Fabio De_Riccardis (Paiano)

via Chieti 15 — I-73013 Galatina (LECCE) — Apulia, ITALY
Tel: +39 0836.56.12.52 — Mob: +39 (0)348.60.44.792
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March 2001

Personal Information 
Date of birth:  October 1st, 1971
Place of birth:  Bozzolo (Mantua, Lombardy, I) 
Sex:  male 
Nationality:  Italian 
Marital Status:  single 
Compulsory National Service: served

University Education 
Nov. '90 — Sept. '95 
Parma (Parma,
Emilia-Romagna
, I)
University of Parma, Faculty of Engineering
Attended a 5 year MSc(Eng) Course, Electronic Engineering Stream (emphasis Telecommunications) passing the first 27 exams out of 30 
Oct. '95 — Mar. '96 
Erlangen
(Bavaria, D) 
Friedrich-Alexander University, Faculty of Engineering
Attended a winter semester of a 5 year MSc(Eng) Course, Electronic Engineering Stream (emphasis Telecommunications) as an ERASMUS student; passed 1 more exam out of 30 
Apr. — Sept. '96 
Erlangen
(Bavaria, D) 
Friedrich-Alexander University, Faculty of Engineering
Attended the summer semester of a 5 year MSc(Eng) Course, Electronic Engineering Stream (emphasis Telecommunications) as an ERASMUS student researching at the Medical Engineering Labs of Siemens® Inc (Forchheim, Bavaria, D); wrote and expounded (in German) the degree thesis "Realisation and Optimisation of a Method for the Correction of Measure Errors in Computed Tomography
Oct. — Dec. '96 
Parma (Parma,
Emilia-Romagna, I) 
University of Parma, Faculty of Engineering
Attended a 5 year MSc(Eng) Course (Electronic Engineering Stream, emphasis Telecommunications) passing the last 2 exams out of 30; degree thesis: "Realisation and Optimisation of a for the Correction of Measure Errors in Computed Tomography". Obtained the degree of MSc(Eng) with a Grade Point Average of 105 marks out of 110 [95.5%
 
Higher Education 
1985 — 1990
Piacenza (Piacenza,
(Emilia-Romagna, I)
Industrial-Technical State School “Guglielmo Marconi”
Obtained the Industrial Certificate of Education, Advanced Level
(Manufacturing Automation Stream).
Grade Point Average: 60 marks out of 60 [100%

since Mar. '00
Lecce
(Lecce, I)
Clio s.r.l. (Internet Service Provider)
Assistant to MODUS project management (university via satellite and internet), funded by the European Space Agency, in co-operation with University of Lecce, Alenia, SSI, Espresso Productions.
Professional Experience & Internships 
Sept. '98 — Feb. '00
Rijswijk
(The Hague, NL) 
European Patent Office
Search examiner for patent applications in digital communications 
Oct. '97 — Aug. '98
Pontenure (Piacenza,
Emilia-Romagna
, I) 
Pontenure Village Council, Social and Sanitary Services
Done compulsory national service 
Jan. — Jun. '98 
Piacenza (Piacenza,
Emilia-Romagna, I)
Catholic University of the Holy Hearth, CRATOS
Collaborated part time with the Centre for Research in Applications of Telematics to Organisations and Society in e-business oriented to the Province of Piacenza
Sept. '97 
Caorso (Piacenza,
Emilia-Romagna, I)
Unical A.G.® Inc., Gas-Boiler Manufacturing
Worked as assembler
May — Jul. '97 
Msida
(Malta, M) 
University of Malta, Communications and Signal Processing Research Group
Researched with the Communications and Signal Processing Research Group at the Faculty of Engineering on "Joint Source-Channel Coding Using Unequal Error Protection Codes Combined with Tunstall Compressing Codes
Feb. — Apr. '97 
Tromsø
(Troms, N) 
University of Tromsø, Department of Physics
Researched with the Electrical Engineering Group on "Digital Simulation of the Modulation and Demodulation of Autoregressive Stochastic Processes
Apr. — Sept. '96 
Forchheim
(Baviera, D) 
Siemens® Inc, Medical Engineering, Tomograph Development
Worker student at the Medical Engineering Labs on the project for the degree thesis 

Language Skills 
READING 
CONVERSATION 
WRITING 
Italian
***** 
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***** 
German
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English 
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Spanish 
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French 
*** 
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Dutch
**
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5×*=native; 4×*=very good; 3×*=good; 2×*=fair; 1×*=basic; 0×*=poor

Computer Skills
Platforms: Windows 98, OS/2, Unix, MS-DOS
Programming Languages: C(++), ASP, Java, Assembly, JScript, VBScript, Pascal, Fortran
Applications: MS-Office 2000, Matlab, LaTeX, VLSI-CAD, P-Spice

Personal
Mobility: willing to relocate and to travel
Interests: aquatic and outdoor sports; cycling; travel and tourism
Documentation and references: available upon request