Qualifications & Training
EDUCATION & TRAINING
Master of Science in Information Technology,
Università degli studi di Bologna, Italy, 2010
Bachelor in Information Technology,
Università degli studi di Bologna, Italy, 2007
Certified Associate in Project Management (PMI), 2012
Project Management Workshop, Switzerland, 2012
PMP Exam Power Preparation, 2012
Agile development, Switzerland, 2011
Influencing and Negotiation for Project Management, 2013
Software architecture and industry best practice, Switzerland, 2012
Financial Industry Standards and Regulations (ISO20022, ISO15022, SEPA)
Memberships
PMI – Project Management Institute
Profile
A confident and highly skilled professional with extensive experience in system design, implementation and configuration
Experienced in analysing, designing, planning and implementing operational performance through technological solutions, increasing revenue and reducing costs
Solid experience negotiating, collaborating and working with third party service providers for the functionality development of core bank services
Thinks strategically and incisively, taking a broad view of the full range of variables that could impact on the success of the organisation
Excellent stakeholder management with clear influencing capacity and an effective communicator
Committed to coaching teams, setting performance goals and measuring results to achieve and improve operational productivity levels through collaboration and continuous improvement
Experience with project based roles tasked with re-designing and re-engineering processes and systems to improve performance, reduce costs and ensure compliance
Outstanding communication and influencing skills with a demonstrated ability to build and manage collaborative stakeholder relationships at both senior management and local office levels
Able to clearly see both the big picture and the fine details of business requirements to develop solutions that are articulated and responsive to business needs
KEY AREAS OF EXPERTISE
Re-designing and re-engineering business processes
Extensive cross-functional project management
Strong ability to motivate and encourage others
Ability to manage critical and challenging tasks
Efficiency and effectiveness focussed
Reputation for open and honest communication
Ability to understand and integrate the needs of the business to satisfy customer requirements
Agile methodology expertise
Career Summary
Project Manager,
UBS AG, Zurich, Switzerland
Responsible for the Program Management Office and the management of project phases.
Managed the project lifecycle, budget forecasting, change management, scope and timing
Successfully developed a process to gather information, defined roles and responsibilities within the program team by applying Agile methodologies, creating a 400 page document, involving over 60 internal stakeholders and SMEs. The process was approved by executives, managing directors and the service provider. The streamlined approval process was significantly more effective and efficient
Managed an End of Life project to replace legacy hardware and software components by applying bank standards (Security and IT Policies). Analysed all project management tasks and reduced costs by more than 300k CHF for new hardware and resources
Aligned and enhanced the communication between the program team and service providers by planning and executing a collaborative communication management plan
Manage and negotiate the outsourced core bank functionality development with third party service providers
Lead, coordinated and facilitated workshops for formal document approval
Manage external subcontractors and third party suppliers including contract negotiation
Project Manager,
AS Infotrack AG, Aarau, Switzerland
Commenced as a Senior Software Engineer and quickly progressed to Project Manager. Managed projects to enhance client’s legacy DB2 database systems.
Applied an Agile development approach that allowed an active response based on client feedback
Managed the scrum backlog based on the negotiation outcomes
Coordinated project requirements and negotiated with international customers
Proposed, planned and executed a professional software development process based on a fully automated standard and scalable platform that reduced team conflict, building, testing and deployment time reduced by 70%, proven scalability and reusability improvement
Introduced a quality assurance framework and delivered an automated process for UAT and SIT
Planned, built and maintained the development and test environments
Engineered and rebuilt high performance legacy systems with low bandwidth network connections
Mentored trainee and junior software engineers
Business Analyst / Project Manager,
Credit Suisse AG, Zurich, Switzerland
Commenced as a software engineer and progressed Business Analyst/Project Manager.
Planned and executed the rebuilding of the Enterprise Multi-Banking Payment Hub applications with state of the art enterprise architectures. Recognised as “Best employee for personal and business process enhancement”
Managed a project, built a team, planned and implemented the rebuilding of a core business application applying the Scrum development methodology. The project was implemented as the first standard to apply the Agile development process
Enhanced the SDLC and overall Software Department deliverable quality by introducing an integrated environment for quality control, reporting, fully-automated build and UAT testing
Successfully migrated and supported a legacy Financial Message Transformation Hub to high-performance scalable and ISO standard platform
Initiated a systematic process of gathering requirements, planning, executing, monitoring and control
Designed and developed financial message systems (high availability / real-time) for B2B and B2C Banking services
Researcher
Paccanaro Lab, Royal Holloway University of London, United Kingdom
Researcher in computational biology and machine learning techniques to help predict the protein functions of DNA.
Established a project to plan, design and develop a new framework to obtain and gather information from sources worldwide, correlate the information, analyse and report
Project Manager,
UBS AG, Zurich, Switzerland July 2014 to present
Project Manager,
AS Infotrack AG, Aarau, Switzerland Feb 2014 – Jun 2014
B2 Certification in German (Common European Framework), Berlin, Germany Aug 2013 – Jan 2014
Business Analyst / Project Manager,
Credit Suisse AG, Zurich, Switzerland Jul 2011 – Jul 2013
Researcher,
Paccanaro Lab, Royal Holloway University of London, UK Sept 2009 – Mar 2010
Software Training Instructor,
Au.Ser, Cesena, Italy Jan 2009 – Jul 2009
