Michele Baldessari

via Gaensbacher 25, 39049 Vipiteno (BZ)
Italy

Mobile Phone: 0039 340 XXXXX
Home Phone: 0039 XXXX
Email: michele@baldessari.info
Email: michele@acksyn.org
URL: http://acksyn.org/
Jabber: michele@jabber.ccc.de

Informatics Skills

Programming: C, C++, Java, Php, Prolog, Python, Shell, System programming Unix and Linux, XML, SGML, HTML, VBScript, Powershell.

Network: TCP/IP, OSI, Layer 2, Layer 3, IPv6, Cisco IOS, HP Procurve, Fortinet, Checkpoint, VPN (Ipsec, Openvpn), Riverbed.

Database: JDBC, SQL, Oracle, DB2, Postgresql, Mysql, Microsoft SQL.

Software: Linux, Solaris, Irix, Windows NT/2000/2003/XP/2008/7, Apache, Bind, DHCP, Samba, Postfix, Clustering, LDAP, NFS, SSH, Bacula, Kerberos, PKCS#11, SSO, Active Directory, Nagios, VMWare, Sharepoint.

Certifications: RHCE - Red Hat Certified Engineer (RH 6.2), RHCX - Red Hat Certified Examiner (RH 6.2).

Employment History

IT Infrastructure Manager
Leitner Technologies
January 2007-Present

IT Systems Manager responsible for networking, software, security, server rooms & IT projects in a medium-sized worldwide enterprise. Lead of an international team of system administrators, implementing requirements and managing relationships of all the worldwide companies in the group.

Projects:

  • Reorganized all the different authentication systems of many acquired companies into a single Active Directory.
  • Designed the new WAN concept to connect in a scalable and redundant way the group's 40 and more remote sites.
  • Rolled out a common management infrastructure for all the pc's worldwide.
  • Implemented a VPN and monitoring concept to access the remote installations.
  • 3rd level troubleshooting for internal IT issues

Senior System Administrator
Xsec s.r.l.
June 2003-December 2006

Senior System Administrator, doing security related tasks, managing networks and firewalls, mailservers and samba file servers, HA clusters, web applications and authentication services.

Projects:

  • ldapcheck - postfix 1.x sasl module to do sasl authentication through ldap.
  • Xems - An administration interface to manage mail users with postfix, openldap, courier-imap.

Translator
Bowneglobal
June 2003-August 2003

Worked on the italian translation of some parts of the book 101 applications with Visual Basic .NET.

Programmer, System Administrator
Red Hat, Italy
September 2001-July 2002

System administration work for various customers, ranging from small to medium sized businesses, consulting for migration towards Open Source Environments, developing of software for internal use, developing of a few customized distributions for third parties, QA work on different software packages. Teaching of programming courses on Linux [RH143]

Projects:

Instructor
Red Hat, Italy
May 2001-September 2001

Teaching of all the networking, security and administration courses offered by Red Hat RH033, RH133, RH253, RH300, RHS333, RH604, RHS346

Achievements:

  • RHCE - Red Hat Certified Engineer
  • RHCX - Red Hat Certified Examiner

Translator and writer
PC Professional - Italia - Ziff Dafis
March 1999-September 1999

Worked for PC Professional computer magazine as a translator from the german edition to the italian one. Also written a couple of articles about GNU/Linux systems.

Programmer
Leitner Lifts S.p.A.
June 1998-August 1998

Worked as a Java programmer in a mixed environment [IBM AS/400 and Microsoft Windows]. Developed java applications that extracted information from existing DB2 databases.

Education

  • Erasmus , September 1999-July 2000
    Johannes Kepler University - Linz - Austria
  • Bachelor in Informatics Engineering , September 1995-Present
    Politecnico of Milan
  • Scientific High School Degree , July 1995. Final score 60/60
    Liceo Classico Publio Virgilio - Vipiteno - Italy
  • U.S. High School Diploma , June 1994
    Eastwood High School - El Paso, TX - U.S.A.

Publications

  • Michele Baldessari & Simo Sorce. "Samba - VFS - 2nd Part". Linux Magazine n. 46.
  • Michele Baldessari & Simo Sorce. "Samba - VFS". Linux Magazine n. 45.
  • Michele Baldessari & Simo Sorce. "Samba - Authentication". Linux Magazine n. 42.
  • Michele Baldessari & Simo Sorce. "Samba - Advanced topics". Linux Magazine n. 41.
  • Michele Baldessari & Simo Sorce. "Samba - Primary Domain Controller". Linux Magazine n. 40.
  • Michele Baldessari & Simo Sorce. "Introduction to Samba 3". Linux Magazine n. 39.
  • Michele Baldessari. "Booting Linux - What really happens during the boot process". Linux & C n. 11.

Languages

Italian: Mother Tongue.

German: Excellent written and spoken skills, Diplom Wirtschaftssprache Deutsch - Institut für Fachsprachen - J. Kepler Universität Linz June 2000, Bilingual [German/Italian] exam of the province of Bolzano Level A September 2000.

English: Excellent written and spoken skills, TOEFL Test of English as a Foreign Language [score 637] March 1997, SAT - Scholastic Assessment Test - Collegeboard [score 1020] January 1994.

Spanish: Good spoken skills.

Interests

  • Reading
  • Music
  • Soccer
  • Snowboard
  • Traveling

Last modified 18 February 2011.

Copyright © 2003 - 2011 by Michele Baldessari.

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