updated my CV

1 files changed, 46 insertions, 12 deletions

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@@ -6,11 +6,11 @@ Legal notes
 ===========
 
 Some of the information below is defined as sensitive under the terms
-of italian law n. 675 of December 31, 1996 and later
+of Italian law n. 675 of December 31, 1996 and later
 modification. Their being shown here does not imply any authorization
-to their use. Anyone whishing to extract, archive or in any way use
-the following information (for non personal use, see Art.3) is
-required to `contact me`_ asking for authorization.
+to their use. Anyone wishing to extract, archive or in any way use the
+following information (for non personal use, see Art.3) is required to
+`contact me`_ asking for authorization.
 
 .. _`contact me`: dakkar@thenautilus.net
 
@@ -73,6 +73,9 @@ Science`_ Department of `Pisa University`_. I quit to find a job.
 Work experiences
 ================
 
+At Hyperborea
+-------------
+
 From 2003-02-03 to 2005-06-31 I worked for Hyperborea_.
 
 Working for Hyperborea_, I've learned several design and development
@@ -99,7 +102,7 @@ Among the various projects I participated in, the most significant are:
   and answers in arbitrary order, with multiple formulations for
   each). It uses XML as representation format and XSLT for
   presentation.
-* Arianna version 3, a program for the cataloguing and description of
+* Arianna version 3, a program for the cataloging and description of
   historical archives, based on XML, for which I've defined the
   internal representation formats and developed the full-text indexing
   and searching system.
@@ -132,6 +135,9 @@ Among the various projects I participated in, the most significant are:
 .. _TabulaeX: http://www.tabulaex.it/
 .. _`Ecumene project`: http://www.google.com/search?q=%22progetto+ecumene%22
 
+At Blackbit
+-----------
+
 In 2005 I helped to start `Studio Blackbit`_, and worked there for
 about a year. Among the projects we worked on:
 
@@ -150,13 +156,41 @@ about a year. Among the projects we worked on:
 .. _Perl: http://www.perl.org/
 .. _`Gtk+2`: http://gtk2-perl.sourceforge.net/
 
-From 2006-04-04, I'm working for the Italian R&D office of
-`Ask.com`_. I contributed to the BigNews_ project, writing most of
-the image-selection algorithms, and half of the code that handles
-images and videos. I also lead the "News Triggering" project, which
-can identify when a query implies that a user may be interest in the
-latest news about a topic, and injects those news into the web
-results.
+At Ask.com
+----------
+
+From 2006-04-04 to 2009-07-31, I've worked for the Italian R&D office of
+`Ask.com`_.
+
+Among the various projects I participated in, the most significant are:
+
+* In the “\ BigNews_\ ” project, I wrote most of the image-selection
+  algorithms, and half of the code that handles images and videos; all
+  the images and videos you see on the BigNews_ site passed through my
+  code
+
+* I lead the “News Triggering” project, whose goal is to identify when
+  a query implies that a user may be interest in the latest news about
+  a topic, and then inject those news into the web results; this
+  project required large amounts of statistical analysis on news
+  clusters, the development of several heuristics to filter out noise,
+  and the implementation of dedicated server software
+
+Working for `Ask.com`_ I've refined my project management abilities,
+and increased my knowledge in several areas. In particular:
+
+* Programming in ``C++``, especially in large-scale projects
+* Handling communications between geographically-dispersed developers:
+  some of my colleagues were 6 and 9 time-zones away
+* Writing code that handles large amounts of data, in as little time
+  as possible
+* Medium-scale system administration: before we hired a real sysadmin,
+  I and a colleague administered 8 servers and helped with the various
+  desktop machines in the office
+* Screen-scraping of dynamic (JavaScript-enhanced) web sites
+* Video downloading and recoding
+* Working around Microsoft-centric policies imposed by the parent
+  company, using free software
 
 .. _`Ask.com`: http://www.ask.com/
 .. _BigNews: http://news.ask.com/