ceoloide's comments

Thank you very much Eduardo! You are the first that gives me a possible technical explanation.

McDonald's are in most cases wired with ADSL or faster connection, since they serve free wifi in the store. I would guess they use the same connection for the POS.

My two guesses were:

1) Fast connection with fast standard and maybe custom software to keep the channel open. 2) Pre-authorization, given the small sums paid and the low probability of frauds.

I do also think that McDonald's might have a specific agreement with a gateway or a bank. They use Ingenico's POS, so I ruled out custom hardware.

I will update the thread if I find anything interesting! Thank you again!

Marco

Can you point me to specific case studies or research papers? I think they would be an interesting read.

Many thanks in advance!

I agree! Congratulations!

Thanks for the suggestions! Nit picking is good ;-) I will revise the résumé and include your comments.

At first I had detailed the projects I worked on in Accenture, but they ended up taking too much space. I'll try to improve on that.

Thanks!

I currently work as a tech consultant for Accenture in Italy, but I would like to move to London and work for a software company with a strong software culture.

The first big project in Accenture that I worked on was an image recognition service that calculated KPIs and metrics of the shelf layout in supermarkets. Think of a panorama app to capture a whole shelf mashed together with Google Goggles to recognize specific products. In this project I designed the information workflow, the mobile app for Symbian and Android, the back-office tools. I directly contributed to the code of the Android application, improving performance and stability and even building new features. I was considered an SME of the whole solution and I was chosen more than once to participate in knowledge transfer sessions with new teams and managers.

The second big project I worked on was a knowledge sharing intranet portal, integrating multiple systems and allowing the user to search on them from a single page. Here I had a smaller involvement in the design of the solution: I was in charge of security, data model, and the web-services. I quickly became very knowledgeable about the entire solution architecture, given that I acted as a bridge between the business and dev teams. After project go-live I was nominated to maintenance coordinator, thanks to my knowledge of the system, and I got the chance to supervise teams of 5 and 2 people in the Philippines and India.

In my free time I'm working on a manga reader app for Windows Phone 7.5 (w/ custom reading functionality and web scraping on manga portals), an open-source transfer manager library for Windows Phone 7.5 (https://github.com/ceoloide/DownloadManager) and in the spare time contributing to the code of the upcoming metwit.com Android app (although very small time is left to do that). When I don't code I participate to the Appsterdam meetings here in Milan.

I'm reading from Milan - Italy