universitaet Berlin, Germany, http://www.tu-berlin.de

University of Genéve, Switzerland, http://www.unige.ch

University of Urbino, Italy, http://www.uniurb.it

University La Sapienza di Roma, Italy, http://www.uniroma1.it

University of Palermo, Italy, http://www.unipa.it

Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary, http://www.bme.hu

Institut National pour la Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (INRIA), http://www.inria.fr

VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, Finland, http://www.vttresearch.com January 2011 - Today CEO, Founder

Level7 s.r.l.

Sede Operativa: Largo Montalto 5 I-90144, Palermo, Italy

Implementation of the new ISP/WISP business since 2011: business case, network planning, network implementation, VoIP implementation, billing, data center, xDSL, etc.

Technical and legal consultant for other national ISP/WISP.

National distributor and system integrator for ZyXEL Telecom products (GPON/DSLAM/etc.). Achievements

Started the new radio/copper/fiber business

Working Package Leader in the European R&D project ULOOP (funded by the European Union 2011-2013)

Published 3 articles

Successfully implemented 3 new LIR for other ISPs Business or sector ICT, Telecommunication, Software, R&D Curriculum Vitae Paolo DI FRANCESCO

Assoprovider (www.assoprovider.it) – Associazione Provider Indipendenti

Participation to various National regulatory committees, e.g. IPv6 national committee.”Misura Internet 2” national committee, etc.

Achievements

Active participation to the new regulatory proposal for Italian operators (Codice delle Comunicazioni

– Allegato 10) which opened the market of fiber and radio licenses to small/medium operators. Business or sector Telecommunication, R&D

November 2001, January 2011 CTO

Teleinform s.c.p.a./s.r.l.

Via Regione Siciliana 49, Monreale (Palermo), Italy

Responsible of the ISP/WISP business (started in 2005)

Started the new Telecommunication division in 2001.

Managed multiple Software Projects (e.g. POS, Bank Security, etc.)

Responsible of multiple R&D International and National Projects Achievements

Started the new telecom team (2001)

Started the new “ISP division” (2005)

Managed multiple R&D project spanning at least 4 countries

From 2006 to 2011 – I was responsible of the whole R&D strategy for the Italian funded Research Project Smartlab (more than 3M Euros in R&D)

From June 2006 to November 2008 – Working Package Leader in the European Research Project IST-ANEMONE (www.ist-anemone.eu).

From June 2004 to November 2004 - Project Teleducazione (Distance E-Learning) – This project has been funded by ASI Agenzia Spaziale Italiana (Italian Space Agency)

From November 2001 to July 2003 – European Research Project ITEA-POLLENS (more than 2M Euros in R&D)

Published 7 articles

Implementation of ISO 9001 for the Telecom products/services

Implementation of APIs and modules in the Linux/FreeBSD Kernel to support QoS

Implementation of the RFC 3684 - TBRPF (Topology Dissemination Based on Reverse-Path Forwarding)

Business or sector ICT, Telecommunication, Software, R&D July 2001 – October 2001 External Consultant – Software Engineer Deutschen Zentrum für Luft-und Raumfahrt (DLR) (www.dlr.de) Oberpfaffenhofen (Munich), Germany

Software Engineer (Java/C/JFlex/Yacc/Bison): writing the Java front end of a satellite channel simulator

Achievements

Implementation, in Java, of the front end of the satellite channel simulator that had to drive the FPGA channel simulator.

Business or sector ICT, Telecommunication, Software, R&D Curriculum Vitae Paolo DI FRANCESCO

PERSONAL SKILLS

May 2001 - July 2001 Visiting Researcher – Software Engineer Deutschen Zentrum für Luft-und Raumfahrt (DLR) (www.dlr.de) Oberpfaffenhofen (Munich), Germany

Software Engineer (Java/C) in the European R&D project IST-SUITED. Achievements

Implementation, in Java/JNI, of QoS mechanisms in a multimedia software. Business or sector ICT, Telecommunication, Software, R&D March 2001 Master’s Degree – full marks with honours summa cum laude in Electronic Engineering, specialization in Computer Architectures. Universita’ degli Studi di Palermo, Italy

Mother tongue(s) Italian

Other language(s) UNDERSTANDING SPEAKING WRITING

Listening Reading Spoken interaction Spoken production English C2 C2 C2 C2 C2

Portuguese C1 C1 C2 C2 B2

Levels: A1/A2: Basic user - B1/B2: Independent user - C1/C2 Proficient user Common European Framework of Reference for Languages Communication skills Extensive and proven communication skills gained through my daily experience with customers, partners, public bodies and the participation to national and international conferences. Organisational / managerial skills Negotiation skills acquired as CEO at Level7 (e.g. contract negotiation), as CTO at Teleinform (e.g. project management) and as Board Member at Assoprovider (e.g. participation at national regulatory committees)

Business management in the software and telecom markets.

Third party management (i.e. offshore software)

Leadership (responsible or Work Packages in International R&D Projects, responsible of multiple heterogeneous teams)

Project Management (experience in national and international projects, working with multinational partners such as Alcatel, Thales, Huawei, FON, DLR, etc.) Job-related skills Extensive experience with Multinational Companies and European Universities

Outstanding technical background in software development, telecommunication systems and R&D projects.

Curriculum Vitae Paolo DI FRANCESCO

Digital competence TECHNICAL SKILLS

Web Programming: HTML, XML, XSLT, Javascript.

Other Programming Languages: C, Java (JNI, JMF, core Java, Swing), C#/.NET, asm (68K, Z80, x86), shell scripting, tcl/tk, compilers and translators (Flex, Jflex, Yacc, Javacup).

Programming: Kernel Programming (Linux, FreeBSD), UML, multithreading, concurrent systems, Networking programming, embedded systems, pvm3 (parallel virtual machine), OpenGL

Operating Systems: Linux, Solaris, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Windows NT/2000/XP/Vista/Windows 7/Server 2008, MS-DOS.

Networking Protocols: TCP/IP, IPv4/IPv6, Routing (e.g. OSPF, BGP, PIM-SM, RTP/ RTSP, RSVP, RIP, etc), Firewalls, DDoS, Packet sniffing and analysis, MANET, NEMO, TBRPF

Networking Infrastructures: MVNO (Mobile Virtual Network Operator), Wireless/Licensed Radio, xDSL, FFTx

Virtualization: VMWARE, iSCSI, SAN, NAS

Office applications: Office Suite (Word, Excel, Power Point), Lyx, LaTeX, Microsoft Project, Gimp.

Scientific Applications: MatLab, Spice, Turbocase

Hardware: Intel x86, DELL, Sun UltraSparc, Cisco, Mikrotik, embedded x86/ARM R&D Projects January 2011, Agust 2013 – Working Package Leader in the European Research Project Project IST-ULOOP (www.uloop.eu)

From 2006 to 2011 – Italian funded Research Project Smartlab.

From June 2006 to November 2008 – Working Package Leader in the European Research Project IST-ANEMONE (www.ist-anemone.eu).

From June 2004 to November 2004 - Project Teleducazione (Distance E-Learning) – This project has been funded by ASI Agenzia Spaziale Italiana (Italian Space Agency)

From November 2001 to July 2003 – European Research Project ITEA-POLLENS Curriculum Vitae Paolo DI FRANCESCO

R. Sofia, P. Mendes, H. Zhu, A. Bogliolo, F. Sivrikaya, and P. di Francesco, “User-Centric Networking: Cooperation in Wireless Networks,” in Wireless Networking for Moving Objects, Springer, 2014, pp. 31–49.

C. Ballester, J.-M. Seigneur, P. Di Francesco, V. Moreno, R. C. Sofia, A. Bogliolo, N. Martins, and W. Moreira Jr, “A user-centric approach to trust management in Wi-Fi networks,” IEEE INFOCOM Demos Track Turin Italy, 2013.

C. B. Lafuente, J.-M. Seigneur, W. Moreira, P. Mendes, L. Maknavicius, A. Bogliolo, and P. Di Francesco, “Trust and cooperation incentives for wireless user-centric environments,” IADIS E-Soc., pp. 10–13, 2012.

Anna Sangiorgi, Paolo Di Francesco, Bringing Wireless Broadband to Remote Areas co-operating with municipal governments in Sicily – The Wikitel WDSL System, EChallenges 2008, Stockholm, Sweden, 22-24 October 2008

Paolo Di Francesco, ANEMONE - EUROPEAN IPv6 DAY, Brussels Belgium, 30 May 2008

Description of the ANEMONE Testbed - 1st ANEMONE workshop on IPv6 mobility networking testbeds at the 16th IST Mobile & Wireless Summit, 5th July 2007, Budapest, Hungary

ANEMONE: A Pan-European Testbed to Validate IPv6 Mobility Technologies" by Bokor, László; Montavont, Nicolas; Di Francesco, Paolo, Ernst, Thierry; Hof, Tobias & Korva, Jari, 15-19 January 2007, Hiroshima, Japan

Paolo Di Francesco, Pierluigi Gallo, Vincenzo Fodera', Corinne Sieux, Herve’ Aiache, Adding Dynamic Behaviour To Domains: Combination of In Band Implicit Signaling and Policy Management, 8th WSEAS International Conference on COMMUNICATIONS, Vouliagmeni (Athens) Greece, July 12-15 2004.

Paolo Di Francesco, Giuseppe Bianchi, Giuseppe Fabio, Nicola Oriti, A New Distributed Defense to Distributed Denial of Service attacks, WSEAS ISA2004, Miami Florida USA, April 21-23 2004

Stefano Casales, Paolo Di Francesco, Olivier Marcé, Laurent Clévy, A novel EAC semantic for the RTSP protocol, Internetworking 2003 International Conference, San Jose California USA, June 22- 24 2003

Giuseppe Bianchi, Vincenzo Mancuso, Paolo Di Francesco: An API for advanced traffic control in diffserv routers. Net-Con 2002: 369-380, Paris France, October 21-25 2002 Conferences Enjoying flexibility: How small WISPs could become big service providers (Paolo di Francesco – Level7, IT) NeutralAccess 2013, Urbino

Paolo Di Francesco (AssoProvider), ISP in prima linea verso i clienti, Apertura a spinte dal basso, Mancanza di roadmap verso IPv6 (neutralità del NAT), Ridistribuzione di risorse scarse. NeutralAccess 2012

Neutra, Neutrale o Neutralizzata: come vogliamo l'Internet di domani? - NeutralAccess 2010, Urbino

- Palazzo ducale – June 2011

NGN: la visione di AssoProvider – NeutralAccess 2010, Urbino - Palazzo ducale – 15 June 2010

E' arrivato il momento di IPv6? – NeutralAccess 2010, Urbino - Palazzo ducale – June 2010

Quali servizi su quali frequenze? L'esperienza di Teleinform nella copertura della Regione Sicilia – NeutralAccess 2009, Urbino - Palazzo ducale – 13 June 2009

La visione di Assoprovider delle reti NGN – NeutralAccess 2009, Urbino - Palazzo ducale – 12 June 2009

Le telecomunicazioni nei veicoli del futuro - Telemobility 2008 - Turin, July 10th, 2008

ANEMONE - EUROPEAN IPv6 DAY, Brussels Belgium, 30 May 2008

Description of the ANEMONE Testbed - 1st ANEMONE workshop on IPv6 mobility networking testbeds at the 16th IST Mobile & Wireless Summit, 5th July 2007, Budapest, Hungary

WLAN BUSINESS FORUM 2007, Rome Italy, 26-27 September 2007 Seminars

Seminario: Modelli di Business e tecnologie innovative degli operatori di rete emergenti - Universita’ degli Studi di Palermo April 29th, 2015

Teaching June 2009, October 2009 – Teacher in the VoIP module at the Corso IFTS per Tecnico Superiore per il Sistema Informativo Aziendale “Esperto di Sistemi, Reti e Sicurezza”

November 2003 – Teacher in the Course "Specialista Di Reti Di Telecomunicazioni"

(Telecommunication Network Specialist)

Curriculum Vitae Paolo DI FRANCESCO

February-March 2004: ARCES-ICT

February 2004: ARCES-EXIT

October-December 2003: ARCES-ICT

July-September 2003: ARCES-Delta

Thesis Supervisor November 2008 – Experimental Results of services and applications on 4G networks in IPv6 Mobility

(Sperimentazione di servizi e applicazioni su reti 4G in mobilita’ IPv6), University of Palermo

Juy 2006 – Wardriving in the “Conca D’Oro” (Wardriving della Conca D’oro), University of Palermo

April 2006 – Evaluation and Analisys of the TBRPF protocol with channel metric support (Analisi e valutazione del protocollo TBRPF con supporto di metriche di canale), University of Palermo

July 2005 – Design and Implementation of an Audio/Video Broadcasting Modular System over IP Networks (Progettazione e Implementazione di un Sistema Modulare per il Broadcasting Audio e Video su Reti IP), University of Palermo

July 2005 – Applications Evaluation of Antispam Technologies over the Linux platform: a case study.

(Studio delle Tecnologie Antispam e Valutazione degli Applicativi su Piattaforma Linux), University of Palermo

April 2005 – Analisys and Design of an architecture for secure MANET networks (Progettazione e realizzazione di una architettura per reti MANET sicure), University of Palermo

April 2005 – Design and implementation of a TBRPF-IPv6 stack on Windows XP (Progettazione ed Implementazione di uno Stack TBRPF–IPv6 per Windows XP), University of Palermo

April 2005 – Design and Implementation of a modular SIP Session Manager (Progetto e realizzazione di un SIP session manager modulare ed espandibile), University of Palermo

April 2005 – Analisys of Distributed Hash Table algorithms and Implementation of a Kademlia library

(Studio degli algoritmi Distributed Hash Table e realizzazione di una libreria Kademlia), University of Palermo

November 2004 – Analysis, Design and Implementation of a P2P Platform for Messaging Systems over MANET networks (Studio, Progettazione ed Implementazione di una Piattaforma P2P su reti MANET per Applicazioni di Messaggistica), University of Palermo

November 2004 - IP Convergence Multi-Service Solutions (IP Convergence Multi-Service Solutions), University of Palermo

July 2004 – Analysis, Design and Integration in P2P Architectures of the TBRPF Protocol (Studio, Implementazione ed Integrazione in architetture P2P del protocollo TBRPF), University of Palermo

April 2004 – Implementation and Experimental Evaluation of a Novel Adaptive QoS Architecture for Multimedia Flows (Realizzazione e Valutazione Sperimentale di una nuova architettura di QoS Adattativa per flussi Multimediali), University of Palermo

November 2003 – Analisys and Design of a new QoS Multicast Architecture (Studio e Realizzazione di una Nuova Architettura Multicast per il supporto di Traffico QoS), University of Palermo

July 2003 – Proposal and Implementation of a Distributed Defense Technique for the “Distributed Denial of Service” Attacks (Proposta e Realizzazione di una Tecnica Distribuita per la Difesa da Attacchi “Distributed Denial of Service”), University of Palermo

April 2003 - Analisys and Design of Techniques to Provide QoS to the RTSP Protocol (Studio e Realizzazione di Tecniche per il Supporto del Protocollo RTSP con Requisiti di Qualità del Servizio), University of Palermo

April 2003 - Analysis and Design of a Solution for the Integration of the RSVP/DiffServ protocols

(Progettazione, Realizzazione e Sperimentazione di una soluzione di interworking RSVP/DiffServ), University of Palermo

April 2003 – Implementation and Experimental Evaluation of a Novel Packet Marking Algorithm for TCP Flows (Realizzazione e valutazione sperimentale di un nuovo algoritmo di packet marking per flussi TCP), University of Palermo

November 2002 – Analysis and Design of a Policy Based System for the Management of GRIP Routers (Studio e Realizzazione di un sistema Policy Based per la gestione di Router GRIP), University of Palermo

July 2002 - Experimental Performance Evaluation of a Connection Admission Control Mechanism for IP Networks (Valutazione Sperimentale delle Prestazioni di un Meccanismo di Controllo di Ammissione per Reti IP), University of Palermo

July 2002 – Implementation of a Connection Admission Control Mechanism in a Core Router

(Realizzazione di un Meccanismo di Controllo di Ammissione in un Core Router), University of Palermo

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