About Me

Surname: Aloi
Forename: Roberto
Nationality: Italian
E-mail: prof3ta[AT]gmail[DOT]com
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• Basic engineering skills
• Experienced user of the Internet (1995)
• Advanced user of the UNIX/Linux Systems (2000)
• Photo/Video Editing: The Gimp, Adobe Photoshop, Ulead Video Studio, Adobe Premiere
• Web Designing/Mastering: Adobe (formerly Macromedia) Dreamweaver, Fireworks and Flash; Swish Web Development Tools
• Simple Applications Designing: Java NetBeans IDE, Eclipse, MS Visual Studio .Net

• Italian (Mother language)
• English (Fluent in both written and spoken)
• French (Beginner level)
• Swedish (Beginner level)

• Programming languages:
  C, C++, Java, Assembler, Lisp
• Languages/technologies for the web:
  Php, Javascript, Html, Xhtml, Xml, Flash, CSS
• Databases:
  MySQL, MS Access
• Graphics:
  OpenGL
• Other:
  Matlab programming (also with GUIDE), Webservices, LaTeX Word Processor, Joomla! Framework

• 2006-Today
  Second Level studies in Computer Engineering at the University of Catania (Italy)
• 2007
  Silver Medal in the "ISA IEEE European Students Paper Competition 2007 (ESPC'07)" for the paper titled "Vision Systems for Autonomous Robots: Road to Eurobot 2007".
• 2007
  ISA IEEE Student Membership.
• 2007
  Partecipation to the Eurobot 2007 Competition. Eights of final reached.
• 2006
  Member of the DIIT Team (University of Catania) for the design and implementation of a "Recycler Robot" for the International "Eurobot 2007" Robotics Competition
• 2006
  Studying period (6 months) abroad at the University of Linkoping (Sweden), studying Computer Graphics, Embedded Systems, Artificial Intelligence, Web Programming and Matlab Programming.
• 2005
  Won a Socrates/Erasmus scolarship.
• 2005
  First Level Degree in Computer Engineering at the University of Catania (Italy) (with 110/110 evaluation)
• 2005
  Written the thesis "Memory Management and Garbage Collection in Real-Time Java", presenting the work done on the "Juice" JVM.
• 2004-2005
  Working Experience (300 hours) at the University of Catania (Italy), designing, implementing and testing a sperimental structure for the memory management of a Java Virtual Machine built for embedded, real-time systems (called "Juice").
• 2004
  European language certification (B1 level) for the English language, obtained "with merit".
• 2001-2005
  First Level Computer Engineering studies at the University of Catania (Italy)
• 2001
  High School Graduation (with 100/100 evaluation).
• 1999-2000
  First assistence course attended (with relative certificate obtained)
• 1998-2001
  Working as voluntary for the "Protezione Civile Italiana" (Defense) within a project of the "Liceo Regio Statale F. Maurolico".
• 1998-2001
  Second Level High school (Italian "Liceo Classico") at the "Liceo Regio Statale F. Maurolico", Messina (Italy).
• 1996-1998
  First Level High school (Italian Gymnasium) at the "Liceo Classico Statale V. Emanuele II", Palermo (Italy).
• 1982
  I was born in Palermo (Italy) at the "Cervello" (literally "Brain" :D) hospital.

Roberto Aloi