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Alessandro La Rosa

Passionate game designer & coder, Alessandro (a.k.a. Pit) is the code engine (and cofounder) of PopMinds.com, a Web and Mobile focused brand.

Headline: Startup Member
Work status: Employed Full-Time
Website: http://www.jappit.com
Industries: Computing, Gaming, Information Technology, Internet, Lifestyle
Skills: Business, Design, Engineering, English, HTML / CSS, Java, Javascript, Languages, Languages and Platforms, Perl, PHP, Python, System Administration, Unix, Web Development, Windows
Next step: Change PC!
Location: Rome, Italy
Visas: Everywhere!
Interested in: Advising startups, Brainstorming, Consulting opportunities, Creating a group, Employment opportunities, Finding business partners, Finding cofounders, Finding engineers, Finding experts, Finding hot stories, Finding team mates, Getting press, Giving back, Growing my group, Helping friends, Helping members of my groups, Investing in projects, Joining a startup, Learning about entrepreneurship, Meeting new people, Mentoring, Offering Expertise, Participating in a competition, Partnering with other groups, Patenting my idea, Professional opportunities, Promoting my startups, Providing services to startups, Raising money, Receiving feedback, Recruiting, Recruiting for my startup, Sharing my projects, Starting a company, Supporting my investments, Trading services
Tags: ajax, android, brew, flash, flashlite, flex, games, iphone, j2me, symbian

FEATURED STARTUP

PopMinds

PopMinds PopMinds

New ideas with new technologies.

  • Startup type: Company
  • Status: Active
  • Stage: Beta

WORK EXPERIENCE

Employer: MobileSoft.it
Position: CTO
Time period: March 2007 - Present
Description: Mobile games, applications, services.
Design, development and delivery of all kinds of content for mobile phones with J2me, Brew, Flash Lite, Symbian and Ajax technologies.

Employer: Jappit.com
Position: Founder
Time period: April 2006 - Present
Description: Web and mobile entertainment brand.
Responsible for the design, development and distribution of mobile and web games, using Java, Flash and Ajax technologies.

Employer: Automation and Information Department of “Roma Tre” University
Position: Web Architect, Analyst, Developer
Time period: October 2005 - March 2007
Description: Research and studies in Automatic Data Extraction from Data Intensive Web Sites.
Design & development of Ajax User Interfaces for Data Extraction tools, with main focuses on usability and accessibility for non-expert users.

Employer: Web Office of “Roma Tre” University
Position: Analyst, Developer
Time period: September 2005 - March 2007
Description: Design and development of intranet and Internet University services, University portal and other websites.
DB management and administration.
Responsible for AJAX services design & development.

Employer: Poste Italiane
Position: Internal Auditing - IT and Security
Time period: January 2005 - April 2005
Description: Focused on security of first Italian postal services Company.
Development of web tools for automated checks of Poste Italiane internal systems, network and servers.

Employer: Oracle
Position: Analyst, Developer
Time period: April 2004 - November 2004
Description: Consultancy.
Development of tools for PDA and Mobile Phones, using Java and Oracle technologies.
Study and design of experimental applications of oracle Wireless tools.

INFORMATION

Sports: Loves basketball.
Soccer goalkeeper.
Beach volley, sometimes :)
Hobbies:
Guitar and bass-guitar hobbyist.
Avid science fiction reader.

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  • Jisha Jacob Jisha Jacob

    Freshman at Stanford Univ. Majoring in Management Sci. and Eng. with a minor in communications. Primarily interested in web based entrepreneurship, finance, specifically hedge funds, and global networking.

  • Miles Lennon Miles Lennon

    I double majored in Math and Economics at Columbia University. I have previously worked in investment banking, private equity and advertising, but I currently am working for a tech startup and CollegeMogul.com.

  • Andrew Scott Andrew Scott

    I'm currently CEO of Rummble, a mobile technology company. Born in Cambridge, England, I started my first company at sixteen. Ive owned a cell phones since they were the size of a brick and have fifteen years working in ICT and mobile.

  • Fabio Fidanza Fabio Fidanza

    Italian, 28, creative director of popminds.com Building 2.0 applications for the world.