Marcelo Rinesi
Marcelo Rinesi is the joint Assistant Director of the
Institute for Ethics and
Emerging Technologies (IEET) and the
World Transhumanist
Association. He is a mathematician, IT consultant and writer based in
Buenos Aires, Argentina.
He is on the staff of the
Future Technologies Advisory Group (FutureTAG) which
is a consulting and media group
focused on promoting awareness and understanding of radical scientific
advances and emerging technologies, as well as evaluating their impact on
individuals, businesses and societies.
Marcelo was
involved in the initial deployment of
Open Source solutions in the
northeastern region of Argentina, including setting up the first
Linux-based email server for the
Faculty of Medicine of the
Universidad Nacional del Nordeste, and the first intranet application
for a law firm
in the state. He has also done pro bono work for the
Mathematics
Department of the
Universidad de Buenos Aires, working out alternative
possibilities for their website and content management
needs.
As part of his consulting projects, he has been lead developer in website
and intranet developments for companies in Buenos Aires with heavy focus
on Open Source technologies like Linux, PHP and Python. He has provided
advice in the testing and production deployment of enterprise-grade
communication systems for such companies as
Citibank and
Telefónica de
Argentina. He has also developed internal applications for customer
relationship management, software license management and software
inventory control, as well as coordinating the
deployment and administration of the company’s internal data center. He’s
also currently lead developer for an Argentine company’s Web Services and
Business Process Modeling initiatives.
Marcelo has published articles related to technology, business and
Argentine life in magazines and online sites including
Wired,
Computer
Bits,
The Straits Times,
Your Workplace Magazine,
Student
Traveler,
Linux.com,
and NewsForge.
He teaches mathematics at the
Universidad de Buenos Aires. He has
participated and
written software for numerous expositions and events, made appearances
on national TV, ran tutoring groups, and edited the first student-ran,
science-oriented online magazine in the Universidad de Buenos Aires’
Facultad de Ciencias Exactas. He is currently a judge for the
Argentina’s
Olimpíada Nacional de Computación y Matemática,
a
country-wide yearly
competition aiming at encouraging mathematically talented high school
programmers, as well as part of a research group at the Universidad de
Buenos Aires developing theoretical tools and software to study certain
mathematical phenomena related to financial markets.
Read his LinkedIn profile.
