Career History  Boxever, Dublin   2016-Present

Fast growing data Science DevOps Company providing SaaS Big Data platform for single customer marketing analysis for travel companies.

 Engineering Programme Manager – PMO

o   Owned programme plan for the Boxever platform delivery, working closely with Engineering teams and Product Management

o   Kept internal and external stakeholders aligned to the status of the product delivery

o   Developed and maintained KPIs to measure and optimize engineering delivery

o   Worked with product management team to maintain the 90 days delivery plan in line with product roadmap

o   Supported the organization to implement effectively agile framework and continuous delivery (10-20 SW deliveries per day)

Cobham Wireless, Dublin

2014-2016

Part of Cobham multinational group, develop virtualized test and measurement TeraVM product for Telecom market emulating traffic for LTE, NFV, VoLTE, IoT, VPN and CyberSecurity
 

Technical Programme Manager

o   Led projects as a member of PMO team focused on delivering testing solutions for cloud/virtualized IP networks and physical IP networks

o   Delivered projects in a fast pace environment with at least 3/4 main releases per year plus a number of point releases (special releases to support customer needs)

o   Managed end-to-end TeraVM product delivery, from gathering functional requirements from sales/product management departments to handover of the product to customer support organization, including documentation, training and marketing collaterals

o   Led programme to deliver a new TeraVM virtualized product for emulation of User Plane and Control plane of classic and NFV LTE-UMTS-IMS network elements

• Vendor management acting as focal point between company and partners
• Manage Senior stakeholders engaged on business requirement definition and customer satisfaction
• Defined business and technical requirements supporting product management on the identification of new product requirements
• Supported definition and execution of acceptance tests
• Challenged the partner to deliver features in the expected time to market
• Engaged engineering team for planning and delivery development and testing

o   Engaged the key stakeholders on programme initiatives, reacting with agility to the new market/customer requirements

o   Led programme workstreams with multi-location teams composed of 2-4 internal and 3-6 offshore (Romanian) development resources

o   Supported the company in the introduction of new project management methodologies and processes

o   Supported the introduction of Jira Agile tool to the company, to improve and track the requirements from the definition to the delivery

Gilbarco Veeder-Root, Florence, Italy

2009- 2014

Large US Company that provides automation for fuel stations. Italian office focuses on indoor and outdoor electronic payment solutions

Technical Program Manager

o   Led and delivered Customer face projects for Scandinavian petrol companies, such as introduction of new EMV payment terminals integrated with banks and customers head offices. 

o   Supported business during the contract negotiation and project definition, handing over the projects to PMs and engineering team.

o   Supported product management during marketing and competitor analysis

o   Participated during RFP/RFQ answers working with regional managers

o   Coordinated the communication with R&D office in Scandinavia and R&D headquarter in Florence, improving the process across multiple locations

o   Launched new unmanned point of sale (POS) platform used in a new market (Finland), accounting for company revenue in 3 years.

o   Started a project with a new payment terminal technology in the Russian market, dealing with local company and banks

o   Managed a project for a Swedish customer with a tight 8-month timeline, developing, certifying and integrating the product with third –parties and support roll-out manager to install the system over more than 100 sites in 2 months.

o   Supervised PA-DSS certifications for 3 different payment applications with different auditors (Nixu Finland, Europoint Sweden, Cybercom Sweden)

Commprove LTD, Florence, Italy

2002-2009

Small multi-site producer of real-time monitoring systems for GSM, UMTS and LTE mobile telephone providers.

Product Manager   

2008-2009

o   Defined product requirements based on information from customers, market, new technologies and R&D

o   Prepared and updated product roadmaps

o   Supported sales teams on bids and leading field trials

o   Developed product documentation and presented product workshops to customers

o   Initiated development, then led the design, plan and delivery of a traffic monitoring product to Motorola LTD, used in a combined location-based quality of service product for monitor mobile phone traffic on the Olympic Village during the 2008 Beijing games

o   Liaised between Motorola LTD and Commprove on all joint projects

o   Ensured product quality and delivery for call quality KPIs to South African customer

R&D Team Leader

Promoted 2007-2008

o   Supervised and coordinated a team of 5 people in Italy and 2-4 in Dublin, reviewing the performance and coaching new staff

o   Collaborated on product architecture with the CTO and solution architect team during the design of a next-generation platform

o   Supported product managers and customers during product requirements definition

o   Determined technical requirements and oversaw technical development, including software on the Sun Solaris platform, firmware on vxWorks embedded platforms.

o   Provided after sales on site training to customers

o   System commissioning engineering for customer trials

R&D Senior Developer Engineer           

2002-2006

o   Led product commissioning in Ukraine as a joint project with Motorola LTD and resolved on-site problems

o   Facilitated the product commissioning in the Chinese market in collaboration with Motorola LTD

o   Presented with the 2006 Commprove Award for special projects support

o   Contributed to the electronic/hardware debug for new embedded boards.

Electronic Engineering Department, Florence University

2001

SW Developer Contractor

Education and Training

Course

College/Institution

Year

Master Degree Electronic Engineering

Florence University

2000

MSP

Axelos

2016

PMP

PMI

2013

CMMI

2010

Payment security standard

2010

SCRUM Agile Development Methodology

2009

Technical Skills

o   IT Project Management in environment using C,C++,C#,JAVA SW languages

o   Experienced in managing multiple complex projects with Agile and Waterfall frameworks

o   Configuration and customization of Jira and Confluence.

o   Knowledge of Continuous integration tools, specifically Jenkins

o   Excellent understanding of Mobile Telecommunication infrastructure and standards for GSM,UMTS, IMS and LTE networks; research and analysis of 3GPP specification

o   Excellent technical knowledge in the areas of Cloud Computing, IoT, IP, Ethernet, E1/T1,SDH, ATM, Virtualization technologies, such as, OpenStack, KVM, VmWare ESXi

o   Electronic Payment technology based on EMV, PA/PCI-DSS standards and certifications

o   Software languages: C/C++ for Unix and Windows environment, Assembly programming

o   Software packages: Microsoft Office Project, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio

Languages

Fluent in English,

Italian Mother Tongue