Born March 15th, 1961 in Como (Italy) I lived most of my time in this place. Until now, life was generous with me letting me travel in many places, knowing several people from different Countries and expanding my soul beyond the hills surrounding the village I live.

I am a simple man who cares to put Love in everything he does. My main interests – beside my family and my beloved dog – are music & technology.

Italian is my mother tongue, English my second language. Being married with a wonderful south american lady, I recently discovered that I can also have basic conversations in Spanish as well.

Sometime ago, a friend of mine started to call me Camaleo as he noticed my ability to adapt to different situations trying to fit as much as possible. I liked the idea, found a nice chameleon illustration and used the name for my first open source project: phpCAMALEO.

When I was a child I dreamed of becoming a missionary, being able to help the world. I still remember “battles” for the respect of the environment from the primary school. During my high school studies I started to love technology. Thanks to my first job as a programmer, I learned to always look ahead, to analyze and try to prevent problems. It’s not by chance that the slogan for the company I founded and carried on for twenty years was: “Looking Ahead”. And it was thanks to this philosophy, combined with the ability to adapt the vision to the upcoming changes, that I was successful.

In this particular period we are experiencing a new cultural revolution that will lead us to change many aspects of our lives. In my opinion, we are moving from a society where “being is based on what one has” to a society where “I am because I have something to offer that will be shared with everyone”, a revolution that will change our way of life in many ways.

I think that finally we begin to glimpse a new awareness, and the competitiveness that has characterized the past and which led to the results we can all see – both from a standpoint of non-growth as human beings as well as the environmental degradation – is giving way to new forms of coexistence between people all over the world that, over time, will lead to improve the quality of life for all and as far as possible, some recovery of the environment and values that appear to have been forgotten.

Sharing the vision, experience and values with people ready to “face the challenge”. Create stable and lasting relationships based on respect and mutual trust. Work together to try to build a better future for ourselves and, specially, for those to come.

phpCAMALEO

My first open source project used, a CMS I still use to produce complex web sites and Internet/Intranet applications.

Marcelino Pan Y Vino

Support site for Mario Vidori, a great man and missionary, living in Peru and dedicating his life to help and support working children.

myEASYwp

A series of WordPress plugins I created to easy my WordPress Admin life and then decided to make available to everyone.

myEASYdb

A project letting to handle MySQL databases in an easy and convenient way. Derivate from some code of a stand alone project I started some time ago and never be able to complete, its code is now under restyling to became a WordPress plugin and, possibly, the base of another WordPress improvement.

June 2009 — up to today
Cooperating at several different levels with Fotocomp – Como, a communications agency specialized in marketing strategies, I contribute to the analisys and development of the agency’s customer web sites, Internet/Intranet applications as well as sharing guidelines with the management for the future of the Company.
I develop the applications on phpCAMALEO and get the opportunity to familiarize with WordPress to develop websites.

March 2008 — June 2009
Working for Progesoft – Como, a software house specialized in CAD technology.
I have completely rewritten the web site from scratch to improve its aspect, speed and features.
This position allows me to strengthen phpCAMALEO features on a site that has a good number of visitors (at least few hundreds in every moment); moreover the phpCAMALEO engine is now ready for non-latin characters languages like Chinese, Russian, etc.

October 2007 — February 2008
Working for JuniorBit – Milan, an Internet development company in Milan, where I help to develop new features in a site offering to paying customers the complete collection of Italian laws.

March — July 2007
Working for IperMedia – Milan, a new media agency and Internet development company in Milan, I get the opportunity to test phpCAMALEO on a couple of commercial projects:

• The CMS in use to manage the contents of the Italian branch of Indicod, the world-wide organization taking care to manage the bar code system;
• An e-commerce site that will be used to sell food specialities in the B2B in the B2C.

I have also produced the analysis used to develop an Internet/Intranet project to handle the Giochi Preziosi’s TOYS Center fidelity cards. The project act as an interface in a complex environment build on the card’s dedicated site, the Company information system and the IperMedia’s prizes/fidelization system.
Giochi Preziosi is one of the biggest players in the toys industry world-wide.

2006 — 2007
Developing several open source projects with a focus on phpCAMALEO — my personal platform on top of which I am planning build new products in the future; Created an extention for the phpBB forum engine in order to help the battle against the spam.

2004 — 2005
I start studying how to program dynamic Internet sites (PHP, MySQL and JavaScript). All the skills learned are used to complete an innovative project in the flight simulation business with an associated. I am the only responsible to the web site analysis and development. The final version was released on November 2005.
The project is still alive as a part-time hobby as a similar idea was implemented in the latest version of the simulator.

2001 — 2003
LAGO is sold. I develop the invoicing information system for a model agency in Milan.

1993 — 2001
LAGO starts developing, producing and distributing add-on packages for Microsoft Flight Simulator (the most sold simulator in the world). Thanks to the top quality of its products, LAGO receives several international awards issued by magazines, associations and dedicated Internet sites allowing the company to consolidate its market penetration in the key industry markets, including the United States of America and Japan. Shortly LAGO becomes a reference point for thousands flight simulator enthusiasts. In the 2001, the company has released more than 50 titles and consolidated more than 10.000 customers all over the world.
Responsibilities and duties are extended as follows:

• Giving inputs and paths, coordinating and supporting the development team: from the conceiving of the product to the final release.
• The team is made by about 20 people, located in different Countries of the world.
• Research, handling and coordinating the suppliers involved in the production process: translators, printers, media duplication, assembling.
• Conceiving and creating manuals, boxes, installation programs, advertisement, catalogues and the Internet site.
• Cooperating in handling all the company contracts.

1985 — 1992
LAGO becomes the main software mail-order company in Italy.
In this period my duties are extended to the conceiving and creation of the marketing material (advertisement, catalogues, manuals layout, etc.). Meanwhile I work to update the information system maintenance to keeping it aligned with the new company needs.
The information system, running on an IBM System/36, is the core of the Company — thanks to this software we can optimize the structure and keep the needed resources at the minimum.

1984
I set up a company, LAGO, initially committed to import and distribute video games in Italy for the Commodore 64 and the Spectrum.
My main duties are to conceive and develop the company information system as well as research the right products to import.

1981 — 1984
After my first course to learn how to program in BASIC, I start my carrier as programmer developing management software on IBM systems. Soon I am employed also as analyst.

Operating systems
Linux (Ubuntu, Fedora, Slax), Windows (95, 98, XP, Vista, Windows 7), Mac OSX, IBM SSP and OS/400.

Languages
PHP 4 & 5, MySQL, JavaScript, AJAX, HTML/DHTML, CSS, InstallShield, BASIC, RPG II, OCL.

Packages used for development
Komodo, Zend Studio, VirtualBox, Vmware Workstation/Server/Player, Photoshop, OpenOffice, FreeHand, Microsoft Office.

Known browsers
FireFox, Internet Explorer, Opera, Safari, Flock, Google Chrome – all in the latest available versions.