Alessandro Rossini, PhD

Experience

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  Training agency Assodonna

  Oct 2004 - Mar 2005

  Trainer

  Teaching of the European Computer Driving License (ECDL) courses Computer Usage, File Management, Word Processing, Spreadsheets and Databases (in Italian).

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  Ig Technology (now Indra)

  May 2005 - Jul 2005

  Software Engineer

  Analysis, design, implementation and system administration of the project Gestione Servizi Interni (Internal Services Manager), the enterprise resource planning system of the company. Work based on Unified Process, UML, J2EE platform, Apache Struts framework, Oracle Kodo JPA/JDO, XHTML, CSS and JavaScript.

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  ZeroNotice

  Aug 2005 - May 2007

  Software Engineer

  Management, analysis, design, implementation and system administration of the project ZNF, an open source framework for building enterprise web applications. Work based on Unified Process, UML, Apache, PHP5, MySQL, XSLT, XHTML, CSS and JavaScript. Management, analysis, design, implementation and system administration of several web applications based on ZNF.

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  Università degli Studi dell'Aquila

  Jul 2006 - Dec 2006

  Junior Researcher

  Research on model versioning. Specification of two domain-specific modelling languages for representing differences and defining conflict detection patterns.

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  Integrator

  Jun 2007 - Dec 2007

  Software Engineer

  Management, analysis, design and system administration of the project AlarmCenter, a real-time system for managing prison facilities, which connects different subsystems like alarms, pagers, intercoms, telephones, etc. Work based on Unified Process, UML, .NET platform and Citrix XenServer.

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  University of Bergen

  Jan 2008 - Jan 2012

  Research Fellow

  75% research on formal aspects of model-driven engineering. Development of DPF, a diagrammatic specification framework founded on category theory and graph transformation. 25% teaching in the Bachelor courses Program Development Methodologies and Software Engineering, and in the Master course Software Security. Chair of the PhD Panel of the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences. Council Member of the Department of Informatics.

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  Universidad Autonoma de Madrid

  Feb 2011 - May 2011

  Guest Researcher

  Research on multi-level modeling.

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  Bergen University College

  Jan 2012 - Jul 2012

  Lecturer

  Teaching of the Bachelor course Industrial Software Engineering (in Norwegian).

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  SINTEF

  Nov 2012 - Feb 2017

  Research Scientist

  Research on model-driven engineering and cloud computing. Development of CAMEL, a domain-specific modeling language for specifying provisioning, deployment, monitoring, and orchestration of cross-cloud applications at design- and run-time. Development of mechanisms for failure analysis, prevention, and recovery of cloud applications. Project manager and work package leader in EU- and SINTEF-funded projects (see Projects below). Technical committee member of the OASIS Topology and Orchestration Specification for Cloud Applications (TOSCA) and co-chair of the TOSCA Instance Model Ad Hoc group. Organizing and program committee member in international conferences and workshops. Supervision of students in the context of Master thesis and internship. Show less

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  EVRY

  Mar 2017 - Jul 2018

  Chief Advisor

  Subject matter expert on cloud services in bids and projects with third-party vendors. Developing the service portfolio of cloud and cognitive services. Coordinating the collaboration with research institutions. Teaching the writing course and chairing the editorial board of the unit. Lecturing on solution architecture at EVRY Academy.

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  PwC Norway

  Aug 2018 - Oct 2023

  Head of Technology at PwC Consulting in Oslo, Norway. Subject matter expert and project manager in various engagements on IT strategy and architecture, cloud transformation, IT cost management, and technology due diligence at clients in the public and private sectors (see Projects below). Coordinating the collaboration with research institutions. Lecturing on cloud and collaboration platforms. Career coach for junior colleagues.

  • Director

    Jul 2021 - Oct 2023

  • Senior Manager

    Aug 2018 - Jun 2021
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  Boston Consulting Group (BCG)

  Oct 2023 - now

  Principal

  Principal at BCG Platinion in Oslo, Norway. Subject matter expert and project manager in various engagements on IT strategy and architecture, cloud transformation, IT cost management, and technology due diligence.