Marcelo is currently the joint Assistant Director of the Institute For Ethics and Emerging Technologies .
Marcelo was born in Corrientes, Argentina, in 1979. He was
involved in the initial deployment of Open Source solutions in the
northeastern region of the country, including setting up the first
Linux-based email server for the Faculty of Medicine of the Universidad
Nacional del Nordeste, and the first intranet application for a law
firm in the state. He has also done pro bono work for the Mathematics
Department of the Universidad de Buenos Aires, working out alternative
possibilities for their website and content management needs.
As part of his consulting projects, he has been lead developer in
website and intranet developments for companies in Buenos Aires -with
heavy focus on Open Source technologies like Linux, PHP and Python-, as
well as giving advice in testing and production deployment of
enterprise-grade communication systems for such companies as Citibank
and Telefónica de Argentina. He has also developed internal
applications for customer relationship management, software license
management and software inventory control -all currently being used-,
as well as coordinating the deployment and administration of the
company's internal data center. He's also currently lead developer for
an Argentine company's Web Services and Business Process Modeling
initiatives.
Marcelo has also published articles related to technology, business
and Argentine life in magazines and online sites like Wired, Computer
Bits, The Straits Times, Canada's Your Workplace and Student Traveler.
Marcelo is also a postgraduate student of mathematics at the Universidad de Buenos Aires, where he also teaches and tutors in mathematics undergraduate student at the Universidad Nacional del
Nordeste and the Universidad de Buenos Aires. As an undergraduate he participated in -and
wrote software for- numerous exhibitions and events, including appareances on national TV. He ran tutoring groups, and edited the first student-run,
science-oriented online magazine in the Universidad de Buenos Aires'
Facultad de Ciencias Exactas. He is currently a judge for the country's
Olimpíada Nacional de Computación y Matemática, a country-wide yearly
competition aimed at encouraging mathematically talented high school
programmers, as well as forming part of a research group at the Universidad de
Buenos Aires aimed at developing theoretical tools and software for the study of some discrete mathematical phenomena related to the functioning of financial markets.