Curriculum Vitae
PERSONAL DATA
Name: Alessandro
Surname: Caproni
Birth date: 1967-11-08
Birth-place: Cagliari
Nationality: Italian
Sex: Male
Civil Status: Married since 2000-09-23
Office address: European Southern Observatory, Karl-Schwarzschildstraße, Garching bei München, D-85748 – Germany
Tel: +49-89-32006629
Fax: +49-89-32006514
email: acaproni@eso.org
EDUCATION
Degree in Computer Science at the Unversity of Pisa, Italy
Degree Specialised in Computer Scienze, University of Udine, Italy
SPECIALISED COURSES
Real Time Programming for Embedded Systems, Nahani, course organised by WindRiver, Milano, 11 and 12 june, 2001
Introduction to Effettive Parallel Computing, Stout, tutorial at IPDPS 2001 (International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium), San Francisco, California, U.S.A., 23-27 Aprill, 2001
Parallel and Distributed Data Mining, Talia and Zaki, tutorial at IPDPS 2001 (International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium), San Francisco, California, U.S.A., 23-27 April, 2001
Computer System Architecture, CISM (International Centre for Mechanical Sciences), Udine, 18-22 Ottobre 1999
PERIODS ABROAD
Since 1998/10/01, I work at the Astronomical Observatory of Trieste, Italy as software engineering staff
Since 2003/10/01 I am at the European Southern Observatory in Garching, Germany
2001/09/19-2003/09/2003 I worked at the italian Galileo Galiei Telescope in Santa Cruz de La Palma (Spain)
1997/06-1998/09 I worked at the University of Cagliari, Italy.
1998/05-1998/09 I worked at C.I.F.R.A. in Cagliari (http://www.cifra.it)
LANGUAGES
Italian, mother tongue
English, fluent (official working language since 2003)
Spanish, very good conversation and understanding of spoken and written language (I lived 2 years in Spain).
COMPUTER SCIENCE KNOWLEDGE
Work areas: control systems, user interface design, object oriented programming, Artificial Intelligence, Neural Networks
Deep knowledge of object oriented analysis and design techniques.
Main programming languages: C/C++, Python, Java, XML, HTML
Operating systems: UNIX/Linux, Microsoft Windows, DOS
Other main experiences: CORBA, Java Native Interface, Motif, Servlet, Java Server Pages, Bison and, Flex
PUBLISHED WOR KS
An overview of the ALMA Common Software (ACS), Di Marcantonio, P., Cirami, R., Caproni, A., Chiozzi, G., Jeram, B., Sommer, H., Harrington, S., Zagar, K., Plesko, M., Sekoranja, M., Memorie della Societa Astronomica Italiana, v.78, p.719 (2007)
Integrating the CERN LASER Alarm System with the ALMA Common Software, A.Caproni, K.Sigerud, K.Zagar, Proceedings of SPIE Volume 6274 - Astronomical Telescopes and Instrumentation Orlando, Florida, USA, 24-31 May 2006
Application development using the ALMA Common Software, G.Chiozzi, A.Caproni, B.Jeram, H.Sommer, V.Wang, M.Plesko, M.Sekoranja, K.Zagar, D.W.Fugate, S.Harrington, P.Di Marcantonio, R.Cirami, Proceedings of SPIE Volume 6274 - Astronomical Telescopes and Instrumentation Orlando, Florida, USA, 24-31 May 2006
The ALMA Common Software ACS Status and Developments,,G.Chiozzi, A.Caproni, R.Cirami, P.Di Marcantonio, D.Fugate, S.Harrington, B.Jeram, M.Plesko, M.Sekoranja, H.Sommer1, K.Zagar, Geneva, ICALEPCS 2005
A generic software interface simulator for ALMA common software, D. Fugate, G. Chiozzi, A. Caproni, B. Jeram, H. Sommer, S. Harrington, Geneva, ICALEPCS 2005
The ALMA common software: a developer friendly CORBA-based framework, G. Chiozzi, B. Jeram, A. Caproni, M. Plesko, M. Sekoranja, K. Zagar, D.W. Fugate, P. Di Marcantonio, R. Cirami, Glasgow, SPIE 2004.
Porting and refurbishment of the WSS TNG control software, A. Caproni, A. Zacchei, C. Vuerli, M. Pucillo, Glasgow, SPIE 2004.
The pilot project for for the TNG long-term archive, R. Smareglia, U. Becciani, A. Caproni, C. Gheller, J.C. Guerra, N. Lama, G. Longo, F. Pasian, A. Zacchei, Trieste, Suppl. Mem. SAIt 2003 vol 74, p.514.
WSSL: the Workstation Software System under Linux, A. Caproni, M. Pucillo, R. Smareglia, A. Zacchei, E. Oliva, Trieste, Suppl. Mem. SAIt 2003, Vol. 3, p.355.
Archive systems for the TNG telescope: lessons learned in the VO perspective, Virtual Observatories, Edite by Szlay, Alexander S. Proceeding of the SPIE, Volume 4846, pp.158-169, 2002.
TNG Data Model, A. Zacchei, R. Smareglia, F. Pasian, A. Caproni, TNG Long-Term Archive Pilot Project, TNG-LTA-OAT-003; OAT Technical note n.141, OAT Publication n.2441, 2002.
TNG prototipe Long-Term Archive – Implementation Document, R. Smareglia, A. Caproni, F. Pasian, A. Zacchei, N. Lama, U. Becciani, C. Gheller, TNG Long-Term Archive Pilot Project, TNG-LTA-OAT-008; OAT Technical note n.122, OAT Publication n.2422, 2002.
TNG LTA – Architectural Design Document, R. Smareglia, A. Caproni, F. Pasian, A. Zacchei, U. Becciani, C. Gheller, Longo G, TNG Long-Term Archive Pilot Project, TNG-LTA-OAT-005
Studio di fattibilita' del porting sotto Linux dei sistemi WSS e AaT – Realizzazione di un prototipo, A. Caproni, R. Smareglia, A. Zacchei, M. Pucillo, Pubblicazione Osservatorio Astronomico di Trieste n.2416, technical report 116, 2002.
The handshake between WSS and a GATE under Windows NT, A. Caproni, Pubblicazione Osservatorio Astronomico di Trieste n.2415, technical report 115, 2002.
LRS Control Software: User Manual, A. Caproni, Pubblicazione Osservatorio Astronomico di Trieste n.2256, 2001.
LRS Control Software: Architecture Document, A. Caproni, Pubblicazione Osservatorio Astronomico di Trieste n.2255, 2001.
Central Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams International Astronomical Union, SUPERNOVA 2000ck IN IC 4355, June 1, 2000, A. Caproni, M. Comari, C. Corte, S. Monai, M. Pucillo, Pubb. Astronomical Observatory of Trieste n.2214, 2000.
NTG: a GATE for the Low Resolution Spectrograph for the National Galileo Telescope under Windows NT. Design Document; Telescopio Nazionale Galileo, TNG Technical report n.65; Pubblicazione Osservatorio Astronomico di Trieste n.2191; 1999.