Mario Ruggier - Curriculum Vitae

Name Mario Ruggier
Address 183 rue Vieux Bourg, F-01170 Ségny
Email mario at ruggier.org
Web http://ruggier.org/
Telephone +33 (0)4 50 41 96 14
Nationalities Canadian, Maltese
Languages English, French, Italian, Maltese

Over 14 years of IT experience encompassing skills necessary to conceive and build multi-tier Internet Applications from front to back, plus other skills that include: Information Architecture; Documentation Engineering; Software Design and Development; User Driven Design; Monitoring of Technology Trends; Technical Support; Teaching and Writing.

• Web interface/client programming with HTML/XHTML, CSS, JavaScript and libraries such as MochiKit, Flash and ActionScript.
• Web server programming with Python, Perl, Java, JavaScript, XML, XSLT, ASP, JSP and Java Servlets, on various web (IIS, Apache) and application servers;
• Programming experience with Python, Perl, Java, C/C++, Fortran, Awk, Lisp, Pascal, SQL on Solaris, Linux, Windows, and OS X environments.
• Software Configuration Management using CVS, Subversion and Clearcase version control systems. Project Management with Trac.
• Database experience with MySQL, PostgreSQL, MS SQL 2000 relational database servers, as well as Python Object-Oriented databases.
• Analysis and design with ERD and UML. Software engineering experience with various methodologies, ranging from Extreme Programming and test-driven design, to the more formal PSS-05 standards from ESA.
• Document template design, Simultaneous publishing, from a single source to multiple formats; Expert knowledge of the Adobe FrameMaker technical publishing system.

Mediation of ideas between users, developers and management. Listening to different points of views. Syndication of a project’s requirements from the various concerned parties. Integrate into a disparate group easily, and tend to get along very well with everyone. Affinity for attention and detail, and for recognizing contributions from others. Imaginative, visual, logical.

Working privately since 2003, building web applications using primarily OSS (Open Source Software) technologies. Projects include: a database driven web application for dynamic analysis of historical sports data; a fund management system with a web interface supporting multiple user accounts and multiple investments; an extranet application allowing simple management and sharing of documents; deployment (linux/debian) of an open-source ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) for a medium-sized company, covering purchasing and inventory management.

Web architect for Softplumbers SA, a 25 person start-up created in Dec 2000, that develops a standards-based distributed application for management of IT infrastructures, with a full web interface, and XML-based communication. My responsibilities included: (a) participation in the design of the user interface, (b) define an implementation architecture, (c) identify and specify components and support libraries, and interaction between them, both client-side and server-side, (d) manage/execute the implementation. Main technologies used are DHTML, CSS, JavaScript, Flash and ActionScript, Python, XML, XSL, IIS, ASP, SQL Server 2000, CIM Operations, Clearcase, Together.

Analysis, Design & Implementation
2000 YaPPI, Yet another Particle Property Interface. An XML/Java particle database.
1999-2000 OverSite, tool to implement and maintain a web site architecture, for Dreamweaver.
1995Electronic customer mail management support system, based on mh mail.
1994Various early Web-related projects: WebLinker, a management tool for WWW cross references; WebMaker, a generic FrameMaker to WWW translator; Configuration of the Grif SGML editor for structured Web/HTML editing.
1993–1995 Documentation systems, with automatic multiple formats from single-source.
1993 Port of the unix-based ADAMO System to Windows.

Information Design
1999-2000 OverSite Look&Feels, templates for technical web sites.
1997 Design of the WWW interface to LIGHT/OO, a seamless WWW hypertext of project source code ( C++, Java) and documents.
1996 Design of a suite of posters for the ATLAS high-energy physics experiment collaboration.
1995-1999 FrameMaker template packages: Software Documentation, User Guide, Technidcal Design Report, PSS-05 Software Engineering Standards. Each template package supports multi-authoring, and automatic conversion to WWW.
1993 An exploratory pilot hypertext issue of the Electronic Journal of Physics, from sources that included TeX, Mathematica and FrameMaker.

Documentation
1996 Specification of the ATLAS Software Development Environment.
1994-1999 Design, authoring, manegement of Web Sites, for OverSite, WebMaker, IPT, CERN School of Computing for 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998.
1993-2000 User Documentation, e.g. for WebMaker (100 pages) and the ADAMO (240 pages).

Teaching & Technical Support
1995-2000 Training and first-line support for FrameMaker and WebMaker.
1995 Comprehensive introductory course (4 lectures, May 2-5) on the World-Wide Web, for physics students at the University of Bologna.

• 1989-1992 Teaching Assistant, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada.
• 1985-1986 Student Work Term (Dbase/SQL), Air Traffic Services, Transport Canada.

• B.Sc. (Mathematics), 1988. Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada.
• B.A. (Performing Arts), 1991. Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada.

President of the CERN FC, an amateur football club with more than 200 members (resigned in 2000, due to leaving CERN).  •  Active football referee of the Fédération Française de Football since 1999, for the District de la Haute-Savoie.  •  Run my first marathon in March 2001 in Rome, and to this day I have run a total of 17.