Name

 Francesco SALVI

   

 Born

 1959

 Nationality

 Italian

 

 

KNOWLEDGE

Languages

Italian (mother tongue), English, French, some Spanish, some German.

Qualifications

Bachelor - high school diploma in Visual Arts, 1977. 
Diploma of 'Tecnico Eidomatico' (Computer graphics), 1984. 
Winning C.E.C. Open Competition COM/B/505 (Informatics), 1987.

Applications

Information resources management (technical and administrative); electronic publishing and presentation (including www); software development; e-training, office automation; system administration; networking; data communication and DBMS.

 

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

5/2001 - Present

Commission of the European Communities (C.E.C.), Directorate-General "Joint Research Centre" (DG JRC), Brussels: Data analisys and information diffusion to support the European Union JRC enlargement action; documentary websites; design, production coordination and deployement of e-training courses for scientific lab staff.

9/99 - 5/2001

C.E.C.DG JRC, Brussels: webmaster for the DG headquarters in Brussels. Creation and maintenance of JRC HQ websites, both intranet and Internet; set-up of servers, workgroups and communication facilities; definition of rules and tools for contents feeding; standardisation of presentation and harmonisation with other DG's websites; co-ordination with Commission central services.

5/93 - 8/99

C.E.C. DG JRC, Brussels: responsible for DG informatic resources (acquisition, installation, maintenance, user training and support) including co-ordination of external technicians, liaison with other DG’s and JRC sites; definition of rules for office automation procedures over the network; electronic publishing and presentation; World-Wide-Web technical correspondent.

5/90 - 4/93

C.E.C. DG XII, Brussels: informatic support for statistical elaboration and data dissemination; production of reports on Community Member States policies for Science and Technology; design of Information Retrieval tools; co-ordination of the multidisciplinary group: "Visual supports for presentations and publications".

1989 - 5/90

C.E.C. DG XIII, Brussels: DTP system that builds up publications automatically (including items retrieval from distributed databases, generation of customised indexes and cover pages, etc.); administration of ESPRIT Projects Synopses database.

1987 - 88

C.E.C. Statistical Office, Luxembourg: design (25%) and implementation (50%) of an integrated system for in-house production of statistical reports.

1986

C.E.C. Computer Centre, Luxembourg: user support for graphics (task including development, maintenance and training); feasibility studies concerning the use of advanced graphical systems.

1985

Eidos Spa, Milan (Italy): technical support for computer aided presentation systems (VideoDisc, VideoFloppy, interactive terminals).

 

Domus Academy, MilanoFiori (Italy): taught "Graphic Hardware" in the informatic seminar for the Master certificate in Architecture.

1984

DataGeneral Italy, Cinisello MI (Italy): wrote a texts and graphics formatter with animation capabilities.

 

NYIT for ACM, New York (USA): followed the upgrading course "Introduction to Computer Animation".

 

Eidos Scrl, Milan (Italy): followed the course "Tecnico Eidomatico". (Contents: computer graphics, programming, information retrieval, video technologies, visual designer, traditional graphics, image processing and cartography.)

1983

De Lorenzo Spa, Rozzano MI (Italy): wrote an interactive BASIC course and a didactical simulator of experimental set-ups (electricity lab).

 

Harden Italy, Sospiro CR (Italy): Italian translation of software for Office Automation.

 

PUBLICATIONS

Eur 14521 report: "Overview of R&TD", 1992. (Author)
Eur 13795 report: "Trends in Scientific R&TD in the EEC", 1990. (Co-author)
Articles and images were published in the specialised magazines: Bulletin of the Architects of Milan, Corel Art-Show, JRC Annual reports and brochures, Linea Grafica, Pixel, SICOF '84, XII-News, ZeroUno and in the books: "Sistemi grafici, geometria della natura e CAD industriale" and "Applicazioni di CAD".

 

 

SUMMARY

The main fields of my activity have been:

  • Systems for Electronic Publishing and Presentation (all media including Internet).
  • Advanced System Administration and Networking (including interfacing PCs, Minis and Mainframes.)
  • Administrative management of informatic resources (including co-ordination of technical workgroups).
  • Software tools for User Interface, Interactive Graphics and On-Screen Simulations.

 

See also: http://www.oocities.org/salvifr