Expert Details
Problem Solving, Project Management & Rescuing, Automation, Security & Safety, SWE, RTD, QA, Training & Education
ID: 728801
United Kingdom
Over 30 years of experience in project management and software & systems engineering gained in the industrial domain as well as over 10 years of parallel experience in academia.
Italian mother tongue, he has an excellent mastering of English, French and Spanish. He is Director of a consultancy firm as well as of an Academy as well as freelance Professor and Project Manager for several universities in Great Britain, India, Argentina, Belarus, Lithuania, Cina and Kazakhstan, and has been working since 1984, dealing with automation, ICT, software development, security and quality assurance with a track record of over 100 projects completion (for over 300 million Euro), 12 projects rescued (for over 30 million Euro), and over 62 million Euro of acquired ones.
PMP certified Chartered Manager and Engineer, Fellow of the RSA, Senior Member of IEEE and ACM, is also a member of the Computer Society, Communication Society, IEEE-TCECS, IEEE-TCSE, IEEE-SA, PMI, US Digital Society, NEM European Industrial Initiative, NESSI – Networked European Software and Services Initiative, STAR – Socio-Economic Trends Assessment for the Digital Revolution experts group, CEN-ISSS – WS-LT Learning Technology workgroup, APLR Accessibility Properties for Learning Resources.
He often acts as an adviser for the European Commission for which he acts also as project expert evaluator and reviewer. He is also an evaluator for a dozen funding agencies.
During his professional career, he has been working intensively in the automation and security environment both in terms of physical and logical security. He has also developed a specific passwords and texts encryption mechanism used in banks and the military domain.
He has (co)authored several scientific articles, position papers, tutorials, case studies, a book, a chapter and the market analysis adopted as starting point of the EC Special Task Force for Multimedia and Education. He edited the AMME Project Book.
For Moulinex Italy SpA, Expert has been commissioned the design of the goods management automation & integration with IT system (using bar-code-readers & RFIDs).
For HP Italy SpA, Expert has been commissioned the analysis and development of network performances monitoring and measuring infrastructure (such work was them used for the his MSc graduation thesis but could non be published due to a 10 years non disclosure agreement requested by HP).For a debt collection company, Expert has been asked to provide analysis and development of debtors’ folders management program (requirement analysis, application design implementation, deployment & training).For a private bank, Expert has been asked to provide analysis and development of a historical stock exchange data management program (requirement analysis, application design implementation, deployment & training).
Education
Year | Degree | Subject | Institution |
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Year: 2000 | Degree: MBA | Subject: Master in Company ICT System Management | Institution: SDA-Bocconi School of Management, Milan, Italy |
Year: 1999 | Degree: MSc | Subject: Master in Company ICT System Management | Institution: IBM Business School IFDA – Novedrate, Italy |
Year: 1993 | Degree: MSc | Subject: Electronic Engineering (Specialization in Systems Engineering) | Institution: Politecnico di Milano |
Year: 2014 | Degree: PhD | Subject: Computer Scince & Systems Engineering | Institution: University of Reading |
Work History
Years | Employer | Title | Department |
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Years: 2008 to 2012 | Employer: University of Reading, UK | Title: Senior Research Fellow & Project Manager | Department: IMSS |
Responsibilities:EU/National co-funded RTD projects management (proposal preparation, work planning, budget and schedule control, dissemination, reporting, design, requirements & specifications definition, problem solving and mediation).Quality assurance management (policy definition & enforcement, conformance to international standards). SW development management (Requirement elicitation, collection, analysis prioritization and resolution, Architectural design, architecture and components high level specification). In-house technology transfer process management (Post-doc, PhD and MSc students training and mentoring). |
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Years | Employer | Title | Department |
Years: 2000 to 2007 | Employer: GIUNTI SpA, Italy | Title: Senior Project Manager / R&D Project Manager | Department: Research & Development |
Responsibilities:EU/National co-funded RTD projects management (proposal preparation, work planning, budget and schedule control, dissemination, reporting, design, requirements & specifications definition, problem solving and mediation).Quality assurance management (policy definition & enforcement, conformance to international standards). SW development management (Requirement elicitation, collection, analysis prioritization and resolution, Architectural design, architecture and components high level specification). In-house technology transfer process management (Post-doc, PhD and MSc students training and mentoring). |
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Years | Employer | Title | Department |
Years: 1996 to 2000 | Employer: SIA SpA | Title: System Test & Quality Manager / Senior Project Manager | Department: Network Division |
Responsibilities:Provide system test and quality assurance for Inter-banks network services.Management of special projects and system test infrastructure. Quality assurance management (policy definition & enforcement, conformance to international standards). SW & HW procurement for covering department needs. Management of external consultants working on HW / SW maintenance. Research activities on metrics application to software testing in environments with high availability (>99.98%) and portability (HP-UX, AIX and VME) constraints. |
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Years | Employer | Title | Department |
Years: 1994 to 1996 | Employer: Italy | Title: Senior Project Manager / Company Environmental Security Manager | Department: Research & Development |
Responsibilities:EU / Customer projects management (work planning, budget and schedule control, dissemination, reporting, design, requirements & specifications definition).Problem solving and mediation. Quality assurance management (policy definition & enforcement, conformance to international standards). SW development management (Requirement elicitation, collection, analysis prioritization and resolution, Architectural design, architecture and components high level specification). In-house technology transfer process management. |
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Years | Employer | Title | Department |
Years: 1992 to 1994 | Employer: Italy | Title: Freelancer Project Manager | Department: Research & Development |
Responsibilities:Problem analysis.Problem solving and mediation. Project proposal presentation, contract negotiation and project management after approval. Specific SW developments. |
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Years | Employer | Title | Department |
Years: 1986 to 1992 | Employer: Italy | Title: Software Engineer, Chief SW Engineer, Project Manager | Department: Research & Development |
Responsibilities:SW design & development (initially - requirement analysis, application design implementation, deployment & training).SW development supervision & EDP management (requirement management, system architecture, specifications, implementation, deployment & training). Quality assurance management (policy definition & enforcement, conformance to international standards). Problem solving and mediation. Project management (work planning, budget and schedule monitoring, reporting). Full development and maintenance responsibility for a product line including customers & personnel training. Research activity on: automation, image processing, Change Management (CM), cryptography, communication protocols, metrics application to C software development with high availability (99.98%) and portability constraints (HP-UX, AIX, SUN-Solaris, Digital, VME, OS9 …). |
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Years | Employer | Title | Department |
Years: 1984 to 1986 | Employer: Italy | Title: Freelancer Software Engineer | Department: Research & Development |
Responsibilities:Problem analysis,Algorithm and data structure design, SW design and development. |
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Years | Employer | Title | Department |
Years: 2010 to Present | Employer: Undisclosed | Title: Director | Department: |
Responsibilities:Project Management & Rescuing, Training & Knowledge Transfer, Innovation Management, Problem-solving & Research. |
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Years | Employer | Title | Department |
Years: 2012 to 2014 | Employer: Brunel University | Title: Senior Research Fellow & Grant Writer | Department: |
Responsibilities:EU/National co-funded RTD projects management (proposal preparation, work planning, budget and schedule control, dissemination, reporting, design, requirements & specifications definition, problem solving and mediation).Quality assurance management (policy definition & enforcement, conformance to international standards). SW development management (Requirement elicitation, collection, analysis prioritization and resolution, Architectural design, architecture and components high level specification). In-house technology transfer process management (Post-doc, PhD and MSc students training and mentoring). |
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Years | Employer | Title | Department |
Years: 2014 to 2015 | Employer: BUC University | Title: Director International Relation Department | Department: |
Responsibilities:Fixed Term Consultancy ContractDuties: - Establishing connection with Universities, Research Centres and Industries - Problem-solving and mediation - Public Relation & Networking - Teaching Research Methods, Research Ethics, Critical Thinking, Data Handling and ICT Achievements: - Signature of 20 Memorandum of Understanding with Universities and Industries - Participation in 2 International proposals |
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Years | Employer | Title | Department |
Years: 2016 to 2017 | Employer: University of West London | Title: Lecturer | Department: |
Responsibilities:Teaching Project Management, Logistic and Supply Chain Management, Research Methods |
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Years | Employer | Title | Department |
Years: 2017 to 2017 | Employer: Kokshetau State University | Title: Vice Rector for Innovation | Department: |
Responsibilities:Fixed term appointment - Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of KazakhstanDesign and start-up a Science Park, Business Incubator and Knowledge Transfer Centre for the Akmola Region in cooperation with the Chamber of Commence and the Kazakh International Informatization Academy |
International Experience
Years | Country / Region | Summary |
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Years: 1977 to 1978 | Country / Region: India / Andra Pradesh | Summary: Volunteer service in a mission providing little electrical repair work and photography expertise. |
Years: 1978 to 1978 | Country / Region: India / Andra Pradesh | Summary: Volunteer service in a mission providing little electrical repair work and photography expertise. |
Years: 1989 to 1989 | Country / Region: United Kingdom / London | Summary: Cooperation with IBM Research Labs for the design and development of security solutions for the Italian banking market based on IBM DVI Technology. |
Career Accomplishments
Associations / Societies |
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Chartered Manager (CMgr) Chartered Engineer (CEng) IET Ambassador for Asia and Pacific, IET, UK STEM Ambassador, STEMNET, UK Fellow-Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures & Commerce Fellow - Chartered Management Institute Senior Member - The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. Senior Member - Association for Computing Machinery Senior Expert - CLEOPA GmbH Innovations in the energy sector Member - Project Management Institute Member - The Institution of Engineering and Technology Member - International Council on Systems Engineering Member - International Society for the Systems Sciences Member - British Educational Research Association Member - International Society for Technology in Education Member - Networked & Electronic Media (European Industrial Initiative) Member - Networked European Software and Services Initiative Member - ISSS-WS-LT Learning Technology work group Member - UK Innovation Forum Executive Club Member - Professional Advisory Board at HP-MOS, London, UK Honorary Member, Regional Development and Counseling Center, Romania |
Licenses / Certifications |
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Project Management Institute, Cert The Chartered Management Institute, Cert. The Institution of Engineering and Technology, Cert. Certified Development Project Manager License Certified Development Project Manager License Six Sigma Study, License Scrum Fundamentals Certified, SCRUMstudy, License Human Research, University of Miami, USA - Cert. Social & Behavioral Responsible Conduct of Research - Cert. Conflicts of Interest, University of Miami, USA - Cert. |
Professional Appointments |
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Visiting Expert, General Jonas Žemaitis Military Academy of Lithuania Adjunct Expert, (Faculty of Applied Sciences), KiiT University, Bhubaneswar, India Academic, International Academy of Informatization, Kazakhstan Visiting Expert, Belarus State University of Informatics & Radioelectronics, Minsk Visiting Expert, (Faculty of Engineering & ICT), ATU University, Almaty, Kazakhstan Visiting Expert, WKS University, Uralsk, Kazakhstan Visiting Expert, (Faculty of Business & Management), VGTU University, Lithuania Invited Expert, (ICMA Business School), Catholic University of Cordoba, Argentina Professor (Faculty of Engineering), Catholic University of Cordoba, Argentina Project Expert Evaluator/Reviewer for the EU-Information Society Technology (IST) framework. Project Expert Evaluator for Regione Emilia Romagna industrial research, innovation & technology transfer program. Project Expert Evaluator for Regione Piemonte industrial research, innovation & technology transfer program. Lecturer in Software Engineering, Politecnico di Milano, Italy. Technical Trainer, Fondazione Clerici and the Politecnico di Milano, Italy. Judge for Brandon Hall Excellence Award, IEEE Computer Society and CSIDC contest. Member of the scientific committee and reviewer for ISS, Italian Journal of eLearning (Je-LKS). Member of the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Communication Networks and Information Security IJCNIS, and Magazine of Wireless and Cellular Networks MWCN |
Awards / Recognition |
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2nd best presentation at Qatar Foundation Annual Research Conf. Doha best Practical Paper award at EMCIS Izmir, Turkey certificate of "Master Judge" - Brandon Hall Excellence Award certificate of "Master Judge" - Brandon Hall Excellence Award top 15000 Italian Young Professional Award - President of the Republic best Graduate Student Award - Italian Chamber of Commerce |
Publications and Patents Summary |
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Has (co)authored seevral scientific articles, position papers, tutorials, case-studies, a book, a chapter and the market analysis adopted as starting point of the EC Special Task Force for Multimedia and Education. Edited the AMME Project Book. |
Additional Experience
Expert Witness Experience |
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He has been asked to provide expertise in court related to SW engineering and automation issues. |
Training / Seminars |
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Expert has developed the following tutorials: Content Production & Authoring, AXMEDIS, Leeds; Workflow management & integration, AXMEDIS, Leeds; Multi-channel Content Distribution, AXMEDIS, Leeds; Content Production, AXMEDIS, Florence; Content Distribution, AXMEDIS, Florence; Multimedia applications for Cultural Heritage, Politecnico di Milano – School of Design, Milan. |
Language Skills
Language | Proficiency |
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Italian | Expert is in Italian mother tongue, expert in usage of conversation as well as writing has an excellent mastery of several specialist domains (from contractual to technical and scientific). |
English | Expert is proficient in English, has good mastery of the language and a fairly broad vocabulary. Presently he uses English not only as his primary working language (something that has been doing since 1977) but also as his daily living language. |
French | Expert is proficient in French, has good mastery of the language and a fairly broad vocabulary. |
Spanish | Expert is competent in Spanish, has good mastery of the language even if, due to less regular usage his, vocabulary is less extended than he would like. |
Fields of Expertise
alarm system design, ISO 9000 implementation, ISO 9000 implementation for software, process assessment, quality control, research management, software design, software engineering, software engineering process assessment, software engineering process standard, software engineering research management, software engineering systems analysis, software engineering systems design, software life cycle, software metrics, software modeling, software systems requirements definition, system analysis, system design, systems engineering, biomedical device engineering, business intelligence, software validation, software standard, quality evaluation, software maintenance, application development system, software product assessment, computer-aided software engineering, software process dynamics, quality standard, application software, baselining, benchmarking, quality improvement, military-specification quality assurance, software design for safety, object-oriented design, object-oriented analysis, military specification, engineering, system tuning, software testing, software quality assurance, software inspection, software configuration management, software engineering benchmarking, software engineering repository, quality management, quality auditing, object-oriented development