Born: 9 July 1972 in Bologna (IT) Sex: Male
Address: Gruenbergerstr. 54, D-10245, Berlin, Germany
Languages: Italian (native), English (fluent), German (basic)
Profile
Extremely motivated person, objective driven, with high skills in team building and communication, committed to achieve results. Interested and fond of technology; deep knowledge in Software Development Processes as well as in all specific engineering disciplines as Requirement Engineering, Change Management and Development/Design.
In my professional experience I have always tried to learn and to extend my capabilities constantly putting my limits under a great strain. I have participated in many projects covering different roles, from the development to the project management – also with formal methods as Prince 2 – in different environments (embedded development, financial software, networking applications).
In the last four years I had the chance to develop my idea – build a collaboration platform for software projects development – as well as to face and compare my experience with many IT professionals on the international market, fact that has deeply strengthen my vision and experience in the Software Development Area.
Job Experiences
2006 to present - Freelancer - IT Consultant, Berlin (Germany)
Software Development Process Analyst and Consultant
Analysis and Assessment of Software Development Processes, against standard process models (RUP, CMMI, ISO15540...) or for performance or efficiency improvement. Proposal for improvement, capacity planning and costs estimation for change, definition of change management plan and migration strategies.
Support and Coaching to initiate and drive the change process until the client is able to manage process effectively itself.
Experienced agile coach (Certified Scrum Coach - CSC) and trainer, helping agile teams to take control over the processes and deliver Software Product effectively.
Helping companies management to visualize the opportunity of switching to a Lean Development approach, focusing on delivering maximum value to the market.
2003–2006 - NCH International (NCH S.p.A.), Bologna (Italy)
CTO - Chief Technical Officer
Responsibility over every technical matter as well as over strategic decision related to market and product evolution. The developed product Miro.BAS is a collaboration platform for development of complex projects and support full traceability between all the artifacts belonging to Software Development. The product strategic road map definition is one of the most important and difficult task to accomplish has to mix the vision of the company with the need of the market.
Leading and coordinating technical activities of distributed teams across various countries in Europe, defining and validating high-level Requirements as well as driving specification definition and leading R&D department. Attending fairs, writing papers and strengthen sales with customers as a support to pre-sales and post-sales activities.
2001–2003 - NCH S.p.A., Bologna (Italy)
Product Line Manager - Director
Responsibility over a “software” production line, control and management of budget and resources, management of customers and definition of product evolution paths. Monitoring and continuous optimisation of the software development process in order to maximise resources usage as well as efficiency and performance in fulfilling customers’ requests.
2000–2001 - NCH S.p.A., Bologna (Italy)
Project Manager
Leader of a team of professionals in a high strategic project to define the standard process and infrastructure (tools, templates, roles) to be adopted company wide. The company had a software factory of more than 250 people developing with different technologies (Mainframe, JAVA, C/C++, Smalltalk, Web…) and distributed over a wide territory.
The major issue to tackle was to keep as more independent from technology as possible the main process and infrastructure, in order to reduce the cost of information and status analysis.
1999–2000 - Cable & Wireless PLC, Bologna (Italy)
Application Development Manager
Responsibility over the Development Factory of C&W (Bologna ex. dS Logics, acquired in 1999, about 40 people) chief architect and applications manager. Development of Intranet/Internet/Extranet application for Document Management, E-Commerce, Expert Systems for Medical Study Research, Trading On-Line, Enterprise Portals.
1997–1999 - dS Logics S.r.l. – dS DataSystem Group, Bologna (Italy)
Software Architect – System Engineer
Design and Development of TCP/IP network solution, including hardware infrastructure design and network modelling. Extensive usage of all Web Based technology, deep knowledge of TCP Application Protocols (HTTP/S, SMTP, IMAP, POP3) contribution to Apache.Org community as a developer and a community member.
Specialised in Microsoft Technologies related to Application Development and Internet, development of custom solutions for selected customers with specific needs using MS SQL Server, MS Transaction Server, MS Internet Information Server, MS Index Server. Experienced in the use of Visual Studio both for COM/COM+ component creation as well as ASP advanced design using Run-Time Controls.
Experienced in Open-Source technologies and wide usage of C/C++, Java and Perl to develop TCP/IP solutions based on Linux/UNIX platforms (Digital UNIX, Sun OS, Open VMS). Use of Postgres SQL, MySQL, Perl (mod_perl with Apache), development of modules for Apache using C/C++ API.
1993–1997 - TAOR S.n.c., Bologna (Italy)
Shareholder - System Engineer
Minority participation in the company (as a shareholder), acting as responsible for the entire IT infrastructure, including Network, Applications and Hardware maintenance. Development of various utility applications for specific use of proprietary technology in electronic control of Hardware. Part-Time collaboration as a practical activity during university research.
Conferences and Workshops
- "Prince 2 - Project Management Training", Bologna (IT), October 2003 (3 days - Workshop)
- “Effective Presentation Training”, Bologna (IT), September 2002 (4 days – Workshop)
- “Team Building Training”, Bologna (IT), October 2001 (3 days – Workshop)
- “Effective Management”, Milan (IT), July 2001 (5 days – Workshop)
- IBM Solutions,”Solutions: The Technical Developer Conference”, Las Vegas (NV) - USA, August 2000 (5 days - Workshops)
- Microsoft MCSE Certification, Milan (IT), March 2000
- WPC 99, Windows Professional Conference 1999, Milan (IT), October 1999. (4 days - Workshops)
- WPC 98, Windows Professional Conference 1998, Milan (IT), October 1998. (3 days - Workshops)
- WPC 97, Windows Professional Conference 1997, Milan (IT), October 1997. (3 days - Workshops)
- CISCO Systems, CCNA Certification, CCNP Training