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My name is Enrico Foschi and I am Team Leader and SSDE (Senior Software Developer Engineer) with advanced skills and experiences in multimedia projects managing and developing, living in Dublin (Ireland).

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MY WORKING LIFE...

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

After some small application developement (web & stand-alone), I began to work for Sky & Mediaset television as a real-time video editor. After 1 year, I thought that with the right software, the work management could be easier. I developed an application by my own (the JOB Organizer), which is used for administrating employees timetable and calendars entirely through a web and a mobile platform with the use of an sms sending / receiving system.
Once the developing was completed, I showed it to my employers, they liked it and bought it, becoming my first big customers: with this first success, I opened a little company, the EIMTech (Engineered Interactive Media Technologies - an individual agency).

Then I worked for several Web Companies (Carta e Matita S.r.l., Kettydo S.r.l., BusyBeee S.r.l. and RMG Connect S.r.l. / J. W. Thompson S.p.a) until the last one (RMG connect) made me a great offer for working just for them with a very good leading position in a wonderful environment. In this company I leaded and supported a multimedia designers and developers team in the developing of many projects, like:

Sprite Balleville - multiplayer web-community
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

In all of these projects, I made most of the application design and all the C#+SQL / PHP+MySQL back-end and Flash/AJAX developing, including the developing of Flex 2 / 3 interfaces for services administration.

From September 2006 until June 2007, I taught Flash designing and developing (basic & advanced courses) in IED, an European Design Institute (IED – Istituto Europeo del Design): teaching is one of my hobbies: I had an excellent relations with my students and I loved to work with them.

From September 2007 until March 2008 I worked in the very great Ammado Internet Services Ltd. as a Senior front-end and back-end developer for the www.Ammado.com community.

At the moment I've a contract with Microsoft, in Dublin.

PERSONAL PROJECTS

I am happy to say that I am almost like an hero "supercoder" :-).
"In the day he work as an employee for a company... but in the night he is used to design, develop and study experimental projects and to try out some new technologies in crazy and innovative ways."

Some of my last personal works are:

InMacchinaInsieme (Web 2.0 Car-pooling social network) - www.inmacchinainsieme.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)
Some silly enjoying and interactive dating sites like CuoriRibelli.com (no more on-line)

MY VALUES

My main characteristics are:

excellent team-leading 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

MAYBE YOU WOULD LIKE TO KNOW THAT...

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 animals, green landscapes, oriental life-style and obviously Stefania, my girlfriend that lives with me with and our four cats.
I am vegetarian (well, actually vegan) and I like to spend my free time working for social and nonprofits causes and for personal project!

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CONTACTS

E-Mail address:
Phone number (Irish): 086 3606469
Phone number (Italian): 348 7007129
Skype account: enricofoschi
MSN account: (not valid as email address)

DESIGN PATTERN & ORGANIZATION

Team leading and teaching: 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 / 3.0: excellent
Web services / 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 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 not all...

LATEST PROJECTS

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...)
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

Many of the URLs are not shown because the web sites are no more on-line or because of my customer / employer policies.
Every project can be easily shown in a face to face interview.