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Personal information

Name

MORANDINI Luca

Address

Via V.Alfieri 12, Terni, 05100, Italy

Telephone

+39 0744 59851

Fax

E-mail

lmorandini [AT] ieee.org

IM

luca.morandini1 [AT] gmail.com

Skype

lmorandini

Nationality

Italian

Date of birth

29/12/1965

Work experience

• Dates (from – to)

1997-current

• Name and address of employer

Self-employed

• Type of business or sector

GIS/IT Consultancy and Software development.

• Occupation or position held

Free-lance consultant.

• Main activities and responsibilities

GIS and IT Technical Assistance to developing countries, GIS Consultancy, Software development, Statistical analysis.

Most relevant activities carried out while in position:

Technical Assistance to developing countries:

  • Kyrgyzstan  2009; European Union. GIS Expert on the project: “TACIS Statistics 11” (EUROPEAID/127176/C/SER/MULTI) reference Goesta Guteland gosta.guteland [AT] tele2.se

  • Nigeria 2009; European Union. IT Expert in a supervision team on the framework contract No. 2007/146378: “Support to the implementation of a RDBMS / Geo-portal” reference Giancarlo Carrai gc.carrai [AT] svaltec.it

  • Albania 2008-2009, European Union. GIS/Database expert for the "Creation of a Vineyard Cadastre - Albania" project (EuropeAid/124908/C/SER/AL). This assignment required the data quality assessment of the existing cadastral spatial database and the design of both architecture and database for the vineyard cadastre.

  • " Turkey, 2006-2007, European Union. Statistical expert for the “Technical Assistance for Judicial Modernization and Penal Reform in Turkey” project (EuropeAid / 121266 / C / SV / TR).This assignment required to write a methodology for aligning Turkish judicial statistics to international standards and to help writing a ToR for IT goods and services implementing such methodology. The project was meant to help the acquis harmonisation of the Turkish judiciary. Reference: Erkan Inan  einan [AT] usa.net

  • Mongolia, 2004, Asian Development Bank. IT expert in the "Capacity building for Cadastral Survey and Land Registration" project (TA 3395 MON). This assignment required to write a draft ToR for the cadastral IT system to be contracted. Reference David Harris  davidwharris [AT] tiscali.co.uk 

  • Albania, 2002-2003, World Bank. EDP expert in the Albanian National Forest Inventory project (Credit/Loan 2846 ALB), reference Giancarlo Carrai gc.carrai [AT] svaltec.it

  • Kosovo, 2001, UE – EAR. GIS Expert in a project preparation team for the Policy and Agricultural statistics Strengthening project (Request for services No.zimmer10-OBNOVA-EAR-KOSOVO). This project required the writing of a project preparation proposal using the Logical framework methodology. Reference Adrian Neal nealadrian [AT] hotmail.com 

  • 2000, University of Rome - "La Sapienza" - Faculty of Engineering. GIS Expert in the development of a urban GIS for the City of Khouribga (Morocco), reference Andrea Cappelli cappelli [AT] imagemp.ing.uniroma1.it

  • Albania, 1998, EU - Phare. LIS/GIS Expert in the Land Use Policy project (PHARE Project AL 93 08 03), reference Zdenek "Denny" Kalensky  kalensky [AT] monisys.ca

  • Bulgaria, 1997-1998, EU - Phare. GIS Expert and Lead programmer in the development of a Cadastral software system for the PHARE Project BG9206..This project requested the writing of detailed ToRs for both the cadastral IT system and the title registration IT system. Reference Giancarlo Carrai gc.carrai [AT] svaltec.it

GIS Consultancy and Software Development:

  • 2007: Development of a Daisy CMS-based website for fishing torusim in the Mediterranean basin, including nautical maps, reference Prof, Bonifazi Giuseppe giuseppe.bonifazi [AT] uniroma1.it

  • 2007: Development of sea pollution monitoring system for the Italian Ministry of Health, reference Pino Giaimo p.giaimo [AT] ipzs.it

  • 2007: Development of charting softare using Cocoon for a patients archive application, reference Jack Ivers jack.ivers[ AT] agilepartners.com

  • 2006: Data model design and related development of stored procedures for a social network analysis system, reference Jack Ivers jack.ivers [AT] agilepartners.com

  • 2005: Development of a web-based GIS systems for EMAS environmental assessment of a mountainous area, reference Andrea Cappelli cappelli [AT] imagemp.ing.uniroma1.it

  • 2005: Data modeling of water networks for the Infrastructure Ministry of Italy, reference Elisabetta De Cesare elisabetta.decesare [AT] sogesid.it

  • 2004: Architectural design of a GIS on water-distribution networks in the South of Italy for the Infrastructure Ministry of Italy, reference Elisabetta De Cesare elisabetta.decesare [AT] sogesid.it

  • 2003-2004: Development of a web application displaying dynamic thematic maps of the 2001 Italian Census for the Statistical Institute of Italy (ISTAT), reference Pina Ticca  ticca [AT] istat.it

  • 2002: Development of a Web-based GIS application displaying sea pollution data for the Environment Ministry of Italy, reference Pino Giaimo  p.giaimo [AT] ipzs.it

  • 2000: GIS Consultancy at the European Environment Agency, reference Jan Bliki  jan.bliki [AT] eea.eu.int

  • 1999: Finalization and testing of the Land Cover Classification System (LCCS) for the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, reference John Latham  john.latham [AT] fao.org

Statistical analysis:

  • 2003: Quality control of Land Cover data produced by the Albanian National Forestry Project.

  • 2002: Assessment of a spatial sampling design for agricultural yield prediction (AGRIT project of the Agriculture Ministry of Italy).

  • 1998: Statistical analysis of agricultural yield using the Kriging geo-statistical technique (AGRIT project of the Agriculture Ministry of Italy)

• Dates (from – to)

1991-1996

• Name and address of employer

  • ESRI Italia S.p.A. Via Tiburtina 755, Roma Italy.

• Type of business or sector

GIS Software vendor.

• Occupation or position held

Analyst/Programmer

• Main activities and responsibilities

Software Quality Assurance, Software development.

Most relevant activities carried out while in position:

  • 1994-1995. Software QA Specialist writing company-wide guides on software requirements gathering and software test plans, reference Claudio Carboni ccarboni [AT] esriitalia.it 

  • 1994. Development of a fleet management software for land vehicles tracking via GPS, reference Claudio Carboni ccarboni [AT] esriitalia.it

Education and training

• Dates (from – to)

1984-1991

• Name and type of organisation providing education and training

University of Rome "La Sapienza"

• Principal subjects/occupational

skills covered

Statistics, Operations Research, Probability theory, Information systems design.

• Title of qualification awarded

Dottore in Statistica (equivalent to Master of Science in Statistics).

• Level in national classification

(if appropriate)

Personal skills and competences

Mother tongue

Italian

Other languages

English

• Reading skills

excellent

• Writing skills

excellent

• Verbal skills

excellent

Social skills

and competences

  • Ability to adapt to local ways of thinking in order to deliver effective technical assistance in developing countries, competency acquired during the various TA projects I was involved in.

  • Ability to work in ad-hoc team of professionals coming from different nations and different disciplines.

Organisational skills

and competences 

  • Experience in managing geographically-dispersed teams of developers, skill honed while developing both open-source and commercial software projects.

  • Ability to motivate software developers contributing to open-source software projects.

Technical skills

and competences

With computers, specific kinds of equipment, machinery, etc.

  • Project management methodologies: Logical framework, Gantt diagrams.
  • Software design methodologies Unified Modeling Language, Entity-Relationship, Data Flow Diagrams.

  • Operating systems: UNIX/Linux (AWK, BASH Shell scripts), Windows (NT/2000/2003/XP/95).

  • Programming languages: Java, PL/SQL, C/C++, VisualBASIC, VisualBASIC for Applications, Smalltalk, AML (Arc/Info 7 Macro Language), Avenue (ArcView 3 macro language), JavaScript, Transact-SQL.

  • Mark-up languages: XML, HTML, XSLT (XSL, FO, Xpath), XMI, SVG, XSP, ASP.

  • GIS (Geographical Information Systems): Arc/Info 7, Arc/Info 8, ArcView 3, MapObjects, GRASS, QuantumGIS.

  • Web-mapping servers: ArcIMS, MapServer, GeoServer.

  • DBMS: DB2, DB2 Spatial Extender, Oracle, Oracle Spatial, MySQL, Microsoft SQLServer, Microsoft Access

  • Web servers and JEE servers: Apache HTTP Server, Apache Tomcat, Microsoft IIS, Mort Bay Co. Jetty, JBoss.

  • Web application framework: Apache Cocoon.

  • Computer Aided Software Engineering: Visual Paradigm, ArgoUML.

  • Test frameworks: Canoo WebTest, HTMLUnit, Junit.

  • Development tools: Eclipse, oXygen, Ant, Maven, Subversion.

  • Statistical packages: S-plus, R.

  • Personal productivity tools: Microsoft Project, Planner, Microsoft Office, OpenOffice. 

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Artistic skills

and competences

None.

Other skills

and competences

None.

Driving licence(s)

Cars only.

Additional information

Publications:

Analysis of the spatio-temporal and semantic aspects of land-cover/use change dynamics in Albania at national and district levels, G.Carrai, L.M.Jansen, L.Morandini, A.Spisni, Environmental Monitoring and Assessment (2006) 119,

  • Cocoon: developer's handbook, Lajos Moczar, Jeremy Aston, Sams publishing, 2002 (I was the Technical Editor of this book).

  • Open-source Web-GIS: a sustainable data dissemination Approach, L.Morandini, G.Carrai, 1st National conference on Geographical Information Systems in 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.

  • City of Khouribga information system: land use and monitoring by Ikonos high-resolution satellite imagery), 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.

Membership of professional bodies:

  • Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.

  • IEEE Computer Society.

  • IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society.

Open-Source projects founded:

  • Geoid, which is a bridge between Apache Cocoon and various GIS map-servers, with emphasis on interoperability standards like WMS and WFS. The home page of this projects is the be found at: http://www.cocoondev.org/main/117/30.html

  • Fins, which is a Business graphics component for Apache Cocoon. The home page of the project is the be found at: http://www.cocoondev.org/main/117/29.html
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