Experienced native Italian tutor / teacher

Domenico M.

SUMMARY

Self-motivated, enthusiastic native Italian speaker/educator committed to educating children and adults on the fundamentals of the Italian language as well as an appreciation of the Italian culture. An encouraging and patient professional who uses creative lesson planning to provide a fun yet structured environment in which to meet individual and/or group goals. Insightful into student language difficulties with the flexibility to adapt or modify lessons to enhance student mastery of each skill. An available and approachable individual with whom students and parents can cooperatively work to promote the mission of the school and meet the needs of the students.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

· Italian · Computer Science (Development & Programming) · Mathematics

TEACHER EXPERIENCE

Forté Instructor - dS Labs S.r.l. (Rome, Italy )

March 1998 to June 1998

Planned the lessons and instructed both internal and external Forté courses.

Computer Programming Teacher - C.F.P. En.A.I.P. (Acquaviva delle Fonti, Bari, Italy)

January 1995 to June 1995

Taught specialized computer programming to high school graduates in an advanced career training course.

Mathematics Teacher - Istituto Professionale Statale per l’Industria e l’Artigianato “N. Chiarulli”

(Acquaviva delle Fonti, Bari, Italy)

January 1995 to June 1995

Taught trigonometry mathematics to high school student for specialized tutoring school programs.

Italian Tutor (Sammichele di Bari, Bari, Italy)

April 1989 to January 1995

Tutored middle school students in Italian with an emphasis on grammar and reading comprehension.

Mathematics Tutor (Sammichele di Bari, Bari, Italy)

April 1989 to January 1995

Tutored high school students in general mathematics.

OTHER EXPERIENCE

Freelance Translator - Italian-English and English-Italian (New York, NY)

01/01/09 - present

Provide document translations from Italian to English and vice versa.

Software Engineer - Scivantage at Bank of America (New York, NY)

10/29/07 - 08/29/08

Worked with a team of developers to design and implement Bank of America's on-line trading brokerage system (www.baisidirect.com). Developed some application functionalities such as the SafePass feature, various trade transaction reports and a console panel for some configurations. Responsible for writing the code for new mutual fund automatic investment plan functionalities. The application was developed using JBoss-Seam 2.0 as the framework. Supported and maintained the application using Jira as the issues tracker.

Software Engineer - Brainmedia, LLC (New York, NY)

11/27/06 -10/26/07

Developed applications to manage large content for music store accessing through wireless devices by means of the BEA Weblogic 9.2 content management features. A parser was developed to retrieve song information from mp4 files. This information was saved in BEA content management so that it was accessible to clients using the website user interface. Responsible for writing the code to manage the functionality to upload the mp4 file into BEA content management. Developed several user interfaces to access the music store via the mobile devices.

Similar functionalities were developed by the re-engineering of the music store using OFBiz framework (ex. uploading and downloading mp4 files, accessing the music store by developing user interfaces, etc.).

Development and Account Team Manager - Movenda S.p.A. (Rome, Italy)

January 2002 to February 2005

Created from Start-Up and successfully managed the Software Development department of this fourteen

employee company. Analyzed client requirements and drafted technical proposals for each project.

Expertly supervised a team of six to develop and implemented a variety of cutting edge programs for a

multitude of Italy's most eminent companies such as TIM, Telecom Italia and Seat Pagine Gialle (Italy's

Yellow Pages).

Every project was designed using UML and was developed using J2EE technologies and was successfully completed on time, under budget and with full client satisfaction. Acted as the direct liaison between the client and the company. As second-in-command reported directly to the company president.

Team Leader and System Architect - SchlumbergerSema - Sema Group S.p.A. - dS Labs S.r.l.

(Rome, Italy )

July 1997 to January 2002

(ds Labs S.r.l was acquired by Sema Group and renamed Sema Group S.p.A. Sema Group S.p.A. was then acquired by Schlumberger and renamed 'SchlumbergerSema')

SchlumbergerSema (2001-2002): Team Leader and System Architect

Managed a group of developers and engineers for the development of the portal components necessary for the Membership as well as for their integration with external product applications from third parties.

Sema Group S.p.A. (1999-2001): Team Leader and System Architect

Organized and managed a team of developers for the successful implementation of a variety of technologically advanced J2EE projects for this international company. Instrumental in the development and organization of the strategic plan for the Start-Up of their Research and Development Center in Naples, Italy.

dS Labs S.r.l. (1997-1999): Developer and Analyst

Developed an innovative product in Forté environment thereby improving the performance of the customer care system for the most powerful Italian mobile company.

Analyst and Developer Consultant - Info. Ter (Bari, Italy)

December 1994 to June 1997

Participated in the creation and management of several projects including the development of the mission critical Italian national emergency response system software (Italy's 911 equivalent) for the Amtech Company.

EDUCATION

Universitá degli Studi di Bari, Bari, Italy

M.S., Computer Science, 1993

B.S., Computer Science

PROFESSIONAL TRAINING

Project Management (Sema Group S.p.A.)

Unified Modeling Language (Sema Group S.p.A.)

Forte' (Forte' Europe)

LANGUAGES

English, Italian, French

REFERENCES

References available upon request

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