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Biography

I am the Chief Technologist at the Superior Court of California, County of Los Angeles, the largest court system in the world.

Prior to that, I was Chief Technology Officer (CTO) at CareerPath.com, a leading internet employment advertising engine and CTO at Luckman Interactive, Inc., a developer of Internet tools and services.

I have spend over 20 years in the IT / Internet business. I am the co-author of Anonymous Cookie, a cookie-blocking program, which was a finalist in the Discover Magazine Award for Technological Innovation in 1998.

I am a member of the Los Angeles chapter of the CTO Technology Leadership Council, a national organization of Chief Technology Officers, and a member of the USC Computer Science Department's Industrial Affiliate Board, which advises the University on its Undergraduate and Graduate Computer Science programs.

I hold a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Southern California. My Ph.D. thesis, back in 1988, was in Computer Graphics. Over the years, I've been a UNIX developer, then a Microsoft Windows developer, then a System Architect, then VP/Director of Technology, and then CTO.

I am on the Faculty of the University of Southern California, where I teach courses on Web Technologies in the Computer Science graduate program of the USC Viterbi School of Engineering.

I live in the South Bay with my wife and my cat, Buddy. I spend my spare time biking and inline-skating on the beach, at the gym and way too much on the Internet.

I have lived in the LA area for over 20 years, but my roots are in Bologna, Italy, where I spent the first 27 years of my life.

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