• System Integration (Ottimo)
• Project Management (Ottimo)
• ECM (Buona)
• DataBase Administrator (Ottimo)
• UNIX (Ottimo)
• SOA (Buona)
• ORACLE (Ottimo)
• SQL Server (Buona)
• Java (Buona)
• Visual Studio (Buona)
• Eclipse (Buona)
• Configuration Management (Ottimo)
• Test Management (Ottimo)

Luglio 2004_Laurea Magistrale in Informatica

Since 11/2015 : Devops Engineer

I work in the Design & Engineering department for Avaloq Group. My team is in charge:

• definition and development of the integration and management infrastructure of

  runtime platforms

• definition and development of the tools and processes necessary for the

  governance of development, release, deployment and operation processes from

  a DevOps perspective

• definition of standards and automation of the software life cycle, from

  development to oprations

  My main activities are:

• Re-Design of Banking IT Services and Products using standard BluePrint with

  Enterprise Architect tool (design based on TOSCA)

• Design and development of Puppet class needed to build PaaS and SaaS layers

• Design and development of process , scripts and Jenkins Jobs needed for the

  build and the deployment

• Design and document of Operation Model for maintenance process

• Design and development automation and infrastructure needed to build

  automatically a service from its BluePrint

• Design and development automation and infrastructure needed to manage

  automatically Software evolution along his entire life cycle

• Working closely with the Infrastructure team and development team to

  understand what their need

• Support the Change and Release process and IT operations teams

Main technologies / tools used:

Puppet, Hira, Jenkins, Rundeck, Jira, Git, GitLab, Artifactory, Harvest, Joomla, Enterprise Architect, SVN, SCRUM, Agile, Waterfall, Jira, Kanban Board, ITIL, Unix Shell Scripting, PL/SQL, python, groovy scripting, CMDB IBM Maximo, HP MPP, HP CSA, MP OO, HP Service Manager

09/2014 – 11/2015 : Configuration & Release Manager:

Configuration Manager for Bank IT systems at Avaloq Source (ex.B-Source):

• Handling of software versioning process and Software Repositories (Harvest,

  Avaloq Ice)

• Software deploy on TST, ACC, PRD environment (Avaloq and third parts

  software)

• Set Up software products for new customer

• Define and review SetUp step list

• Design and development automation for deploy and setUp of Banking Software

• Verify software deploy procedure and dependencies

• Work around on deploy problems

• Handling and planning of delivery build

• Support development and testing teams for deploy problem in their environments

  Main technologies / tools used:
  Git, Harvest, Joomla, SVN, Jboss, Oracle, Unix Shell Scripting, PL/SQL, python, groovy scripting, Zena

PREVIOUS EXPERIENCES

09/2013 – 08/2014
MAC SOLUTIONS S.A. – www.macsol.ch – Via V. D'Alberti 1 – 6830 CHIASSO

IT advisoring for B-Source (Banking BPO)

Configuration Manager

• Dates • Name and address of

employer

• Type of business or sector

• Occupation or position held

  • Main activities and responsibilities

Configuration Manager for Bank IT systems at B-Source:
• Software deploy on TST, ACC, PRD environment (Avaloq and Interfaces)
• Set Up software products for new customer
• Define and review SetUp step list
• Design and development automation for deploy and setUp of Banking Software
• Verify software deploy procedure and dependencies
• Work around on deploy problems
• Handling and planning of delivery build
• Support development and testing teams for deploy problem in their environments

Main technologies / tools used:
Git, Harvest, Joomla, SVN, Jboss, Oracle, Unix Shell Scripting, PL/SQL, python, groovy scripting, Zena

  01/2010 – 09/2013

Opera21 Spa

IT System Integrator – Sectors: Telecommunications , Insurance, Industry

Program Manager / Project Manager

• Type of business or sector

• Occupation or position held

• Main activities and responsibilities

As a Program Manager I handled projects in the field of IT-Governance, covering for some also the role of Project Manager. In particular I was in charge the following areas:

• –  Vodafone – Telecommunications

  • â–ª  Configuration & Release Management

  • â–ª  Software Quality Assurance

  • â–ª  DBA and SQL Script Development

  • â–ª  Applications Development & Maintenance in HR and CRM

  • â–ª  CITRIX CaaS – re-engineering for farm upgrade

  • â–ª  1st-level system and application support

• –  DirectLine – Insurance
  â–ª Quality Assurance & Functional Test (AGILE/SCRUM methods)

• –  Cobra Telematics – Industry
  â–ª Functional and Integration Test & Technical Support (AGILE/SCRUM

  methods)

  The main tasks as Program Manager were:

• Coordination of Project Managers

• Scope definition and start of projects (Project Chart)

• High level team management and conflict resolution

• Definition of methods, quality standards, and tools to be adopted

• projects progress monitoring

• Handling of high-level relationships with the client and stakeholders

• Monitoring of economic indexes of projects

• regularly improve products and/or services offered to the client, providing a

  feedback to the internal departments (Development, Sales, Management)

• assist the sales area in updating and creating solutions and services to be

  marketed

  The main tasks as Project Manager were:

• Evaluation and feasibility analysis

• Collection of requirements and definition of client’s targets

• Project and service design

• Project Planning (development of Project Plan)

• Team definition and resources management (development of Project Resource

  Plan),

• Management of project lifetime, from feasibility study to post go-live assistance

• monitoring progress of Project activities

• Financial Control (revenue/cost, monitoring economic indexes)

• Relationship with the customer and with all Stakeholders

  Main technologies / tools used:
  PMP, SCRUM, Agile, Waterfall, Jira, Kanban Board, CMMI, ITIL, MS Project, SAP, People Soft, Jenkins, GIT

04/2006 – 12/2009
Cointer s.r.l. – www.cointer.it –Milan

IT Advisoring for Vodafone (Telecommunication)

Configuration and Release Manager – IT Project Manager

• Type of business or sector

• Occupation or position held

• Main activities and responsibilities

02/2008 – 12/2009 : IT Project Manager

Handling of projects and services in the scope of IT-Governance at Vodafone Italia:

• –  Configuration & Release Management

  • â–ª  CM Standard Operation Procedure definition and improvement

  • â–ª  CM tools design and development for Continuous Integration

  • â–ª  Release planning and SDLC monitoring and improvement

  • â–ª  Implementing a CMMI compliant software development lifecycle

• –  Quality Assurance & Testing Automation

  • â–ª  Test process assessment and strategy definition

  • â–ª  Test Management

  • â–ª  Test automation project for Front End of Loyalty system

    The main tasks as Project Manager were:

• Evaluation and feasibility analysis

• Collection of requirements and definition of client’s targets

• Project and service design

• Project Planning (development of Project Plan)

• Team definition and resources management (development of Project Resource

  Plan),

• Management of projects lifetime, from feasibility study to post go-live assistance

• monitoring progress of Project activities

• Financial Control (revenue/cost, monitoring economic indices)

• Relationship with the customer and with all Stakeholders

  Main technologies / tools used:
  PMP, Waterfall, Kanban Board, CMMI, ITIL, MS Project, SAP

  01/2007 – 01/2008: Configuration & Release Manager

  Configuration Manager & Environment Administrator for several IT systems of Vodafone Italy. The main tasks were:

• Definition and improvement of processes of Software Development Life Cycle

• Handling and developing of tools for Configuration Management System

• Planning and Monitoring of software release processes

• Handling of software versioning process and sowfware Repositories (CVS,

  SVN, RCS, Dimension)

• Handling of software baseline

• Handling of software deploy in the scope of development and testing

  environment

• Handling of source code compile and build process (Java, c, c++)

• Database Administrator in the scope of development /test (Oracle 10g, SQL-

  Server)

• Unix Server Administrator in the scope of development/test (Sun, HP)

  Main technologies / tools used:
  CVS, SVN, Dimension, Java, ANT, C, C++, Oracle, Visual Basic, HP Quality Center, Unix Shell Scripting, PL/SQL

  04/2006 – 1/2007 : Test Manager

  Test Manager for systems in area of Data warehouse and CRM at Vodafone Italia. The main tasks were:

• Define Test Strategy and Methods

• Estimate cost of test activities

• Planning test activities (development of Test Plan)

• Handling human resources of test team (recruitment, training)

• Check and validation of the appropriate coverage of functional requirements

• Defining and handling of defect management strategy and defect life cycle

• Analysis and investigation on defect and technical issues

• Handling test activities report

• handling of all test phases: Unit, No-Regression, Integration, Performance,

User Acceptance

• Design and automation of Functional Test, using and enhancing custom tools (VB, Unix Shell Scripting, PL/SQL Procedure) integrated with HP-Mercury Quality Centre for reporting and scheduling

• Drawing up and validating Test documentation (Test Book, Test Report) with HP-Mercury Quality Centre

  Main technologies / tools used:
  CVS, SVN, Dimension, Java, Oracle, HP Quality Center, HP Quick Test, HP Load Runner, Unix Shell Scripting, PL/SQL, IBM Rational Team Concert

  Other short projects:
  Performance test for SAP installation at SAIPEM (utility company) and Zegna (fashion company):
  • Define Perfomance Test Strategy , Methods and tools
  • Estimate cost of test activities
  • Planning test activities (development of Test Plan)
  • Development of Test Case
  • Check and validation of the appropriate coverage of functional requirements
  • Design and development performance test script with OpenSTA
  • Perform performance test execution
  • Analysis and Benchmarking of performance test results

  Main technologies / tools used:
  HP Quality Center, HP Quick Test, HP Load Runner, Unix Shell Scripting, PL/SQL , Open STA

   04/ 2005 – 04/2006
HRM Informatica – http://www.hrminformatica.it/ – Milan

IT Advisor at Vodafone (Telecommunication)

Test Automation Engineer

• Type of business or sector

• Occupation or position

held • Main activities and

responsibilities

Test Automation Engineer for systems in area of Data warehouse and CRM at Vodafone Italia. The main tasks were:

• Design and development of automatic Functional Testing, system, and Integration (Quality Centre, WinRunner, PL-SQL) for a system in the CRM area of Vodafone Italia (Loyalty Program System).

• Checking and validating of the appropriate coverage of functional requirements

• Drawing up and validating Test documentation (Test Book, Test Report) via HP-

  Mercury Quality Centre

  Main technologies / tools used:
  CVS, Java, Oracle, Visual Basic, HP Quality Center, HP Win Runner, HP Quick Test, Unix Shell Scripting, PL/SQL

01/2004 – 04/2005
Web software house – Milan

Software House

Software Developer & Analyst – Senior Thesis

• Type of business or sector

• Occupation or position held

• Main activities and responsibilities

Pagina 5 – Curriculum vitae of Francesco Strano

Software Developer & Analyst at a little software house based in Milan in order to finalize my Senior Thesis

• Senior Thesis: “Development of web platform for E-Learning services”
• Functional and Architectural Analysis, Technical Specification, Design

and implementation of Data Base (E/R Diagramm, mySql)
• Development on php, Html, css, xml, Flash Mx on SCROM standard • Functional and usability Testing

• Analysis, design and development of Web applications and Information Systems on LAMP platforms (Linux Apache MySql Php)

Main technologies / tools used:
LAMP, PHP, mySql, Flash, html, jvascript, java, css

01/ 2003 – 01/ 2004
TXT E-SOLUTION – www.txt.it –Milan

IT Advisor at H3G (Telecommunication)

Test Automation Engineer – (University Internship)

• Type of business or sector

• Occupation or position held

• Main activities and responsibilities

EDUCATION AND TRAINING

Test Automation Engineer for software systems in the Sales Force Automation area at H3G
• Design and development of an automatic control system for rich web content

acquisition process. (Visual Basic, HP-Mercury Quality Centre and WinRunner)

Main technologies / tools used:
Java, Visual Basic, HP Quality Center, HP Win Runner, HP Quick Test, Unix Shell Scripting, PL/SQL

2016

SUPSI – Centro competenze lingue e studi sul plurilinguismo â€¨ Palazzo E, Via Cantonale 16e CH-6928 Manno

English Course : Preparation for Cambridge FCE Exam

Cambridge English Language Assessment Level: B1

14/09/2015

Axelos Global Best Practice

ITIL® IT Service Management

ITIL® Foundation Certificate in IT Service Management

CN:GR750192448FS

PERSONAL SKILLS AND COMPETENCES

MOTHER TONGUE(S)

Other language(s)

• Reading • Writing • Spoken interaction

EDUCATIONTIME – Cernusco sul Naviglio (Milano) Italy

PMP® (Project Manager Professional) Exam Preparation

1996 -2004

Università degli Studi di Milano – Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Natural Sciences

Information Technology – Orientation: Information Systems

Master’s Degree in Information Technology – Orientation: Information Systems

12/2003

Università degli Studi di Milano – Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Natural Sciences

Internship at TXT e-Solution spa

Title: “Automatic functional test methods for “mission critical” applications. Guidelines and metrics for cost/benefit valuation in test activities”

2001

Universitad Carlos III de Madrid (Spain)

ERASMUS Programme at the Universidad Carlos III of Madrid (Spain)

1991 – 1996

Liceo Classico Statale Tommaso Campanella in Reggio Calabria – Italy

High school Diploma (classic lyceum)

ITALIAN

ENGLISH (B1) Good
Good
Good

• Reading • Writing • Spoken interaction

• Reading • Writing • Spoken interaction

SPANISH (B1) Good Beginner Good

GERMAN (A1)

BEGINNER

BEGINNER

BEGINNER

EXTENSIVE CAPACITY AND INCLINATION TO TEAMWORK AND IN MULTICULTURAL ENVIRONMENTS

COORDINATION OF COMPLEX TEAM ACTIVITIES FOR LARGE PROJECTS.
MANAGEMENT OF RESOURCES IN ORGANIZATIONAL, INCENTIVE AND ECONOMIC TERMS. MONITORING OF ALL-ROUND PROJECT ORGANIZATION (COSTS/PROFITS/MARGINS)

Operating Systems:

Windows, Unix, Linux, MacOS

Development Languages:

Unix Shell Scripting, HTML, PHP, XML, XSLT, Visual Basic, Action Script di Flash Mx, TSL (Test Script Language), Java , C++, JSP, JAVA SCRIPT, PL/SQL

Web / Application Server:
Apache, Bea WebLogic Server, IIS, Tomcat, Jboss

Framework:

Struts

DataBase:

Oracle, SQL Server, MYSQL

Software development tools:

Microsoft Visual Studio, Oracle Enterprise Manager, Oracle Warehouse Builder, PLSQL Developer, Toad, Microsoft Project, JBUILDER (Borland), Select Enterprise (Princeton Softech), ErWin (Computer Associates), IBM Rational Team Concert

Software QA e Testing tools:

HP Quality Centre , HP Win Runner , HP Quick Test , HP Load Runner, IBM Quality Manager, OpenSTA (performanceTest), TestLink, Merant BugTracking tool, Rally, testlink, Sahi (Tyto Software)

Configuration Management Tools:

RCS, CVS, SVN, RTC, Dimension, Jenkins , Harvest, Avaloq ICE, Git, GitLab, Jira, Rundeck, IBM Rational Team Concert, Puppet, Artifactory