Luca Sponta

 

 

Curriculum vitae

 

Personal Details

 

-     Was born in 1963,  Rome - Italy.

-     Married with Luisella, father of Benedetta, Daniele, Claudio and Tommaso.

-     Lives in L’Aquila – Italy

-     e-mail:  sponta(at)gmail(dot)com

 

 

Education

 

-     Degree in Computer Science  - University of L’Aquila – grade: 110/110 summa cum laude.

-     Secondary school -  Liceo scientifico “A. Avogadro” of Rome – grade: 60/60.

 

 

Work Experience

 

 

2020 - present

 

He is a professor of "Systems and Networks" at the high school (iisdaostalaquila.it).

 

 

2019 - 2020

 

Comes back in Mercurio Service s.r.l. (http://www.mercurioservice.it), now as CTO. He plans and leads migration of IT infrastructure towards AWS.

 

 

2016 - 2019

 

Works for Gesca s.r.l. (http://www.gesca.it), where he is responsible for Web development unit. He is focused on successful implementation of large, inter-area projects.

 

 

2014, february – 2015, april

 

Works in Mercurio Service s.r.l. (http://www.mercurioservice.it), where he is responsible for R&D unit. He leads development of “cassettotributario.it”, a web-portal that lets users view, print, pay on-line local taxes, by directly exchanging data with interbank circuit.

 

 

1999, september - 2012

 

Works in Noema s.r.l., a company mainly devoted to education and consultancy in the fields of internetworking and Internet security. As a lecturer he collaborates with several education companies. He teaches as a contract professor in “Computer Networks” at the University of L’Aquila. There he holds seminars on network security.

During 2006 he becomes a Cisco CCNA and CCAI, then Cisco CCSP. In 2011 he gains Cisco CCNP Security certification.

 

Up to now he has run courses for more than 3,000 hours.

 

 

1996, september – 1999, july

 

Works in L’Aquila for Telecom Italia Learning Services S.p.A., a company of Telecom Italia Group. At first he is in the auditing department and collaborates to the company information system redesign.

Then he works for educational department and becomes part of the internal Faculty.

He is a lecturer in many courses on internetworking and network security. He is also responsible for content design of information security courses.

In this period he becomes a Microsoft MCSE and MCT.

 

 

Relevant Skills

Information Security

Concepts

Network security scenarios and protocols

         Firewall, IDS, tunneling protocols (PPTP, L2TP, GRE), VPN, IPSec

Remote Access security      

Centralized authentication, authorization, accounting (RADIUS, TACACS+)

Communication security

Cryptographic systems

         Public Key Infrastructures (PKI)

         Digital Sign

Internetworking

LAN: Technologies, architectures, cabling

TCP/IP protocol suite, Internet services, Routing protocols, IPv6

CISCO peripherals (CCNP, CCNA, CCAI)

Network operating systems

Systems: Windows Servers and clients

Administration, Internet services, network traffic analysis

DBMS

Client – server systems, two and three tier

Relational Theory

Web access to DBMS: concepts

Information Systems design

Products: MySQL, MS SQL Server

Programming

Web Technologies (Ajax, Javascript, JQuery, PHP, PERL)

C/C++, PASCAL, FORTRAN, JAVA, SMALLTALK, VISUAL BASIC, COBOL, MATLAB, other scripting languages

 

 

References

 

 

Prof. Gabriele Di Stefano - gabriele(dot)distefano(at)univaq(dot)it

(DISIM Department – University of L’Aquila)