Ugo Cei is a solutions delivery manager at Sourcesense, Italy. He has over 20 years of experience in the IT sector. His areas of expertise include web application development, content management systems, database, and search technologies. He has a Ph.D. in Engineering from the University of Pavia, Italy. Ugo is a long-time active contributor to numerous open source projects and a member of the Apache Software Foundation (ASF).
Besides his interest in computer-related matters, Ugo is a passionate photographer. He sometimes dreams of leaving the IT field to pursue his passion full-time, and travel the world with a camera.
Piergiorgio Lucidi is an open source product specialist and a certified Alfresco trainer at Sourcesense. Sourcesense is a European open source systems integrator providing consultancy, support, and services around key open source technologies. Piergiorgio has worked as a software engineer and developer for six years in the areas of Enterprise Content Management (ECM), system integrations, web and mobile applications. He is an expert in integrating ECM solutions in web and portal applications. He contributes to the Alfresco Community forum regularly supporting both newbies and expert users.
Piergiorgio is a project leader and committer of the JBoss community and contributes to some of the projects around the portal platform. He is a speaker at the conferences dedicated to Java, Spring framework, and open source products and technologies. He is an affiliate partner at Packt Publishing, and writes and publishes book reviews on his website Open4Dev (http://www.open4dev.com/).