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Daniele Duca's Curriculum Vitae |
General Informations |
| Name: Daniele |
| Surname: Duca |
| Civil status: single |
| Date and place of birth: 31/10/1981 Palmanova (UD) |
| Nationality: Italian |
| Military obligation: no military obligation |
| Email: daniele [-at-] danieleduca.it |
School Education |
| Computer science skillful diploma taken at ITIS G. Galilei in year 2001. |
Extrascholastic Education |
| British school diploma taken in year 1998 |
| Trinity World Examination Board diploma, grade 8, taken in year 2000 |
| NVC (Non Verbal Communication) course with Dr. Marco Pacori taken in October '04 and February '05 |
IT Certifications |
| RHCE (RedHat Certified Engineer) no. 809004157910134 taken in year 2004. Verification URL: https://www.redhat.com/training/certification/verify/ |
Knowledges | |
| Hardware platforms: | |
| x86 | |
| PowerPC | |
| Operating systems: | |
| MS DOS ranging from 3.1 to 6.22, good knowledge | |
| MS Windows 3.1 to 3.11, good knowledge | |
| MS Windows 95/98/NT4/2000/XP, very good knowledge | |
| IBM OS/2 Warp, academic knowledge | |
| GNU/Linux, very good knowledge | |
| MacOS System 9, academic knowledge | |
| MacOS X, good knowledge | |
| FreeBSD/OpenBSD, medium/good knowledge | |
| Solaris, academic knowledge | |
| Cisco IOS (router), good knowledge | |
| Cisco IOS (PIX), good knowledge | |
| Cisco IOS (Catalyst), good knowledge | |
| CatOS (Catalyst), academic knowledge | |
| Programming languages: | |
| C, good knowledge (for sysadmining) | |
| C++, academic knowledge | |
| Pascal, good knowledge | |
| Perl, good knowledge | |
| PHP, very good knowledge | |
| PL/SQL, academic knowledge | |
| SQL, good knowledge | |
| Bash scripting, very good knowledge | |
| HTML, good knowledge | |
| Networking: | |
| TCP, UDP, IPX Protocols, good knowledge of IPV4 and sufficient knowledge of IPV6 and it's implemetations | |
| Routing IPV4 on Cisco equipments and Linux gateways | |
| Switching on Cisco (Catalyst) and Nortel Networks (Baystack and Passport) equipments | |
| Various layer 7 protocols (SMTP, HTTP, POP, IMAP, etc..) | |
| VPN (Virtual Private Networks) on Linux and Cisco PIX with authentication made on RADIUS servers (Windows and Linux) | |
| eLAN (extended LAN) deployment in medium/large scale | |
| Traffic shaping | |
| Engineering and deployment of WiFi networks, with focus on security | |
| System Administration: | |
| Installation and configuration of Linux, BSD, Windows, MacOS X with hardware troubleshooting and upgrading | |
| Administration of mixed networks with Windows,Linux, MacOS 9 and MacOS X with users managing and backups | |
| Remote manutention of production-state servers | |
| System security: managing of antivirus solutions with centralized db of virus signatures, user access policies, deploying of NIDS and IDS, filesystem cryptography | |
| Firewalling on iptables, ipchains and ipfw | |
| Engineering and deployment of statistical services (bandwidth usage, site accesses, mail usage statistics etc..) | |
| System hardening with Grsecurity | |
| Engineering and deployment of transparent proxy services (Cisco + Squid) | |
| Engineering and deployment of DMZ architectures with Cisco equipments and Linux | |
| Engineering and deployment of reverse proxy services with Apache (specifically to secure HTTP requests made to IIS servers) | |
| Engineering and deployment of various SAMBA services | |
| Coding: | |
| Monitoring applications with SMS warning | |
| Patching of GPL software to follow customer needs | |
| Writing of ticketing applications in PHP scripts | |
| Writing of a XML-RPC gateway to let a CMS running on Windows/MacOS X (Frontier, http://frontier.userland.com) use data stored on a Postgres database on a Linux box (see for example the search engine in the site http://www.bancarella.it) | |
| Services: | |
| HTTP: Apache on *nix or windows, IIS | |
| MTA: qmail and postfix, good knowledge. sendmail and exim, academic knowledge | |
| DNS: Bind 8 and 9, djbdns | |
| FTP: proftpd, wu-ftpd | |
| SSH: OpenSSH | |
| SMB: Samba | |
| Appletalk: netatalk | |
| Proxy: Squid | |
| Sock: Socks 5 | |
| Gatekeeper H323 and MCU: openh323 and openmcu | |
| SIP Services: SIP Express Router | |
| LDAP: Openldap | |
| Database: | |
| mySQL: very good knowledge | |
| PostgreSQL: very good knowledge | |
| Oracle: academic knowledge | |
| Work experiences: | |
| From October 2005 to now, I'm working in the IT department of ICS-UNIDO (Internation Center for Science and High Technology of United Nations Development Organization) | |
| From October 2002 to October 2005, I worked for Teorema Engineering and I was detached full time to Area Science Park, where I was the System and Network Administrator. | |
| From September 2001 to September 2002 I worked for Evectors as XSL coder and system administrator | |
| From July 2001 to August 2001 I worked as a technician in cellular phone production lines at FinMek | |
| From January 1998 to June 2001 I worked for an Italian ISP as System and Network Administrator. During this period of time I developed a big part of my knowledge of protocols and services | |
| Freelance experiences: | |
| Developed a licensing system for Synaps Technology | |
| Upgrade of production state services for Evectors (Database, Web Server, Ftp Server) with impact valutation and source code patching | |
| Reconfiguration of RAS system (Tacacs+ server and Cisco 2500 series router) for Active Software | |
| In September 2002 I developed a mail/web/fax/samba/netatalk server for Coveco | |
| References will be furnished upon request. | |
| Foreign languages: | |
| Spoken and written english: good knowledge | |
| Spoken and written technical english: very good knowledge | |
| Personal Interests: | |
| Related to work: | |
| Computer Security | |
| Cryptography and privacy | |
| Coding (little patches to existing OpenSource projects) | |
| I'm associated to the GOLUG (GOrizia Linux User Group) since the foundation and I held two talks at the LinuxDay 2002 and 2003. Slides of the talk are available in the Projects section | |
| Not related to work: | |
| Mainly Reading SCI/FI (Mark Fabi, Neal Stephenson, Asimov), Horror (Stephen King, Michael Crichton) and a little action (Tom CLancy), playing with my car's electronics | |
| If you want to contact me look at the Contacts section, where you will also find my public GPG and PGP key | |