David Cittadini was an important technologist in the

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business market in the 1990s. He was involved in creating and leading a number of important technology developments within

, such as

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and Distributed object computing. He was a member of a number of

technology-related standard groups (including Standards New Zealand) and was involved in a number of international standard bodies, such as the

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, and was an energetic proponent of leading-edge approaches and technologies in

Technology career

He is recorded as being the initial Technology Architect for the INCIS Project and was strongly identified as being the initiator of the leading-edge technology approach of the INCIS project. However, the August 1994 Sapphire Technology Ltd handover report, tabled as part of the 2000 Ministerial Inquiry into the project, Cittadini recommended that New Zealand Police should not proceed with the project; the project subsequently collapsed (see INCIS). He has contributed to many technology-based books, such a
Java Development on PDAs
where Cittadini is credited as a key contributor by the author Daryl Wilding-McBride. He is the author of many published technology articles, such as a Java Naming article published in the Java Developers Journal. He was an early adopter of a number of leading-edge technologies, such as those developed by

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. He was the only non-IBM person on IBMs internal technology review team and was the only person to develop and release a product using

technology He created the initia
firewall configuration script
which is now a very important security component in numerous Unix implementations, such as FreeS/WAN. Cittadini was one of the earliest

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and Australia. He created a comprehensive Solution architecture, called the Sapphire Enterprise Architecture for analyzing, describing and building complex enterprise-based Information Technology systems.

Audio and film career

In 201
Cittadini
along with Andrew Hills, used

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techniques and technologies on the Australian short fil
The Blind Passenger
On 29 August 2013 and 31 August 2013 he recorde
The Metropolitan Orchestra
using binaural recording techniques, the first recording of an orchestra in Australia using binaural recording techniques.

Filmography

Short films

Music

Cittadini is the developer and maintainer of the

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Library, which contains a complete list and description of every guitar

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built by Bjorn Juhl.

References

External links

David Cittadini secondary source material:
INCIS Handover Report
Handover report written by Sapphire Technology Ltd.
Ministerial Inquiry into INCIS
Complete Ministerial inquiry into the New Zealand Police INCIS project.
Embracing Risk: What we can learn from the INCIS Experience
Draft thesis by Emeritus Professor Jim Taylor and Elizabeth Van Every, University of Montreal, on the INCIS Project.
Java Development on PDAs: Building Applications for PocketPC and Palm Devices
Book contribution by Cittadini.

Naming Services article written by Cittadini for Java Developers Journal.

Details the firewall script written by Cittadini and now included in many Linux implementations.
Early Taligent supporter
Press report showing Cittadini's support for

technologies. * *
Complete description of every known BJFE pedal
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