Vincenzo La Spesa

Curriculum Vitae

Via Flavio Gioia 63

90145, Palermo, Italy
H +39 3270459857
B VincenzoLaSpesa@gmail.com
www.thedarshan.com

Personal information
Name
Date of birth
Nationality
LinkedIn page
GitHub page

Vincenzo La Spesa
Palermo, July 11th 1985
Italian
it.linkedin.com/in/vincenzolaspesa/
github.com/VincenzoLaSpesa

Education and training

March 2014 Bachelors Degree in Computer Science, (Laurea in Informatica).
From: Universit degli studi di Palermo
Thesis: Evoluzione genetica di alberi di classificazione.
The thesis analyses the application of genetic algorithms on optimization and bloat control
of orthogonal decision trees.
The results show that the described algorithm is able to obtain shorter trees than other
algorithms available in the literature without losing accuracy. Full text here ( in Italian)
http://goo.gl/bdgMDU

2004 High-school diploma of Industrial Engineering.

(Diploma Di Perito Industriale Capotecnico - Specializzazione Informatica ABACUS)
From: ITI Vittorio Emanuele 3o ,Palermo

Marzo 2004 Graded Examination in Spoken English, Grade 9 with Merit.

From: Trinity College examining board ( in Palermo)
Equivalent to: B2 of Common European Framework

Work Experience
September 2014 Developer, at Elastro Soc. Cop..
Current Duties:
- Research and development in the field of augmented reality (NUMI Project with "University
of Catania")
- Development of Gesture-driven applications for interactive art exhibition (Using Microsoft
Kinect and Passive infrared sensor)
- Library that improve Unity3D Engine with Subdivision Surfaces Algorithms

July 2011 Apprenticeship, at Centro Universitario di Calcolo di Palermo (CUC).

October2011 Duties:
- System maintenance and improvement of administrative applications..
- Automation of the data flow beetween an external Cobol application (Bank of Sicily)
and the internal Oracle-JavaEE information system

January 2009 Developer, at Monkeyware Studios.

July 2010 Duties: Development of video games libraries for the Xbox using the XNA framework.
In particular:
- Debug facility
- Logging facility
- 2D particle effects engine

December 2007 Service Civil voluntary, at ERRIPA Centro Studi "Achille Grandi".
December 2008 Duties:
- Maintenance of the network infrastructure.
- Configuration and testing of any new hardware and software.

Key skills and competencies

.
I have a solid academic understanding of software development principles and deep
knowledge of both object oriented programming and procedural programming paradigm.

Data analysis in Matlab and machine learning.

Especially Bayesian classification, decision trees and genetic algorithms.

Digital Image Processing.

Especially biomedical imaging, using wavelet algorithms and morphology based algorithms

Languages (programming/mark-up/modelling).
C
Bash
HTML
UML2.0

C++
Ruby
Css
Pascal

C++X
LATEX
Php
Lisp

C#
Java8
x86 Assembler
Golang
Matlab
(f)Lex
Bison

DBMS / ORM.
Mysql

,Postgres

,Hibernate

Frameworks.
OpenCV
AForge.net

,Unity3D

,Android Application Framework

,JavaEE

IDEs.
Eclipse

,LiteIde

,NetBeans

,Visual Studio

Operating systems.
Gnu Linux

,Windows

Lingue
Italiano Mother tongue
English
Understanding
Listening Reading
B2
B2

Speaking
Spoken interaction Spoken production
B2
B2

Writing
B2

Publications
Programmare una Web Radio con i PAL Script.
Written with Fabrizio Mondo and published by Flaccovio Editore (ISBN 8857905225).
A manual about the Internet radio broadcasting application "SAM Broadcaster" and its
scripting language.

Personal skills and competences

Driving licence.
A

,B

Other Activities.
Algorithms theory
Electronic
Go (Baduk)
Retrocomputing e history of information tecnology Photograpy
Martial Arts ( Taekwondo, Thai Boxe, Wing Chun, Jujitsu )

Palermo, September 19, 2016