Luca Sponta

 

 

Curriculum vitae

 

Personal Details

 

-     Was born in 1963,  Rome - Italy.

-     Married to 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 high school professor of Systems and Networks at IIS “Amedeo D’Aosta” (iisdaostalaquila.it).

 

 

2019 - 2020

 

Returns to Mercurio Service s.r.l. (http://www.mercurioservice.it), this time as CTO. He plans and leads the migration of the company’s IT infrastructure to AWS.

 

 

2016 - 2019

 

Works at Gesca s.r.l. (http://www.gesca.it), where he is in charge of the Web development unit. He focuses on the successful implementation of large-scale, cross-functional projects.

 

 

2014, february – 2015, april

 

Joins Mercurio Service s.r.l. (http://www.mercurioservice.it) as Head of the R&D Unit. He leads the development of cassettotributario.it, a web portal that enables users to view, print, and pay local taxes online by directly interfacing with the interbank network.

 

 

1999, september - 2012

 

Works at Noema s.r.l., a company specialized in education and consulting in internetworking and Internet security. As a lecturer, he collaborates with several training companies. He teaches “Computer Networks” as a contract professor at the University of L’Aquila, where he also conducts seminars on network security.

In 2006 he earns Cisco CCNA, CCAI, and later Cisco CCSP certifications. In 2011 he obtains Cisco CCNP Security certification.

 

To date, he has delivered over 3,000 hours of training.

 

 

1996, september – 1999, july

 

Works in L’Aquila at Telecom Italia Learning Services S.p.A., a subsidiary of Telecom Italia Group. He initially joins the auditing department, contributing to the redesign of the company’s information systems.

Later, he transitions to the education department and becomes part of the internal faculty.

He delivers courses on internetworking and network security and is also responsible for designing the content of information security courses.

During this period, he earns Microsoft MCSE and MCT certifications.

 

 

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)