Curriculum Vitae

Personal information

• Name: Davide Barbieri
• Born on 16 November 1974 in Piove di Sacco (PD), Italy
• email: paci@prosa.it
• Second Life: Paci Barbarossa

Work experience

• 2001-2008: owner of PROSA, an italian consulting company on free software (GNU/Linux).
• 2004-2005: executive forwarder for PAGNAN, an italian company operating in the food market (PAGNAN partially own PROSA).
• 2001: products and services manager for Ascensit, a Linux/Unix start-up
• 2000: general manager Linuxcare Italia, italian subsidiary of Linuxcare Inc. a Linux service company
• 1996-2000: IT manager for Windnet, Internet Service Provider
• 1995-1996: software developer/web developer on UNIX systems for PROFUSO

Personal skills and competences

• good knowledge of a wide range of programming and scripting languages, such as C/C++, python, PHP, Ruby, BASH scripting, etc.
• good knowledge of TCP/IP and networking in general; I administer several web servers (Apache, Zope), SMTP & POP/IMAP (sendmail, postfix, qpopper, cyrus, etc.), FTP, NNTP, NFS, RMDBS (Postgresql, mysql), mailing-list (mailman), DNS (bind), routers.
• knowledge of SGML, DocBoox, XML, DSSSL.
• knowledge of embedded systems (PC/104, CompactPCI)
• good english, both written and spoken, thanks to several abroad experiences

Work experiences

• I have worked as analyst and software developer for 3 years.
• I have managed an IT network for an Internet Service Provider, after building it, for 2 years.
• I did project management for IT solutions for 2 years.
• I managed a professional services team for 1 year.
• I held an executive position for 1 year; in the mean time the company attempt an IPO.

Other non-work related experiences

• 1995/97: managed Linux network of University of Padua as a volunteer.
• I cooperated with several Linux magazines.
• In 1996 I became a Debian GNU/Linux developer, working especially to port Debian on Sparc architecture.
• From 1995 to 1997 I was the national coordinator for the PLUTO Linux User Group, the biggest italian LUG.
• 2001: founder of Associazione Software Libero, an italian association created to promote free software.

I'm willing to work remote, part-time and in-world. I have experience on free software, both as a software developer and as a comunity leader, which I can use to support Linden on this front.