Simone Fiorini is a seasoned professional with 20 years of software development experience, specializing in large-scale software systems, mission critical applications, and project management in a wide variety of computing environments and platforms, with a focus on EAI, BPM, and integration-oriented tools. His latest efforts are focused on an online reservation system for a large Middle East railway company and a scalable, reactive, financial market data server for a leading Italian banking group's investment bank. A graduate of both Universit di Parma (earth science) and University of Milan (engineering of computing systems), Simone resides near Brescia, where he's trying to grow roses and other fragrant flowers for his wife, Giuliana, and their two sons.