Enrico Ferro
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Current Positions:
 

POLYTECHNIC OF TURIN (IT)
2003-to date
On a yearly basis I lecture to both undergraduate and international master students. The courses I hold range from eGovernment and Online Auctions to Economics of Information.

ISMB (IT)
2001-to date
Istituto Superiore Mario Boella (ISMB) is an ICT oriented applied research center. At ISMB, I run the Technology and Business Intelligence area. Our mission is to study the relationship between technological evolution and socioeconomic development in support to the research and policy making activities related to the Information Society.

 

Previous Work XP:


CTG @ SUNY ALBANY (USA)
Sept 2004 - Mar 2005
I spent a six month period as a visiting scholar at the Center for Technology in Government of the State University of New York. During my stay I collaborated with CTG's researchers on a number of projects concerning the relationship between eGovernment and digital divide as well as the use of online auctions for the sale of suplus property.

SIMS @ UC BERKELEY (USA)
Aug - Dec 2001
Visiting researcher at the School of Information Management and Systems of the University of California (SIMS) @ Berkeley.
I worked at a project on Scalable Communication Services called Denali. This project was the result of collaboration among investigators at University of California Berkeley, Carnegie-Mellon University, Rice University and the University of Virginia. In particular I was working with professor Chuang to the creation of an economic model for ISPs that took advantage of P2P architectures for the reduction of operational costs and the acceleration of broadband diffusion. I also undertook an analysis of the American broadband market in order to extrapolate lessons learnt that could be applicable to the project "High speed for Turin" sponsored by the Regione Piemonte (Italy). 

ISVOR FIAT (IT/USA)
2001- 2002
I collaborated with the e-business research centre of ISVOR FIAT as a freelance from the States. In particular I participated to an "Observatory" project whose aim was to periodically produce a number of informative documents for middle and top management.

SOGES GROUP (IT)
Mar. 99 - Aug. 99
My work experience at this company focused on organizing and delivering training courses to employees of local transportation companies and municipalities. I also participated in the creation of a European Group of Economic Interest (EGEI). This task involved an active participation in meetings which were attended by CEOs of member and prospective companies of EGEI.

ROLLS-ROYCE & BENTLEY MOTOR CARS LTD (UK)
Aug. 98 - Feb.99
The role I covered at Rolls-Royce was that of liaison officer with the engineering department of Industrie Pininfarina (IPF). In particular I worked in the product support team that oversaw the two door convertible Bentleys models, where IPF was the major supplier. My main duties included monitoring quality, identifying and resolving engineering concerns arising during the assembling process of vehicles.

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