Andrea is solution architect and CTO @ Managed Designs, focusing on architecture and methodology topics. As a trainer and speaker, he had several speaking engagements for events and conferences both in Italy and abroad: he is co-author of “MS .NET: Architecting Applications for the Enterprise” by Microsoft Press. In 2001 he co-founded UGIdotNET, the first Italian .NET User Group, of which he's the President and leader. Andrea is passionate about sports and music, being devoted to Depeche Mode, which he fell in love with since listening to Everything Counts for the first time.