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Curriculum Roberto Reymond: born at Milano, Italy, in the afternoon of October 28, 1959. In 1979 got his upper school leaving certificate (score 50/60), at the "P.Hensemberger" Technical Institute, at Monza (MI), with address "Informatics". From that period survived not only the diploma and several books, but also some meters of paper tape, which was the standard input device for the HP 2000 computer of the school. Called in the Army in 1980, he took advantage of that time learning how to drive a truck, which left him with an Italian class D driving license. Shortly after that, he joined IBM Italia on August 7, 1981, as System Operator, with the responsibility of monitoring and managing the TP. In 1988 he got, cleaned (and collect) a virus, his first one. It was a Bouncing Ball, aka Ping Pong. Then he followed the steps of the Operator career, and during that time he learned to write procedures and progs in JCL, PL/1 and REXX (VM), on the mainframes IBM. Contemporary, after the diffusion of the PC, also as 3270 emulation station, he become a known expert in IS about applications and installations involving PC, XT, AT and 3270PC. In April, 1991 he closed his Operator career, leaving IS as System Technician and -as SE Assistant- he entered the Hotline PS/2 group, in the Software div., becoming few months later System Engineer. Here he was charged to give technical support on all the PC/PS SW products at the time sold by IBM, for resellers and sometimes clients. In the same time he kept on giving consulence of virus related probs, also writing a paper, approved by IBM for the distribution, and an article on the Company Magazine. When in 1992 the Italian Computer Emergency Response Team was established, he was asked to join. Which he did. Becoming official his activity about viruses, he looked deeper in items like Assembler language, binary and hex structure and a lot of related tools, so that he become able to offer a First Level help, usually capable of delivery in very short time a first analysis of a previuos unknown virus, eventually some suggestions on how to cope with, and a temporary patch for the IBM AntiVirus. With the transferring of the hotline activities to other locations and providers, he then has been part of the dawning Personal Software Products direction, as expert of PC/PS software, mantaining his role in Italian CERT. After, he became OS/2 specialist, obtaining the IBM Certified OS/2 Engineer award, and SysOp of the IBM PSP BBS, a public bbs loaded of drivers, files, utilities and more about and for OS/2. It was about this time that the activity in the CERT became wider, since he started to give pre and post-sales support for the IBMAV product. Finally, on March 3, 1997, he joined the Information Asset Security, with the charge of give security consulence for clients, on OS/2, Windows NT, Lotus Notes etc. So he participated to an International Notes Review, and also delivered a National Certification to an Italian site. About viruses, he wrote another article for the internal magazine (a copy is available in Office). Actually he's working as security expert in developing/implementing several security/ativirus solutions for IBM clients, also performing hetical hacking.

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