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¶ Bernie Innocenti's Résumé

Embedded systems developer, Linux engineer, system administrator.

Personal e-mail contact: bernie@codewiz.org

¶ Career Objectives

Anything related to computers and technology is likely to attract my attention, especially if it's not in already listed here, is related to FOSS, or involves traveling. I'm especially interested in consumer electronics, scientific instruments and education technology.

¶ Summary

• Co-founder, board member, Sugar Labs Foundation;
• Intern, system administrator, Free Software Foundation;
• Volunteer operating system engineer, One Laptop Per Child;
• Founder, VP and director of R&D at Develer s.r.l.;
• Maintainer/contributor of Open Source projects, including GCC and Linux kernel;
• Embedded systems design & consulting for companies in greater Florence area;

¶ Skills

• Programming languages: C++, C, Assembly (m68k/Coldfire, m68705, TMS320, Z80), Java;
• Dynamic/Scripting languages: Python, Perl, PHP, JavaScript, Bourne Shell;
• Not properly languages: SQL, HTML, CSS, LaTeX, GNU make.

• Operating systems: Linux (Red Hat, Fedora, Ubuntu, SuSE, Debian, uClinux), Mac OS X, Solaris (versions 6 to 9), NetBSD, AmigaOS, Windows.
• Frameworks and APIs: POSIX, Qt, Gtk, STL, Boost, WIN32, MFC.
• Programming Techniques: OOP, generic programming, metaprogramming, real-time, event-driven, multithreading.
• Development Tools: GCC toolchain, GNU make, auto-tools, MSVC, XCode, Codewarrior, IAR, Code Composer Studio, BSO Tasking.
• Revision Control: Git, Subversion, CVS, RCS, Rational Clearcase, Source Safe.

¶ Education

• Undergraduate courses of Educational Tech. and Math, Harvard Extension School;
• Undergraduate student of CS (some exams), Università degli Studi di Firenze;
• Non-formal in multiple CS subjects including compilers, algorithms, databases, OS design, networking;
• High-school Diploma in Math, Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, Firenze, Italy.

¶ Experience

¶ Co-founder Sugar Labs (May 2008 to present)

• Member of the Oversight Board;
• Coordinator of the Infrastructure Team;
• Funding, partnerships and organization of events.

¶ Volunteer developer for One Laptop Per Child (May 2007 to Apr 2008)

• In-house maintainer of the X11 windowing system;
• i18n, input devices and keyboard layouts;
• Miscellaneous OS development, packaging, release engineering;
• Porting existing applications to the OLPC environment;
• Miscellaneous Linux kernel development;
• CTO at OLPC Europe (a sales force based in Brussels)

¶ R&D director, founder and VP at Develer s.r.l. (Nov 2001 to Apr 2007)

• Firmware, DSP, systems and application development;
• CTO of embedded division;
• Sales and customer relations;
• Created and managed company-wide network, IT and development infrastructure.

¶ Freelance software engineering consultant (Apr 2000 to present)

• Firmware development for SEAC s.r.l.;
• Development of POS drivers and system software for Marconi Commerce Systems;
• Developed compiler/interpreter of a specialized OO language for Telecom Italia Labs;
• Created DSP firmware for air traffic control radio communication systems.

¶ Teacher for European Fund courses (2002, 2004, 2006 and 2007)

• D-Lab: Multimedia course of 600h for 20 students;
• GFactory: Videogame development course of 450h for 15 students;
• PAW (Web Application Programmer): 300h for 15 students;
• Advanced C++, Embedded Linux and Software Analysis & Design for 40-50 employees of Gilbarco Veeder-Root (200h);
• Workshop on GIS Systems in Iannina, Greece (30h).

¶ Firmware engineer and owner of Sirius s.r.l. (late 2000 to mid 2001)

• Developed firmware and high-level software of cooling and telemetry system for laser surgery;
• Created and managed the network, IT and development infrastructure for the whole company.

¶ Firmware engineer at SEAC s.r.l. R&D laboratories (June 1996 to April 2000)

• Developed firmware for several devices, including photometers and blood cell analyzers;
• Member of team developing software for large robotized clinical analyzers;
• Created and maintained the network and development infrastructure of the R&D lab.

¶ Volunteer activities

• RedHat / FedoraLinux OS developer (2007 to present)
• Xorg (X Wingow System) developer (2007 to present)
• GCC compiler maintainer (2003 to present)
• Linux kernel hacker (2002 to present)
• NetBSD developer (2000-2001)
• Co-maintainer of Motorola Background Debug Module driver (2003-2005)
• Contributor of several other OpenSource projects
• SysOp of SystemShockBBS