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  • Concept Development
  • Concept Mapping
  • Design Documents
  • English Language
  • Entity Relationship Diagram
  • Functional Design
  • High Level Design
  • Information Architecture
  • Modeling
  • Process Design
  • Requirements Analysis
  • Software Documentation

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  • Functional Analysis

    $75/hr Starting at $3K Ongoing

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    I’m a freelance software engineer. In the last ten years, my primary activity, aside from managing Fhoster (a tech startup I founded in 2008), has been working as a functional analyst on all complex projects...

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About

High-quality functional analysis for efficient and successful software development. Going fast is more effective when you run in the right direction.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

I’m passionate about software development since high school. Shortly after graduating, I worked as an employee for three years (one of which in the Netherlands at ESA) in the aerospace sector, and then continued as a freelancer and entrepreneur.

In 1995, I founded a software house (Integra Sistemi srl), which is still operational. I worked there full-time until 2006 (11 years, including one in the UK for Marconi) as technical director, project leader, software designer, and architect, involved in the development of complex systems in various sectors, including defense, public administration, industry, healthcare, and services.

From 2003 to 2015 (12 years), I’ve been also a contract professor of Software Engineering at the Faculty of Engineering, University of Perugia, teaching in the master’s program in Computer and Automation Engineering.

Since 2007, I have been focusing on developing a low-code platform called "Livebase," which allows modelling functional requirements for complex systems and automatically generates backend software components of such systems. In 2008, I founded a tech startup (Fhoster srl) to develop this platform, leading both the product and the company development while securing two investment rounds (seed and early stage) totaling €12M from Italian and U.S. private investors and an institutional investment fund.

Since 2012, when the Livebase platform became commercially available, I have been overseeing the development of custom, complex systems using Livebase for clients in various sectors, including public administration (Ministry of Culture, Invitalia, Tuscany Region), healthcare (INMI Spallanzani, Policlinico Gemelli, EuCare), industry (Alifax, Birra del Borgo, STI - Industrial Technologies Development), and services (BusCenter, Cotral). In these projects, I have served as the project leader and functional analyst, leveraging Livebase tools for functional requirements analysis and modeling to shorten timelines and improve the quality of the produced documents.

PERSONAL INFORMATION

I am sociable and extroverted, accurate and systematic in both work and life, but also creative with strong lateral thinking abilities. In relationships, I value and expect seriousness and intellectual honesty. In writing, both technical and non-technical, I pay great attention to logical structuring and the qualities of clarity, conciseness, completeness, and non-ambiguity.

I enjoy brilliant prose, and in my free time, I write humorous short stories. I love motorcycle trips, camping, and being in contact with nature. I hold a recreational flight license and a nautical license for sailing and motorboats beyond 12 miles, and I regularly practice various outdoor sports (windsurfing, kitesurfing, scuba diving, paragliding, skiing, and inline skating). I am separated, with two adult children, and I am available to travel and work abroad for extended periods.