
Business consulting contractor. Orizzontintorno founder and owner. Independent world traveller. Thin air addicted.
Milan Area, Italy

Business consulting contractor. Orizzontintorno founder and owner. Independent world traveller. Thin air addicted.
Milan Area, Italy
Focused on IT and management consulting.
Significant international job experiences in Belgium, Luxembourg, Poland, Hungary; minor ones in other Eastern Europe countries, as well as in Malaysia, U.S.A., Scandinavia, The Netherlands, France, etc.
Also, I'm about 20 years experienced as a freelance photographer, writer and independent traveller in almost 100 countries and territories around the world.
Project and program management;
Resource management;
Application maintenance services;
SAP R/3 projects;
IT and organization assessments;
Negoziation and client relationship management;
Contract advising;
Quality assurance;
IT project methodologies.
(Management Consulting industry)
July 2005 — Present (4 years 7 months)
Freelance management consultant and temporary manager. Main jobs/assignments since 2005:
- Ferrari S.p.A. (automotive), as a management consultant on the IT strategic and organization medium term plan.
- RCS Media Group S.p.A. (Media), as a management consultant on a quality assurance review of application maintenance contracts and services.
- Banca Intesa S.p.A. (banking), as a program manager on a disaster recovery project.
- Ferrero S.p.A. (food), as a temporary manager on some international projects (see elsewhere in this cv).
- Sisal S.p.A. (gambling), as a management consultant on an organization and business process review.
(Privately Held; Food Production industry)
October 2006 — November 2009 (3 years 2 months)
Consecutive assignments:
- Project Manager on the SAP R/3 industrial template roll-out in Belgium and Luxembourg (Oct. 2006 - Mar. 2007);
- Responsible for the IT assessment (support in medium term strategic planning and in the re-negotiation of the IT outsourcing contracts) of all of the Ferrero Eastern Europe branches, mainly based in Hungary, Czech Republic, Croatia (May - June 2007);
- Project Manager on the SAP R/3 commercial template review in Poland (Warszawa, Apr. 2007 - Jan. 2008);
- Program Manager in charge for the international intercompany model roll-out based on SAP R/3 (Feb. 2008 - Nov. 2009).
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; IBM; Information Technology and Services industry)
October 2004 — June 2005 (9 months)
On account of Global Value, the service company co-owned by IBM and FIAT, I was in charge as Resource Manager, reporting to the General Manager, managing project teams optimization, resources monitoring, capacity planning and the authorization process for external resource supplying. In this role, I managed over 140 people from the scheduling perspective.
(Public Company; IBM; Information Technology and Services industry)
July 2000 — September 2004 (4 years 3 months)
Joined the firm as a Senior Manager. Main assignments:
- AMS (Application Maintenance Services) offering set-up for the ERP market, contributing to the organization and process design and to the definition of the delivery methodology (2000).
- Program Manager on SAP R/3 projects upon Celestica S.p.A. (hw components; 2000-01) and Italtel S.p.A. (telco; 2001-02).
- Principal and delivery manager assigned to the ERP and AMS markets, years 2002-2004. Main customers: Enel and Sieco (utilities), RAS (insurance), Kawasaki (automotive).
(Privately Held; 5001-10,000 employees; PWC; Information Technology and Services industry)
September 1997 — July 2000 (2 years 11 months)
During this time I was a Project Manager in SAP R/3 and IT strategy projects. Relevant experiences: De Agostini S.p.A. (Media; 2000), Janssen Cilag (pharma; 2000), Autostrade S.p.A. (services; 1998-99), Telespazio S.p.A. (telco; 1997-98).
I also had the role of Methodology Focal Point for Italy, being part of an international team developing the standard SAP R/3 methodology for the PwC European Data Center.
(Privately Held; 5001-10,000 employees; ACN; Information Technology and Services industry)
February 1995 — September 1997 (2 years 8 months)
During this time I joined some SAP R/3 project teams, being in charge for the technical area and the methodology standard set-up. Relevant experiences: Snamprogetti S.p.A. (oil; 1997), Bayer Italia (pharma; 1996), Boehringer Mannheim (pharma; 1996-97), Agip S.p.A. (oil; 1995).
(Government Agency; 501-1000 employees; Research industry)
July 1990 — February 1995 (4 years 8 months)
During this time, I took part into the analysis and the development of satellite image elaboration systems as well as G.I.S. systems.
Also, I was a Teacher at work preparation courses upon Consorzio Sistema Città e Territorio of Monteporzio Catone (Rome) and Manfredonia (FG). These courses regarded the use of G.I.S. systems for territorial resources monitoring.
International Project Management in Multicultural Environment 1998
SAP R/3 technical courses 1995 — 1997
Overview, Programming, Architecture, Workbench management, System administration, EDI, ALE, etc.
Business analysis vs. IT solutions, methodologies 1997
IT solutions analysis and design vs. business requirements 1996
Degree in Computer Science , Image processing , 1983 — 1990
Worldwide independent travels, Photography, High altitude mountaineering, Mountaineering history, Model wooden sailing ship construction, Internet
Manageritalia, World Travellers' Century Club, Club International des Grands Voyageurs, Accenture Alumni, CAI (Italian Alpin Club)
In 1995, winner of a C.N.R. (National Research Council) scholarship at Multimedia Information Technologies Institute, Research Area of Milan.
Relator and co-relator in graduation sessions (Tesi di Laurea) in the years 1991, 1994 and 1995 at the faculties of Physics and Information Science at University of Milan.
International scientific publications in the years 1993 and 1994.