Giancarlo Gaggero obtained a Doctorate in Nuclear Engineering from the Polytechnic
University of Turin, Italy. He underwent advanced training in Monte Carlo and Finite
Element Methods at the Max Plank Institute, Munich, and the International Center
for Mechanical Engineering, Udine. Dr. Gaggero has published widely and directed
or served on many national and international scientific committees.
Dr. Gaggero has more than 30 years of R&D management experience in engineering,
physics, and computer science. He led the development of online information retrieval
and data base management systems, graphics systems for CAD, compilers, operating
systems, and communication protocols. He has experience with a wide spectrum of
computers from mainframes to microcomputers.
While employed as Principal Scientific Officer with the Commission of the European
Communities, (EEC), he served as director of the European Computer Program Institute
(1975-1980), head of the Joint Research Center Informatics Support Section (1976-1980,
serving 600 scientists and engineers), and deputy head of the JRC Informatics Division
(1978-1980, staff 50). Dr. Gaggero was also the founder and president (1977-1979)
of the European Association for Software and Information Transfer, (EASIT).
Dr. Gaggero was Visiting Scientist with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Waterways
Experiment Station (1980), where he researched problem oriented languages and parallel
processing.
From 1983 to 1987, Dr. Gaggero had management responsibility with Schlumberger Ltd.
for the hardware and software evolution of the company's well logging system with
an installed base of 2000 systems worldwide, which realized $3 billion annual revenue.
During that period, Dr. Gaggero directed the Surface Instrumentation System development
department. He also designed the new well log data recording and exchange standard,
later adopted by the American Petroleum Institute, (API), as the oil industry standard
(RP-66). He served as member of the API Committee on Log Data Recording Standards,
(1985-1993). In recognition of his technical leadership and his ability to build
consensus, he was asked to continue to serve in the API Committee for five more
years after he had left Schlumberger in 1987.
From 1987 to 1998, Dr. Gaggero was president and owner of Data Strategies International,
Inc., (DSI). During these eleven years, he won DSI a place at the forefront of the
data storage technology, by establishing effective forms of cooperation with the
major storage device manufactures as well as by developing innovative products to
meet the requirements of advanced and sophisticated users.
From 2000 to 2003, Dr. Gaggero was Senior Vice President Media Technologies with
FPD, Inc., a company specializing in large scale data migration/conversion services.
He was the architect of all the processes and software tools used to provide report
migration, check migration, and medical data migration services. Dr. Gaggero was
also responsible for the Media Services Division, located in Houston, Texas.
Dr. Gaggero is currently the CEO of Data Strategies Int'l and serves as member of
the Accredited Standards Committee X9 (ASC), X9B5 Working Group on Financial Image
Interchange (Media Based Bulk Image & Data Delivery).