DEVELOPMENT

Giorgio Natili {technical leader}

Giorgio Natili is an Adobe community expert, a W3C member and a Java User Group manager. He is head of his own company GNStudio, which has been operating in the web development field for the past 9 years. His area of expertise focuses on Adobe Flash, Air, Flex, ColdFusion, Flash Media Server, RED5 and their integration, as well as accessibility both in html and Flash.
Since five years his interests have broadened to include developing mobile applications and e-learning tools, for this reason he worked a lot with Flash Lite and Symbian C++, most recently he is focusing on Android development.
He follows the agile development practices since three years and has a lot of experience as technical leader in small / medium size teams.
He also works on various education initiatives to spread awareness on accessibility issues, especially to flash developers.
He was speaker during the Adobe Max, the 360|Flex, the FITC, several Flash Camps all around the world and right now is a proud speaker of the Flash and The City.

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Barbara Menicucci {management}

After studying law she began a brilliant academic career uniting her interest in computer science with a remarkable insight into new technology law. After a traditional apprenticeship with one of Rome’s most prestigious law firms, she now has a career in freelance consultancy specializing in computer law.
Since February 2006, she has been with the GNStudio Ltd., which is a Roman company dealing with development and advice on the production of web applications and open source products, where she works as a consultant in IT Law. Further during the 2006 she started a personal blog www.dirittoetecnologia.it, where there is information and resources on legal issues relating to new technologies. This meeting of two passions, the law and technology, means the start of a new and exciting adventure: agile contracts consultations based on fixed prices for some of Italy’s most important organizations.
Personal web site: www.dirittoetecnologia.it

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Andrea Maran {flex / php developer}

Andrea is an expert in PHP and is starting to be one of our points of reference for Flex development, his expertise with server side development has made him aware of data conversion and data exchange issues so this support during the development of a client / server application is very important to keep the quality of our products high.

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Marco Fusetti aka jaco {flex / php / .net developer}

I've been coding since '91 in various programming languages, tasks and technologies. I worked in CAD, microelectronics, typographic design and web development.
In '97 I discovered a little toy called splash player, which soon became flash player, that fascinated me with its experimental graphics and new exciting user interactions. So I started to learn actionscript and related web languages.
I like I/O free/open_source stuff and knowledge sharing, being in web communities, talking about actionscript, flex and php.
I'm a fan of Linux, choosing to develop also in c# solely using open source software.
My preferred scopes are multimedia, automation and experimental madness.

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Ivan Varga {flex / air developer}

A Flex / AIR developer, Ivan started to pursue his professional career in 2004 at a small graphic design studio while completing his studies at the Zagreb Polytechnic.
Early on as a web developer his main focus was to combine technical and engineering skills with general design principles into web sites and applications using Flash. In order to develop more complex web sites and applications he shifted his focus from using purely Flash to other popular technologies such as PHP, Java, HTML and CSS, successfully combining them with Flash.
In addition to being a web developer, he has never lost interest in visual communication. Contributing to several graphic design projects has enabled him to perfect the use of Adobe design tools.
After the release of Adobe Flex 2.0 Beta in 2006 his love for ActionScripting grew even greater, applying Flex to new projects and achieving great results, providing superior UX for the end user. In 2007 he started freelancing and joined the Flash / Flex community more actively.
Following this new direction he studied the Flex / AIR Framework and perfected his skills.

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Maurizio Ceravolo {.net developer}

He graduated in electronic engineering (computers), with a dissertation on the recognition of the speaker using a phonetic recognizer, implemented in C + +. At the same time as studying at university, for twenty year he has furthered his further his passion for all aspects of computers, until in 1996, he discovered the web design game and was fascinated by this world. He started his professional career working with web agencies, shortly after he became a freelancer, and studied all aspects of the without neglecting any part thereof is this necessary???. He strongly believes in the synergy between various technologies, including those not directly involved in the web. He has extensive knowledge of languages such as HTML / DHTML, JavaScript, ASP, PHP, XML, Actionscript (Flash) and the new Asp.net, applications, such as those of Adobe and Macromedia and the theory of database design and its application in MySQL and SQL Server. In addition to web development, he is also involved in Windows programming and software development in C + +. Since 2000 he has also been teaching, giving courses for HP and Global Knowledge on all technologies that can be applied to the web, trying to convey to learners the best of his experience, always in friendly and informal atmosphere to facilitate learning.

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Vassilis Legakis {symbian / iphone developer}

Vassilis has been involved in mobile application development since 2002. In the beginning it was data intensive application, followed by more fun types of software such as games and utilities. Then he experienced various platforms and environments such as native Symbian C++, Android, J2ME and iPhone. In 2007 he was awarded the first prize in NOKIA’s C++ international contest for his LHS component. By 2008 he evolved [developed] the internationally patented Digital Signal Processing Algorithm "AED" (initially deployed in Android) . One of the projects he has taken on lately is studying Logic and Algorithmic complexity in Computing Science.

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Alessandro Bianco {flex / air developer}

Web developer since 2001 and active member of several flash/actionscript communities a couple years earlier.
He loves to keep in touch with the cutting edge technology of the Flash ecosystem and mix good code with beautiful and intuitive interfaces.
He went a freelance in 2006 and since then he has dedicated most of his time developing 3D games in actionscript. Now he’s focused on Flex/AIR trying to bring his skills to a new level.

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Luigi Arlotta {java developer}

Software engineer, experienced in client-server architectures, database, web-oriented software development began his collaboration with GNStudio in 2007 by participating in major projects based on Java. Since 2002 collaborates with the Department of Information and Automation of the University Roma Tre. In addition to teaching research groups he participates in Database under the project MIUR (ECD Technologies and Services for Enhanced Content Delivery) for the study of techniques for automatic extraction of data from the Web.His activities are divided between lectures, development of web applications and Java applications.

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Giampiero Bonifazzi {frontend / coldfusion developer}

With more than 10 years of experience in web development, Giampiero is an Advanced ColdFusion 8 Certified Developer and an Adobe Certified Expert (ACE). As an Adobe Specialist he has been selected as Master Instructor for Italy and has been a involved as speaker in several road shows and public meetings. He consider himself a senior web developer with great passion and skills for web design. He personally developed his site (http://www.giampierobonifazi.info) with ColdFusion, Mura CMS, Fireworks/Photoshop and CSS styles.
As a ColdFusion expert he can develop business logic, back-end architecture, unit testing, monitoring, optimization, implementation with RDBMS and others application servers and/or gateway (i.e. AJAX, REST WebService, Flash Remoting, Flash Media Server etc.). As a Web Designer he can manage layouts, themes and usable interfaces with CSS implementation, front-end features and JS client-side development (mainly with Prototype, Scriptaculous, JQuery, JQuery UI library).

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Marcello Ruta {html / css specialist}

I am a freelance web designer freelance, I live in Rosolini a small town in Siracusa province.
In 2004 I got a Flash Mx Designer certificate, in 2005 a Photoshop CS one, in 2007 a Photoshop CS2 certicate and in 2008 a Dreamweaver CS3 one.
I have done training course in: Adobe Photoshop, Macromedia Dreamweaver, Flash and Freehand. I love Flash, Photoshop, Fireworks and Dreamweaver.
I develop dinamyc and non-dinamyc web sites, making use of the follow technologies: XHTML, Css, Flash+XML and PHP.
My skills are: Actionscript 3.0 (middle level), XHTML, CSS, PHP (Junior level), MXML (Junior level).
Recently I have enjoyed developing RIA with Flex and I have already written some tutorials for flex-developers.org portal.
I like writing code and sharing my experiences for the Actionscript.it community.

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Serena Bruni {accounting}

She's the real boss because she helps GNstudio with its accounting .
Serena joined GNstudio since in 2009 and has a background of more than ten years in the accounting for some very important companies located in Tuscany.

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Luca Vagnozzi {java / python}

He graduated in Computer Science (Distributed Systems), at the University of Bologna in 2003.
He has over ten years of background on open source and Linux systems administration.
He used to be a coder too and he wrote software in various programming languages, specially Java and Python.
At the moment he's starting interests on learning more about Android and the mobile development world in general.

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Krzysztof Kluska {php / ajax}

Web developer since 2003. Graduated in Computer Science at Cracow University of Economics in 2008. Specialized in PHP and JavaScript development but also able to code in several other programming languages. Always looking and playing with the newest web technologies.

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Enrico Zanellato {flash / air developer}

Web and Flash developer since 1998, he has been an active member in several communities, newsgroup and forum.
Since 2000 he has been developing games in Flas and working as a lecturer in Advanced Flash Courses.
With great enthusiasm he braves the most serious challanges in programming, in various sectors.
He cooparates with the most important web Agencies in Italy on projects for huge Corporates.
He developed softwares among mobile application, Flash Remoting and Flash Server.
At present He collaborates as developer with GNSTUDIO on Flex/Flash AS3/Air.

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Sergey Zhurik {flex / air developer}

I'm entrepreneur and consultant and I like to develop complex software systems much more than easy ones. My main area is Flash/Flex/AIR development and I know these products well (also certified as ACE in Flex + AIR), however I have knowledge in other areas as like as Java/.NET/iPhone development, which helps me a lot in my small business. I don't care a lot about technologies, which means if I need to build iPhone application, I'll learn iOS SDK + Objective C. If I need to create distributed and fault tolerant application, I'll learn and go with Erlang. Exploring new things is great not only in the job, but even more in the life.

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