I'm Cristian, class of '87. I work in IT by trade, but a tinkerer by nature: I take things apart to understand them, and then I tell you why they work.
When I was eight my father brought home a Pentium 133, and I put it out of action in no time — so, just to get it running again, I taught myself to reinstall the operating system, and that curiosity, born almost out of necessity, became the thread of my whole life.
I'm Italian, but much of my professional growth happened abroad, between London and the Dutch Caribbean, as Head of IT Operations in the gaming sector — among data centers, networks, high availability and disaster recovery.
Today I live in Italy again, and I work as a consultant for a large company.
Consultant for a large company: server infrastructure for a fleet of 40+ units, coordination of an offshore team, capacity planning and mentoring. I'm called in to solve the high-priority problems that impact the services in production.
Business requirements translated into dedicated IT solutions and tools.
Head of IT Operations: interconnected sites and critical services (ERP, VoIP), high availability and backup, video surveillance and remote control, 500+ m² of large displays.
Design of the IT and network infrastructure for opening new VLT (VideoLottery) halls.
Data center and server room: integrating equipment, encrypted archiving, technical documentation.
PC maintenance and installation, office network cabling.