October 2014 – Ongoing; Senior DBA & Cloud Architect – Contracted at HMC Hospitality Marketing Concepts; Moved back to Milan, working remotely.

Switched to a contracted consulting role, managing cloud based company assets and providing insights on database related items. I am managing backups, restores and data migration of an array of small and medium sized database running on Oracle, Azure SQL and MySQL. Most recently I worked on further improving our BI systems, leveraging new features from the 2016 release of SQL Server and the new PowerBI tool. I also played a key role in a recent system revied in order to optimize infrastructure costs.

April 2010 – September 2014; Senior IT Manager and DBA at HMC Middle East – Based in Dubai (UAE); Joined the IT team based at the company Middle East regional HQ in Dubai Media City.
​Initially assisted in overhauling company CRM and reporting system, while still supporting Europe operations, later  took on a DBA position managing databases in Oracle, MSSQL Server and MySQL. ​Upgraded the reporting system based on Microsoft SSRS to cover sales, financial and marketing analysis.​ Led the migration of all existing on-premises databases and applications to Microsoft Azure Cloud system.

 April 2003 – March 2010 IT Manager Europe at HMC Italy – Based in Milan

Initially focused on local IT support, gradually took on more responsabilities on enrolling IT projects across all of Europe. I had also two training sessions in Dubai and one in Australia, assisting the company move to web-based data management.
Setup and managed  IT operations in countries like Portugal, Spain, Greece, Poland and Turkey, travelling 20% of the time.                    

Education: Master Degree in IT Engineering, December 2000, Polytechnic of Milan. Oracle 11g OCP – Oracle Certified Professional, March 2014

 Languages: Italian mother-tongue. I am fluent in English and have a good knowledge of French and Spanish.

Computer literacy: 

• Windows OS, MS Office
• Microsoft Azure Cloud Platform
• Microsoft MSSQL with Reporting Services
• Oracle Database with RMAN, SQL Developper
• MySql Database
• HTML and XML design
• PHP programming
• Powershell scripting
• Microsoft PowerBI