ErosOlmi
10-10-2007, 16:51
Ok, I created this forum so ... I have to tell something about me too :)
40 years old, married with Gabriella, actress and theatre director, 1 son, Yari, 8 years old with a great passion in Gymnastic.
I started with computer when I was 18. At that time I was at the university studying informatics but I had no clue of what a software or a computer were and, more important, I had big trouble studying some arguments for me very difficult. So I started a parallel course of Cobol programming and ... wow, for some reasons I do not know, the light switched on some of my brain cells. I started to produce something I was not even aware possible and the passion enter in my body :D
I'm so lucky that the original passion I had 20 years ago is still with me. And I'm even more lucky because in my life I always did jobs where informatics was 100% involved. So I do a job that is also a passion. What can I ask more?
After my course in Cobol I started to work for company making statistical analysis for pharmaceuticals studies. We not only made data collection and statistics but also produced the software for making them. Quite a nice period.
Than moved to NEC, a multinational Japanese company. I was in charge of the Italian subsidiary and hired just 3 month before the European move to SAP of the whole NEC group. Consider previous IT manager left the company without finishing the job so I had to understand the company, understand the data and make a go-live in 3 month. A lot of no sleep nights during that 3 months. To make the story short, project was so successful in Italy that I was called to cover a position in London at the headquarter IT department as SAP consultant. I didn't know even what SAP was but in few days I mastered ABAP/4 at first just for reporting and after few weeks for full projects development. I spent 1 year in London. It was fine but very hard: Monday morning 1 plane Milan-London, 10/12 hours of work for 5 days, back to Milan Friday night.
After 1 year I gave up and back to Italy for another multinational Japanese company: HOYA. HOYA produce ophthalmic lenses, not much known name but one of the biggest lens player in the world. 5 years there as IT manager. A lot of technology, robotics, automatic systems, different operating systems handling different aspects of the production. Again a very interesting period with a lot of possibilities to learn new things. Here at HOYA, looking at all this technology, I started to think about a scripting language able to automate process. I didn't had much time to think and develop during the day but my nights were almost dedicated to the thinBasic idea.
After 5 years and "thanks" to some big trouble I had with the company president (mainly on the human side and not on the technical one) one day I resign, without any other job ready to start. You know, sometimes when too much is too much, a decision has to be made, and I did. Imagine what? the same very first day I resigned, my old boss at the first company I worked for called me in need for an IT manager able to keep responsibility of a high growing company he was working for. What a lucky day: someone in need of you the same very day you resign from a company without any idea where to go next.
And here I am. 5 years that I'm in this company that has a very strong human approach to the work, that is growing very fast but at the same time trying to remain with the original spirit of a little company. I feel very well here, as IT we have a lot of budget possibilities and at the same time some free time to develop our ideas. Again very lucky.
So, that's all about my story. As you my know my passion is programming even if I do not program for living. My dream is to have my own software company where to hire people with high passion like my colleague Roberto and produce software that give us enough for living. You know, a dream must be always present, give you a view for the future even if it will always remain a dream.
Ciao
Eros
40 years old, married with Gabriella, actress and theatre director, 1 son, Yari, 8 years old with a great passion in Gymnastic.
I started with computer when I was 18. At that time I was at the university studying informatics but I had no clue of what a software or a computer were and, more important, I had big trouble studying some arguments for me very difficult. So I started a parallel course of Cobol programming and ... wow, for some reasons I do not know, the light switched on some of my brain cells. I started to produce something I was not even aware possible and the passion enter in my body :D
I'm so lucky that the original passion I had 20 years ago is still with me. And I'm even more lucky because in my life I always did jobs where informatics was 100% involved. So I do a job that is also a passion. What can I ask more?
After my course in Cobol I started to work for company making statistical analysis for pharmaceuticals studies. We not only made data collection and statistics but also produced the software for making them. Quite a nice period.
Than moved to NEC, a multinational Japanese company. I was in charge of the Italian subsidiary and hired just 3 month before the European move to SAP of the whole NEC group. Consider previous IT manager left the company without finishing the job so I had to understand the company, understand the data and make a go-live in 3 month. A lot of no sleep nights during that 3 months. To make the story short, project was so successful in Italy that I was called to cover a position in London at the headquarter IT department as SAP consultant. I didn't know even what SAP was but in few days I mastered ABAP/4 at first just for reporting and after few weeks for full projects development. I spent 1 year in London. It was fine but very hard: Monday morning 1 plane Milan-London, 10/12 hours of work for 5 days, back to Milan Friday night.
After 1 year I gave up and back to Italy for another multinational Japanese company: HOYA. HOYA produce ophthalmic lenses, not much known name but one of the biggest lens player in the world. 5 years there as IT manager. A lot of technology, robotics, automatic systems, different operating systems handling different aspects of the production. Again a very interesting period with a lot of possibilities to learn new things. Here at HOYA, looking at all this technology, I started to think about a scripting language able to automate process. I didn't had much time to think and develop during the day but my nights were almost dedicated to the thinBasic idea.
After 5 years and "thanks" to some big trouble I had with the company president (mainly on the human side and not on the technical one) one day I resign, without any other job ready to start. You know, sometimes when too much is too much, a decision has to be made, and I did. Imagine what? the same very first day I resigned, my old boss at the first company I worked for called me in need for an IT manager able to keep responsibility of a high growing company he was working for. What a lucky day: someone in need of you the same very day you resign from a company without any idea where to go next.
And here I am. 5 years that I'm in this company that has a very strong human approach to the work, that is growing very fast but at the same time trying to remain with the original spirit of a little company. I feel very well here, as IT we have a lot of budget possibilities and at the same time some free time to develop our ideas. Again very lucky.
So, that's all about my story. As you my know my passion is programming even if I do not program for living. My dream is to have my own software company where to hire people with high passion like my colleague Roberto and produce software that give us enough for living. You know, a dream must be always present, give you a view for the future even if it will always remain a dream.
Ciao
Eros