CURRICULUM VITAE ET STUDIORUM Eugenio Capra (last updated in August 2008) contact appointment May 2008 - Politecnico di Milano Dipartimento di Elettronica e Informazione Via Ponzio 34/5, 20133 Milano, Italy Telephone: +39 02 2399 4014 Fax: +39 02 700 502 112 E-mail: eugenio.capra@polimi.it PostDoc Researcher Department of Electronics and Information education 2005 2008 September 2006 March 2007 1998 2003 Ph.D. in Information Engineering, degree with merit Dissertation: Software design quality and development effort: an empirical study on the role of governance in Open Source projects Advisor: Prof. Chiara Francalanci Carnegie Mellon West University, NASA Ames Research Park, California Visiting Scholar under the supervision of Prof. Anthony I. Wasserman Master in Electronic Engineering, 100/100 magna cum laude research interests Green ICT Assessment of energy efficiency and environmental footprint of information systems Evaluation and optimization of software energy consumption Open Source Productivity and Managerial models Empirical analysis of open source software repositories to gather effort and quality measures (developed ad-hoc tool) Definition of a framework for evaluating managerial, governance and social models for open source projects based upon interviews with 25+ project leaders (applied to 70+ real cases) Analysis of the impact of firms participation in Open Source communities 1/6
Software Maintenance Policies And Costs Design of maintenance/ refactoring/ re-implementation policies which minimize costs Analysis of the impact of reuse on software integration costs Validation of the model with data gathered from open source software repositories Balancing Standardization and Variety Costs in Manufacturing Analysis of behavioural costs, i.e. hidden costs due to organizational and human factors which impact on the trade-off between standardization and variety costs Field study in automotive production plant professional experience 2007-2005 - Fondazione Project manager Responsible for the ICT area of the internationalization team: coordination and submission of European research and innovation projects with universities and companies Fondazione Researcher Major projects: MAJOR INTERNATIONAL IT CONSULTING FIRM: impact of IT on the globalization of front-end and back-end processes in the fashion sector, field analysis in Italy MAJOR INTERNATIONAL IT CONSULTING FIRM: impact of IT and automation on the efficiency of back-office processes in banking, field analysis in 20 national banks ITALIAN PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION: soft skills and organizational culture for egovernment success, field analysis in 12 countries NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF IT PRACTITIONERS: market research and analysis of ICT certifications and qualification programs Freelance consultant REGIONAL PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION: assessment of sourcing management structures, evaluation and re-negotiation of SLAs and contracts REGIONAL PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION: technical and business evaluation of 70 innovative projects proposed by SMEs that applied to receive public funding (hired twice) NATIONAL IT CONSULTING FIRM: strategic assessment and cost evaluation of the IT function of a national bank 2004-2005 McKinsey & Co., Milan, Italy Business analyst Major projects: MAJOR INTERNATIONAL AUTOMOTIVE COMPANY: design-to-cost of wiring harnesses, management of global sourcing, optimization of product 2/6
complexity MAJOR INTERNATIONAL HI-TECH COMPANY: strategic assessment of FSI market opportunities, deal shaping teaching experience 2008 2008 2005- languages Appointed contract professor for the Master s course on Corporate Information Systems (in English) Università Commerciale L. Bocconi, Milan, Italy Contract professor for the Master course on ERP for the Master in Information Systems Teaching assistant for the undergraduate course on Information Systems (hired four times) Teaching assistant for the Master s course on Management Information Systems (hired three times) Italian (mother tongue), English (Proficiency Certificate from Cambridge University), French (basic level) publications International Journals E.Capra, C. Francalanci, F. Merlo, Software design quality and development effort: an empirical study on the role of governance in Open Source projects, IEEE Trans. On Software Engineering, forthcoming A. Brun, C. Capra, G. Miragliotta, Behavioural costs in manufacturing: how to balance standardisation and variety costs, International Journal of Production Economics (Special Edition: Best Papers at the 14 th International Working Seminar on Production Economics), forthcoming International Conferences E.Capra, C. Francalanci, D. Lorenzi, F. Merlo, C. Rossi Lamastra, Firms involvement in Open Source projects: controversial role, Mediterranean Conference on Information Systems, 2008 (forthcoming) E. Capra, A. I. Wasserman, A framework for evaluating managerial styles in Open Source projects, Open Source Systems Conference, 2008 (forthcoming) E. Capra, C. Francalanci, F. Merlo, The economics of Open Source software: an empirical analysis of maintenance costs, International Conference on Software Maintenance, Paris, pp. 395-404, 2007 invited to special issue of IEEE Trans. On Software Engineering E. Capra, F. Merlo, The impact of functional complexity on Open Source maintenance costs: an exploratory empirical analysis, itais 2007, Venice, 2007. E. Capra, M. Comuzzi, M. Corso, C. Francalanci, A. Giacobbe, S. 3/6
Modafferi, Knowledge management benefits from cooperation: evidence on SMEs, Second Conference on Knowledge Management in Organisations (KMO), Lecce, Sept. 2007. E. Capra, C. Francalanci, F. Merlo, A cost model for the optimization of software evolution policies, European and Mediterranean Conference on Information Systems, Valencia, 2007. A. I. Wasserman, E. Capra, Evaluating software engineering processes in commercial and community open source, First International Workshop on Emerging Trends in FLOSS Research and Development, International Conference on Software Engineering, Minneapolis, May 2007. E. Capra, Mining software repositories to measure the cost of evolutionary reuse, Web Mining Workshop, 1 st IEEE International Conference on Digital Information Management, Bangalore (India), pp. 496-503, 2006. E. Capra, C. Francalanci, F. Merlo, M. Tosetti, Efficiency implications of open source commonality and reuse, 14th European Conference on Information Systems, pp. 316-320, 2006. E. Capra, C. Francalanci, Cost implications of software commonality and reuse, IEEE Information Technologies: New Generations, 2006, ITNG 2006, Third International Conference on, vol. 2, pp. 40-45, 10-12 April 2006. G. Miragliotta, A. Brun, E. Capra, Behavioural costs in manufacturing: how to balance standardisation and variety costs, 14 th International Working Seminar on Production Economics (IGLS), Innsbruck, Austria, vol. 2, pp. 253-268, 2006. E. Capra, C. Francalanci, C. Marinoni, egovernment Skills and Organizational Culture as a Key to egovernment Success, International Conference on e-government, Ottawa (Canada), pp. 77-97, 2005. Contributions on international books E. Capra, M. Comuzzi, C. Francalanci, S. Modafferi, HSProvider: Knowledge-based solutions for the travel and tourism industry, in Knowledge Management: fundamentals, metrics and cases edited by E. Geisler, N. Wickramasinghe, M.E. Sharpe Publishers, 2008 (forthcoming) E. Capra, C. Francalanci, C. Marinoni, Soft success factors for mgovernment, in Mobile Government: an emerging direction in e- government, edited by Prof. I. Kushchu, IDEA Group, pp. 106-133, 2007. Contributions on national books F. Bona, G. Bracchi, E. Capra, P. Capra, A. Castelli, G. Di Paolo, C. Francalanci, R. Romanin Jacur, S. Sperimborgo The bank as a factory: automation, organizational models, scale economies, IlSole24ore, Milan, 2007 (in Italian). G. Bracchi, E. Capra, A. Castelli, C. Francalanci, F. Bona, G. Di Paolo, R. Romanin Jacur, S. Sperimborgo, The bank as a distributed factory: automation, organization models, and scale economies, in XI Report on Italian Financial System, Fondazione Rosselli, pp. 459-490, 2006 (in Italian). 4/6
National journals and magazines E.Capra, The role of information in the transport sector: Tarasconi Trasporti case study, Mondo Digitale, pp. 79-84, n.3, September 2006 (in Italian). G. Bracchi, E. Capra, ICT and innovation: Italian positioning, Economia Italiana, pp. 83-115, n. 1, 2004 (in Italian). Graduation Thesis Software design quality and development effort: an empirical study on the role of governance in Open Source projects, Doctoral Dissertation, May 2008. A reference model and an optimization algorithm for IT architecture of multi-channel banks, Master thesis, December 2003 (in Italian). Technical Reports Eugenio Capra, Clementina Marinoni, The European Certifications and Qualification Programmes Market in the ICT User Sector, Report for the Workshop ICT in Europe: Market and Competences, Rome, May 5th 2006. E. Capra, C. Marinoni, Qualitative investigations on competences for egovernment, Report Italian Ministry for Public Administration, 2005. Submitted papers E.Capra, C. Francalanci, F. Merlo, The economic of Open Source software, submitted to IEEE Trans. On Software Engineering - Special Issue ICSM 2007, 2008, first review in progress E.Capra, F. Merlo, Green IT: everything starts from the software, submitted to International Conference on Digital Information Management invited talks miscellanea Devloping software in 2008: Open Source as a governance model and the role of firms, at IBM Softwareland, organized by IBM, Monza, Italy, September 18 th, 2008 Green ICT: technical and socio-economic scenario, at Green ICT: opportunities for firms and recommendations for managers, organized by ClubTI, Milan, Italy, June 4 th, 2008 At what level IT energy efficiency can be improved and how to do it: the research at Politecnico di Milano, at Green IT, Green Software & ewaste, organized by IDC, Milan, Italy, June 25 th, 2008 Open Source governance and managerial models, at Open Source as a business model, organized by IBM and Fondazione Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy, November 19 th, 2007 Has been a reviewer for the following conferences: 13 th American Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS 2007), 5/6
Keystone, Colorado, 2007, 12 th American Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS 2006), Acapulco, Mexico, 2006. 6/6