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France 2008...

It's late at night and I decided to give it a go...and start capture some of my thoughts...and IT guides.

First a short introduction:
I came to Sydney from Milan on  May 17, 1995 and since then I'm at The University of Sydney, currently as IT Operations Manager (ITO). Languages spoken at home, now in this order (changed in time): English, Italian and a  mixture of both. Last time I've been in Milan is May-July 2010 when we've been on a re-discovery "channel" of friends and places.

Overseas Roles include: LABEN SpA: On Board Data Handling Department (OBDH) where I designed, tested and documented service modules on board of scientific missions payloads.
Some of the Space programs/missions I was involved in:

• Infrared Space Observatory (ISO) - an infra-red light space telescope (2.5-240 micrometres) designed and operated by ESA in cooperation with NASA and successfully launched into orbit on Nov 17,1995 on board of Ariane-44P launch vehicle.
• X-ray Astronomy BeppoSAX satellite - study of X-ray emission from celestial objects.
  STS-65 Space Shuttle Program launched from Kennedy Space Centre, Florida July8, 1994: Spacelab International Microgravity Laboratory (IML-2) with Microgravity Bubble, Drop and Particle Unit (BDPU) experiment - 2 successful missions.
• Polar Platform - part of the Space Stations Freedom - a permanently manned Earth-orbiting station was incrporated into the International Space Station, and internationally developed research facility.

The following images are from the Alenia Clean Room in Torino while testing the BDPU(Bubble, Drop and Particle Unit) module:

With a few BDPU team members - Clean Room Alenia, Torino.

The BDPU integration and testing team.

This year: 
I'm manageing  the migration of  IT services to university ICT and all went well  with most of the stages completed. More about that later.
The Web Services  remained in-house and I enjoy maintaining them on a RHEL VM.

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