Professional Summary
18+ years experience applying technology solutions to business problems. Desire to use talents and skills in a challenging position that allows for personal and corporate growth.
  • Quick learner, eye to details, technically solid
  • Capacity to take relevant decisions rapidly
  • Versatility adapting to the unexpected
  • Determination in every challenge, highly motivated, self starter, natural leader
  • History of successfully pairing user needs with ad-hock technical solutions through analysis, design, implementation and training/support
Mar 2011
Today
Automat Snc/Freelance - Terni, IT
System & Industrial Automation Engineer
Gain knowledge of industrial automation systems, ie. Answer Drivers (Ansaldo) Solargate inverters, Siemens & Wago PLC, and others. Work also as Fortran/C programmer on OpenVMS for the migration and extension from Digital VAX to DEC Alpha and HP Integrity of the chemical laboratory program of a world-leader steel factory. In the meanwhile still works as freelance.
Apr 2009
Feb 2011
Freelance - Terni, IT
Computer Professor & Consultant
Teach as professor in several computer courses for professional private schools and for the Region Industrial Associations (API/CONFAPI/APIFORM, (see www.apiterni.it). In the meantime works also as freelance for companies and privates, having also the opportunity to deepen web development knowledge, coding in HTML, CSS and Javascript.
Oct 2008
Feb 2009
Movidius Ltd - Dublin, IE
Senior Linux & Windows System Admin
Movidius is a fabless semiconductor company whose technology provides unique video editing and post production capabilities for the creation of User Generated Content for mobile social networking (see www.movidius.com). Responsibilities include the management and administration of Windows clients and Linux servers (RHEL, CentOS, Ubuntu). Contracted to implement from scratch:
  • LDAP server in mirror mode & synch replication as unique common authentication system for company's users and services (Apache, Bugzilla, MySQL, SVN)
  • BACULA backup server for both Windows clients and Linux servers
  • ACP UPS client/daemon system, new Bugzilla r.3.2, VNC for server connections from Windows
May - Sep
2008
S3, Silicon & Software Systems - Dublin, IE
Senior Linux IT Engineer
S3 is a 20+ years company which provide worldwide professional systems, embedded software and leading-edge silicon design for consumer, wireless and related applications (see www.s3group.com).
The references paper claim "...his performance which as noted below was excellent.". Following were the responsibilities:
  • Hardware specification and configuration
  • Installation and support of Enterprise network comprising Linux RHEL servers and desktops
  • Operating System configuration, deployment, maintenance and support
  • Backup and Archiving system management, using EMC Legato NetWorker
  • Provide Tier 2/3 Help Desk support to engineering and administration staff
  • Unix scripting and programming
  • Supporting TCP/IP Networks
2007
 
Telecom Italia - Rome, IT
Senior Unix System Admin (IBM AIX & Linux)
Telecom is Italy's largest provider of telecommunications products and services (see www.telecom.it).
  • Responsible for the management and administration of all TIM's IBM hardware System p5 595 and eServer pSeries 690 in LPAR environments.
  • Install and administrate RHEL (Red Hat Enterprise Linux) and SLES (Suse Linux Enterprise Server) on HP and SUN servers in all Telecom sites, including RAID, LVM and multipath configuration.
  • Support other SysAdminis in their responsibilities on platforms, including Sun Solaris 8-10.
2006
 
Anritsu Group - Rome, IT
Linux Specialist & Platform Architect
Contracted during the transition of NetTest's systems to the new Japanese owners Anritsu Group (see www.anritsu.com). After performing a deep analysis of their RHEL Platforms, on which the company core business products lay, conceived and realized a bespoke Linux distribution creating a completely new Platform that removed the then current storage limitations and dramatically improved system performances. The Platforms were based on RHEL4 and realized for 32/64bit DELL & HP servers, include an Oracle DB/AS customized installation + company's Data Warehouses, all delivered in a single DVD featured with a whole automatic installation system process. Thus the user interaction is reduced to the solely initial selection of the platform desired, guaranteeing following benefits:
  • simplicity: no other user interaction required (a key step!)
  • security: all installations are completed as programmed, without failures and in a consistent status
  • rapidity: also the needed reboot and restart phases are completely programmed & auto-managed
  • reliability: there has never been opened a trouble ticket for these platforms, highlighting the capacity to thoroughly test and trouble shoot the entire process
New installation guide is a 1/3 the previous size, despite the detailed descriptions of the new systems specs and the illustrated step-by-step post-install ncurses script, conceived to perform the main system customizations in few clicks without typing any shell command.
mid 2005 -
end 2005
TIM SpA - Rome, IT
Senior Intranet System Admin on Unix environments
TIM is Italy's largest supplier of cellular telecommunications products and services and was a wholly owned subsidiary of Telecom Italia until it was folded back into it's parent company. Contracted to manage TIM's intranet during a relatively short transition phase.
2005 -
mid 2005
Telecom Italia SpA - Rome, IT
Portal System Administrator on Unix environments
Telecom is Italy's largest provider of telecommunications products and services. Contracted to manage and administrate Telecom's web portals, Rosso Alice Italia (see www.rossoalice.it) and Rosso Alice Francia (see www.aliceadsl.fr). These web portals provide news, customer and product information, games, ecommerce, and streaming audio/video (e.g., movies, soccer, music).
  • Based on a very high-end multiprocessor hardware platform (Sun Cluster Platform 15k's) with several million page hits per day and hundreds of thousands of unique users.
  • Developed a complete set of scripts which automated the process of portal administration thereby saving significant employee time and company resources.
2001 -
2004
ESA, European Space Agency - Rome, IT
Team Leader, Spacecraft Engineer & SysAdmin on Unix/Windows
Alcatel Space was the main contractor for the European Space Agency "Envisat-1" project, an 8-ton polar satellite equipped with 10 instruments for the study & analysis of the Earth's environment (see http://envisat.esa.int). This highly acclaimed satellite continues to provide environmental data to agencies, universities, and research centers throughout the world.
  • Prior Envisat launch, happened March 1st, 2002, worked as Spacecraft AIT Engineer and Administrator involved in all AIT phases (assembly, integration, and test) of the PDS (payload data stations) in Italy and Sweden.
  • Post launch worked as Team Leader and as Main System/Network/Hardware Administrator, leading 7 other System Administrators, and responsible for all Envisat's four payload data centers (i.e., 2 Italy, 1 Sweden, 1 Spain).
  • Responsible of all satellite storage rooms, containing the spare parts of workstations, clusters, antennas and of every project electronic devices components.
end 2000
IPSIA - Terni, IT
Computer Science Professor
Taught computer science classes to students at IPSIA high school (i.e., Istituto Professionale Statale per l'Industria e l'Artigianato), a state-run school specializing in industry and trade.
1998 -
2000
Euronics - Terni, IT
Manager of Computer Store
Euronics is a large retail electronics chain (see www.euronics.it). Managed all aspects of the computers section for the Terni store (e.g., retail sales, inventory, custom orders, software installation and customer support).
  • Revenue in the computers section more than doubled in the first 18 months.
1997
Trend S.a.s. - Terni, IT
Graphic Design Technician
Responsible for all aspects of graphic design. Also charged with selling, installation and training in the use of all major brands of high-end commercial digital ink-jet & cutting plotters for businesses and other graphic design centers.
1996
Top Level - Arezzo, IT
Leader and Manager of Telemarketing Center Manager
Responsible for finding, training and managing telemarketers (approx. 40 individuals in all) which sold professional courses in English & Computer Science (within the geographic area of central Italy) for a professional training center.
1993 -
1996
Freelance - Terni, IT
Computer Consultant
Private hardware/software consultant for business professionals. Also designed personalized computer courses for individuals in various industries and performed tutoring of theoretical and practical computer science for high school students.
Education & Certifications
  • BS Technology in Computing - Dublin Institute of Technology (DIT), Dublin, Ireland (2010)
  • IBM RS6000 and PSSP Administration by IBM (2003)
  • Hardware Maintenance - Region of Umbria (1992-93)
  • Animation Cinematography using New Technologies - Region of Umbria (1991-92)
  • Italian Navy Academy & Military Service (1989-91)
  • High School Diploma (emphasis: Computer Science) - ITIS, Foligno, Italy (1989)
Technical Skills
  • Operating Systems: UNIX: IBM AIX 4.x-5.x, Sun Solaris 8-9, SGI Irix 5.x, Linux (Red Hat, Suse, Debian, Ubuntu and others); MS Windows (all versions); Apple MacOS 8.x-X; IBM OS/2 2.x-4.x; OpenVMS 7.3/8.3
  • Shell Scripting: Bash/Ksh, Tcl/Tk
  • Programming Languages: C, Pascal, Fortran, some Assembly (z80, x86); HTML, CSS, Javascript
  • System & Server Administration: LDAP, Apache, SSH, FTP, Proxy, NFS, Samba, etc.
  • Network Administration: knowledge of Cisco routers/switches, FORE ATM switches; Iptables, Ethereal, Netcat, Snort, etc.
  • DB: Oracle 8-10, MySQL 4-5
  • Backup: EMC Legato NetWorker, Bacula
  • Virtualization: IBM LPAR, VMware, Xen, Sun VirtualBox, K/Qemu
  • Other: BEA Weblogic Server 6.1-8.1, Broadvision 7.1, Vignette 7.2, several open source CMS. MS Office Suite, Open/LibreOffice. CVS, RCS, SVN, Mercurial. ARS Remedy, Soffront Track, Numara FootPrints. Photoshop, CorelDraw, Gimp, Inkscape, Blender.
Languages
Italian (mother tongue), English (proficient both written and spoken)
Personal Projects & Interests
Manage the analysis, design, implementation and development of personal projects, as:
  • System Resource Monitor is a program to monitor remotely computer system resources, initially developed in Bash+TCL scripting language, is a SourceForge GPL project in C language currently under development (see http://sourceforge.net/projects/srmon, static demo at http://srmon.kysmor.com).
  • an embedded system for the duplication of proprietary PCMCIA memory cards used in industrial robotics facilities
  • a software for retail point-of-sale system (POS)
  • a home automation and video-surveillance system
Interests include robotics, electronics, photography, astronomy, music, ham radio operator, playing around with Arduino microcontroller and various sports (baseball, basketball, volley, table tennis, fishing).
Work Portfolio
For further details on my work experiences, please take a look at my work portfolio:
http://resume.kysmor.com/Emanuele_Petrucci-portfolio.pdf
References
Available on request.