Short Resume

Here it is a brief description of my education, experience, skills and interests.

Introduction
General information
Objective
Areas of Expertise
Skills
Education
Open-Source Projects

Introduction

Herein is some essential information about me: my detailed Europass CV in PDF format is available upon request via email.

General information

Name: Stefano Chizzolini
Date of Birth: March 18, 1978
Nationality: Italian
Location: Padenghe sul Garda, Italy
Web: www.stefanochizzolini.it
Availability: dependent on schedule (contact me for more info)
Logistics: remote (telecommuting)
Rates: dependent on project (contact me for more info)

Objective

Free-lance contracting in the area of software development of CMS-related solutions based upon Java/.NET platforms and standard formats (W3C-related and PDF).

Areas of Expertise

Object-oriented Analysis and Programming
XML Applications (validation, retrieval, manipulation, transformation)
Web-based/Desktop Multi-tier Applications
Content Classification Applications
Database Design
PDF-files analysis and manipulation

Skills

Operating Systems: GNU/Linux (Debian 5.0, Ubuntu 9.04), MS Windows XP
Platforms: Java 6, .NET 3.5
Languages: Java 1.6, C# 3.0, JavaScript, ANSI SQL 92 (DDL+DML)
Development tools: Eclipse 3.5, Visual Studio 2008, Apache Ant
Version control systems: Subversion, CVS, Visual SourceSafe
Data Formats (official specifications): XML-related (XML 1.0, XML Infoset, XLink 1.0, XML Base, XInclude 1.0), HTML-related (XHTML 1.1, HTML 4.01), XML Schema 1.0, XSL-related (XSLT 1.0 (2.0), XPath 1.0 (2.0), XSL-FO 1.0), CSS 2.1, SVG 1.1, DocBook 5.0, PDF 1.6, OpenType 1.4
Databases: MySQL 5.0, Oracle DB 10g, MS SQL Server 2005 (Standard and Compact Edition), IBM Informix Dynamic Server 9, MS Jet 4.0
Methodologies: UML 2.0, Design Patterns, Design by Contract, Refactoring, eXtreme Programming, formal language notation (BNF variants (EBNF, ABNF))