Andrea is C.T.O. of Managed Designs (
http://www.manageddesigns.it), a company focused on technical and legal consulting related to Information Technology.
He is co-author of "Architecting Applications for the Enterprise", published by Microsoft Press; as a trainer and speaker, Andrea had several speaking engagements for local Microsoft events and conferences, such as: Microsoft DevDays, Tech-Ed Europe, Microsoft TechDays, WPC; he also taught "Operating Systems" during the "Master in Editoria Multimediale" class organized by the university "Politecnico di Milano".
In 2001, he co-founded UGIdotNET, the first Italian .NET User Group, of whom he is the President and leader.
He is high over heels for indie rock and goth/new wave music (and lifestyle), and talks about that (and IT trifles too, of course <g>) by means of his blog at
http://blogs.ugidotnet.org/mrbrightside or twitting at
http://twitter.com/andysal74