Costruzione siti Internet e formazione su Office

English CV

PAOLO MIGGIANO
CURRICULUM (as of July 2007)

PERSONAL DATA

NAME: Paolo MIGGIANO

PLACE AND DATE OF BIRTH: Valvasone (Italy), June 28, 1953

EDUCATION

1968-69 - One year of high-school in Palo Alto, Ca.

1979 - "Laurea" in Contemporary History at the State University "La Sapienza" Rome, Dissertation on "The Rebuilding of the Armed Forces of the Italian Republic in 1943-45 and the Role of the Italian Communist Party", tutor Professor Renzo De Felice.

PRESENT ACTIVITY

Freelance Web designer and master, teacher of Microsoft Office applications, international security analyst.

PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND

2007/2002 - Consolidated expertise as web designer and Microsoft Office instructor. In December 2006, becomes an ACE, Adobe Certified Expert, Dreamweaver 8 Developer # ADB168924. Consolidated experience in managing multilingual Websites. Great interest in Web traffic analysis. Successfull experiments on Search Engine Optimization (SEO) at Italian and international level. Production of e-learning modules (with Captivate). Some clients: Yogananda Ashram yoga center in Rome, Fopras Foundation in Basel, Edocity fashion in Rome, Italian Comites in Basel. Information technology consultant for Capitale Lavoro Spa (2007-2005). Continued interest on security issues, expecially on the terrorist threat and on indiscriminate massacres..

2002/2001 - New activity as web designer and webmaster. Instructor on Microsoft Office applications. Webmaster of Risorse per Roma * coordinator of the project for the Web site of the Heart Surgery Operational Unit of The San Camillo Hospital (Unità operativa di Cardiochirurgia, Azienda Ospedaliera San Camillo-Forlanini, Roma) (forthcoming) * Courses on Microsoft PowerPoint 2000 and other Office applications *Consultancies and conferences on security perspectives after the September 2001 terrorist attacks against the United States. See article of the Gazzettino (in Italian) on the conferrence "Guerra al terrorismo" (War Against Terrorism). 

2000/1989 - Technical advisor for the relatives of the victims of the June 1980's downing of an Itavia airliner (Ustica affair) * Military and historical consultant for the actor and story teller Marco Paolini, for the drama I-TIGI Canto per Ustica played in Bologna and Palermo on the twentieth anniversary of the Ustica Massacre.

2000/1997 - Consultant for the Bologna city administration in the trial against a gang of policemen (Banda della Uno bianca affair); consultant for the law firm "Studio Associato Gamberini", Bologna.

1997/1996 - Research fellow at Rome's Istituto Affari Internazionali (IAI), project on conflict prevention in the Mediterranean region.

1996/1995 - Consultant for the Commissione stragi (Commission of investigations on slaughters) of the Italian Parliament * Researcher at the Pugwash Office (Rome)

1994/1993 - Freelance researcher and consultant on security issues in Italy.

1992/1990 - Research assistant at the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), Arms Trade and Production Project.

1990 January to June - Senior visiting fellow at the Pugwash Office, Rome.

1989/1984 - Research associate at Rome's Research Institute for Disarmament, Development and Peace (IRDISP), defense adviser to several Italian MPs of the Foreign and Defence Committees (Mr. Francesco Rutelli, Mr. Roberto Cicciomessere, Mr. Giancarlo Salvoldi, Mr. Sergio Andreis, Mr. Lorenzo Strik Lievers).

1984/1980 - Consultant and employee for the Italian branch of the French movie company Gaumont, introduction of computer data processing in the administration.

1979/1976 - Lectures and seminars, as a member of the "Group of Military Sociology" of the Dept. of Sociology of the State University of Rome.

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LANGUAGES

Italian, English, German, French (only written)

COMPUTER SKILLS

European Computer Driving License (ECDL). Master MOUS (Microsoft Office User Specialist) on the Office 2000 applications (Word, PowerPoint, Outlook, Access, Excel). 
Daily use of the applications of the Office 2000 and XP suite. Special expertise in web creation and mastering, through Visual Interdev 6.0, FrontPage 2000 and 2002, Image Composer 1.5, PhotoDraw 2.0. Extensive use of electronic communication tools (mailing with Outlook 2000 and instant messaging with MSN Messenger). Proficiency with Copernic 2000 for searches in the Net.

MAIN PUBLICATIONS AND STUDIES

1999 – with Roberto Aliboni "Conflict and its sources in the Near East and North Africa: a conflict-prevention perspective", Cairo, Al-Ahram Centre for Political and Strategic Studies, 56 p. (Kurasat istratijya = Strategic papers ; 81)

1997 - with Francesco Calogero, Giancarlo Tenaglia, Armi e disarmo. L'avvenire dei negoziati sulla riduzione e il controllo degli armamenti chimici, batteriologici, convenzionali e sul Trattato Open Skies, (Arms and disarmament. The future of the treaties on chemical, biological and conventional disarmament), research commissioned to the Pugwash office from the Italian Centro militare studi strategici (Cemiss), Franco Angeli, Milan.

1995 - a) with Daria Lucca, Andrea Purgatori, A un passo dalla guerra. Ustica, storia di un segreto inconfessabile, (On the brink of War: The Ustica case, un unmentionable secret) Sperling e Kupfer, Milan; b) "La situazione Mediterranea del 1980" (The Mediterranean scenario of 1980), research commissioned from the Commissione stragi of the Italian Parliament, Rome.

1992 - a) with Ian Anthony et alii, "The trade in major conventional weapons", in SIPRI (ed), SIPRI Year-books 1992: World Armaments and Disarmament, Oxford University Press (OUP), 1992; b) with Elisabeth Skoens, Herbert Wulf, "Arms Production" in SIPRI (ed), SIPRI Year-books 1992: World Armaments and Disarmament, OUP, 1992.

1991 - a) With Ian Anthony et alii, "The trade in major conventional weapons", in SIPRI (ed), SIPRI Year-books 1991: World Armaments and Disarmament, OUP, 1991; b) Chapter on Italy in Ian Anthony (ed), Arms Export Regulations, OUP.

1989 - "Possibilità e limiti della difesa non militare" (Opportunities and Limits for Non Military Defence), in R. Ragionieri (ed), Alternative di sicurezza per l'Italia (Alternatives for Italian Security), Marietti, Genova.

1988 - a) with L. Gray, "The Lampedusa Incident and Italian Defense Policy", in R. Y. Nanetti, R. Leonardi, P. Corbetta (eds), Italian Politics: A Review, vol.2, Pinter Publishers, London and N.Y.; b) "I sistemi di difesa di Svizzera, Austria, Iugoslavia" (Defense systems of Switzerland, Austria and Yugoslavia), in M. De Andreis (ed) Quale disarmo (What Disarmament), Franco Angeli, Milan.

1988 and 1986 - "La politica militare italiana" (chapter on Italian military policy) in IAI's (Istituto Affari Internazionali, Rome) year-books, L'Italia nella politica internazionale, Franco Angeli, Milan.

1987 - Co-editor (with M. De Andreis) of L'Italia e la corsa al riarmo (Italy and the Arms Race), Franco Angeli, Milan.

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Paolo Miggiano has two profiles and one cousin.

For a number of years he has been a researcher and consultant on international security both in Italy (Irdisp, Iai) and in Sweden (Sipri).

From 2000 on, he studied, worked and acquired certifications as an Information Technology Consultant, id est Web designer (Adobe certified) and office productivity tools trainer (Microsoft certified).

Paolo Miggiano (born in Valvasone, Friuli) has a cousin - with the same name, lastname and year of birth - who has been a member of the Italian Polizia di Stato (in Italy the police is organized at the federal level) for most of his working life and, since 2007, works as an indipendent internal security consultant for town councils and regions.