2009-present:
     Moved within Google to the role of Senior Staff Engineer
         focus mostly on business intelligence projects in Python and C++
         (sorry folks, but: details are Google Confidential!)
     More talks and conference presentations (Pycon, OSCON, EuroPython)

2005-2008:
     Obtained O-1 US Visa ("Alien of Extraordinary Ability")
         (later converted to "green card")
     Uber Technical Lead, Google, Inc (Mountain View, CA, USA)
         focus mostly on infrastructure projects in C++ and Python
         (sorry folks, but: details are Google Confidential!)
     2nd edition, "Python Cookbook"; 2nd edition, "Python in a Nutshell"
     Talks and conference presentations (Pycon, OSCON, EuroPython, ...)
         web search for "alex martelli" videos for several talks
         http://osc.gigavox.com/shows/detail1372.html for a voice podcast
     Winner, Frank Willison Memorial Award for contributions to Python, 2006

2001-2004:
     Freelance Professional Engineer.  Main clients:
     AB Strakt, Gothenburg, Sweden
         long-term regular consulting on the development of CAPS framework
         Python courses, consulting, design, development, C-coded extensions
         articles, conferences, talks and presentations:
              http://www.aleax.it/python_mat_en.html
              http://www.strakt.com/dev_references.html
              http://www.strakt.com/dev_talk.html
         main focus areas:
             development of the ERD-based BLAM language
             web interfaces (Webware, Twisted, Nevow)
             porting to Mac OS X of all of CAPS (server, client, middleware)
             Design Patterns, code reviews, and other methodology issues
     O'Reilly Media, Sevastopol, CA (USA):
         "Python in a Nutshell", author; "Python Cookbook", co-author
         http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/python/2003/03/27/pythonian.html
     think3, inc (Bologna, Italia):
         application interfaces with COM, dotNet, and web (Python/C++)
         GUI engine developments (C++, MFC, Visual Basic 6)
     Regia Srl (Milano, Italia):
         multimedia library in Python and Pyrex for Linux platforms
         consulting on embedded HW architectures for video-processing
     Other activities:
         Member, Python Software Foundation
         Member, Board of Directors, Python Business Forum
         Winner, Activestate Activators' Choice Award, 2002
         Committer, python.sourceforge.net; gmpy.sourceforge.net

1990-2001:
     Senior Software Consultant, Cad.Lab S.p.A (later renamed think3, inc)
     courses, consulting, and technical leadership on mission-critical
         technology and architecture issues:
         -- migration VMS -> Unix (AIX, HP/UX, &C), later Unix -> Win/NT;
         -- migration Fortran -> C, later C -> C++;
         -- evaluations and pilot projects on alternate or extra languages:
            -- Eiffel, Tcl, Java, Perl, Python
         -- Design Patterns and methodology issues
         -- Numerical Analysis, consulting and library development
     consulting on networking, security, Unix system administration
     Windows API guru (cfr: http://www.aleax.it/TutWin32/)
     main subsystems directly developed and technically led:
         -- GUI engine (Unix/X11 and Windows/MFC versions)
         -- web interfaces (via COM; also explored dotNet prototypes)
         -- relational DB interfaces
         -- interfaces to operating systems, networks, filesystems, ...
         -- proprietary file-sharing and other protocols
         -- internationalization, localization, migration to Unicode
     Contract Professor, Universita` di Ferrara
         Taught Fundamentals of Computing and Numerical Analysis to
             Ingegneria dei Materiali 3rd-year students

1981-1990:
     IBM (Research, later Academic Information Systems), Roma (Italia),
         Yorktown Heights (NY, USA), and Bologna (Italia)
     three IBM Outstanding Achievement Awards, for:
         -- development of a multimedia authoring system
         -- development of VELI (Vocabolario Elettronico Lingua Italiana)
         -- development of a real-time speech recognition system
     other main achievements:
         -- assembled from scratch and coordinated the Image Processing
            Laboratory at IBM Scientific Center, Roma, Italia
         -- programmed the whole range of IBM systems (mini, PC, mainframe,
            supercomputers, workstations) for many kinds of prototypes,
            applications, libraries and interfaces;
         -- developed (and designed in HW and microcode forms) algorithms
            for dedicated Image Processing peripheral (IBM 7350)
         -- enhanced Turing Heuristic for estimation of probability of
            never-observed events
         -- Scientific Audit of a Prolog-coded system for IBM S/370
            modeling and automatic debug of a vast application coded
            in Basic Assembly Language/370
         -- contributed to Rexx language and libraries
         -- contributed to IBM-wide forums on the Pascal language
            (particularly the Turbo Pascal dialect for IBM PC)

1980-1981:
     Texas Instruments (Rieti, Italia; various, Texas, USA)
     -- "system design" for integrated circuits and microprocessors
     -- cooperated with Artificial Intelligence Texas-based groups


Studies

Laurea in Electronic Engineering (dual majors: Computers and Automatic
Controls), University of Bologna, 1980, 110/110 summa cum laude.
[[ The thesis, a hardware compiler for an APL-inspired hardware
    description language, won Honeywell Italia prize for best technical
    thesis of the year. ]]

Liceo Scientifico Copernico, Bologna, Maturita` Scientifica, 60/60 e
lode (mini-theses on: Dino Buzzati; Guillaume Apollinaire; the concept
of scientific progress in the writings of Comte, Engels, Heisenberg and
Popper).  Foreign language studied: French.

University of Cambridge, Certificate of Proficiency in English.

Other interests:

Economics, History, Bridge (A. Martelli, "How Shape Influences
Strength", Bridge World Jan & Feb 2000; articles described in reviews as
"some would call these results giant steps forwards on questions that
have baffled theoreticians since before Contract Bridge was born; some
would go even further".)