User:Samuele
Samuele Manfrin was born on August_27, 1966, in Sanremo, Italy.
He is graduated in Computer Science at University of Pisa, and works as IT Consultant. Actually he lives in Pisa with his wife, Norma Zanetti.
Natural Biography[edit]
He is son of Luciano Manfrin (Sanremo 1938) and Irene Diversi (Porto Azzurro 1943). He attends primary and secondary schools in his hometown, and completes the High School (Liceo Scientifico) at Saluzzo, where he moves in 1985. In 1988 he moves to Pisa, to attend studies in Computer Science at University. In 1994 he knows his wife, when she is writing her final thesis at Politecnico di Milano, then begins his life with her in 1995. They marry in 2006, and have a daughter, Valeria (Russia, 2003).
He has a brother (Alessandro, Sanremo 1978) and a sister (Rebecca, Sanremo 1984).
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His first contact with the computer world was in 1980, when his mother opened a printing service centre where was installed a very big Compugraphic phototypesetting machine.
In 1982 he began to use Basic and Z80 assembly languages, since he used a Sinclair ZX81 computer with his best friend, Renato Tarabella. In 1983 he bought a ZX_Spectrum, which was intensively used to build games, utilities, and small DB-based applications for personal use. A few years later, he moved from his hometown to Saluzzo, where he expanded his possibilities using a Sinclair QL, Motorola 68008-based. With this computer he wrote a lot of complex programs, approaching some other programming languages (Forth, Lisp, Pascal) and some rudiments of concurrent programming.
In 1988 he approached to his first "XT-clone" computer (as it was called an IBM-like 3th party made PC), and he learned the power of C and versatility of Pascal. The same year he moved to Pisa to attend courses at Computer Science university, whose computer lab was his most stimulating environment. Here he was invited, by lab administrators, to build some utilities to manage printer queues for students, written in C language. He collaborated also in writing an engine for Core-Wars, lately used by other students for some unofficial "departmental challenges".
In 1989 he attended military service in 14° Rgt. Bersaglieri "Sernaglia", in Albenga, as computer specialist. Starting from 1990 he mixed study and work, moving his interest in Linux operating system and Slackware distribution, specializing himself in system administration and deeply tuning of server features. In the meantime, he studied web markup and scripting languages, like HTML and Javascript. In the following years, he was responsible for the Computer Department of Pisa's Branch of LIPU (Italian League for Birds Protection), building and managing the official website, he wrote a lot of software for local shops and institutions and begun to deeply program server-side applications for Linux boxes. He was involved in the remote administration of some servers at Politecnico di Milano, where he contributed to debugging and adapting the first releases of FSP (a connectionless protocol) to some university servers.
In 1997 he began a stable collaboration with Artemis web agency, where he started to work as a programmer and sysadmin until he reached the role of Responsible for IT Dept. of the main branch. During this 5-years activity he specialized in projecting and deploying web applications, LAMP-based and Microsoft-based, and learned Java language. In 2001 he graduated in Computer Science, with a thesis written in Perl language: a web-based LL(1) parser for top-down attributed grammars, that will be online ASAP at its LLParser.org website.
In 2002 he began his experience at NetXcalibur, based in Florence, where he is specializing in innovative, beyond the state-of-the-art, design and implementation of applications for mobile users: in this stimulating environment, he learned Java for small devices, Java ME (then still called J2ME). In 2004 he was deeply involved in the EU co-founded Kiwi project, where he deeply contributed to the design and implementation of Knowledge DWH and other software modules.
Starting from 2005 he was involved from a technical point of view in other two projects: the first, provided dynamic location-based public information for rural tourists or travellers (Eurotravel project); the second, provided location-based e-safety alerts and value-added services in an M3G-based in-car and mobile 3D environment (HighWay project).
From 2009 he worked at Hyperborea, based at Polo Tecnologico in Navacchio, near Pisa, as IT specialist. His fields of interest were related to cultural heritage preservation and digital management.
In 2015 he moved to Aruba.it as a senior developer, where he was deeply involved in the design, development and maintenance of Aruba's software for legally-compliant digital preservation of documents.
Spoken Languages[edit]
Italian is its mother tongue. He learned French at school, and since his hometown is near France, he has a good knowledge of this language. He learned English too during the university years. He has no problems in reading, but he still has some difficulties in understanding fast-spoken English.
Free Time[edit]
Samuele likes very much astronomy and computer programming, but also birdwatching and nature. He is a DMoz editor since 1998 (currently he is World/Italiano editor), and a Wikipedian (in Italian Wikipedia) since 2005. He also likes photography, travels, and small islands. He discovered also Geocaching as a funny technological outdoor activity. He started in 2009 to collaborate in Ikariam game management, until he reached rank of Game Administrator. He also has a deep interest in psychology, classical music and Slow food: he is also an occasional cook, for parents, friends and his wife. They are all still alive, so maybe his food is not so bad...