IQVIA

From October2013– Present

IQVIA Holdings Inc. focuses on technology solutions and contract research services in the health care sector.

Role Associate Director

Reporting directly to Business Technology Partner and member of the management team, for the Central, East and South Europe Project Portfolio Management, the main challenge is to work in a multi-country (32) environment with the primary scope to re-engineer the entire data life-cycle and re-platforming the legacy solution with an innovative solution devoted to increasing the value of data

Achievements Started in IQVIA as a Project Manager, the scope was to follow international projects based on a standard solution for a Business Intelligence service. Project’s stakeholders were Business Technology Partners, Country General Managers, and Client Service Consultants, Production Teams, Statistical office and Global Support Team.

Moved to the role of Program Manager responsible for a program based on a global Data Warehouse solution, the scope was to follow both product development and country deployment projects, accordingly with Corporate strategy.

For product development, the responsibility was to manage the entire product lifecycle, collecting new requirements from the business, from the technical design authority, and from the production teams. These requirements were discussed with Product Owner and Product Architect in the regular Change Advisory Board with the scope to define new features and releases.

Promoted to the Associate Director Role, as part of the management team, for the Central, East and South Europe Project Portfolio Management with a specific focus on Big Data re-platforming projects.

Leading a team composed of 10 project managers with the responsibility to improve the project delivery performance with a special focus on the Agile methodology and innovation (Big Data / Analytics).

Responsible for a big project (1M$+ budget) in an important Country, with the goal to re-engineer the entire data processes, increasing the value of the information assets, and improving the data management domain. The new solution is based on the Corporate Big Data platform.

Accenture

From September2008to September 2013

Accenture provides management and technology consulting services and solutions.

Role

Information Management and Business Intelligence Consultant

As part of the Information Management line of business, working on Information Management and Business Intelligence projects with the scope to do the analysis of the entire data lifecycle value, design, implement and maintain new solutions for the Clients.

Achievements

The first engagement (6 months) was a Data Management/Information Management Strategy project for the United Arab Emirates – National Company for Onshore Oil Operation focused to obtain a deep understanding of the ADCO current information capabilities and practices, define the future scenario for each of the Data/Information Management capabilities in term of Data Governance and Business Intelligence needs, and Design & Plan the solution.

The next engagement (more than 4 years) was the Business Intelligence solution for Mediaset Premium (Italian Pay TV) project with the focus on the entire software life-cycle: analyze, design, build, test, and deploy. The focus was increased in the last year on the Application Maintenance for the Business Intelligence and Billing solutions based on contracted service level agreement.

Oracle

From January1999 to August 2008

Oracle Corporation supplies software for enterprise information management.

Role

Technical Project Leader

As part of the Database and Information Management Line of Business, involved in the design and implementation of complex and business critical solutions and in Infrastructure Operation & Maintenance services.

Achievements

Joined Oracle as Senior Technical Analyst in Support Services team, with the scope to support Customers and Partners in technical issues related to the installation, maintenance and use of Oracle products assuring the highest level of customer satisfaction. Main activities covered in this role were: Oracle database server upgrade, migration, server assessment, setup, configuration, troubleshooting, performance tuning, and backup/recovery.

Promoted as Senior Technical Architect with the role to design infrastructure solutions in order toincrease business service availability, reaching an agile architecture where valuable IT assets should be quickly adapted to business requirements, reducing the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO), and increasing the Information Lifecycle Management (ILM) process.

Finally engaged as Technical Project Leader in the Infrastructure Operation and Maintenance services with the scope to guarantee the availability of architecture accordingly with the service level agreements and to support all development and quality-assurance teams in their tasks. This kind of service is based on ITIL (IT Infrastructure Library) practices.

Brainforce

From June1997 to December 1998

Brain Force (former Tema Studio di Informatica)

Role Oracle Database Administration

Perform typical database administration tasks such as space management, user and security administration, and performance tuning activities.

Personal Skills

Languages

Italian: Mother tongue

English: written, spoken, comprehension – Good

Education

1996 – Bachelor in Computer Science Engineerat Politecnico di Milano

1990 – High School Diploma – Perito Industriale Capotecnico at Istituto Tecnico Industriale Statale Galileo Galilei – Crema (CR)

Skills

Information Management:

·         Business Analytics

·         Metadata Management

·         Data Governance

·         Performance Management

·         Master Data Management

·         Business Intelligence

·         Data Quality and Profiling

·         Data Integration

Project / Program Management

·         Methodologies: Waterfall, Agile and SAFe

·         Risk and Problem Management

·         Finance Control

·         Leadership

·         Change Management

·         Project Value Analysis

·         Business Case writing

·         Reporting

·         Project Portfolio Management

Training

·         Leading a Team (Harvard Manage Mentor)

·         Making a Presentation (Harvard Manage Mentor)

·         Managing Your Time (Harvard Manage Mentor)

·         Managing Projects (Project Management Professional Limited)

·         Problem Solving and Decision Making (a Kepner and Tregoe course)

·         ITIL Foundation Course (ITIL Certification – EXIN exam)