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Nicola Zordan
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1111 S Ocean blvd #216 www.NicolaZordan.com
Boca Raton, FL 33432
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| Nicola@Zordan.net Cell: 561-213-2008 Home: 561-620-4868 |
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| | Software application designer
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Web eBusiness application designer and integrator
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 With more than 15 years experience in the IT industry, a wide experience with several systems languages and operating systems, I work focused on goals and deadlines. I give my best when I am in charge of achieving the objective. I lead teams of developers to successfully deliver software in time and with quality. I am interested on the Internet and Java. My interests and curiosity in new technologies and communications keep me informed and willing to explore the upcoming innovation in the IT industry. I love to train and to share my experiences with colleagues and team members. I think there is more value in sharing my experiences than in keeping the knowledge for myself.
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| | | DMS-Systems, Rocky Mount, NC |
September 2002 - Present |
| eBusiness Development Manager |
eBusiness Development Manager, Analyst, Team leader, Technology integrator.
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Industry: Automotive and Marine parts Distribution, Warehousing, Web.
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I lead eBusiness effort targeted to the Warehouse distributor and for the parts and repair shops.
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I manage our distributed order entry system of more than 15 cooperating systems and web servers that provide seamless integration with backend to our clients.
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The application is developed with LANSA tool that generate RPG, HTML, JavaScript on the IBM AS/400 with IBM DB2/400.
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DMS-Systems provide software for Warehouse distributors, for inventory shipping, ordering, fulfillment, and catalog.
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I am focused on the Qwik-Order system that allows shops and WD to place orders and check on credit and order status from the web. I manage the implementation of the distributed Qwik-Order application on a ASP model.
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My responsibilities include: analyzing new requirements, designing the data structure required for the implementation and the process flow, writing specifications, assigning activities to the developers (including myself) and managing the Application Repository, and to integrate with external systems.
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| · | Tools used: LANSA CASE tool: MS-Project, LANSA AD, Visual LANSA, LANSA Web, ActiveX, Sybase, MS-SQL Server, Windows XP, ODBC, ADO, IBM AS/400, IBM DB2/400, MS-Query, IIS, IBM-SQL, IBM-DB2/400, IBM Query, CL/400, Java (400 and clients), WebSphere, IP sockets communication, XML.
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| | | Cole Systems, Boca Raton, FL |
January 2002 - September 2002 |
Project Manager, Analyst, Team leader, Technology integrator.
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Industry: Distribution, Warehousing, Web, Apparel, Beauty products, Pharmaceutical.
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I leaded the Development team for the Catalog application. The application is developed with LANSA tool that generate C++ for the Windows platform, on MS-SQL Server, and RPG on the IBM AS/400 with IBM DB2/400.
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Cole Systems provided software solutions to the direct commerce industry.
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The ColeMine solution includes Catalog (Warehousing, Fulfillment, Marketing, Order entry, Order management, Shipments, Authorization) and Point Of Sale.
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My responsibilities includeed: analyzing new requirements, providing quotes of time and cost for customizations to clients, designing the data structure required for the implementation and the process flow, writing specifications, assigning activities to the developers (including myself) (enhancements and bug fixes) and managing the Application Repository.
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I also helped the POS team to analyze, quote and design part of the application (like the eJournal) and especially to integrate with external applications (like AuditWorks and MarketWorks)
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| · | Tools used: LANSA CASE tool: MS-Project, LANSA AD, Visual LANSA, LANSA Web, ActiveX, Sybase, MS-SQL Server, Windows 2000, ODBC, ADO, IBM AS/400, IBM DB2/400, MS-Query, IIS.
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| | | Price WaterHouse Coopers, Bristol, BRS |
October 2001 - December 2001 |
Industry: Insurance, Marine, Environmental, Payments redistribution.
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I have been hired as independent IT Consultant to implement logic of redistribution of insurance claims, for a major world wide insurance company. My activities involved analyzing and designing reusable components to impalement a flexible and customizable redistribution system, which could work in different platforms. I have then implemented the components to create programs to handle 4 specific redistribution schemes.
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| · | Tools used: COOL:Plex, OOA, OOD, to design the components based on inheritance and specialization. The components are designed to be implemented without changes on the platform supported by COOL:Plex: Windows, Oracle, IBM AS/400.
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| | | TrauSoft, New York, NY |
August 2001 - October 2001 |
Senior IT Consultant, Business Analyst
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Industry: Pharmaceutical, Distribution, Lab Analysis.
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With TrauSoft I have been working as an independent Business Analyst and IT Consultant in a Computer Associates project in New York, for a Pharmaceutical business. We used UML with ERWIN for analysis, and COOL:Plex for implementation.
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My activities involved interviewing the users, analyzing and documenting the processes, and designing the data structure. The system was designed to work in a Client Server environment using Windows Clients on Java and Oracle on UNIX for the database.
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| · | Tools used: CA COOL:Plex which generates Java, C++ for Windows (NT or 98). CA ErWin for Data structure and UML flow diagrams, Oracle for database.
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| | | LANSA, New York, NY |
January 2000 - August 2001 |
| Senior Pre-Sales Consultant |
Senior Pre-Sales Consultant, Senior IT Consultant, Instructor, Technology integrator.
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Industry: various, Apparel, Loans and Mortgages, Project Management, Web, Accounting, Shipment, Fulfillment, Mechanical, ERP, Distribution, Production.
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Senior Pre Sales Consultant for the North East USA region.
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I assisted the sales managers to technically present the LANSA tools, help customers to evaluate and apply the tecnology in their environment and aim to the best use of the LANSA tools. I am presenting the LANSA products to customers and prospects, at conferences and exibitions. LANSA is a Repository based CASE tool for the IBM AS/400 that enables to create mission critical applications that can be deployed on a variety of platforms: Host centered with IBM AS/400 and 5350 IBM terminals, or Client/Server with servers as IBM AS/400, Windows NT, HP Unix nad clients as Windows, Web HTML, Java and XML. I worked on projects for the Web and on Visual LANSA to keep up with the applied technology.
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This is a role that involves a wide range of technologies focused on the integration of the LANSA tools with existing systems to improve the functionalities. New projects are also developed to address new requiremets of the IT industry like Web enablement and EDI.
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| · | Tools used: LANSA, LANSA for the Web, Visual LANSA, LANSA Client, which generates RPG for the IBM AS/400, C++ for Windows NT, HTML, Java, and JavaScript for the Web. Databases IBM DB2/400, SQL Server, Sybase. Query, Crystal Report, JavaScript. Component base development pervade the systems generated and Object Orientation is used in the Visual LANSA part for the Windows clients. FrontPage, HTML, DHTML, XML, XSL, JavaScript, Java, ADO, ActiveX objects for web interfaces. FTP, Telnet to connect and transfer files. NewLook for 5250 terminal emulation.
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| | | DP-Solutions, Denver, CO |
March 1998 - January 2000 |
Senior IT Consultant, Team Leader, Analyst
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Senior Pre-Sales Consultant, Senior IT Industry: Banking, Financial, Electronic Transactions, Web, Communication, EDI, Tax Payments, Credit Cards.
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I was a Senior Consultant, and team leader. I am consulting to a company (Datanomix) who builds with Obsydian COOL:Plex an electronic tax payment system for the IRS (USA Tax collecting service) that is going to be live in January 1999. The system is composed of several parts and I am in charge of a few subsystems like: Creation of abstract reusable objects to be inherited, Business Calendar, Scheduling, Data Transfer via FTP and MailBox or asynchronous communication to several services (Bank Of America, IRS, Bank 1, ...), and help working on others My activities involve designing the database structure for my subsystems and define the implementation programs to achieve the planned result. The system also has a WEB interface that connects with the system to allow transactions (tax payments or refunds) to be processed on line. Part of the application need to be enhanced and written in C++ and RPG or CL that I used for part of the development and to integrate with 3rd party applications.
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| · | At the Sterling World Wide user conference 1999 in Dallas I gave a speech about Project Management with COOL:Plex
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| · | Tools used: COOL:Plex which generates C++ for Windows (NT or 98) and RPG for the IBM AS/400 (OS/400 operating system). CL/400, WinC++, RPG, the database is the IBM DB2/400 SQL, Query. The system have been built using Object Oriented analysis and design
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| | | Axis Consulting International, San Francisco, CA |
March 1997 - March 1998 |
Senior IT Consultant, Team leader, Instructor
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Industry: Health insurance, Import Export, Automotive, Web, Production, Wine Production, Statistics, Data Warehouse
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My activity involved the development and coordination of projects using CASE tools in the Midrange division. Here I drove projects for clients, organize the development activities, I also taught Obsydian to the clients sites and to Axis midrange employees that will work on Obsydian projects. I did also create a fast approach class to Obsydian for users that already have knowledge of Model Based development tools such as Synon/2E. The people involved in projects were in groups varying from 3 to 10 and when we drive the project where I can leade the team the group consists normally of 2 or 3 people.
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| · | Tools used: COOL:Plex which generates C++ for Windows (NT or 98) and RPG for the IBM AS/400 (OS/400 operating system). CL/400, WinC++, RPG, the database is the IBM DB2/400 SQL, Query. Also using SyBase database to run the database on PC running Windows NT, HTML, FrontPage, JavaScript. All the systems were designed using Object Oriented analysis and design methodology.
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I did work in several projects all involving the same platform. Wine production systems: Extending the features of an existing system for production planning. Car import export: Working as a consultant on managing dealer orders to match shipments and eventually reroute shipped cars to other locations. Health insurance: Working as a consultant to manage health plans with calls and services provided. I created a web site for Obsydian users on which I use HTM and Databases to enhance the data on the site and use Java and JavaScript for the logic on the site. The site is http://ObsydiaNik.n3.net
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| | | SYNON Italy, Milan |
January 1995 - March 1997 |
Senior IT Consultant, Pre-Sales, Teacher, Project leader, Speaker, Technology integrator.
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Industry: various, Apparel, Accounting, Production, Distribution, Paper, Books, Billing, Public services.
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Teacher, Project leader, Speaker.
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I was driving projects to be done with the company produced tool Obsydian or COOL:Plex. It is an OO and multiplatform Client/Server code generator from a single design model. I was managing the Obsydian projects, I was driving the client projects advising the clients on the best way to use the tool. I started tens of projects and was working continuously on 4 of them. I trained the clients at their location or at in house scheduled classes, I also did train on the job when the client requested a fast strat on the product . I did teach all the levels and classes from base to advanced and class development. I did also several pre-sales activity demonstrating the tool to prospects, and speaking at presentations and computer-exibitions. The team of people I was driving in projects varied from 3 to 15.
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| · | Tools used: COOL:Plex which generates C++ for Windows (NT or 98) and RPG for the IBM AS/400 (OS/400 operating system), or C++ for the Windows NT Server and SQL Servers like Microsoft SQL Server or SyBase. CL/400, WinC++, RPG, the database is the IBM DB2/400 SQL, Query.
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The core of the tool is model based Object Oriented so every system has been defined applying Object Oriented analysis and design techniques. The projects I followed were several from Accounting to Clothing production and distribution to Travel agencies managements, ect.
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| | | AMER, Valdagno |
January 1993 - January 1995 |
EDP Manager, System Administrator, Unify Developer
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Industry: Mechanical, Electric, Electric Motors, Production, Fulfillment, Inventory, MRP.
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At Amer I was EDP Manager. This was day to day a management ad organization job for the whole EDP in the company, from the main information system to the PC and their productivity tools. I had to reengineer, enhance and fix most of the software and use external resources for development. Hardware upgrades and new business rules to be inserted in the application. There were only 2 people in the EDP internally and an external power up to 3 developers.
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| · | Tools used: SUN OS Unix, C, Scripts, ACCEL Database and Unify Development language, it is an event driven language on a relational database. Enhancements have been made with Smalltalk for production planning and verification of inventory.
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Amer produces electric motors, so the business is production and distribution of mechanical parts.
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| | | Marzotto, Valdagno |
January 1990 - January 1993 |
| DataBase Administrator, System Administrator |
Data Base Administrator, System Administrator, Analyst, Programmer
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Industry: Fabric, Apparrell, Production, Fulfillment, Distribution, MRP.
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At Marzotto I was a Database administrator and System administrator. Marzotto is a big fabric and clothing company that owns several brands and other companies like Hugo-Boss, Marlboro sportswear, ... I was part of the team to redesign the company information system for migrating the system from an IBM 3090 Mainframe to a network of IBM AS/400 midrange computers. The system has been developed with IBM AS/400 and distributed in a geographical network from north to the center of Italy. It was a joint project with IBM. At Marzotto we used a high level analysis system on PC named Excelerator and a program generator on relational database that was Synon/2. The developer team was quite big, organnized in Project and team manager, 8 Analysts, 2 System manager, 1 Databse administrator, 15-25 Synon/2E developers (constructors).
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| · | Tools used: IBM AS/400, SQL, Query, Synon/2E, Excelerator, COBOL.
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The company is a fabric and clothing production and the main scope of the project involved the clothing production for planning and sending parts out to other international manufacturers to distribute the production, recollect and redistribute the cloths to the resellers.
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| | | Alfa Data, Vicenza |
January 1988 - January 1990 |
| Analyst programmer, Network administrator, Teacher, Integrator |
Analyst Programmer, Instructor, Network Administrator, Migration Specialist, Technology integrator.
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Industry: various: Accounting, Tax Payment, Production, Goldsmith, Banking, Constructions.
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I worked at Alfa Data on development of an accounting application developed with COBOL, I was responsible to migrate the sources to a new COBOL compiler for the PC area. Then I moved to support programs and users training on several common use programs like Word, Excel and others. I made experience in the use of PC networks Novell. I was Network administrator and teacher for the personal productivity tools. The development team was of 4 developers and the teaching power was of 2 people teaching either in our classes or at office locations.
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| · | Tools used: PC, MS-DOS, COBOL, Networks hardware and software, Novell, Windows, Excel, Work, PowerPoint, Lotus.
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Alfa Data is an IBM hardware dealer so I was involved in supporting the software services connected.
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| | | Te.CAD, Padova |
January 1987 - January 1988 |
Analyst Programmer, Migration specialist, Technology integrator
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Industry: Mehcanical, CAD, CAM, Process Control, Machinery Control.
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At Te.Cad I was an Analyst programmer, to develop and enhance the CAD program the company sold. Producing a CAD & CAM program on Apollo workstations. Here I developed and managed the porting of the application on other platform like SUN, IBM RT, PC ... . The programs were written in ForTran and then in C and Pascal. I was in charge of automating the source code migration to different platforms, the developer team was of 10 people with a Team leader.
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| · | Tools used: Unix Apollo, HP 9000, IBM RT6150, PC, C++, Pascal, C, FORTRAN, Unix windowing system.
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Te.Cad produces a CAD CAM program that helps design architecture and work on metallurgic machinery to shape metal or to bend tin.
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| | | ITC, Vicenza |
February 1986 - January 1987 |
Industry: Loan, Mortages, Accounting, Legal, Bankruptcy control.
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At ITC I was analyst programmer. I developed billing programs, and a bankruptcy management software now nationally distributed. For that project I used BASIC. Here I was an analyst developer for the application in a team of 3 developers and a project manager.
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| · | Tools used: PC, BASIC, IBM S36.
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ITC is a small software service company that works on many areas
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| | | Universita' di Urbino, Urbino, PS |
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| | | ITIS Carlo Zuccante, Mestre, VE |
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| · | 2004 WebFacing iSeries applications (IBM SW275)
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| · | 2003 Ham Radio license KI4DNF, Fort Lauderdale, FL, USA
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| · | 2003 TDI Nitrox Dive Certificate, Boca Raton, FL, USA
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| · | 2001 LANSA Commerce Edition implementation, Chicago, IL, USA
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| · | 2000 LANSA Client, Chicago, IL, USA
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| · | 2000 LANSA Visual, Chicago, IL, USA
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| · | 2000 LANSA Web, Toronto, ON, Canada
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| · | 2000 LANSA for Windows, Chicago, IL, USA
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| · | 2000 LANSA, Chicago, IL, USA
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| · | 1999 PADI Open Water SCUBA Diver certificate, Denver, CO, USA; Salt Lake City, UT, USA
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| · | 1998 Sterling Software COOL:Plex Certified Developer, Denver, CO, USA
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| · | 1997 Private Pilot, Denver, CO, USA
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| · | 1995 Obsydian release 2 (advanced), Synon Europe, London, UK
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| · | 1995 Obsydian Model Management, Synon Europe, London, UK
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| · | 1995 Obsydian Base Classes, Synon Europe, London, UK
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| · | 1995 Obsydian 2 (advanced), Synon Europe, London, UK
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| · | 1994 Obsydian 1 (base), Synon Europe, London, UK
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| · | 1993 Reference Oblige, On Line European Data Bank, Venice, VE, Italy Claudio di Benedetto, Libraries
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| · | 1992 Neural Networks from Theory to Applications, Vienna, AU Francoise Folgeman Soulie, Artificial Intelligence
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| · | 1992 Non Monotonic Reasoning, Vienna, AU Gerhard Brekwa, Kurt Konolige, Artificial Intelligence
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| · | 1992 Applied Qualitative Reasoning, Vienna, AU Robert Milne, Louise Trave'-Massuyes, Artificial Intelligence
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| · | 1992 Fuzzy Set Based Methods for Inference and Control, Vienna, AU Henry Prade, Artificial Intelligence
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| · | 1992 AS/400 Management with ACG (Accounting Applications), IBM Milan, MI, Italy
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| · | 1992 AS/400 CL Programming, IBM Padua, PD, Italy
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| · | 1992 AS/400 Video and Printer files, IBM Padua, PD, Italy
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| · | 1991 AS/400 Data Bases design and codify, IBM Milan, MI, Italy
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| · | 1991 AS/400 Advanced programming with CoBOL/400, IBM Milan, MI, Italy
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| · | 1991 IBM OS/400 The Operating System, IBM Milan, MI, Italy
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| · | 1991 AS/400 Introduction, IBM Milan, MI, Italy
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| · | 1989 IBM PC connection to Hosts, IBM Milan, MI, Italy
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| · | 1989 IBM Large Accounting Systems, IBM Milan, MI, Italy
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| · | 1989 OS/2 Presentation Manager programming environment, Microsoft Universtity at IBM, Milano, MI, Italy teacher Stefano Maruzzi
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| · | 1988 Advanced Excel, Microsoft Italy, Milan, MI, Italy
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| · | 1986 English Language at ESH, Eastbourne, UK
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Object Orientation analysis and design of application,
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Model based development tools
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Windows NT and 2000, 98, 95, ... MS-DOS
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HTML, DHTML, XML, XSL, XHTML, CSS, DTD, DOM
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ASP.net, ASP, ADO, JScript server, VBScript server
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Java, NetBeans, Eclipse, Sun One Studio (Forte for Java), WebSphere
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Obsydian / COOL:Plex, Synon/2E / COOL:2E
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LANSA, Visual LANSA, Lansa 4 Web, LANSA Client
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IBM AS/400 Universal Database, IBM DB2/400
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MS Office (Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint, OutLook, FrontPage, Project), ActiveSync, PaintShop pro, PocketPC, Internet Explorer, Netscape, Yahoo Messenger, WinZip, ...
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Analyzing Processed and Data
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COOL:Plex certified developer by Sterling Software
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OS/2 Presentation Manager, Microsoft University
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| · | Managing Projects with Obsydian, Sterling Software World Wide Customer Conference, Dallas, Texas, USA, 19-21 April 1999
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| · | Obsydian a CASE development tool, University of Udine department of Computer Science, Italy, March 1998
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| · | Obsydian presentation tour, Florence, 23 December 1996
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| · | Obsydian: Multiplatform Object Oriented CASE, SMAU exibition, Milan, 22 November 1996
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| · | The future of Obsydian, Synon Italian user conference, Milan, 14 November 1997
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| · | Obsydian presentation tour, Bologne, 10 October 1996
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| · | Obsydian presentation tour, Florence, 9 October 1996
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| · | Obsydian presentation tour, 8 October 1996
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| · | ExperTalk: An expert System Shell
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| · | WorkRecord: www.WorkRecord.com
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http://ObsydiaNik.Zordan.net
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http://ExperTalk.Zordan.net
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http://JavaWeb.Zordan.net
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http://Smalltalk.Zordan.net
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| · | Nicola Zordan on the web
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http://www.NicolaZordan.com
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http://www.NicolaZordan.net
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http://contact.Zordan.net
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