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Welcome to my place on the Internet. This is meant as a place for advertising my professional credentials and showcase the things I have worked on or I am currently working on .

But first, let me introduce myself:

I am a free-lance GIS/IT and Statistical consultant living with 1 wife amd 2 sons in a small city in central Italy. I have been working on GIS, IT and Statistics since graduating in Statistics (1991), first as an ESRI employee, then (since 1997) as a free-lance consultant. During all these years I have developed numerous software applications, most of them web-based (see the Showcase). I applied my software development skills to these fields:GIS, Statistics, Data Warehousing (MIS, if you like the old nomenclature). More details can be found in the (abridged) CV page.

I worked in Italy and abroad, mainly joining Technical Assistance projects in various developing/transition countries (Albania, Bulgaria, Kosovo, Mongolia, Turkey), Nigeria, Kyrgyzstan for different donors (European Union, World Bank, Asian Development Bank).

As time passed, I come to follow some principles in my approach to doing what was requested to me, these best practices are summed up in the My (professional) Creed page

I am a committer in a couple well-known open-source projects (GeoTools/GeoServer, Apache Cocoon) and started  a couple small projects of my own (see Projects) but I am not into religion wars or FLOSS bigotry.

The precious little time I am left with when not working is soaked up by my family, but I try hard to go to the swimming pool three times a week to practise freediving and to read as much as I can about history... not to mention see some rock gigs from time to time with my big-into-music nephews.

In the improbable case you are interested in what crosses my mind at the moment, look at the Daily tag cloud. My acquaintanceship can be viewed on the mandatory LinkedIn page.

I dwell on the Cocoon, Geoserver and GeoTools mailing lists but the most straitghforward way to contact me is through e-mail (lmorandini [AT] ieee.org) or IM at GTalk (luca.morandini1 [AT] gmail.com).

In case you wonder, the underwater pictures that grace this site have been taken by me while freediving off the Isle of Ponza.