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<resume>
	<header>
		<name>
			<firstname>Michele</firstname>
			<surname>Baldessari</surname>
		</name>
		<address>via Gaensbacher 25, 39049 Vipiteno (BZ)
 Italy
		</address>
		<birth>
			<date>
				<dayOfMonth>30</dayOfMonth>
				<month>December</month>
				<year>1976</year>
			</date>
		</birth>
		<contact>
			<phone location="mobile">0039 340 XXXXX</phone>
			<phone location="home">0039 XXXX</phone>
			<email>michele@baldessari.info</email>
			<email>michele@acksyn.org</email>
			<url>http://acksyn.org/</url>
			<instantMessage service="jabber">michele@jabber.ccc.de</instantMessage>
		</contact>
	</header>

	<skillarea>
		<title>Informatics Skills</title>
		<skillset>
			<title>Programming</title>
			<skill>C, C++, Java, Php, Prolog, Python, Shell</skill>
			<skill>System programming Unix and Linux</skill>
			<skill>XML, SGML, HTML, VBScript, Powershell</skill>
		</skillset>
		<skillset>
			<title>Network</title>
			<skill>TCP/IP, OSI, Layer 2, Layer 3, IPv6</skill>
			<skill>Cisco IOS, HP Procurve, Fortinet, Checkpoint</skill>
			<skill>VPN (Ipsec, Openvpn)</skill>
			<skill>Riverbed</skill>
		</skillset>
		<skillset>
		    <title>Database</title>
		    <skill>JDBC, SQL</skill>
		    <skill>Oracle, DB2, Postgresql, Mysql, Microsoft SQL</skill>
		</skillset>
		<skillset>
		    <title>Software</title>
		    <skill>Linux, Solaris, Irix, Windows NT/2000/2003/XP/2008/7</skill> 
		    <skill>Apache, Bind, DHCP, Samba, Postfix, Clustering</skill>
		    <skill>LDAP, NFS, SSH, Bacula, Kerberos, PKCS#11, SSO</skill>
		    <skill>Active Directory, Nagios, VMWare, Sharepoint</skill>
		</skillset>
		<skillset>
		    <title>Certifications</title>	
		    <skill>RHCE - Red Hat Certified Engineer (RH 6.2)</skill>
		    <skill>RHCX - Red Hat Certified Examiner (RH 6.2)</skill>
		</skillset>
	</skillarea>

	<history>
		<job>
			<jobtitle>IT Infrastructure Manager</jobtitle>
			<employer>Leitner Technologies</employer>
			<period>
				<from>
					<date>
						<month>January</month>
						<year>2007</year>
					</date>
				</from>
				<to>
					<present/>
				</to>
			</period>
			<description>
				<para>
					IT Systems Manager responsible for networking, software, security,
					server rooms &amp; 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.
				</para>
			</description>
			<projects>
				<project>
					Reorganized all the different authentication systems of many acquired companies 
					into a single Active Directory.
				</project>
				<project>
					Designed the new WAN concept to connect in a scalable and redundant way the group's
					40 and more remote sites.
				</project>
				<project>
					Rolled out a common management infrastructure for all the pc's worldwide.
				</project>
				<project>
					Implemented a VPN and monitoring concept to access the remote installations.
				</project>
				<project>
					3rd level troubleshooting for internal IT issues
				</project>
			</projects>
		</job>
		<job>
			<jobtitle>Senior System Administrator</jobtitle>
			<employer>Xsec s.r.l.</employer>
			<period>
				<from>
					<date>
						<month>June</month>
						<year>2003</year>
					</date>
				</from>
				<to>
					<date>
						<month>December</month>
						<year>2006</year>
					</date>
				</to>
			</period>
			<description>
				<para>
					Senior System Administrator, doing security related
					tasks, managing networks and
					firewalls, mailservers and samba file servers, HA
					clusters, web applications and authentication services.
				</para>
			</description>
			<projects>
				<project>
					ldapcheck - postfix 1.x sasl module to do sasl
					authentication through ldap.
				</project>
				<project>
					Xems - An administration interface to manage mail users
					with postfix, openldap, courier-imap.
				</project>
			</projects>
		</job>
		<job>
			<jobtitle>Translator</jobtitle>
			<employer>Bowneglobal</employer>
			<period>
				<from>
					<date>
						<month>June</month>
						<year>2003</year>
					</date>
				</from>
				<to>
					<date>
						<month>August</month>
						<year>2003</year>
					</date>
				</to>
			</period>
			<description>
				<para>
					Worked on the italian translation of some parts of the book
					101 applications with Visual Basic .NET.
				</para>
			</description>
		</job>
		<job>
			<jobtitle>Programmer, System Administrator</jobtitle>
			<employer>Red Hat, Italy</employer>
			<period>
				<from>
					<date>
						<month>September</month>
						<year>2001</year>
					</date>
				</from>
				<to>
					<date>
						<month>July</month>
						<year>2002</year>
					</date>
				</to>
			</period>
			<description>
				<para>
					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]
				</para>
			</description>
			<projects>
				<project>
					Custom distribution for Zucchetti.com <url>http://www.zucchetti.com</url>
				</project>
				<project>
					DB2 Cluster solution distribution <url>http://www.redhat.it/ibm/db2redhat</url>
				</project>
			</projects>
		</job>
		<job>
			<jobtitle>Instructor</jobtitle>
			<employer>Red Hat, Italy</employer>
			<period>
				<from>
					<date>
						<month>May</month>
						<year>2001</year>
					</date>
				</from>
				<to>
					<date>
						<month>September</month>
						<year>2001</year>
					</date>
				</to>
			</period>
			<description>
				<para>
					Teaching of all the networking, security and administration
					courses offered by Red Hat RH033, RH133, RH253, RH300, RHS333,
					RH604, RHS346
				</para>
			</description>
			<achievements>
				<achievement>
					RHCE - Red Hat Certified Engineer 
				</achievement>
				<achievement>
					RHCX - Red Hat Certified Examiner
				</achievement>
			</achievements>
		</job>

		<job>
			<jobtitle>Translator and writer</jobtitle>
			<employer>PC Professional - Italia - Ziff Dafis</employer>
			<period>
				<from>
					<date>
						<month>March</month>
						<year>1999</year>
					</date>
				</from>
				<to>
					<date>
						<month>September</month>
						<year>1999</year>
					</date>
				</to>
			</period>
			<description>
				<para>
					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.
				</para>
			</description>
		</job>

		<job>
			<jobtitle>Programmer</jobtitle>
			<employer>Leitner Lifts S.p.A.</employer>
			<period>
				<from>
					<date>
						<month>June</month>
						<year>1998</year>
					</date>
				</from>
				<to>
					<date>
						<month>August</month>
						<year>1998</year>
					</date>
				</to>
			</period>
			<description>
				<para>
					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.
				</para>
			</description>
		</job>
	</history>

	<academics>
		<degrees>
			<degree>
				<period>
					<from>
						<date>
							<month>September</month>
							<year>1999</year>
						</date>
					</from>
					<to>
						<date>
							<month>July</month>
							<year>2000</year>
						</date>
					</to>
				</period>
				<institution>Johannes Kepler University - Linz - Austria</institution>
				<level>Erasmus</level>
			</degree>
			<degree>
				<period>
					<from>
						<date>
							<month>September</month>
							<year>1995</year>
						</date>
					</from>
					<to>
						<present/>
					</to>
				</period>
				<institution>Politecnico of Milan</institution>
				<level>Bachelor</level>
				<major>Informatics Engineering</major>
			</degree>
			<degree>
				<level>Scientific High School Degree</level>
				<date>
					<month>July</month>
					<year>1995</year>
				</date>
				<institution>Liceo Classico Publio Virgilio - Vipiteno - Italy</institution>
				<annotation>
					Final score 60/60
				</annotation>
			</degree>
			<degree>
				<level>U.S. High School Diploma</level>
				<date>
					<month>June</month>
					<year>1994</year>
				</date>
				<institution>Eastwood High School - El Paso, TX - U.S.A.</institution>
			</degree>
		</degrees>
	</academics>

	<pubs>
		<pub>
			<artTitle>Samba - VFS - 2nd Part</artTitle>
			<author>Michele Baldessari &amp; Simo Sorce</author>
			<Date>
				<month>November</month>
				<year>2004</year>
			</Date>
			<publisher>Linux Magazine n. 46</publisher>
		</pub>
		<pub>
			<artTitle>Samba - VFS</artTitle>
			<author>Michele Baldessari &amp; Simo Sorce</author>
			<Date>
				<month>October</month>
				<year>2004</year>
			</Date>
			<publisher>Linux Magazine n. 45</publisher>
		</pub>
		<pub>
			<artTitle>Samba - Authentication</artTitle>
			<author>Michele Baldessari &amp; Simo Sorce</author>
			<Date>
				<month>May</month>
				<year>2004</year>
			</Date>
			<publisher>Linux Magazine n. 42</publisher>
		</pub>
		<pub>
			<artTitle>Samba - Advanced topics</artTitle>
			<author>Michele Baldessari &amp; Simo Sorce</author>
			<Date>
				<month>April</month>
				<year>2004</year>
			</Date>
			<publisher>Linux Magazine n. 41</publisher>
		</pub>
		<pub>
			<artTitle>Samba - Primary Domain Controller</artTitle>
			<author>Michele Baldessari &amp; Simo Sorce</author>
			<Date>
				<month>March</month>
				<year>2004</year>
			</Date>
			<publisher>Linux Magazine n. 40</publisher>
		</pub>
		<pub>
			<artTitle>Introduction to Samba 3</artTitle>
			<author>Michele Baldessari &amp; Simo Sorce</author>
			<Date>
				<month>February</month>
				<year>2004</year>
			</Date>
			<publisher>Linux Magazine n. 39</publisher>
		</pub>
		<pub>
			<artTitle>Booting Linux - What really happens during the boot process</artTitle>
			<author>Michele Baldessari</author>
			<Date>
				<month>December</month>
				<year>2001</year>
			</Date>
			<publisher>Linux &amp; C n. 11</publisher>
		</pub>
	</pubs>

	<skillarea>
		<title>Languages</title>
		<skillset>
			<title>Italian</title>
			<skill>Mother Tongue</skill>
		</skillset>
		<skillset>
			<title>German</title>
			<skill>Excellent written and spoken skills</skill>
			<skill>
				Diplom Wirtschaftssprache Deutsch - Institut f&uuml;r Fachsprachen - J. Kepler
				Universit&auml;t Linz 
				<date>
					<dayofmonth>28</dayofmonth>
					<month>June</month>
					<year>2000</year>
				</date>
			</skill>
			<skill>
				Bilingual [German/Italian] exam of the province of Bolzano
				Level A 
				<date>
					<dayofmonth>28</dayofmonth>
					<month>September</month>
					<year>2000</year>
				</date>
			</skill>
		</skillset>
		<skillset>
			<title>English</title>
			<skill>Excellent written and spoken skills</skill>
			<skill><emphasis>TOEFL</emphasis>
				Test of English as a Foreign Language [score 637] 
				<date>
					<month>March</month>
					<year>1997</year>
				</date>
			</skill>
			<skill>
				<emphasis>SAT</emphasis> - Scholastic Assessment Test - Collegeboard
				[score 1020] 
				<date>
					<dayofmonth>22</dayofmonth>
					<month>January</month>
					<year>1994</year>
				</date>
			</skill>
		</skillset>
		<skillset>
			<title>Spanish</title>
			<skill>Good spoken skills</skill>
		</skillset>
	</skillarea>

	<interests>
		<title>Interests</title>
		<interest><title>Reading</title></interest>
		<interest><title>Music</title></interest>
		<interest><title>Soccer</title></interest>
		<interest><title>Snowboard</title></interest>
		<interest><title>Traveling</title></interest>
	</interests>


	<lastModified>
		<date>
			<dayOfMonth>18</dayOfMonth>
			<month>February</month>
			<year>2011</year>
		</date>
	</lastModified>
	<copyright>
		<year>2003 - 2011</year>
	</copyright>
</resume>

