Curriculum Vitae


Personal data

Name Sven Rizzotti
Address Klingelbergstr.50
4056 Basel
Phone 061 267 14 59
Email Sven.Rizzotti@unibas.ch
Homepage http://useKit.com
Date of birth 9.9.1968
Marital status unmarried
Place of citizenship Basel


Education

2007 – 2009 University of Applied Sciences, College of education. Degree as teacher, SEK II, recognized by EDK.
2002 – 2007 University of Basel, Department of Computer Sience. Philosophical Doctorate: ’Syndicate - Individual Service Composition in the Web-Age’ (’Magna cum Laude’).
1996 – 2002 University of Basel, Institute of Mathematics, Basel, Switzerland. Study of Mathematics, Computer Science, and Philosophy. Diploma in Mathematics, Computer Science and Philosophy.
1998 Snowsports Instructor (Swiss Snowsports).
1992 Scuba Diving Instructor (Professional Association of Diving Instructors).
1988 – 1991 School of Engineering, Computer Science Brugg-Windisch, diploma.
1988 – 1991 School of Engineering, Computer Science Brugg-Windisch, diploma.


Professional experience

2005 – present Lectures in Math and Computer Science, Secondary school Leonhard, Basel.
2002 – present Assistant and Diploma work project leader, Department of Computer Science, Basel.
1996 – 2001 Internet engineer, Systor AG.
1991 – 1996 System specialist II, UBS AG, Basel.
1990 – 2004 Military: Computer engineer NA13, section System Analysis, Programming of radar simulations.
1989, 1990 Programming of relational databases, Selmoni AG, Basel.
1988 Electrician, Selmoni AG, Basel.
1984 – 1988 Apprenticeship as electrician, Selmoni AG, Basel.


Publications

S. Rizzotti, “Syndicate: Individual Service Composition in the Web-age,” Shaker Verlag, 2008.

S. Rizzotti and H. Burkhart, “208-0887 Web-based Test and Assessment System: Design Principles and Case study,” Advanced Technology for Learning, vol. 3, 2006.

S. Rizzotti and H. Burkhart, “528-098 There is More than One Correct Solution: From Simple Questions to Explorative Simulations with Progress Maps,” in Computers and Advanced Technology in Education, V.Uskov, Ed., IASTED. ACTA Press Anaheim, October 2006.

S. Rizzotti and H. Burkhart, “Web-based Test and Assessment System: Design Principles and Case study,” in Web-Based Education, V.Uskov, Ed., IASTED. CA, USA: ACTA Press Anaheim, January 2006, pp. 37–42.

C. Weber, S. Lichtsteiner, S. Rizzotti, A.-B. Utelli, and B. Ernst, “Pharmaskyou, a virtual test and training system for pharmaceutical sciences as an integrated part of the blended learning concept pharma2 [pharmasquare],” L. Cantoni and C. McLoughlin, Eds. Chesapeake, VA: AACE: World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia and Telecommunications, 2004, pp. 1689–1691.

S. Lichtsteiner, S. Rizzotti, C. Weber, A. Vögtli, H. Burkhart, R. Neier, V. V. Khov-Tran, G. Folkers, and B. Ernst, “Pharmasquare (pharma2),” CHIMIA International Journal for Chemistry, vol. 57, no. 3, pp. 116–120(5), March 2003.

S. Rizzotti, H. Burkhart, M. Lanz, and H. Leuenberger, “LivingFormulae and PhysPharm: A tool for science education and its application,” Proc. of 3rd International Conference on New Learning Technologies, 2001.


Awards

Syndicate has been selected as finalist of the European eLearning Award (EureleA) 2009.

Winner of the Non-Commercial Software Competition, Conference for Computers and Advanced Technology in Education, Lima, Oktober 2006.

Winner of the Medida Prix 2003, University of Duisburg, September 2003.

Winner of the Innovation Award E-Learning 2003, University of Basel, July 2003.

Highest certification as Sun Solaris System specialist (System Expert 2000), April 1998.

Apprenticeship with award, Basel, March 1988.


Practical experience

Computer Science

Network administration, Development of relational databases with Oracle, Sybase, mySQL; Programming in C, C++, Ada, Ob jective-C, div. Assemblers, Java, Perl, Shell-Script programming, JavaScript, HTML, XML; Multi process programming in C, Java distributed processing with CORBA. Apple-Macintosh, NeXT, Linux and Sun/Solaris System Administration.

Teaching experience

4 years Math and Computer Science in secondary school at the Gymnasium Leonhard, Basel. 6 years assistance of lectures and exercises, Department of Computer Science, Basel. 10 years teaching of instructor candidates in Methodology and Sport.