Francesco de Leo Assistant Vice President, Solutions Engineering and Chief Enterprise Architect OIT | Solutions Engineering
- Degrees
- Ph.D, The George Washington University
MS, The George Washington University
B.Sc, The George Washington University - Languages Spoken
- English, Italian, Spanish, and some Latvian
- Favorite Spot on Campus
- SVB
- Bio
- Francesco oversees Solutions Engineering, the team responsible for evaluating, designing, developing, integrating and maintaining enterprise software applications in support of the business needs of the University, including the ERP, the web content management system, the myAU portal, and the ServiceNow platforms. Francesco has extensive experience in software application development and management of IT at higher education institutions. Areas of expertise include an extensive suite of web and mobile technologies, integration platforms and process automation, identity management, cybersecurity, high availability systems, disaster recovery, knowledge management, data warehousing and business intelligence. Recent interests include decentralized social applications and blockchain technologies.
Partnerships & Affiliations
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World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
Advisory Committee Representative -
The International Institute for Knowledge and Innovation
Board of Directors
Scholarly, Creative & Professional Activities
Research Interests
Web: Social and Collaborative Networks, Semantic Web, Web Services
Mobile: Augmented Reality and Location Aware Applications
Other: Knowledge Management, Crowdsourcing
Selected Publications
Francesco de Leo (2009). Implications of National Culture on Knowledge Management: A cross-cultural analysis of Italian and American perceptions. Dissertation Research, The George Washington University
Professional Presentations
Workshop: Building Automations for Better Student and Employee Experiences [BCNET Connect: Higher Ed & Research Tech Summit, Vancouver, Canada, April 2023]
Modernizing institution infrastructure in this new era [Workato Fireside Chats, Webinar, June 2020]
Unconference: HTTP/2 and Modular Microservice Application Development [American University, Washington, DC, May 2019]
Unconference: General ledger of Personal Online Data (POD) stores [Solid Startup Workshop – Inrupt, Boston, MA, March 2019]
Round Table: New Frontiers for Global Networking [Regione Calabria, Reggio Cal, Italy May 2013]
Mobile Web: From Strategy to Prototyping and Production in 4 Months [EDUCAUSE 2012, Denver, CO, November 2011]
Social Media and Higher Education Institutions [Center for Information Technology and the Global Economy, Washington, DC, November 2011]
Proposal for an online Global Italian Business Network [Protagonisti Italiani nel Mondo, Udine Italy, October 2010]
Global Internet Trends [Microsoft Global Partners Conference - Italian Delegation, Embassy of Italy, Washington, DC, July 2010]
Web Application Security [VA SCAN 2008, October 2008]
Round Table: The New Frontiers of Communication: Mobile, Web 2.0, Open Source and Social Networking [BAMondo (Bari, Italy), May 2008]
Web Portals for Business Collaboration [CIIM New York, November 2006]
Developing ERP Integrated Enterprise Web Portals [EDUCAUSE 2003]
Developing an Online Housing Web Application [EDUCAUSE 2003]
GWeb Portal [Society for Information Technology amp; Teacher Education (SITE) 2003]
GWeb Enterprise Portal [CUMREC 2002 and EDUCAUSE 2002]