Lorenzo Bolla's Resume (Last updated November 10th 2008)

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Lorenzo Bolla
31 Wilkie House - Cureton Streen
London SW1P 4EH United Kingdom
Personal Homepage
0044 778 6189180 (UK) - 0039 328 0105860 (IT)

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PROFILE
Born on May 29th, 1977, in Verona, Italy.

Telecommunication Engineer with a strong mathematical and physical background, specifically in the field of classical optics and telecommunications.
Doctorate on Numerical Methods and proven abilities to develop complex algorithms efficiently, also in a business environment.
Logical thinking and ability to provide effective solutions to solve difficult problems.
Great team-player & fun attitude, competent time management, very dependable under pressure and passionately dedicated to the task.

As resident in one of the European Economic Area countries, eligible to work in the UK.

LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/lorenzobolla
Online Resume: http://lorenzobolla.emurse.com/

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WORK EXPERIENCE

Geneity Ltd
Software Engineer

August 2008 - present
London, United Kingdom
Web applications developer using Python, Javascript (JQuery), SQL (Oracle 10g, PL/SQL).

Basic knowledge of SOAP based web services.

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Pirelli Labs
Optical Designer

June 2005 - August 2008
Milan, Italy
R&D in Photonic Integrated Circuits mainly based on Silicon-on-Insulator technology (SOI-PICs).

Responsible for the design of optical components for metro and access networks, with a focus on innovative solutions.

Excellent problem solving capabilities, lateral thinking and self management.

Deep experience on efficient numerical and parallel programming, using C/C++, Fortran, Matlab and Python.

Experience in patenting.

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Telesystem
Software Engineer

March 2005 - June 2005
Bressanvido (VI), Italy
Consultant on hardware and software design for digital television broadcasting, including theory on transmission algorithms and computer simulations of the complete system.

Experience in programming applications for set-top-boxes, in JAVA.

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Photon Design
Software Engineer

April 2003 - April 2004
Oxford, United Kingdom
R&D on numerical algorithms applied to the solution of electromagnetic problems.

Very deep focus on algorithms' efficiency for computationally intensive simulations. Theoretical studies on linear algebra problems, finite difference and finite elements algorithms, modal expansion techniques.

Deep experience in C/C++ programming, both with VC++ and Borland suites and Python as scripting language. Basics of GUI programming.

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Progetto Mantegna
Technical Support

May 2001 - April 2003
Padua, Italy
Technical assistance in the virtual reconstruction of Mantegna's paintings in the Ovetari's Chapel, Padua Italy.

Basics of image analysis and manipulation.

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SKILLS
Programming languages:
  • Python
  • C/C++
  • Fortran 77/90/95
  • Matlab
  • Javascript
  • bash
  • Perl, Ruby

Operating Systems:
  • GNU/Linux
  • Windows (98, NT, 2000, XP)

Applications used on a daily basis:
  • many more...

Languages:
  • Italian (mother tongue)
  • English (fluent)

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EDUCATION

University of Udine
Ph.D. in Numerical Methods for Electromagnetism

November 2002 - November 2005
Udine, Italy

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European Project FUNFOX (Project No. 004582)
in Semiconductor optoelectronic devices for metro core and access segments in optical networks.

September 2004 - June 2005

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European Project PICCO (IST-1999-10361)
in Optical integrated circuits, photonic crystal planar waveguides and wavelength dependent devices.

November 2002 - April 2003

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Interuniversity Consortium CINECA
in Summer School on Computer Graphics.

June 2002
Casalecchio di Reno (BO), Italy

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University of Padua
in Telecommunication Engineering.

September 1996 - March 2002
Padua, Italy

109/110 Grade Point Average

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PUBLICATIONS
  • Author or Co-author of 8 international patents in the field of integrated optics

  • V. Sorianello, M. Balbi, L. Colace, G. Assanto, L. Socci, L. Bolla, G. Mutinati, M. Romagnoli, 'Guided-wave photodetectors in Germanium on SOI optical chips', Physica E: Low-dimensional Systems and Nanostructures, abstract

  • M. Romagnoli, L. Socci, L. Bolla, et al., 'Silicon Photonics in Pirelli' (invited), Proc. SPIE 2008, website

  • T. P. Felici, D. F. G. Gallagher, L. Bolla, 'Automatic design and optimisation of Si nanophotonics devices using finite element frequency domain solvers', Proc. SPIE Vol. 6475, 64750L, Integrated Optics: Devices, Materials, and Technologies XI, 2007, abstract

  • M. Kotlyar, L. Bolla, M. Midrio, L. O'Faolain, and T. Krauss, 'Ultra-short InP-based polarisation rotator', PECS-VI International Symposium on Photonics and Electromagnetic Crystal Structures, 2005, website

  • M. Kotlyar, L. Bolla, M. Midrio, L. O'Faolain, and T. Krauss, 'Photonic Crystals for Polarisation Diversity Circuits', Frontier in Optics (the 89th OSA Annual Meeting), Tucson (Arizona), 2005, website

  • M. Kotlyar, L. Bolla, M. Midrio, L. O'Faolain, and T. Krauss, 'Compact polarization converter in InP-based material', Opt. Express 13, 5040-5045, 2005, abstract

  • L. Bolla, 'Polarization Rotators', Technical Report, FUNFOX Project, Lausanne, Switzerland, 2005, website

  • L. Bolla, M. Midrio, and C. G. Someda, 'Energy flow in negative index materials', Chin. Opt. Lett. 2, 428-430, 2004, abstract

  • L. Bolla, and T. Felici, 'New discretisation scheme for frequency domain electromagnetics', PIERS 2004 Proceedings, Pisa, Italy, 2004, website

  • L. Bolla, 'Planar Generalized Yee Algorithm', Technical Report, PICCO Project, Padua, Italy, 2002, website

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KEYWORDS
Engineering Integrated Optics Silicon Telecommunication Numerical Methods Design Computer Programming Research Development

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