DWH Architect & Manager           Spark Networks (Online Dating)   –  Berlin (DE)             Jul 2016  – actual

Leading a new DWH Architecture project, including Web Tracking (Snowplow, mParticle, Segment),  on AWS
(Kinesis, Redshift, S3, Lamdba, EMR, EC2,S3,RDS) and Big Data open source solutions (Hadoop,Kafka,

LogsTash, Rabbit MQ, Spark, Cloudera/Impala, Luigi, Kubernetes).

 Head/Architect  of DWH & BI       Clinical Insight Ltd (Pharmaceutical)   –  Europe    Jun 2015  – Jun 2016

 Leading on building Big Data Architecture (PostgreSQL, ElasticSearch, PySpark,Hadoop,QlikView on AWS) & Dashboard to collect Clinical Data and to deliver mathematical / statistical analytics dealing with Data Scientist team. Requirement Gathering.

 Senior DWH/BI Project Manager   Sharper Analytics (Big Data & KPI) – Milan (IT)     Feb 2014 – May 2015 

Driving DWH & Smart Analytics projects within Social e-Learning / CRM scope, building Key Analytics (Topic Extraction, Sentiment Analysis, Network Analysis, etc) for structured/ unstructured (RDBMS,MongoDB).

   Program Manager       Glaming (Mondadori Group) (Online Gambling)  –  Rome (IT)  Jul 2012 – June  2013

Driving IT (internal staff, 3rd parties) & Operational (CRM, Affiliate, CMS, Marketing Campaign, etc) Program for an Online Project (Online Bingo, Poker, Casino) and related processes along with International Gaming providers.

 IT Gambling Consultant      MAG Consulenti Associati  (Gambling) – Europe   

        Feb 2010 – Jun 2012

Providing IT support to International Gambling Companies/Providers for Italian & Spanish Jurisdictions, such as technical regulatory documentations & IT requirements review, platform gap analysis, developing & testing.

IT Director

 Driveservice (Automotive) – Rome (IT)

 Nov 2007 – Jan 2010

Responsible for all IT aspects is strongly involved in rebuilding IT systems and Department together with a reshaping of the IT Delivery towards the Business Units along with IT cost-cutting.

Head of IT

 Paradise Bet Ltd (Online Gambling) – London (UK)

 Mar 2007 – Oct 2007

Reporting to the CEO, responsible for all IT aspects, has empowered the outsourced IT Department and started up Italian market penetration with “.it” systems.

IT Facilitator

Globet Intl. Ltd (Online Gambling) – London (UK)

Sep 2006 – Nov 2006

Short assignment, changed the SLA supply contract; placed Globet in a stronger client-supplier relationship; refocused IT meetings at management level for the UK and Gibraltar offshore subsidiary.

IT Director

Wolters Kluwer Italia Professionale (Publishing) – Rome (IT)     

Jan 2005 – Aug 2006

Reporting to the COO and overseeing a €1m budget for a relevant change management process.

·      Responsible for Sales, Distribution, Financial SAP (R3, CRM, BW) and Legacy systems (DB2). 

·      Manage a full IT Outsourcing and ensuring IT Delivery to the business after M&A phase.

IT Director

DeAgostini Diffusione del Libro (Publishing)– Rome (IT)

Jan 2000 – Dec 2004

Balancing IT corporate strategic thinking (overseeing a €1m budget) and business pressure, across a matrix management environment. Led several multi-sited projects (200-2000+ man-days,3rd party).

IT DWH/BI Senior Consultant

S    Self Employed (IT services) – all over ITALY

Feb 1997 – Dec1999

Senior consultant for Enterprise Data/Meta-Data Modelling & Integration (Repository tool). Led and Developed Data Warehouse (DB Oracle , SQL Server, DB2) and Business Intelligence (Cognos) projects.

IT Data Senior Consultant

Codd & Date Italia (IT services) – Milan (IT)

Mar 1990 – Jan 1997

Strongly involved in Enterprise Data Management and Modelling (Oracle, DB2). Key role in the design and development of a Data Quality System.

IT Project Manager

Engineering  (IT services) – Milan (IT)

Oct 1989 – Feb 1990

Short assignment heading a marketing project (1000+ man-days) in SIGE Group (Finance).

IT Analyst

Alitalia Airlines (Transport) – Rome (IT)

    Mar 1985 – Sep 1989

Implemented a Data Warehouse (PL/1-DB2) for the new passenger seat allocation system.

Education Graduate: Bachelor + Master of Science in Mathematics at Rome University (vote 110/110) Languages: Italian mother tongue, fluent English

Skills and Competencies BI & DWH (10+ years) / Cloud Big Data (2 years) : leading Big Data DWH/ETL (Oracle, DB2, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Pentaho, Talend , Hadoop, K8, Spark, Kafka, Cloudera/Impala, AWS Kinesis,Redshift,S3,EC2,EMR,Lamdba,RDS), Web Tracking (mParticle, Segment, Snowplow) and BI (SAP BO, Microstrategy, QlikView, Tableau) projects ; facility to locate hidden/unclear business requirements. Leading Dashboard & Key Analytics (Opinion Mining, Sentiment Analysis, etc) developments. Strong “facilitator” between the technical teams and Stakeholders. Enterprise Data Management (10+ years) : Experience on Data/Meta-Data Modelling, Data Security & Compliance , Data Dictionary, MDM and Data Quality Data Integration along with BPM at enterprise level. IT Program / Project Management (10+ years) : managing full SW life cycle of multiple & multisite concurrent projects of varying size and scope (Agile/Scrum/JIRA, Microsoft Project), with inter dependencies, heading up multisite / cross-functional teams (15+), in a large and international organisation, ensuring project budgets of up to €1m+ and IT Cost/Effort estimation. Ability to handle conflicts and addressing issues directly. Agile PM certified. IT Management / Delivery (8+ years) : all aspects for LEGACY (Host, Oracle, Microsoft, JAVA) , ERP (SAP,NAV) and Digital platforms ; addressing issues balancing methodological and “hands on” approach; motivating and managing people (3-15 staff). Capability on delivering IT projects being able to be in the middle between business objective and IT constraints. Managing €2m IT budget, reporting and facing Steering Committees. ITIL certified. Strong capability to deal with middle and top management. Digital / Online Gambling (3+ years) : be able to drive IT platforms projects for online gambling business (Bingo, Casino, Poker, Sport betting, Skill Games) facing all Internet issues (CMS, DB, CRM, Security, Payments, Affiliate, Analytics, 3rd party integration) from IT and Operations perspectives. IT Outsourcing (10+ years) : working for companies undergoing radical changes has enabled to manage complex IT organisational situations including the partial / complete outsourcing (SLA) of infrastructures & application development and maintenance, employing various technologies and using remote suppliers.

Key Achievements across Industry Sectors Digital / Online Gambling Italy (2011-2013) : Unibet ltd (UK) , Glaming-Mondadori (IT), Pokerstars (CDN), Betclic (F), Evolution (UK), Interwetten (A), Neogames (IL), FullTilt (IRL), Codere (E), Winga/Buongiorno (IT) Supported above International Operators getting Gambling License across IT Project management, all technical regulatory documentations & requirement setting up, liaising with Regulatory Body and AAMS. Digital / Online Gambling Spain (2011-2012) : Eurostar (E) , Endemol (E) Supported above Media Companies on IT DGOJ requirements review and documentation and drove gaming and gaming account SW proivdes selection process across B2B & Joint Venture partnership strategies. Digital / Online Gambling Italy (2011) : Evolution Gaming ltd (UK) Supported to change Live Casino platform in order to be compliance with Italian Gambling Regulation. Automotive (2009) : Driveservice (€60m turnover and 180+ staff) Implemented a new Fleet Management system (€1m) and reorganized IT Department after an M&A process. Digital / Online Gambling UK (2006-2007) : Globet ltd (UK) , Bet1128 ltd (UK) Managed, in Globet.com, SLA supply contract and refocused IT Delivery for the UK and Gibraltar offshore subsidiary; Managed IT Projects supporting Bett118.it entering into the Italian Regulated market. Publishing (2004) : DeAgostini Editore (€1000m / 2000+staff) and Wolters Kluwer LTRE(€1000m / 7000+ staff) Led, on time and on budget, an Application Integration and Data Migration/Cleansing project valued at €1m+ with teams of 20+ multi-sited people, supporting UTET & Diffusione del Libro post-acquisition. Managed IT Service Level Agreement (increased by 20%), valued at €1m, against IT remote/outsourced 3rd Party Supplier in a post-acquisition phase for Wolters Kluwer Italia Professionale Business Unit. Pharmaceutical (1995): IMS Health (Dun & Bradstreet) Led a sell-in/out Data Warehouse software development (Oracle) project valued at €1m+ with teams of 5+ people, delivering data marts to clients and increasing the revenue of sell-in data sales