Professional Experience
Delivery Lead
UniCredit S.p.A. – Bologna, Italy
December 2021 – Present
Informative Systems for Banking and Financial Industry
Group Digital Solutions, Accounts and Branch Solutions
- Know Your Customer (KYC) systems for Italy, Germany, Austria.
- Global Knowledge Management (KM) system.
- Ensuring a smooth functioning of technical operations, building transparency, alignment and trust.
- Directing and monitoring suppliers progresses.
- Assisting training and recruitment.
- Ensuring compliance with global architectures and regulatory needs.
- Establishing a technical vision of the products, setting goals and ensuring overall client satisfaction.
- Outsourcing
- Software Architecture
- Solution Design
- System Integration
- IT Operations
- Project Management
IT Director, Head of Software Engineering and Project Management
Re Mago Ltd – Manchester, UK
March 2018 – October 2021
Visual Collaboration platforms for Enterprise, Education, and Healthcare
- Reporting directly to CEO, I’m in charge of the whole R&D process, being the main contact for customers, partners, and C-level stakeholders.
- Responsible for strategic planning, product planning, development, and support of all commercial applications.
- Effectively drafting NDA, LOI, Project Charter, SOW, Master Contract, EULA, Support Agreement, R&D Tax Claim (UK), and all necessary agreements by negotiating with clients and legal departments.
- Devising products/services options, pricing, and contracts.
- Scope, costs, time, resources, risks, quality, and KPI management.
- Managing products from business case definition to design, development and deploy, leading cross-functional teams of Designers, Software Engineers, Testers, and DevOps.
- Delivering End-to-End global, large-scale solutions for Windows, Android, Chrome OS, iOS, and Web.
- Grew the team from 3 to 12 members in 3 years by creating a dynamic culture of trust, healthy conflict, commitment, accountability, and results. Proven track record of the ability to attract first-class talent and build a high performing technical organization.
- Drove design transition of the core back-end infrastructure to transform a monolithic architecture into a scalable and geographically distributed microservices architecture, hosted on Microsoft Azure.
- Agile methodologies with continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines.
- Track record of productivity improvement and costs reduction.
- Startup
- Program Management
- Product Management
- Project Management
- Risk Management
- Business Development
IT Project Manager PMP®, IT Systems Architect, Team Leader
IN.VA. S.p.A. – Aosta, Italy
January 2008 – March 2018
Design and Development of Informative Systems
- Design, development, and maintenance of 40+ software solutions and 30+ outsourcing projects for Aosta Valley region, Municipality, and Local Health Unit.
- Successfully doubled team members (from 4 to 8), designing a standard software architecture and improving the entire software lifecycle to respect time/cost and meet SLA requirements of the support services.
- Maximized component reuse, getting -30% on development times and +50% quality/maintainability.
- 20% reduction in average project costs by replacing proprietary software components with open-source or internally developed components.
- Through automated web tests, improved overall quality by 18% reducing update/regression bugs.
- Significantly contributed to obtaining the Company’s ISO certification by defining and documenting the standards for the software development life cycle.
- Project Management
- Microsoft Project
- Jira
- Software Architecture
- Solution Design
- Outsourcing
- Scrum
- Waterfall
- SDLC, Software Development Lifecycle
- System Integration
- Virtualization
- VMware
- VirtualBox
- Hyper-V
- Linux Server
- IT Operations
- Design Patterns
- Windows Development
- Webservices
- .NET Framework
- ASP.NET
- C#
- MVC
- HTML
- CSS
- jQuery
- Bootstrap
- NHibernate
- Entity Framework
- Json
- REST
- XML
- SOAP
- SOA
- SharePoint
- Oracle Database
- SQL Server
- MySQL
- PostgreSQL
- MariaDB
CEO, Content Manager
DevSpy – Aosta, Italy
May 2001 – July 2010
Informative Website
- Ideated an independent web portal dedicated to software development for Microsoft Windows, to share source code, open-source projects, and programming techniques.
- 10k+ registered professionals, 1mln+ pages/month visited, 60+ authors.
- Reviewed on MSDN Microsoft Developer Network (website), PC World (137/2002), PC Professionale (May 2002 and June 2003), Internet Magazine (April 2002), Internet Yellow Pages (2003 and 2004), and other specialized publications.
- Entrepreneurial Mindset
- Business Development
- Graphic Design
- Full-Stack Development
- MySQL
- SQL Server
- SEO
- Google Analytics
- Google AdSense
- Googe Ads (AdWords)
- IT Operations
IT Project Manager, Team Leader, IT Business Analyst, IT Trainer
InvaSIT S.r.l. – Aosta, Italy
July 2001 – December 2007
Design and Development of Informative Systems
- Design, development, and maintenance of 30+ software solutions for the Public Administration.
- Effectively introduced the .NET Framework in the Company, managing the transition from VB6 to C# while defining standards, guidelines, tools, processes, and training developers.
- Directed up to 16 programmers on several simultaneous projects.
- Maximized reuse by inventing a Company Starter Kit for starting new projects: a core-layer solution, configurable and extensible, which incorporated all the state-of-the-art features produced over time in many products. Outcome: development time reduction -30%, tremendous improvement of maintainability.
- Designed and managed the implementation of the Company’s Intranet (CMS, employees registry, assets registry and booking, vacation and permits approval flow, reporting, CRM and ERP integration).
- Project Management
- Microsoft Project
- Jira
- Software Architecture
- Solution Design
- Outsourcing
- Scrum
- Waterfall
- SDLC, Software Development Lifecycle
- System Integration
- Virtualization
- VMware
- VirtualBox
- Hyper-V
- Linux Server
- IT Operations
- Design Patterns
- Windows Development
- Webservices
- .NET Framework
- ASP.NET
- C#
- MVC
- HTML
- CSS
- jQuery
- Bootstrap
- NHibernate
- Entity Framework
- Json
- REST
- XML
- SOAP
- SOA
- SharePoint
- Oracle Database
- SQL Server
- MySQL
- PostgreSQL
- MariaDB
Software Developer, Network Manager
Datavision S.r.l. – Aosta, Italy
June 1998 – July 2001
Design and Development of Geographic Informative Systems
- Microsoft Windows client-server applications development with integration of mapping tools.
- Software for Public Administration and Inter-Regional projects (France, Switzerland, Italy).
- Reorganized local network services (Active Directory, DHCP, private and public DNS, VPN, proxy, firewall, fault tolerance systems, antivirus), web area (Company websites) and Internet services (e-mail, FTP sites).
- Project Management
- Microsoft Project
- Jira
- Software Architecture
- Solution Design
- Outsourcing
- Scrum
- Waterfall
- SDLC, Software Development Lifecycle
- System Integration
- Virtualization
- VMware
- VirtualBox
- Hyper-V
- Linux Server
- IT Operations
- Design Patterns
- Windows Development
- Webservices
- .NET Framework
- ASP.NET
- C#
- MVC
- HTML
- CSS
- jQuery
- Bootstrap
- NHibernate
- Entity Framework
- Json
- REST
- XML
- SOAP
- SOA
- SharePoint
- Oracle Database
- SQL Server
- MySQL
- PostgreSQL
- MariaDB
Production Engineer
Tecdis S.p.A. – Chatillon, Italy
September 1994 – June 1998
Production of Liquid Crystal Displays (LCD) and panels
- Experimentation and introduction of new products, working in the “Production Engineering and Process Management” department.
- Technical contacts with Italian and foreign suppliers.
- ISO certifications for QA.
- Project Management
- Microsoft Project
- Jira
- Software Architecture
- Solution Design
- Outsourcing
- Scrum
- Waterfall
- SDLC, Software Development Lifecycle
- System Integration
- Virtualization
- VMware
- VirtualBox
- Hyper-V
- Linux Server
- IT Operations
- Design Patterns
- Windows Development
- Webservices
- .NET Framework
- ASP.NET
- C#
- MVC
- HTML
- CSS
- jQuery
- Bootstrap
- NHibernate
- Entity Framework
- Json
- REST
- XML
- SOAP
- SOA
- SharePoint
- Oracle Database
- SQL Server
- MySQL
- PostgreSQL
- MariaDB
