Virginia Bindi

Experience

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  Baby Bar

  Jun 1997 - Jan 2009

  Bartender, gift arrangements sale assistant and café manager

  Alongside my mother, I have managed the café owned by my family for about 5 years and before then I worked in the café under the supervision of my parents. My manager role implied arranging for the delivery of supplies, managing the cash flow, liaising with the accountants and developing the business by purchasing additional store room. I worked in the café for at least 5 hours a day and 6 days a week.

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  Infogroup Scpa

  Oct 2002 - Dec 2002

  Java developer - Internship set up by "O.i.p.a."

  Created and managed DB and Java Servlet (use of JDBC interface to Oracle and MySQL RDBMS) and HTML graphs interface for online trading systems.

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  Zucchetti Centro Sistemi S.r.l.

  Oct 2005 - Jul 2006

  Small Enterprise division: Created a portal for Conaflor garden centre to manage orders from suppliers and on-line sales. Also created a "Balanced Scorecard" Business Intelligence application to evaluate data and trend indicators. Involvement in both these projects has been from DB design to graphs interface execution. Health Sector division: I created management software for the monitoring of blood transfusion transmittable diseases carried out by the CRCC blood transfusions centres (most blood transfusion health care providers in Tuscany) on behalf of "A. Menarini Diagnostics" of Florence.

  • Java analyst and programmer

    Feb 2006 - Jul 2006

  • Java developer - Internship set up by "JavaCode"

    Oct 2005 - Jan 2006
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  The Blue Lizard Ltd.

  Feb 2009 - Apr 2009

  PHP developer during "Leonardo Da Vinci" Life-long Learning Programme

  Realized a Server Quote Calculator for HW and SW sales and a Backup Tapes Calendar Generator (also creating a MySQL DB for customers details storage and using TCPDF classes to dynamically generate a PDF file using PHP) to enhance the already existing company website.

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  Geosystems S.r.l

  Jul 2009 - Sept 2010

  GIS Java Analyst and Programmer

  I took part in the realisation of the new Cataloguing System of Italian cultural heritage commissioned by MiBAC. This web application allows cataloguers to map and then common users to identify the real position of cultural heritage in the territory by means of geographical coordinates.

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  European Medicines Agency

  Oct 2010 - Oct 2011

  • Software architect at Software Development Section

    May 2011 - Oct 2011

  • ICT trainee at Users and Applications Support Sector

    Oct 2010 - May 2011
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  DigitasLBi Ltd

  Oct 2011 - Jan 2016

  After having gained extensive knowledge as one of the main developers in Flight Search stream of Virgin project I became stream lead (a new role required because of the importance such stream was assuming), the main tasks of which consisted in processing, analysing and introducing to the rest of the team new stories, during every pre-planning and planning meetings, in addition to holding internal and external demo following each Sprint. During this period my performances as developer were not affected by the additional role I assumed and I became a trustworthy asset very much appreciated by the client. Show less

  • Senior Java and Adobe AEM developer on HELIOS project

    Apr 2015 - Jan 2016

  • Team Leader and Senior Java and Adobe CQ developer on Saudi Aramco and Asia project

    Jan 2015 - Apr 2015

  • Maintenance and Continuous Improvement Stream Lead, Scrum master and Senior Java Developer

    Oct 2013 - Jan 2015

  • Java developer

    Oct 2011 - Oct 2013
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  Expedia, Inc.

  Feb 2016 - Sept 2019

  Senior Software Development Engineer

  As a Software Developer at Expedia on the Platform Optimization Engineering team I work on a Java and micro services-based stack (called Platform) that serves up websites for all the brands within the Expedia Group. The aim is to refactor and replace the old multi-layered program with a competitive software able to work efficiently for so many brands, users and vendors.

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  Prisma Srl

  Oct 2019 - now

  Senior AEM and Java developer