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  1. Education:

    Institution

    (Date from - Date to)

    Degree(s) or Diploma(s) obtained:

    Technology Transfer (10-12/04/1996)

    Accelerated Visual Development (teacher: Larry Constantine)

    ESRI (November – December 1995)

    Introduction to SDE

    ESRI Italia (December 1993)

    Arc/Info Workshop

    ESRI UK (18-20 October 1993)

    System programming with ArcSdl

    ESRI Italia (November 1992)

    Arc/Info Base

    University of Rome “La Sapienza” (1984-1991)

    Dottore in Statistica (equivalent to Master of Science in Statistics). The curriculum comprised: Statistics, Operations Research, Probability theory, Information systems design.

  2. Language skills: Indicate competence on a scale of 1 to 5 (1 - excellent; 5 - basic)

    Language

    Reading

    Speaking

    Writing

    Italian (mother tongue)

    1

    1

    1

    English

    1

    1

    1

  3. Membership of professional bodies:

    • Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers;

    • IEEE Computer Society;

    • IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society

  4. Other skills:

    • Computer skills:

    • Statistical packages: S-plus, R.

    • Data Base Management System: DB2, DB2 Spatial Extender, Oracle, Oracle Spatial, MySQL, Microsoft SQLServer, Microsoft Access, PostgreSQL/PostGIS

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

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

    • Ajax framework: DoJo, OpenLayers

    • Data warehouse: Pentaho Mondrian (OLAP), Pentaho Kettle (ETL), Pentaho Jpivot (pivot table)

    • 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.

    • 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/95/7).

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

    • Web servers and J2EE servers: Apache HTTP Server, Apache Tomcat, Microsoft IIS, Mort Bay Co. Jetty, JBoss.

    • Web application framework: Apache Cocoon, Spring.

    • Object-relational mapping: Hibernate.

    • Computer Aided Software Engineering: Visual Paradigm, ArgoUML.

    • Test frameworks: HTMLUnit, Junit, Canoo WebTest.

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

    • Personal productivity tools: MS-Project, Microsoft Office, OpenOffice, KPlato

    • Excellent communication and analytical skills, ability to identify issues, formulate options and make conclusions and recommendations

    • Ability to conduct independent research and analysis, proficiency in report drafting, excellent team working abilities

  5. Professional experience

    Date from - Date to

    Location

    Company& reference person

    (name & contact details)

    Position

    Description

    07/2009, 12/2010

    (3 months, ongoing)

    Kyrgyzstan

    ICON Institut Gmbh

    IT and Census Data Dissemination Expert

    “TACIS Statistics 11” (EUROPEAID/127176/C/SER/MULTI). Mr Morandini designed and developed a data warehouse to analyze and disseminate the Census data collected by the National Statistics Council of Kyrgyzstan.

    2009 –2010

    (9 months)

    Italy

    CSC SpA

    IT/GIS expert

    Design of a GIS for weather forecasting at the Italian Air Force National Center for Aeronautical Meteorology and Climatology.

    07/2009-12/2009

    (3 months)

    Nigeria

    DRN srl

    IT Expert

    European Union. IT Expert in a supervision team on the framework contract No. 2007/146378: “Support to the implementation of a RDBMS / Geo-portal”. This assignment entailed the testing and quality assessment of a complex hardware/software system to support Census data dissemination and GIS thematic mapping

    06/2008–03/2010

    (4 months)

    Albania

    Agrotec SpA

    GIS/Database expert

    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. Mr Morandini carried out statistical analysis to perform data quality control on spatial data.

    2007-2009

    (3 months)

    Italy

    Pronetics SpA

    GIS expert

    Development of sea pollution monitoring system for the Italian Ministry of Health. Mr Morandini designed and implemented a Web-GIS implementing thematic mapping on sea pollution.

    06/2006-12/2007

    (4 months)

    Turkey

    EIR Development partners Ltd

    Statistical expert

    European Union. Statistical expert for the “Technical Assistance for Judicial Modernization and Penal Reform in Turkey” project. This assignment required to write a methodology for aligning Turkish judicial statistics to international standards and to design a Data warehouse to collect, check, analyze and disseminate judicial data.

    03/2006-12/2007

    (6 months)

    Italy and USA

    Agile Partner Inc

    IT/Database expert

    Data model design and related development of stored procedures for a social network analysis system, implementation of a medical data collection software.

    03/2004 – 04/2004

    (1 month)

    Mongolia

    HTPSE Ltd

    IT expert

    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 GIS system to be contracted.

    02/2004 – 02/2006

    (8 months)

    Italy

    SOGESID SpA

    GIS expertt

    Architectural design of a GIS on water-distribution networks in the South of Italy for the Infrastructure Ministry of Italy.

    04/2002 - 02/2004

    (12 months)

    Italy

    ISTAT (Statistical Institute of Italy)

    GIS expertt

    Development of a web-GIS application displaying dynamic thematic maps of the 2001 Italian Census with data taken from a Data warehouse system for the Statistical Institute of Italy (ISTAT).

    10/2002 – 12/2003

    (6 months)

    Albania

    Agrotec SpA

    EDP expert

    World Bank. EDP expert in the Albanian National Forest Inventory project (Credit/Loan 2846 ALB). Quality control of Land Cover data, design of statistical spatial survey, development of a Web-GIS with thematic maps showing the Land Cover classification.

    2002,

    2006 – 2007, 2009

    (24 months)

    Italy

    Pronetics SpA

    GIS expertt

    Development of a Web-based GIS application displaying sea pollution data for the Environment Ministry of Italy, including thematic maps.

    04/2001

    (1 month)

    Italy

    TeleSpazio SpA

    GIS expertt

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

    09/2001

    (0.5 month)

    Kosovo

    Agrotec SpA,

    GIS Expert

    UE – EAR. GIS Expert in a project preparation team for the Policy and Agricultural statistics Strengthening project – capacity building (Request for services No.zimmer10-OBNOVA-EAR-KOSOVO). This project required the writing of a project preparation proposal using the Logical framework methodology.

    06/2000-12/2000

    (2 months)

    Italy

    University of Rome - "La Sapienza, Andrea 

    GIS Expert

    University of Rome - "La Sapienza" - Faculty of Engineering. GIS Expert in the development of a urban GIS for the City of Khouribga (Morocco).

    08/2000 – 09/2000

    (1.5 month)

    Denmark

    Ariane II sa/nv

    GIS Expert

    Providing GIS Consultancy at the European Environment Agency: GIS data processing, software test

    03/1999 – 12/1999

    (6 months)

    Italy

    IT expert

    Finalization and testing of the Land Cover Classification System (LCCS) for the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).

    07/1998

    (2 months)

    Italy

    TeleSpazio SpA

    GIS/Statistics expert

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

    05/1998 – 06/1998

    (2 months)

    Albania

    Geosophia snc

    LIS/GIS Expert

    EU - Phare. LIS/GIS Expert in the Land Use Policy project (PHARE Project AL 93 08 03). Mr Morandini designed and developed a GIS to support land zoning, and executed the necessary data quality control and data processing tasks

    02/1997- 02/1998

    (8 /months)

    Bulgaria

    Geosophis snc, TECNIC Spa

    GIS Expert and Lead programmer

    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. Mr Morandini developed GIS software and supervised the data processing of cadastral data

    11/1991-11/1996

    (5 full years)

    Italy

    ESRI Italia S.p.A.

    IT expert/Software QA Specialist

    Mr Morandini, amongst other duties, as a Software QA Specialist writing company-wide guides on software requirements gathering and software test plans; as a GIS software developer developed a fleet management software for land vehicles tracking via GPS; as a statistician performed statistical spatial analysis using kriging and gravitational models; as a GIS expert was in charge of data processing in numerous projects

  6. Other relevant information (e.g., 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 (Mr Morandini 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; ο€ 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.

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