Luca Morandini
 
   

Curriculum Vitae of Luca Morandini

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General

Surname Morandini
Name Luca
Date of birth 20/12/1965
Nationality Italian
Civil status Married with two children
Education University of Rome "La Sapienza", 1984-1991, M.Sc. Statistics

Language skills

Language Passive Spoken Written
Italian Mother tongue Mother tongue Mother tongue
English Fluent Fluent Fluent

Membership of professional bodies

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
IEEE Computer Society
IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society

Other skills (e.g. computer literacy, etc.)

Computer-specific Knowledge

Operating systems UNIX/Linux, Windows NT/2000/XP, Windows 95/98
Programming languages Java, PL/SQL, C/C++, XSL, SVG, VisualBASIC, Smalltalk, AML (Arc/Info Macro Language), Avenue (ArcView macro language), JavaScript, HTML
GIS (Geographical Information Systems) Arc/Info 7, Arc/Info 8, ArcView 3, MapObjects, ArcIMS, MapServer
DBMS ORACLE (PL/SQL, DBA Studio), Access (VBA)
Web servers and Servlet containers Apache HTTP Server, Apache Tomcat, Apache Cocoon, Microsoft IIS, Mort Bay Consulting Jetty
Statistical packages S-plus, R
Personal productivity tools Word, MS-Project, Excel, Outlook

Current position

Free-lance GIS Consultant

Years within current position: 7

Specific experience (in non-EU member countries)

Country Date Donor, name and brief description of the project References
Mongolia 2004 Asian Development Bank. IT expert for project "Capacity building for Cadastral Survey and Land Registration" (TA 3395 MON) Penny Buckle (penny.buckle@htsdevelopment.com)
Albania 2002-2003 World Bank. EDP expert in the Albanian National Forest Inventory project, funded by the (Credit/Loan 2846 ALB) Giancarlo Carrai (gc.carrai@svaltec.it)
Kosovo (Yugoslavia) 2001 EAR. GIS Expert in a project preparation team (Request for services No. zimmer10-OBNOVA-EAR-KOSOVO) for a Policy and Agricultural statistics strengthening project Adrian Neal (nealadrian@hotmail.com)
Bulgaria 1998 EU-Phare. GIS-Information Technology Expert. Lead Programmer of a Italian-Bulgarian development team for the building of a Cadastral software system for the PHARE Project BG9206 (Pilot project for a National Bulgarian Cadastre). The software was developed using Arc/Info and ArcView GIS Giancarlo Carrai (gc.carrai@svaltec.it)
Albania 1998 EU-Phare. LIS/GIS Expert of a pilot GIS implementation, leading the local team through all aspects of it (from digitizing to data fusion and software development). This GIS was developed in the framework of a Land Use Policy project in Albania (PHARE Project AL 93 08 03) Zdenek "Denny" Kalensky (kalensky@monisys.ca)
Bulgaria 1997 EU-Phare. GIS/LIS Expert for PHARE Project BG9206 (Pilot project for a National Bulgarian Cadastre) Giancarlo Carrai (gc.carrai@svaltec.it)

Professional experience

Free-lance GIS Consultant

Date Location Company Position Description
1997-to date Italy Free lance GIS Consultant Development of GIS-based software and Project management of GIS projects

Most significant projects in position

Date Description References
2004 Design of a GIS on water networks in the South of Italiy on behalf of SOGESID S.p.A. Elisabetta De Cesare (elisabetta.decesare@virgilio.it)
2003 Development of a web application displaying live thematic maps of the 2001 Italian Census Pina Ticca (ticca@istat.it)
2002 Development of a Web-based application for the display of Sea pollution data at the Italian Environment Ministry, using ArcIMS, DB2, and Cocoon (a Java-based XML publishing framework). Pino Giaimo (p.giaimo@ipzs.it)
2002 Development of a Web-based application for Census data-processing control at the Italian Statistical Institute (ISTAT). This project involved the use of Cocoon and Cocoon (a Java-based XML publishing framework) and Oracle Pina Ticca (ticca@istat.it)
2001 Development of a Web-based application for the analysis of rural assets using ArcIMS, Oracle, and Cocoon (a Java-based XML publishing framework). Gabriel Poole (gabriele.poole@assagri.it)
2000 GIS Consultancy at the European Environment Agency. This assignment lasted two months, spent on EEA premises in Copenhagen (Denmark) Jan Bliki (jan.bliki@eea.eu.int)
2000 GIS Consultancy at the University of Rome - "La Sapienza" - Faculty of Engineering, assisting the development of a urban GIS for the City of Khouribga (Morocco) Andrea Cappelli (cappelli@imagemp.ing.uniroma1.it)
1999 Finalization and testing of the Land Cover Classification System (LCCS) in use by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations John Latham (john.latham@fao.org)
1999 Development of an address geocoding application using MapObjects and MatchWare matching library in a C++/VisualBASIC development environment
1999 Development of a address matching and geocoding API using Oracle Spatial and PL/SQL programming language
1998 Development of an ActiveX control for GIS-based emergency systems, using MapObjects and C++ on Windows NT
1998 Statistical analysis of Agricultural productivity prediction using Geo-statistics techniques (Kriging)
1997 Development of GIS software for utilities management, using Smalltalk and ArcView on Windows NT
1997 Development of Control Center Software for GPS-based emergency management. Using MapObjects and C++ on Windows NT.

ESRI employee

Date Location Company Position Description
1991-1996 Italy ESRI Italia S.p.A Software developer Development of GIS software and Project management of GIS projects

Most significant projects in position

Date Description References
1994-1995 As software QA Specialist, he wrote guides to "Writing Software Requirements Specifications" and "Writing Software test Plans". This assignment was accomplished as a part of the company’s ISO9000 certification Claudio Carboni (ccarboni@esriitalia.it)
1994 Development of a fleet management Control Center software for land vehicle tracking via GPS, using ArcView and C on IBM UNIX workstations Claudio Carboni (ccarboni@esriitalia.it)
1993 Project Manager for a general store’s chain Geomarketing project Claudio Carboni (ccarboni@esriitalia.it)

Publications

Cocoon: Developer's Handbook Lajos Moczar, Jeremy Aston (L.Morandini as Technical editor) Sams publishing 2002
Open-source web-GIS: a sustainable data dissemination approach L.Morandini, G.Carrai First national conference on Geographical Information Systems in Albania Tirana (Albania) 2002
The importance of integrating metadata into GIS: the case study of the geographic information system of the city of Khouribga (Morocco) L.Morandini, A.Cappelli 2002 Annual Conference of the International Association for Mathematical Geology Berlin (Germany) 2002
Il sistema informativo della città di Khouribga (Marocco), uso e monitoraggio del suolo attraverso immagini satellitari ad alta risoluzione Ikonos L.Morandini, A.Cappelli Geologia dell’Ambiente, Anno IX, Numero 4/2001 2001
Eastern Europe cadastral GIS: Applications and standards L.Morandini, C.Carrai. R.Favilli ESRI European User Conference ‘98 Florence (Italy) 1998
LIS/GIS trends through Three Experiences in East Europe and Central Asia L.Morandini, C.Carrai. R.Favilli International Symposium "Modern Technologies of Cadastre" Sofia (Bulgaria) 1997
Topology for Cadastral Systems: do we need it ? L.Morandini, C.Carrai. R.Favilli International Symposium "Modern Technologies of Cadastre" Sofia (Bulgaria) 1997