Personal Data
- Date of Birth: December 14th, 1971.
- Place of Birth: Milan (Italy).
- Nationality: Italian.
- Place of Residence: Milan (Italy).
- Email address: aalinone@tiscali.it.
Education
- State Examination for Engineer
professional qualification taken in 1998 in Milan.
- Laurea degree
in Computer Engineering gotten at the
Politecnico di Milano
on 24th July 1997. Thesis title: "Design and Implementation of a Java
Tool for the Evaluation of Internet Connection Performance".
- High School: Liceo Scientifico "P. Bottoni" - Milan.
Experience
- LIGHTSTREAMER
(Weswit) - [December 2005 – Present]
Chief Technology Officer
At the end of 2000, while working for Sol-Tec, conceived an innovative push/streaming solution for delivering real-time data through the Web. The product, called Lightstreamer (www.lightstreamer.com), has been evolving during the years until reaching full maturity on the market and has been adopted by several financial institutions. After the reorganization of Sol-Tec within Par-Tec holding, the Lightstreamer business has been spun off and he has become the Chief Technology Officer and Product Manager for Weswit company, whose mission has been to affirm Lightstreamer as the leading Push Engine in the AJAX market. Is a member of OpenAjax Alliance (www.openajax.org). As the CTO of Lightstreamer, is responsible for the engineering of the product and for its strategic roadmap. Is regularly involved in the marketing decisions and participates as an exhibitor and speaker at the international expos where Lightstreamer is demonstrated.
- SOL-TEC Soluzioni Tecnologiche - [April 2000
– December 2005]
Product & Delivery Manager
In the employ of Sol-Tec Soluzioni Tecnologiche (www.sol-tec.it) in Milan (Italy). The business of Sol-Tec is based on consulting, system integration and software delivery mainly focused in the areas of Online Financial Trading and Finance Market Data Distribution. After being a Senior Software Architect, performed in the role of Product & Delivery Manager, involved in technical presales activities and responsible for the delivery of the projects as a Project Manager and of the products as a Product Manager. Sol-Tec products managed by him included MFI Cast (www.mficast.com), a Java-based market data aggregation and distribution platform, and PT Five (www.ptfive.com), an online trading Java client. Customers' products delivered by his team include IntesaTrade T3, a state-of-the-art online trading solution targeted to heavy traders and scalpers and Fineco News Center, a real-time news aggregator system.
- CEFRIEL -
[December 1998 – April 2000]
Researcher
Researcher at CEFRIEL (www.cefriel.it) in Milan, the ICT Center of Excellence For Research, Innovation, Education and industrial Labs partnership created by the Politecnico di Milano. Teacher in the Master courses in Information Technology at the Middleware & Security Area of the Center. Supervisor of students' degree theses. Through several consulting and research activities, gained experience in leading-edge technologies.
Other Experience
- ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE
- Assistant at the Italian Switzerland University (Lugano - Switzerland). Responsible for a Java home-banking didactic project at Prof. G. Serazzi's course.
[October 1997 – February 1998]
- Consultant at the Performance Evaluation Lab of Politecnico di Milano. Leaded students in the development of intranet applications based on Java technology.
[October 1997 – December 1997]
- PUBLIC SPEECHES, TEACHINGS, INTERVIEWS, ARTICLES
- Co-speaker in a talk dedicated to TIBCO General Interface and its integration with Lightstreamer at AJAXWorld 2007 (Roosevelt Hotel, New York).
[21st March 2007]
- Author of the article “Next generation Push: a via technology for web-based FX market data delivery” for e-FOREX magazine (www.e-forex.net), published in October 2006 issue.
[October 2006]
- Speaker of the seminar entitled "The Benefits of Pushing Real-Time Market Data via a Web Infrastructure" held at MEFTEC 2004 - Middle East Financial Technology Exhibition (Bahrain).
[24th November 2004]
- TV guest on CFN-CNBC to talk about the relations between new technologies and the evolution of online trading.
[6th June 2003]
- Speaker of the seminar entitled "Push Technology and Data Streaming: is it the right time now?" held at Java Conference 2003 (Centro Congressi Milanofiori, Milano).
[28th May 2003]
- Speaker of the seminar entitled "Internet Portals and the Application Service Provider Model" held at Internet Expo 2000 (FilaForum, Milano).
[28th January 2000]
- Organized and prepared for Systech a seminar entitled "Java: Access to Databases and Distributed Applications", focused on the following topics: application servers, JDBC, servlets, JSP.
[24th-25th November 1999]
- Teacher of the seminar entitled "Java: a Technology Overview" held at the Information Technology Department of the Politecnico di Milano.
[2nd February 1998]
- Teacher of the seminar entitled "Java: Technology, Development Tools and JavaBeans Design" held for Systech (Milan - Grand Hotel Doria).
[19th-20th November 1997]
- Teacher of the course entitled "Java Language" organized by ELEA (Ivrea) for Olivetti.
[22th-26th September 1997]
- Teacher of the seminar entitled "Java: the Language, the Environment, the Phylosophy" held at the Information Technology Department of the Politecnico di Milano.
[17th January 1997]
- MANAGEMENT COURSES TAKEN
- Rational Software (Walker Royce and Murray Cantor) – “Modern Management of Software Development”.
[7th March 2002]
- Global Knowledge – “Presentation Techniques for Managers and Instructors”.
[1st-2nd October 2001]
- CEGOS – “Assertiveness Techniques for the Development of One's Authoritativeness”.
[2nd-4th July 2001]
- ObjectWay – “Requirements Management with Use Cases”.
[12th-13th February 2001]
- MILITARY SERVICE
- Compulsory military service accomplished as a corporal in the Italian Army. Chief of the Data Elaboration Center at "7° Reggimento Cuneo" in Udine.
[February 1998 – December 1998]
