Curriculum Vitae

Download my full curriculum vitae (Microsoft Office 2007 Word and PDF). A short version of the most important experiences is found underneath:

  • Born on the 31th of May 1982 in Bressanone/Brixen, Italy.
  • 1988 - 1995: Elementary and middle school in Bressanone/Brixen, Italy.
  • 1994: Started developing little applications in Quick Basic and MS-DOS.
  • 1996 - 2001: Commercial school (LEWIT) in Bressanone/Brixen, Italy.
  • 1998: Did a starter course on Visual Basic 4.0. Started working with HTML, Javascript.
  • Summer 2000: Internship at Harrasser & Partner (Consultant Company) in Bolzano/Bozen, Italy.
  • 2001: First contact with the .NET BETA versions.
  • Summer 2001: Internship at Ewico (Consultant Company) in Bolzano/Bozen, Italy.
  • 2002 - now: Student at the Technical University of Vienna. Bachelor: Software and Information Engineering; Master: Computer Graphic and Image Processing.
  • Summer 2002: Learned Delphi. It was required for a few larger projects at Sarix.
  • Summer 2002 - Summer 2005: Internships at Sarix (Software Company) in Bolzano/Bozen, Italy: I have developed parts of the PowerContact CallCenter solution, did other projects involving web services, remoting, database services, xml and a bunch of other technologies.
  • 2003 - 2005: Developed OPF.NET: An ORM (Object Relational Mapper) for .NET 1.0, 1.1 and 2.0.
  • 2004 - now: Developing Opf3: The ORM Framework for .NET 2.0.
  • 2004 - now: Author for the German .NET magazine DotNetPro.
  • April 2006: Speaker at the DotNetPro persistence day.
  • 2006 - now: Microsoft Student Partner in Austria (Vienna).
  • Summer 2006: Project for JUKAS (Management software for South Tyrol's youth hostels).
  • Summer 2006: Vacation on Barbados (with my girlfriend). First vacation outside of Europe ;-)
  • Summer 2007: Vacation in Australia (Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Carins, Cape Tribulation).
  • Summer 2007 - now: Content publisher on Microsoft's student website: Channel 8.
  • 2008 - now: C# MVP (Microsoft Most Valuable Professional)

Technology Experience

  • Microsoft C# .NET – Versions 2001, 2002, 2005, 2008
  • Microsoft .NET Windows Forms
  • Microsoft ASP.NET – Versions 2001, 2002, 2005, 2008
  • Borland Delphi – Version 7
  • Microsoft SQL Server – Versions 7, 2000, 2005
  • Microsoft Visual Basic – Version 6, 2001, 2002, 2005, 2008
  • Microsoft ASP Classic
  • Microsoft IIS – Versions 5, 6
  • Microsoft Windows Operating Systems: All client versions from Windows 3.1 to Vista
  • HTML and CSS
  • University knowledge:
    • C/C++
    • Haskell
    • JAVA
    • Prolog
    • Linux and Unix
    • OpenGL

Other skills

  • Brown belt in Karate
  • Played piano for five years