Vito Flavio Lorusso

Biography

 I started working in IT more than 10 years ago, being involved in educational projects. Then I had several experiences in developing Web and Integration projects mainly on Microsoft platform for small and medium companies. After working with a MS team on several projects, I have been employed by Microsoft to continue leading a development group. During my job as a consultant in Microsoft, I worked in several projects, performing both application design, team leading and Quality Assurance projects; during my last engagement, I had a chance to work as a Strategy Consultant, working closely with partners to bring value and innovation with Microsoft platform in a key Telco operator. In the last few years, after being a techincal evangelist in the Microsoft's Italian subsidiary, I've been working in the global Microsoft Techincal Evangelism and Development team helping partners and organization adopting the Cloud, solving together techincal challenges and helping them deploying their application to the Cloud designing together their Solutions. Specialties: - Cloud scenarios, SaaS business models and Microsoft Azure - Software Design and Analysis - Microsoft .NET platform - Software as a Service - Broadband and Multimedia - Distributed Systems - Value Added Service (VAS) design and implementation - Business Architecture and Benefits Management

Research Interest

 In my role in the Technical Evangelism and Development organization, I partner with innovative global tech companies as a Technology Advisor. In my daily job I work closely with Microsoft Azure engineering and my partners to: - gather feedback on how to shape the evolution of our platform - extend the Microsoft Cloud platform with my partner solutions, with specific focus on Media related technologies - contribute with code and frameworks to bridge the gap between our ISVs needs and our platform stack - program manage my partners most critical projects together with Azure engineering - share my experience talking in public events