WORK EXPERIENCE

2018/08–present Project Manager
Unisys Consulting Belgium http://www.unisys.com
Hired by Unisys Consulting Belgium, I was assigned to the European Commission, Taxation
and Customs General Management (DG TAXUD) to provide project management services,
along with advice, guidance, consultancy, support and assistance to the officials, for the:
● management of the entire portfolio of DG’s VAT projects;
● management of the project teams (and/or supervising the subcontractors’ project
team), the project plan and all the project management procedures.
In this context, I fully exploit the opportunity to further and continuously strengthen, develop
and enhance my experience and my overall set of skills, among which worth mention:
● Management of multiple stakeholders such as the Member States delegates and
representatives (at both business and IT level), the Commission’s Business Units and
IT teams and contractors;
● Management of distributed teams;
● Problem-solving, negotiation and resolution of conflicts;
● Consensus building;
● Cost/benefits analysis;
● Procurement, offer, contract negotiation and management;
● Team playing;
● Communication, both written and verbal.

Task description
Contribute to the mission of the Taxation IT Systems sector (TIS), mainly supporting
Directorate C’s policy units and ensuring operations of the existing portfolio of all direct and
indirect taxation trans-European systems.
● Project Management of e-forms projects:
– Maintenance of the existing portfolio of distributed e-forms for Indirect
Taxation (VAT, Recovery) and their supporting tools (e-forms editor and
eforms viewer,) including operational follow-up
– Development of the Centralised e-forms for Indirect Taxation, including
liaison with the team in charge of the Direct Taxation systems and
applications on architectural aspects and functional synergies with the
related e-forms for Direct Taxation.
● Project Management of the Taxation Information and Communication project (TIC) for
the modules Core, Invoicing Rules Exchange, SCAC Statistics, VAT rates and VAT
refund.
● Project Management of the VAT Information Exchange System (VIES) and related
tools (VIES Initial Application VIA, VIES Testing Application VTA) and systems (VIES
on Web VoW).
● Project Management of Exchange of Payment Data (CESOP) technical study.
● Project Management and support to procurement of pre-studies.
● ITSM contractors follow up and horizontal contractor coordination:
– Follow up the activities of the ITSM contractors:
▪ Supervise the production of its deliverables and review their quality.
▪ Coordinate technical matters with contractors and other entities.
– Review Monthly Service report with its annexes.
– Review Monthly Consolidated Plan with its annexes.
– Review quarterly and annual reports on TIS sector activities
– Participate in the Coordination Monthly Meeting to coordinate necessary
planning, testing and deployment aspects between contractors to ensure full
transparency on project activities.
● Support sector’s planning and reporting
– Contribute to the project planning and related reporting activities:
▪ Integrate the planning information of the Member States and the
policy units into the project planning.
▪ Ensure consistency of project plans.
– Work close with ITSM contractors on the planning maintenance deliverables
(Monthly Central Project Plan, Master Plan).
– Prepare presentations on overall project status for different stakeholders.
▪ Report on the activities I’m involved in, and will ensure that the
sector leader is aware of any risks related to the project activities
I’m aware of.

The above activities entail:
● Manage and follow-up a project or set of projects in some or all of the project life
cycle phases (inception, plan, control and monitoring, closure); during the software
development phase of the plan, to manage and follow up some or all activities
(architecture, specifications, development, tests –including tests with Member States
or other partners1, etc.);
● Set up and enforce the respect of organisation, procedures and project office tasks,
raising warnings in case of non-respect of these;
● Coordinate the projects’ various stakeholders (DG TAXUD business and IT teams,
subcontractors’ teams, COTS providers, etc.);
● Enforce the quality delivery on schedule;
● Structure the information in ways that are appropriate to the target audience;
● Understand the technological aspects of the project, including the risks and the
success factors. Work with the help of solution architects/IT analysts only on complex
matters;
● Report on the project status (tasks progress, plan, actions, risks, issues, decisions,
changes, etc.) within DG TAXUD and/or with Member States or other partners;
● Escalate issues, in particular the ones with potential impacts on time or resources;
● Produce and/or review documents;
● Provide suggestions for service or methodology improvements;
● Participate in meetings with DG TAXUD, contractors, Member States and/or other
partners.
From the methodological point of view, in DG TAXUD I have gained experience in TEMPO,
PM2
 and RUP@EC methodologies.
For more details about skills see Job-related skills
For more details about activities see ATTACHMENT RECENT-RELEVANT PROJECTS

2006–2018/07 Account/Project manager
Hyperborea s.r.l. http://www.hyperborea.com
I have gained extensive experience as a project manager conducting – with full commitment to
the project objectives – a number of projects of management information systems, decision
support systems and in process support systems for public administrations (over 10
years,mainly for administrative cooperation) and, to a lesser extent, private sector (over 3
years).
As extension of pure project management, also I took care of business/requirements analysis.
I gained problem-solving skills and negotiation that I fully exploited in the resolution of conflicts,
in the stages of acceptance of deliverables, also in commercial negotiations that I took care of
both with customers and with contractors.
In addition, from 2015 and in close synergy with the commercial reference for each specific
project, I carried out accounting on the customer both in fidelization as well in demand
generation to achieve new revenues on current project (by extending the services) along with
creating new business opportunities.
From the methodological point of view as a Project Manager, I have gained experience in the
application of Agile methodologies (SCRUM) over the last three years in the company.
From the technological point of view, I have typically worked on web-based architecture
projects and / or SOA in J2EE environment on Oracle platform and PostgreSQL, and, in
several cases, with GIS component.
Last 5 years in Hyperborea I gained experience in projects related to document management
software developed on Alfresco platform.
I also performed operational activities, in particular:
● business requirements and processes analysis
● database and Business Intelligence
.
Business or sector Information and Communications Technology.

1997-2005 Analyst/Developer
Hyperborea s.r.l. http://www.hyperborea.com
I have gained my experience as an analyst / programmer participating with increasing roles
and responsibilities, in several projects of management information systems and decision
support systems, designed and built in web-based architecture, using various languages and
DBMS platforms.
I then gained extensive experience in web-based technologies, database management, data
warehouse, XML, SOA, etc … as well as in the analysis and modeling tools, development
management such as configuration management systems, ticket tracking, etc …
I have harnessed the ability to work in teams, to be proactive in problem solving, mediate
conflicts, to achieve a cohesive group in achieving the objectives.
Business or sector Information and Communications Technology

1995-1996 High School Teacher
Italian School
Mathematics and Physics teaching in different high schools.
Business or sector Education.

EDUCATION AND TRAINING

2010–current Conferences, seminar, courses on project management
Different education organizations
Average 4 events per year.

04/2019 Agile Scrum Foundation Certification EXIN

01/2013–04/2013 Agile methodologies, coaching and tutoring
Andrea Provaglio, agile senior consultant
Agile methodologies and project management.

10/2009–03/2010 Territorial and Environmental Information Systems
Formatica, Pisa
SOA architecture.
Businness Intelligence methodologies and technologies.
GIS, WebGIS, Standard OGC.
Web-oriented methodologies and technologies.

06/2009 PMP Project management Professional Certification
Project Management

01/2009 – 03/2009 PMP Certification Training
PMT Group
04/2008 Project Management basics, WBS and the 5 project phases SIAF-SSSUP

1986–1992 Laurea degree 105/110
University of Pisa, Facoltà di Scienze Matematiche, Fisiche e Naturali
Physics.

Organisational / managerial skills

Strong orientation to the objectives.
Extensive experience in managing and conducting of project and working groups, both with
regard to the technical aspects (architectural and design analysis, development, testing) that
management, internal (team work) and external (customers, suppliers, consultants).
Experience in the following methodologies:
▪Agile (SCRUM)
▪TEMPO
▪PM2
▪PMI
▪RUP@EC

Job-related skills

As project manager, I developed and consolidated leadership experience, management of
project scope, resources, time, costs, risks, suppliers and stakeholders in general.
As part of project management, I take care of the accounting on customers to consolidate the
positioning of the company, directly managing the commercial aspects for the acquisition of
new contracts.
More in detail with regards to DG TAXUD context:
● Experience with project management tool and methodologies in DG TAXUD;
● Experience of large scale systems integration projects, within IT and taxation (mainly
indirect, VAT and at a small extent, excise and customs environment);
● Technical knowledge of the European Commission standard IT products and
technologies ;
● Experience in project coordination procedures involving a recognised methodology;
● Ability to present and to animate discussions;
● Rapid self-starting capability and ability to work autonomously;
● Strong organisational and co-ordination skills;
● Ability to produce minutes, notes, business cases, vision documents, service level
agreements, terms of collaboration, planning schedules, etc.
● Experience in international/multicultural environment;
● Experience in a public administration;
● Management of multiple stakeholders such as the Member States delegates and
representatives (at both business and IT level), the Commission’s Business Units and

IT teams and contractors;
● Management of distributed teams;
● Problem-solving, negotiation and resolution of conflicts;
● Consensus building;
● Cost/benefits analysis;
● Procurement, offer, contract management;
● Team playing;
● Communication, both written and verbal.
From the specific IT point of view, my professional interests have led me to acquire skills in
particular within:
▪Web-based applications
▪Database Administration / engineering
▪System integration
▪Service Oriented architecture
▪Businness Intelligence
▪WebGIS
Specific know-how:
Good knowledge of analytical techniques based on UML and BPMN.
Good knowledge of web technologies, especially Open Source.
Good knowledge of the Java language, especially the J2EE technology.
Good knowledge of languages and technologies to the WUI (Web User Interface).
Good knowledge of XML and WebServices technologies (SOAP).
Good knowledge of techniques and methodologies in Businness Intelligence, data warehouse,
OLAP.
Proficient knowledge of OGC standards and WebGIS technologies

Digital competence

Project Management tools:
▪MsProject
▪WBSChartPro
▪JIRA
▪Trello
Project Office tools:
▪MsOffice
▪LibreOffice – OpenOffice
▪Google Drive, Google Documents, Google Sheets
Operating systems:
▪Linux (independent user)
▪Windows (independent user)
▪Mac (independent user)
RDBMS
▪Oracle 8.1.7  12g (proficient user)
▪MySQL (proficient user)
▪SQLServer (proficient user)
▪PostgreSQL (proficient user)
Programming languages
▪Java
▪Python
▪Perl
▪XML, XMLSchema, XPATH, XSLT, XSL:FO
▪PL/SQL
Developing tools: Eclipse
Analysis, Design and Modelling: UML (Visio, Enterprise Architect), BPMN (Activiti)
Framework J2EE: Spring
Framework SOA: Apache Axis, Spring WS
Data Binding: JPA Hibernate, XMLBeans
Web-oriented technologies:
▪HTML – DHTML – CSS – Javascript
▪AJAX
▪Java Servlet – JSP
▪Application server Tomcat
▪Bootstrap
MapServer: Geoserver
Software development management: GIT , SVN, Bugzilla, Request Tracker
CMS: Wordpress
Image/publishing: Abobe Photoshop, GIM