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Brief Presentation

Three major pillars sustain my professional profile:
  1. A working experience of 20 years of in Europe. The last ten years, I moved from leading to managing projects and then to be confirmed into a Project Manager Office position.
  2. Qualified competences in Project (Prince2 Practitioner) and Risk Management (APM). Therefore, integrating these skills with some experience in Agile (DSDM), the whole program can be framed with solid principles (e.g. EVM) and offers a quick response, whenever it is required.
  3. Lifelong learner and good critical thinker - where knowledge and experience are powerful tools for building proficient relationships with all stakeholders, especially in a multi-cultural environment.
These are those which complete the profile:
  • A strong analytic approach helps to understand all aspects of the business; this has been proven in different areas of large organizations. Especially where the mass and complexity of data (migration) were essential.
  • Sound technical experience in web enterprise environment on J2EE / .Net ().

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Working history

Contractor / freelance Snr Project Manager / PMO - Feb 2004 - Now
ASIO / Medical Ars - Now - e-commerce (Oct 1st 2008)
Building companies portal focused on application web-oriented business models. This contract came from a colleague in BSI. Working as a consultant for customers' side: quality assurance / setting benchmarks for outsourcing / risk assessment / testing (UAT)
BSI SA Lugano - Banking acquisition (Feb 08 - Sept 08)
Program Manager Officer - I had been contacted by the company that supplied the Prince2 courses for bank ’s PM. Supporting 12 of them plus a lot of outsourcing, in the process of setting Prince2 procedures. and help a hand for tailoring procedures for the new organization.
BCS London UK - Accountancy - (Aug 07 - Jan 08) Project Manager
Starting up a new branch dedicated to customizing SAGE products. I was responsible for the software development (outsourced) / training for Jr PM coming from China.
Lombardia Servizi - Milan - Local authorities (Nov 06-Aug 07) Project Manager
There were some parallel projects focused secure web. It involved a lot managing architectural issues (from smart cards to integration to intranet). On the methodology side, these were pilot projects for migrating from RUP to "Agile" approach.
Selerant Srl - Milan - PLM (Jun 06 - Oct 06)
The company called me when things started to go bad. The project’ s aim was to update the product and integrate it with SAP. The major problem was the instability of the new version to be installed c/o Wild Flavour - Heidelberg. After meaningful discussions with Sr technician and customer ’s operational management, I prepared a new exception plan, but it had not been accepted by MD so I left the project.
Matrix Srl / Milan - Telco - (Jul 05 - Jun 06)
Re-engineering Alice Community portal for social network. It started as an upgrading of the company product; it became the workbench for improving the company methodology, where the high turnover required a substantial increase of quality in documenting code. It was the first serious engagement with Snr Management.
CSI Piemonte / Turin - Local authorities - Aug 04 - Jun 05
Big feat (>10k FP) matching technical and organizational requirements. I was in charge of one of five teams working remotely. The first issue was the mindful distribution of information within the stakeholders. Implementing use of User Experience Model for building complex GUIs.
Groupe Schneider - Lyon - Industrial (Feb 04 - Jun 04)
My previous employer became my customer. This project was the last phase of a migration from CRM (Applix) to SharePoint integrated with SAP and CAD system.
Gruppo Sigla Srl - Aug 2000 - Dec 2003 (Permanent)
With the new millennium, Genoa (where my family lives) offered some interesting opportunities. In my role as middle manager, I was involved in important projects around Europe. At the beginning my activity was focused on CRM (Applix). From this, I started to manage web project that needed a lot of data migration and integration. My role started as technical manager (where the budget was administered by the key account), after a year I was in command for the whole project, whose budgets reached 1 M euro. (Marconi Intl., Destiny Project UE, Local authorities).
Blue Arrow (London) - Jan 1995 - Jul 2000(Contract) British Gas - (Jun 1998 - Jul 2000) Project Manager
Billing system on Oracle - building GUIs for the contact center Visual Basic / SQL
BCS Jan (95 - May 98) - T. leader / Business Analyst Customizing integrations SAGE / MS Office.
Merlin Srl (CIO - Partner) Italy - UK Jan 1991 - Dec 1994
With other two colleagues (one was by direct boss), we created a product for analysis of financial (currencies) market based on technical analysis and written in Clipper.
Bulkitalia Spa Genova - Shipping Jun 85 -Dec 90 (Jnr) Business Analyst
Working on spread-sheets for financial analysis.

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Qualifications / education:

11 Aug 2008 - Risk Manager (APM)
"Obtaining this certificate is sufficient for an individual to contribute effectively towards the formal process of project risk management."
11 Nov 2007 - Prince2 Practitioner (APM) - P2R/608523
Managing of a project within an environment supporting PRINCE2
Oct 1992 - Electronic Engineering degree
Math models (fuzzy logic) - Università degli Studi di Genova

Personal details:

Date & birth place: 6/16/63 - Genova Italy
Residence: Altare - 17041 Savona Italy.
Willing to relocate in Italy / Europe
Nationality / Citizenship: Italian
Driving licence: Italian / International Visa / work permits EU

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Finance

Financial accountability for the projects
e.g. in budget, on time and the savings are generated;
  1. Assisting the management in reviews of all project economics to include costs, operational budgets, staffing requirements, resources.
  2. Then monitoring of project progress/costs and facilitates the development of recommended alternatives.
Risk assessment
  1. Assisting in the definition and tracking to prepare the Risk procedures and plans (including contingencies and fall back)
  2. Maintains awareness on emerging technologies and Project Management techniques.
Project planning
  1. Working with management on project proposals, bids, contracts, estimates, and schedules. Collaborating to the use appropriate Project Management methodologies.
  2. Resource planning and tracking (financial as well as personnel).
  3. Assisting the business unit / customer in the analyses needs and recommends appropriate planning concepts and tools to be used for all facets of planning, scheduling, and tracking projects.
  4. Proposing / working with existing metrics for measuring key project criteria.
Reporting
  1. Creating / assisting in the creation of communication plans, ensuring that appropriate information is exchanged among key stakeholders.
  2. Undertaking status review meetings among project team members and clients. Managing meetings with management and the board for updating project's progress and scaled issues.
Operational
  1. Determining client requirements and translating requirements into operational plans. These will be staffed through the process of identification and assembly of the appropriate blend of resources to meet project needs and requirements. It could include the management of off-shore resources, sub-contractors and outsourcing.
  2. Planning, scheduling, monitoring, and reporting on activities related to the concurrent projects either when they part of a program or just share a pool of resources (matrix management).
  3. Controlling project requirements, scope, and change management issues. Then arrange changes in operational plan in accordance with the agreed policies.
  4. Directing, and co-ordinate the teams ’ activities to manage and implement project(s) to the full software life cycle development (e.g. from contract/proposal initiation to final operational stage) through the adoption / configuration of automated systems for management of projects. These data could be available as dashboard, duly integrated in the control and reporting procedures.
  5. Coaching and advising team members to accomplish project goals, to meet established schedules, resolve technical/operational issues. Liaising with IT department in order to ensure the correct usage of the IT Infrastructure elements.
  6. Maintaining technical and advisory resources to ensure that of the project design align with IT Department policies.
  7. Ensuring adherence to legally binding requirements.

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    Technical stuff

    In my capacity as PM, the understanding of technical issues is one of the key factors. As the number of projects increased, my exposure to different technologies has grown. Instead of chasing the last (ephemeral) issue, I have chosen to stick to the fundamental concepts; those that can enable living and fruitful confrontation with technical people. My attention is focused on the data management. This is the junction point between the business analysis and the software building. Strong competencies in SQL/XML are useful for carry on a thoroughly critical analysis of the three parts that make most of the software application:
    1. Data management
    2. User interface
    3. Architecture
    Technologies
    1. Ms Project
      1. PERT
      2. Levelling pooled resources
      3. Critical Path
    2. Prima Vera
    3. Windows
      1. MS Exchange (Outlook anywhere (the company had only desktops for security reasons)
      2. SharePoint 2003-7
      3. Load balancing
    4. Data migration
      1. Special issue with images solved through SVG
      2. Web integration (ASP / Java)
      3. Business Intelligent(SAS)
      4. XCAP / XPath
      5. integration using SAP (MM / FI) - NetWeaver
      6. ETL (e.g. Oracle, Digger)
    5. CRM Applix / T9