Curriculum vitae

Last updated: 06/30/2007

Personal Data

Alessandro Strada
Date of birth: 05/22/1976
Place of birth: Milan, Italy
Nationality: Italian

Work Experiences

2002-present
Employed as software developer at Gruppo MutuiOnline to design, develop, and maintain applications used by BPO (Business Process Outsourcing) Division. Since 2005, project leader and mentor for the internal developement team of up to four developers. Our applications are based on Microsoft solutions and are built using different languages and technologies. The software application developed for the business lines FEC (Front-End Commerciale: Remote mortgage packaging services) and CEI (Centro Eccellenza Istruttrie: Mortgage underwriting and closing services) is a workflow application that supports mortgage loan processing. It is based on a SQL Server 2005 DB and is made of a VB6 client, an ASP client and various C# components to integrate with the information systems of our customers. The software application developed for the business line CLC (Centro Lavorazione Cessioni: Employee loan underwriting and closing services) is a workflow application that supports employee loan processing. It is written in C#, offers an ASP.NET front-end, and relies on a SQL Server 2005 DB.

Education

2002
Computer Engineering Degree from Politecnico di Milano
Graduation mark: 96/100
1995
Scientific High School Degree from Liceo Scientifico B. Cairoli, Vigevano, Italy
Final mark: 57/60

Languages

Italian
Native
English
Proficient

IT Knowledge

Technologies
Microsoft .NET Framework (1.1/2.0), ASP.NET, ADO.NET, Windows Forms, ASP, XML (XHTML, XSLT, Web services, XML-Schema)
Programming Languages
C#, Microsoft Visual Basic, T-SQL, Objective Caml, C/C++, Perl
DBMS
Microsoft SQL Server 2000, Microsoft SQL Server 2005
Operating Systems
Microsoft Windows (2000/XP/2003), UNIX (GNU/Linux)

Other Experiences

2005
Cofounder of the Ex-nunc project, an open-source Web framework written in OCaml.
2001
Author of polimi_bot, a software agent, written in C++ on Linux, for electronic auctions, finalist in the 2001 Trading Agent Competition, an international forum designed to promote and encourage high quality research into the trading agent problem.

Publications

2002
P. L. Lanzi and A. Strada. A statistical analysis of the trading agent competition 2001. SIGecom Exchanges, 3(2):1­8, May 2002.

Presentations

2001
Oral presentation at Trading Agent Competition Workshop, hosted by 3rd ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce (EC-01), Tampa, Florida, 14 October 2001.
Title: "polimi_bot: A heuristic based agent for the Trading Agent Competition".