Stefano is a senior IT specialist with 25 years of experience in IT. During his professional career, he developed a strong experience in leveraging evolving technologies to reduce the risk and cost of solution implementation and has led many successful customer projects involving new technologies such as Metadata repositories, Object Orientation, Service Oriented Architecture, XML and Web Services. As a passionate technologist, he has a deep understanding of Service Oriented Architecture as well as of the User Interface technologies trends and Web2.0. In his previous life, he worked for Digital Equipment, Forté Software and Sun Microsystems where he was co-authoring some international specification in the area of Web Services. He joined IBM in 2002 and he became part of the Lotus brand in 2006 where he currently covers the role of European Technical Sales specialist on the Lotus Expeditor and Lotus Connections products. Stefano's current interests are around "User Interface" technologies (including AJAX and RIA) and around the impact of Social Software in Enterprises; his opinions are often recorded in his public Blog at http://tech.poglianis.net