He received the Dr.Eng. and the Ph.D. degree from the University of Bologna, Italy, in 1985 and 2000 respectively. After working at R&D Department at Datalogic, Italy, he joined the University of Bologna as Ph.D. Student collaborating with ST Microelectronics on research on integrated circuit modeling and design. In 2000 he founded Yacme, Bologna a company focused in delivering professional services on Open Source Software. Since 2001 he has been maintainer of OpenOffice.org Italian Native Lang Project. In 2006 he founded the PLIO association which received the ONG status from Friuli Venezia Giulia region. In 2013 he left Yacme and now is self employed and he is working as Open Source senior consultant on Open Source assessment and adoption projects..