BIOGRAPHY (close)

Hello World! I am Enrico Foschi, a .NET Architect, Team Leader and Senior Developer with a strong passion for digital project management and development. I live near Dublin - Ireland.

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MY WORKING LIFE...

My working life started when I won two first awards for two country promoted Web contests (Fausto Sartori Contests - Milan).

After some small application development (web & stand-alone), I started to work for Sky & Mediaset television as a real-time video editor (if you ever watched Champions League highlights or A-Series soccer replays during the match on Sky Sport, there is an high chance that I worked on them).

There I developed by my own Web and mobile platform (called JOB Organizer) with the purpose to improve the process workflow and to simplify employees administration with timetable and calendars.
My employers recognized its potential and decided to buy it, giving me the opportunity to start my own company: EIMTech (Engineered Interactive Media Technologies).

I worked then for several Web and Multimedia agencies (Carta e Matita S.r.l., Kettydo S.r.l., BusyBee S.r.l. and RMG Connect / J. W. Thompson S.p.a) until the last one (RMG Connect) made me a great offer to work just for them as technical leader and architect of their new digital department.

For all the projects, I set up the Service oriented architecture, designed the core and all the back-end and any front-end development (rich interfaces in Flash / AJAX). Some of them included Flex 2 / 3 interfaces for services administration. Some projects are still online, other ones have already been retired (short-term advertising virals):

Sprite Balleville - multiplayer web-community (retired - YouTube video available)
Canon Extreme HD - Flash & AJAX blog
DTC – Dillocoidiamanti – brochure web site
RCS Fabbri Editore Collections – InsettiVeri - multiplayer web community
RCS Fabbri Editore - Fiabe-Sonore - brochure web site
Nestlè Maxibon Campaigns

At the same time (September 2006 - June 2007), I spent a day a week teaching Flash design and development (basic & advanced courses) in IED, an European Design Institute: I really love teaching and I had an excellent relations with my students. Many of them continued to work with me, some of them started to work under my leadership.

In September 2007 I came to Ireland, where I worked 6 months for the Web 2.0 social network Ammado before joining Microsoft as a consultant, where I am currently leading a great team for core services development.

PERSONAL PROJECTS

My job is my passion. In my spare time I love working on web projects. The latest ones are: www.inmacchinainsieme.com (featured on national television: http://bit.ly/moJpG) and the social network www.agglom,com, who achieved a worldwide recognition: http://bit.ly/110Urk.

Other personal works are:

I HAS WORK: a funny project with the goal to improve job productivity in old-minded traditional companies: www.IHasWork.com
an AJAX platform project called "Web2MS" (a Nuke / CMS platform written in C# and based on AJAX middleware) who was sold to more than 10 customers
Some blogs (AS3Guru & ComputerBlog.it) - unfortunately, I am not able to find enough time to update them
Some silly enjoying and interactive dating sites like CuoriRibelli.com (no more on-line)

MY VALUES

My main characteristics are:

excellent team-leading and mentoring abilities
agile developer
limitless back-end developing skills
no-limits front-end highly-interactive interface developing skills
excellent learning abilities
excellent problem-solving abilities
high attitude to work in a team
creative solutions finding skills
optimum quality, debug and testing (alpha / beta) coverage of my projects
excellent interface-designing abilities
excellent skills mixture all over back-end and front-end sides (this make me a master character talking about multimedia projects)
enormous interest for digital world
very positive and creative mind

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I play piano (I have studied it professionally since I was 8) and I have been a professional DJ for two years (since I was 17 until I was 19).
I love life, nature, animals, green landscapes, oriental life-style and obviously Stefania, my girlfriend wife that lives with me with and our four cats.

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CONTACTS

E-Mail address:
Phone number (Irish): ++35386 3606469
IM (Skype):

DESIGN PATTERN & ORGANIZATION

Service Oriented Arachitectures: love it!
Team leading & mentoring: excellent
Design Patterns (GoF ones and customs): excellent
Extreme & Agile Programming: excellent
Enterprise Architectures: excellent
Team Foundation Server: good
Refactoring (to and from pattern): excellent

BACK-END:

C# .NET 2.0, .NET 3.0 / 3.5 & .NET environment (Visual Studio 2005 / 2008): excellent
ASP .NET 2.0: excellent
Web services on SOA: excellent
LAMP: very good
PHP 4.x / 5.x: excellent
SQL Express / Server 2005: very good
MySQL: good
Java: Good (I can read it very well and I can write simple and not-so-complex applications... but if needed, I can ust learn it)

TESTING:

General tests coverage: excellent
NUnit: excellent
Selenium IDE / Core: excellent

FRONT-END:

Adobe Flash 9 & Macromedia Flash 7, 8 (with component integration, video integration, etc…): excellent
ActionScript 1 / 2 / 3: excellent
Flex 2, 3: excellent
Apollo / Air: good
(X)HTML / HTML: excellent
CSS / CSS-P: excellent
JavaScript (OOP), DHTML: excellent

WEB 2.0:

Web 2.0 usability, technics & design: excellent
AJAX middleware / JSON: excellent
AJAX Libraries: YUI / Dojo / Prototype / JQuery / Atlas / Script-Aculo / MooFX / Anthem components & classes: excellent
Third part API's (Google, Technorati, Digg, etc...): excellent

INTEGRATION:

XML: excellent
XSLT: excellent
Custom Installers / Configurators: excellent
XMLRPC / SOAP / AMF...: very good

EXCELLENT SEO SKILLS

WEB DESIGN:

Adobe Photoshop CS3: very good

OTHER:

Web Security / Web Server (IIS / Apache) / Web Server management: excellent

OS:

Windows 98/SE/XP/2000/Server 2003: excellent
Linux (main distro): good

Principles I like:

DRY - Don't repeat yourself!
KISS - Keep It Simple and Stupid
TDD - Test Driven Developement
0-1-n rules
Yesterday's weather

And that's just a little piece of it...

LATEST PROJECTS

Agglom.com (details)
Type: personal project
Link: http://www.agglom.com
Description: a web 2.0 social network that provide users services to organize and share group of links
Main technologies used: C# .NET 3.5 SOA, AJAX (jQuery and other 40 .js files of my own components), ASP .NET 2.0 - MS SQL 2008
Developed in: about 2 months (endless night)
Roles: project entirely developed and designed by me (IA, UI, design, developing, usability, accesibility, press releases, etc...)
Featured in world-wide top web blogs: http://bit.ly/110Urk
IHasWork.com :-) (details)
Type: personal (funny) project
Link: http://www.ihaswork.com
Description:a funny project with the goal to improve job productivity in old-minded traditional companies
Main technologies used: XHTML / Javascript
Developed in: about 30 minutes
Ammado.com (details)
Type: Ammado Internet Services Ltd. work
Link: http://www.ammado.com
Description: Enterprise Application - a great web community that opens a new connection between common people and charities
Main technologies used: ASP .NET (C# framework 2.0, 3.0, 3.5) - MS SQL 2005 - TFS - WCF - NUnit - XHTML / XML / XSLT - AJAX (YUI libraries)
Roles: Senior Front-End & Back-End developer
InMacchinaInsieme.com (details)
Type: personal project
Link: http://www.inmacchinainsieme.com
Description: a web 2.0 car-pooling social-network web-site
Main technologies used: AJAX (prototype, jquery), ASP .NET 2.0 (C#) - MS SQL 2005, GoogleMaps
Developed in: about 88 hours (11 working days)
Roles: project entirely developed and designed by me (IA, UI, design, developing, usability, accesibility, etc...)
Featured on national television: http://bit.ly/moJpG
JobOrganizer (details)
Type: Sky / Mediaset Television mission critical project
Description: an employer administrative software with mobile sms sending-receiving system still used for managing Sky and Mediaset Television employers timetable in Italy.
Main technologies used: Apache 2, PHP 5.x, MySQL: 5
Developed in: about 400 hours (50 working days)
Roles: project entirely developed by me
MenoBalle.it (details)
Type: RMGConnect / J.W.T. project
Link: http://www.menoballe.it
Description: a multiplayer web-community
Main technologies used: Flash 8 (Actionscript 2 OOP), ASP .NET 2.0 (C#) - MS SQL 2005 - XML
Developed in: RMG Connect s.r.l.
Roles: Team leader - Web developer - UI developer/designer - IA - Crisis manager
AS3Guru & ComputerBlog (no more on-line) (details)
Type: personal blogs
Description: 1st a weblog for advanced tips & tricks related to Flex 3 / Actionscript 3 (Flash 9). 2nd a weblog digital world related
Main technologies used: Wordpress
Roles: project entirely developed by me
Web2MS - AJAX Platform (details)
Type: personal project
Description: a kernel platform that includes many services (User / Groups management, Services management, CMS, Contact form, Newsletter, etc...). This was the system used as a base in all my future application. It brought a great save of time and a big gain of quality.
Main technologies used: AJAX (Anthem .NET), ASP .NET 2.0 (C#) - MS SQL 2005 - XML
Developed in: about 240 hours (30 working days)
Roles: project entirely developed by me
ExtremeHD (details)
Type: RMGConnect project
Description: a brochure web-site developed in order to promote Canon new mini-HD videocamera
Main technologies used: AJAX (Anthem .NET), ASP .NET 2.0 (C#) - MS SQL 2005 - XML
Roles: Team leader - Web developer - Web designer - IA - User Interface designer
DilloCoiDiamanti.it (details)
Type: RMGConnect project
Link: http://dillocoidiamanti.../main.swf (preview)
Description: a brochure web-site developed in order to promote DTC brand
Main technologies used: Flash 8 (Actionscript 2)
Roles: Team leader - UI developer
Fiabe-sonore.it (details)
Type: RMGConnect project
Link: http://www.fiabe-sonore.it
Description: a multiplayer web-community developed in order to promote RCS's Fiabe-Sonore magazine
Main technologies used: Flash 8 (Actionscript 2)
Roles: Team leader - UI developer
CuoriRibelli.com (details)
Type: personal project
Link: no more on-line
Description: a funny-dating multiplayer web-community developed in order to create a funny lovers web-community and experimenting weblog seeding results through different seeding methods.
Main technologies used: Flash 8 (Actioscript 2 OOP), ASP .NET 2.0 (C#) - MS SQL 2005 - XML
Developed in: about 160 hours (20 working days)
Roles: Enrico Foschi (IA, UI, design, developing, usability, accesibility, etc...) and Marco Papale (logo design)
InsettiVeri (details)
Type: RMGConnect project
Link: http://insettiveri(...).html (preview)
Description: a brochure web-site
Main technologies used: Flash 8 (Actionscript 2) - ASP .NET 2.0 (C#) + MS SQL - XML
Roles: Team leader - promoting RCS's InsettiVeri brand with a multiplayer web-community with advanced features for readers

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