Gabriele Zaverio

Born in Siracusa, Sept. 05, 1968

Basic skills : UNIX - Gnu/Linux System Administration (including 
               AT&T Unix, *BSD, Xenix, Sco, Sinix, Qnx) 
               Security (on UNIX & VAX-VMS)
               Penetration testing & analysis 
               Cryprographic systems / Cryptoanalysis 
               About 25 years of experience in computers
               Hacking skills, exploits coding, countermeasures

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professional timeline:

before 1981 - first contact with computers (apple ][, Sinclair ZX-81,
              Commodore PET,CBM) and electronic hardware

1983-1988 - Junior Apprentice at Tele Hi Fi SRL, Siracusa, 1982-1988
            (cp/m, triumph-adler, compucolor, ncr, olivetti, PCOS, and
             other stuff like that); qualified programmer.

around 1988 - Consultant and programmer for OVSAR SIRACUSANA, Siracusa

1987 - High School Diploma in Industrial Electronic at Istituto Tecnico
       Industriale Statale "Enrico Fermi", Siracusa, with 48/60, with
       a sperimental project of a self constructed interface & software
       for data acquisition 

1989-1993 - Project Engineer at PICO SYSTEM Engineering & Automation,
            developing hardware systems and panels for industrial 
            automation (Pirelli, Enichem, Agip and other contractors),
            using PLC (Hitachi, Siemens, Texas Instruments), dedicated
            hardware (8044 bitbus systems) and writing software in C,
            Assembly Language and other stuff like that. Developed many
            automation plants actually working: Pirelli Banbury 2 
            Screen Controls (Patrasso, Greece); EVENPLUS critical
            events historical recording system at ETILENE2 plant 
            (Gela Enichem Refinery, Italy); CLOROSODA Plant at Enichem
            Priolo, Italy; BITBUS distributed control & data acquisition
            system (C & ASM software on dedicated Intel 8044 & iPCX344 
            systems)

            Combustion Engineering qualified technician for 24h/day 
            problem solving on many refinery plants (Enichem Priolo, Gela)
 
            SKILLS acquired: project planning, project engineering, PLC
                             programming, industrial networks, 
                             intrinsecally safe systems, training course
                             teaching, sensors, cables, instrumentation, 
                             telecontrol & other industrial devices, 
                             plant security.

1991 - Hardware Maintenance - System Engineering specialization
       diploma from ABB - Combustion Engineering (Taylor Systems)
       for DCS MOD300 Computers, at Combustion Training School at
       Opera (Milan, Italy)

1992-1995 - Software Engineer for Telematic System and Telsy in 
            Siracusa, italy, on IBM PC compatible systems

1997 - Co-founder of Radio Cybernet, the first italian stream-only radio
       on the internet (http://www.kyuzz.org/radiocybernet)

1999 - Founder of the FreakNet MediaLab, first public computer lab in
       Italy (http://www.freaknet.org)

2000 - Freelance security & sysadmin consultant & UNIX system administrator
       for many contractors in Italy & Mexico

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No Military Obligation

Human languages skill: Italian, English, Sicilian

Computer languages skill: C, C++, Lisp, Prolog, Pascal, Assembly for
                          many processors.

Other skills: tcp-ip networks, X25, VAX-VMS administration, computer
              security, electronics, hardware, engineering, 
              work planning
              
hobbies: tennis, chess, medieval history, retrocomputing,
         audio recordings, classic music, frank zappa,
         formula 1 GP, extreme trekking, extreme biking,
         sperimental music, cinema.