GIANLUCA CHIOZZI

Curriculum vitae:

Personal data
Education
Employment

European Southern Observatory
I.B.M. Semea
University of Ferrara

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PERSONAL DATA

Name:	Gianluca
Surname:	Chiozzi
Birth-place:	Ferrara
Birth date:	1964-07-30
Nationality:	Italian
Sex:	male
Civil status:	married, one daughter (Margherita, 1998) and one son (Filippo, 2000)
Office address:	European Southern Observatory Karl-Schwarzschildstraße, 2 Garching bei München, D-85748 - Germany Tel: +49-89-32006543 (Fax: +49-89-3202362) Email: gchiozzi@eso.org,
Home address:	Tengstraße, 38 München, D-80796 - Germany Tel: +49-89-3611411 Email: gchiozzi@ieee.org

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1983-87 - Degree in physics (full-honours) at the University of Ferrara, Italy
Dissertation: Cyclotron absorption for electromagnetic waves in highly anisotropic plasmas.
1983-84 - Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa as a student of the Science Class.

POST GRADUATE EDUCATION

1987-88 - Corso di Perfezionamento in Fisica (Master in Physics), University of Bologna, Italy
1988-89 - Courses for Dottorato di Ricerca in Fisica (PHD), at the University of Ferrara from January 1988 up to January 1990, when I started to work at the I.B.M. Semea.

FURTHER TRAINING OR SPECIALISED COURSES

26th Plasma Physics Summer School (Culham Lab., Abingdon, U.K., 10-21 July 1989)
International School on electromagnetic radiation and particle beams (Varenna, Italy June 1988)
Theory of Fusion Plasmas (Lausanne, Switzerland, 3-7 October 1988)
I.B.M. Scientific Research Basic Course (Rome, Italy, January-June 1990)
AIX-Windows, Programming elements, I.B.M. (Milan, Italy 15-19 April 1991)
System Management for AIX - RISC 6000, I.B.M. (Milan, Italy, 03-07 June 1991)
AIX Master Class, I.B.M. (Milan, Italy, 02-06 March 1992)
AIX - Advanced Programming with C language, I.B.M. (Milan, Italy, 23-27 March 1992)
AIX-Windows 1.2.3, I.B.M. (Milan, Italy, 1993 February 16-18)
Development of Client-Server applications in the AIX environment (Milan, Italy, 31 May - 4 June 1993)
Project management concepts and techniques, I.B.M. (Novedrate, Italy, 22-26 November 1993)
RTAP/Plus Integration, Hewlett Packard (Böblingen, Germany, 13-17 June 1994)
VxWorks operating system, Wind River Systems (Ismaning, Germany, 11-15 July 1994)
Fundamentals of Software Through Pictures for OMT (Garching, Germany, 08 May 1996)
ESO Project Management Training, Management Centre Europe (Oberscheleißheim, Germany, 02-04 November 1998)
Object Oriented Analysis and Design with UML, Learning Tree International (London, UK, 01-05 March 1999)
Project Management Workshop, Ottman & Partner Management Consulting (Garching, Germany, 12 October 2006)
Recruitment Techniques Training, EIROFORUM, (ESRF, Grenoble, France, 26-27 April 2007)
Systems Engineering with SysML/UML. OOSE, (Garching, Germany, 24-27 September 2007)
Applying SysML with MagicDraw, No. Magic Inc (Garching, Germany, 13 March 2008)
Alcohol Prevention Management Training, IFT - Geundheitsfoerderung (Ismaning, Germany, 15 July 2008)

SKILLS AND EDUCATION

People and resources management

Management of large SW projects; responsibility for budget, time, quality and organization.
Outsourcing of development; managing development contracts.
Coordination of distributed teams.
Coaching style of management; people manager, seeking balance of team motivation and control.
Intake of new staff; experience with selection and training.
Evaluation of staff; annual reviews, assignment and evaluation of objectives.
Excellent communication skills. Frequent participation in conferences, workshops and courses.

SW Project management

Project planning and tracking.
Mastering the software process and lifecycle.
Measuring progress and quality.

Information Technology

Main application fields:
- Real-time control systems
- Middleware, distributed systems, client-server architectures
- Complex user interfaces for control systems
Analysis, design and development techniques and tools:

System Engineering (SysML)
OO analysis and design, with real time extensions (UML)
Design patterns
Software measurement tools (Purify, Quantify, Pure Coverage…)
Testing and integration techniques

Programming languages:

C/C++, Java, Html, XML, Python, Tcl/Tk, SQL, Fortran

Programming environments/libraries:

Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA)
Client-server programming
RTAP - Real Time Application Platform
X-Windows / OSF Motif, PHIGS and GL graphic libraries

Operating systems (user and/or administrator):

UNIX (HP-UX, IBM AIX, SUN Solaris, Linux)
VxWorks, Real time Linux
Other: MS-Windows, IBM VM/CMS, IBM OS/2, Dec VMS

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PERIODS ABROAD

In January 1989 I worked at the Centre d'Etudes Nucleaires de Cadarache, France, under an Euratom Mobility.

Since May 1994 I work at the European Southern Observatory in Garching, Germany. This job includes extended working periods in Chile at the ESO Observatories and in the USA for the ALMA collaboration.

LANGUAGES

Italian, mother tongue
English, fluent (official working language since 1994)
German, good conversation and understanding of written documents (living in Germany since 1994, 2 years bi-weekly conversation course)
Spanish, basic conversation and very good understanding of spoken and written language (1.5 years weekly course and several extended missions to Chile).
French, basic understanding of spoken and written language (introductory course and 1 month activity in French research center)

PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATION'S MEMBERSHIP

ACM, Association for Computing Machinery (since 1994)
IEEE Computer Society, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (since 1994)
Associazione Alunni Ricercatori e Professori della Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa (since 1997)
SIF, Società Italiana di Fisica (1990-2004)
AICA, Associazione Italiana Calcolo Automatico (1992-2004)

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CURRENT AND PREVIOUS EMPLOYMENT

May 1994

Software Engineer
European Southern Observatory
Karl-Schwarzschildstraße, 2 - Garching bei München, GERMANY

At ESO I work on the architecture, design and implementation of software for the control and operation of telescopes.

All these projects are characterized by a high industrial quality standard, achieved through formal software configuration and control management techniques.

All my work on software engineering, standards and methodologies has been done in strict collaboration with the VLT/ALMA software quality assurance and ESO IT groups.

As Head of the Control and Instrument Software Department, my tasks in the matrix structure of our organization include:

Providing line management to ~ 20 software engineers, allocated to the development of control software for all ESO projects.
Ensuring that an appropriate level of resources is made available to the projects, outsourcing development and services if necessary.
Participating in the definition of software engineering practices.
Promoting and maintaining synergies between projects.
Assisting project teams when necessary in the definition and planification of software products. Maintaining an overview of deliveries of projects from a functional perspective.
Keeping abreast of new technology developments and assess their suitability for ESO's work.
Collaborating with the ESO IT Manager for the definition of the IT infrastructure needed for software development.

As a senior software architect, I am also involved directly in ALMA and E-ELT (ESO's new 30m project).

ALMA, 2007 to 1999

From 2000 until March 2007, I have been mainly involved in the ALMA (Atacama Large Millimeter Array) project, an international collaboration between European, American and Japanese institutes for the construction of a radio interferometer in Chile.
As responsible for the software infrastructure used across the whole project (ALMA Common Software), I have been:

Leading the definition of the overall architecture of ACS.
Leading a team of ~ 10 people geografically distributed among several members of the collaboration
Managing external collaborations and development contracts.
Ensuring communication and interfaces with all other subsystems.

I have been also a member of the ALMA High Level Analysis and Software Engineering groups, where I have played a key role on one side in the definition of the overall architecture of the ALMA project and on the other side in the definition of the software engineering standards and software development methodology.

ACS is publicly available and is used also in other projects in the community of large physics experiments, in particular by astronomical telescopes.

VLT Common Software, Telescope Contorl software and VLTI Auxiliary Telescopes, 1994-1999

In this period I have given a major contribution to the development of the control system for the Very Large Telescope (VLT), now in operation in the Atacama desert in Chile.
From 1998 to 1999 I have been responsible for the activity of the Telescope Control Software (TCS) team at ESO headquarters, with a goup of 3 people.
Design and development were based on object oriented technology and part of my job involved research on the application of objet oriented techniques for the implementation of real-time control systems.
I have been since the beginning of my activity at ESO the co-ordinator of the Object Oriented Working Group, responsible of driving and co-ordinating the introduction of object oriented methodologies.

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Jan 90 - Apr 94

Software Engineer
I.B.M. Scientific and Tecnological Research Center,
Segrate, Milan, Italy

My activity has been mainly focused in the study of recognition techniques and interpretation of raster images to perform raster to vector conversion. The aim of the project was the development of software tools for automatic interpretation of technological maps, able to recognise not only lines and text, but high level, complex entities and to fill in a technical data base with all the data found on the raster image.
During 1990 I have also been involved in the development of a prototypal system for colorimetric analysis of non uniform, extended surfaces, to be used in industrial applications.
From 1991 I've been working on effective user interfaces' development techniques and on interactive user interface generators. In particular we have developed a C++ application framework to integrate X-Windows and PHIGS in a coherent object oriented programming environment. This system has been used to develop raster to vector applications.
From July 1992 I have co-ordinated the project of an interactive system to manage failures on the medium tension electric grid for ENEL (National Agency for Electrical Energy in Italy). As a group of 3 I.B.M. consultants, we were working directly at ENEL premises in tight contact with the local software development team. This job was of great interest in the application of Object Oriented techniques and required a user-friendly interface with high graphic performance. A relevant part of this application involved the interaction between a small local data base and the host-based DBMS with all the data describing the national electric grid.
From September 93 to April 1994 I have been involved in a task force for the design and prototype's implementation of a system for railway traffic management for FFSS (National Railways Company of Italy) and on the user interface of a system for highway traffic control.
From December 1993 to April 1994 I have also worked on the analysis, design and prototype's implementation for the user interface of a highway traffic control system.

All these projects have been developed using Object Oriented methodologies and following Software Engineering practices. Continuous contacts with the customer of the system have been necessary in the requirements gathering phase and during the development, in some cases done leading as a technical consultant a team of developers at the customer’s premises.
In all these projects I have played a major role in driving the change to OO technology and providing formal and on-the-job training and mentoring support.

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Nov 88 - Dec 89

Research activity on plasma physics. Dottorato di Ricerca
Università degli Studi di Ferrara, Dipartimento di Fisica, via del Paradiso, 44100 Ferrara, Italy

During this period I carried on the research activity started in 1987 for my thesis.
I worked on the interaction between magnetised plasmas and electromagnetic waves in nuclear fusion machines. I studied with analytical techniques the absorption coefficients of anisotropic plasmas for electromagnetic radiation at the electron cyclotron frequency. Some of the work has been developed at the Centre d'Etudes Nucleaires de Cadarache, where I developed a numerical code to analyse some aspects of the problem.
In 1987/88, I had also been involved in a project of INFN (National Institute for Nuclear Physics) on the realisation of an electron-cooling device and of a Free Electron Laser. My activity covered tests on the power unit and the assembly of the magnetic channel of the device.

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PUBLISHED WORKS

PAPERS

I.FIDONE G.GIRUZZI G.CHIOZZI (1989) - Emission and absorption profiles in electron- cyclotron radiation for non-thermal plasmas
1989 Plasma Phys. and Contr. Fus. 31, n 13 pp. 2003 to 2010

M.BORNATICI G.CHIOZZI P.DE CHIARA (1990) - Weakly relativistic dielectric tensor in the presence of temperature anisotropy
1990 Journal of Plasma Phys. 44, 319

G.CHIOZZI (1995) - Estensioni al paradigma Model-View-Controller per il progetto di applicazioni grafiche interattive, "nota breve"
1996 Rivista di Informatica AICA XXVI, n 1 pp. 25 to 35

M.DOLENSKY et al. (1999) - Java for Astronomy: Software Development at ESO/ST-ECF
1999 The ESO Messenger 98, 30, ESO, München, Germany

CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS

M.BORNATICI G.CHIOZZI (1988) - A new representation of the relativistic dielectric tensor for a magnetised plasma
15th European Conference on Controlled Fusion and Plasma Heating P 8 I 75 Dubrovnick 16-20 May 1988

M.BORNATICI G.CHIOZZI P.DE CHIARA (1988) - Tensore dielettrico debolmente relativistico per un plasma anisotropo
5th Congresso Nazionale di elettronica quantistica e plasmi, Firenze, Italy 16-19 Nov. 1988

I.BOSCOLO et al. (1988) - A tuneable free electron laser in the millimetric band 5th Congresso Nazionale di elettronica quantistica e plasmi, Firenze,
Italy 16-19 Nov. 1988

I.BOSCOLO et al. (1988) - A continuous free electron laser in the millimetric band
EUREKA conference on FEL, 1988

I.FIDONE G.GIRUZZI G.CHIOZZI V.KRIVENSKI (1989) - Velocity spectras of emission and absorption in electron-cyclotron radiation
7th Joint Workshop on ECE and ECRH (EC-7), Anhui (P.R.China) 8-11 May,1989

M.BORNATICI G.CHIOZZI P.DE CHIARA (1989) - Tensore dielettrico relativistico in presenza di anisotropia sia in temperatura che di tipo loss-cone
LXXV Congresso Nazionale SIF, Cagliari Italy 28 Sept. 3 Oct. 1989

P.DE CHIARA G.CHIOZZI (1990) - Analytical representation for a relativistic anisotropic plasma with loss-cone distribution function
IV Latin American Workshop on Plasma Physics, Buenos Aires - Argentina 16-27 July - 1990

G.CHIOZZI G.GHEZZI M.TUCCI S.PANTAROTTO (1992) - MigWob: a coherent C++ interface to mixed X-Windows and graPHIGS programming
IBM Interdivisional Technical Liaison Conference on Image Processing and Visualisation, Milan - Italy 15-17 Sept.- 1992

G.CHIOZZI G.GHEZZI M.TUCCI (1992) - Graphical user interfaces applied to map processing: an application within a C++ framework
3rd European Symposium on Object-Oriented Software Development, Böblingen - Germany 12-15 Oct.- 1992

G.CHIOZZI G.GHEZZI M.TUCCI S.PANTAROTTO (1993) - A C++ Application Framework to integrate X-Windows and graPHIGS in a coherent object oriented environment
VIII Convegno I.CO.GRAPHICS, Milan - Italy - 08-12 Mar.- 1993

G.CHIOZZI T.ACCARDO(1995) - The Very Large Telescope real time database. An object-oriented approach based over RTAP.
RTAP European User Group '95 conference, Lyon - France - 11-13 Apr. - 1995

G.CHIOZZI (1995) - An object-oriented event-driven architecture for the VLT Telescope Control Software
International Conference on Accelerators and Large Experimental Physics Control Systems '95, Chicago, ILLINOIS - USA - 30 Oct./3 Nov. - 1995

G.CHIOZZI K.WIRENSTRAND M.RAVENSBERGEN B.GILLI (1997) - Integration tests of the VLT Telescope Control System
SPIE Telescope Control Systems II, San Diego, CA, 27 Jul./1 Aug 1997, Proc. SPIE 3112

G.CHIOZZI J.M.FILGUEIRA (1999) - Real-Time Control Systems: a "One Document" Object Oriented Development Process - (ps zip, 124Kb)
International Conference on Accelerators and Large Experimental Physics Control Systems '99, Trieste - ITALY - 04 Oct./08 Oct. - 1999

G.CHIOZZI P.DUHOUX R.KARBAN (2000) – VLTI Auxiliary Telescopes: a full Object Oriented approach - (pdf, 2.6Mb)
Advanced Telescope and Instrumentation Control Software, Munich – Germany 27-31 Mar. 2000, Proc. SPIE 4009-03

K.WIRENSTRAND G.CHIOZZI R.KARBAN (2000) – VLT Telescope Control Software installation and commissioning (pdf, 43Kb)
Advanced Telescope and Instrumentation Control Software, Munich – Germany 27-31 Mar. 2000, Proc. SPIE 4009-20

G.CHIOZZI R.KARBAN K.WIRENSTRAND (2000) – Field Stabilisation on the ESO VLT Telescopes (pdf, 2.4Mb)
Advanced Telescope and Instrumentation Control Software, Munich – Germany 27-31 Mar. 2000, Proc. SPIE 4009-11

G.RAFFI G.CHIOZZI B.GLENDENNING (2001) - The ALMA Common Software (ACS) as a basis for a distributed software development, ADASS XI conference, Victoria, BC, Canada, Sep. 2001

G.CHIOZZI et al. (2001) – Common Software for the ALMA project, International Conference on Accelerators and Large Experimental Physics Control Systems 2001, San Jose, California - USA – 27-30 November 2001

G.CHIOZZI et al. (2002) - CORBA-based Common Software for the ALMA project, SPIE Advanced Telescope and Instrumentation Telescope Control Software II, Kona, HW, Aug 2002, Proc. SPIE 4840

G.CHIOZZI et al. (2002) - ACS, a CORBA-based Common Software for ALMA and other projects, CORBA Control Workshop, ISRF Grenoble, FR, October 2002

M.PLESKO et al. (2002) – ACS – THE ADVANCED CONTROL SYSTEM,
PCaPAC 2002 Workshop, Frascati, IT, September 2002

H.SOMMER et al. (2003) - Transparent XML Binding using ALMA Common Software (ACS) Component/Container Framework,
ADASS XIII conference, Strasburg, France, Oct 2003,
(Poster, pdf)

B.JERAM et al. (2003) - Generic abstraction of hardware control based on the ALMA Common Software,
ADASS XIII conference, Strasburg, France, Oct 2003,
(Poster, pdf)

G.CHIOZZI et al. (2003) – The ALMA Common Software (ACS): status and development,
International Conference on Accelerators and Large Experimental Physics Control Systems 2003
Gyeongju, Korea, October 13-17, 2003
(Poster, pdf)

K.ZAGAR et al. (2003) – ACS - Overview of technical features,
International Conference on Accelerators and Large Experimental Physics Control Systems 2003
Gyeongju, Korea, October 13-17, 2003

G.CHIOZZI et. al (2004) – The ALMA Common Software: a developer friendly CORBA based framework,
SPIE 2004 - Astronomical Telescopes and Instrumentation
Glasgow, Scotland, UK, 21-25 June 2004, invited paper 5496-23
(Power Point presentation, ppt)

H.SOMMER et. al (2004) – Container-Component model and XML in ALMA ACS,
SPIE 2004 - Astronomical Telescopes and Instrumentation
Glasgow, Scotland, UK, 21-25 June 2004, paper 5496-24
(Power Point presentation, ppt)

P. DI MARCANTONIO, R. CIRAMI, G. CHIOZZI (2004) – ACS Sampling System: design, implementation and performance evaluation,
SPIE 2004 - Astronomical Telescopes and Instrumentation
Glasgow, Scotland, UK, 21-25 June 2004, poster 5496-45
(Poster, pdf)

K.ZAGAR et al. (2005) ACS as a Dependable Distributed System ,
PCaPAC 2005 - International Workshop on Personal Computers and Particle Accelerator Controls
Hayama, JapanGlasgow, 22 - 25 March, 2005 (Poster, png)

G.CHIOZZI et. al. (2005) – The ALMA Common Software ACS Status and Developments,
ICALEPCS'2005, Geneva, Switzerland, October 2005 (Power Point presentation, ppt)

D. FUGATE et al. (2005) – A generic software interface simulator for ALMA common software,
ICALEPCS'2005, Geneva, Switzerland, October 2005 (Power Point presentation, ppt)