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
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. |
Alessandro's Startups (2)
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Faceroller
Share you thoughts by sharing a smile!
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PopMinds
New ideas with new technologies.
Alessandro's Contacts (21)
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Fabio Fidanza
Italian, 28, creative director of popminds.com Building 2.0 applications for the world.