"Two roads diverged in a wood, and I
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference."
- Robert Frost
Short Presentation
Riccardo Di Pietro was born in Messina on August 15th, 1986.
He received his High School Diploma in Computer Science from the Technical Institute "I.T.I.S. Verona-Trento" of Messina in 2005, his Higher Technical Education and Training Diploma (Italian "Corso IFTS") in I.C.T. Technologies and his Bachelor of Science in Computer Science ("Networks and Distributed Systems" Curriculum) at the University of Messina (UniMe) in 2006 and 2009, respectively.
He received his Master of Science in Computer Science, his 2nd level Professional Master's Programme in "Open Source and Information Security" and his Master of Engineering in Computer Engineering from the University of Messina (UniMe), Italy in 2013, 2014 and 2016, respectively.
From November 2016 till today he is a Ph.D. Student in Mathematics and Computer Science at the University of Catania (UniCt), Italy.
From Decembre 2016 till now he is a University of Messina member of the IOT-OPEN.EU project. IOT-OPEN.EU project is funded by the European Community under Erasmus+ programme KA2 (Strategic Partnership for Higher Education). The Consortium is composed of experienced researchers and educators from five European countries. The consortium is lead by Silesian University of Technology and is composed of: SUT (Poland, Gliwice) - Silesian University of Technology; TMO (Russia, Sankt Petersburg) - National Research University of Information Technologies Mechanics and Optics; ITT (Estonia, Tallinn) - ITT Group; RTU (Latvia, Riga) - Riga Technical University; University of Messina; TUT (Estonia, Tallinn) - Tallinn University of Technology. (more info at http://iot-open.eu/)
From 2017 till today UniMe awarded him as an Honorary Fellow (Italian "Cultore della Materia") in the Italian Scientific-Disciplinary Sector ING-INF/05. From March 2017, under the supervision of prof. Salvatore Distefano, he carries out some Honorary Fellow activities at the MIFT Department ("Programmazione II" course), and at the Department of Engineering ("Sistemi di Elaborazione" course) of the University of Messina.
From June 2017 until now he is an IEEE Student Member (94384791) and from July of the same year, he is also an IEEE Computer Society Student Member.
From November 2017 until now he is an ACM Student Member (3368174).
In July 2017 he passed the government exam and licensed as a Profession Engineer for the Information Technology field.
In May 2018 he enrolled as a Member of the Italian Engineering Order - Branch of Messina (Italy), Section "A" (Information Technology field).
From January 2018 to February 2019 he was a Technical Officer at the Center for Information Technologies at University of Messina (CIAM Centro Informatico Ateneo di Messina), where he was engaged in the design and development of Information Systems, Innovation, Research and Training activities.
From December 2018 till today he is the Social Media Manager and ICT Training Manager for the "Centro Studi e Formazione dell'Ordine degli Ingegneri di Messina", a non-profit organization which aims to enhance and guide the Continuous Professional Development of Professional Engineers both by promoting constant technical-scientific and cultural updating and by implementing any initiative aimed at the professional training of Engineers, aspiring Engineers and other technical and specialist professions that act in the field of technical, economic, legal and tax studies.
From February 2019 till today he serves both as Technical Manager of the Linguistic Laboratory (42 workstations) at the Department of "Ancient and Modern Civilizations" (DICAM Dipartimento di Civiltà Antiche e Moderne) and as University of Messina Training Manager of the "Rosetta Stone" multilanguage e-learning platform. He is currently engaged in management activities for 27 Language Courses and in training and management activities destined to the technical support/IT staff of the Linguistics Laboratory.
Previous Activities
From December 2013 to November 2016, he has been a senior developer at UniMe as a member of the Mobile and Distributed Systems Lab (MDSLab).
During this time he worked in several R & D projects in the ICT area, such as "Next-FFM", a R & D industrial project focused on power grids maintenance, and "SIGMA", a R & D national project focused on Cloud computing and sensor networks.
He acquired important experience in the use of Java, XML, JSON, Apache,Tomcat, Mysql, Google Maps, ForgeRock and OpenStack, Cloud technologies focused on the Identity and Object Storage Services.
He acquired significant competencies in design and development of distributed systems for Cloud computing and Mobile applications based on client-server and REST API paradigms.
He was actively involved in some consulting and development activities with "Xenia Progetti" s.r.l., "Meriodionale Impianti" s.r.l. and Finmeccanica.
He was actively involved in some teaching and seminar activities for students focused on the Arduino technologies, aimed to university courses, high school courses, summer courses, and workshops with fee in collaboration with Fablab Messina.
Other skills
Teamwork, Team Motivation, Team Leadership, Team Management, Problem Solving, Management, Social Networking, and Communication.
Schools, Workshops, Courses and Training Activities
Software Projects
His activities includes the development of plugins that integrate functionalities of the OpenStack APIs and by OpenAM ForgeRock APIs. Specifically, he developed some plugins that integrate the functionalies of Openstack Identity Service API v2 (Keystone) and Openstack Object Storage API v1 (Swift) that are releted to the Cloud IaaS level. For Cloud SaaS level, he produced plugins that integrate the functionalies of simple Authentication,Identity Management and simple Authorization of OpenAM ForgeRock API. (https://github.com/clever-unime/clever-unime/wiki)
Talks
Educational and Training Activities
He was Manager and Lecturer of courses that were organized by the CESF (Centro Studi e Formazione dell'Ordine degli Ingegneri di Messina) at the headquarter of Italian Engineers Order - Branch of Messina. These activities recognized some professional credits to professionals:
He was University Manager and Lecturer of courses that were organized by the CIAM (Center for Information Technologies at the University of Messina) at the Department of Engineering of the University of Messina:
He was University Manager and Mentor of summer courses destinated to international undergraduate students that were organized at the Department of Engineering of the University of Messina. These courses were held in collaboration with the international association B.E.S.T. Messina:
He was University Tutor of courses destinated to high school students that were organized at the Department of Engineering of the University of Messina. These courses took place within different projects called "Alternanza Scuola-Lavoro":
He was Manager and Mentor of courses destinated to undergraduate students (24 hours each) that were organized at the department of Engineering of the University of Messina. To these activities, the master's degree course in "Engineering and Computer Science - ECS" of the University of Messina has recognized a weight of 3 ECTS.
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He was Manager and Mentor of the workshop for entry level "Le basi di Arduino" held at the Fablab Messina 16th-19th December 2015 , Messina, Italy (16 hours).
Roles in International Conferences
For further information, please don't hesitate to contact me by e-mail at rdipietro@unime.it
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