Senior Technology Leader Who Delivers Cutting-edge IT Solutions to Cross-Sector Global Companies Digital Transformation | Change

During this period, forging relationships with international clients, including Fortune 500 companies, offering IT management consultancy and advisory services, involving development and execution of tailored strategies aligned with corporate objectives/goals, digitisation, transformation, change management, process automation risk and regulatory reporting.

Notable Assignments:

• UniCredit Spa (Germany): business needed to ensure compliance of credit risk and regulatory compliance platform to bank regulations, in addition to guaranteeing quality of managed data.

• Headed up credit risk and regulatory reporting software release process, worked alongside Group Data Officer and communicated effectively to all stakeholders covering 15 legal entities (IT divisions, risk, financial and data officers ).

• Controlled entire release lifecycle from scope, budget, tasks and schedules, and managed IT governance.

• UniCredit Spa (Germany): responded to client's need to consolidate 14 local processes and systems relating to credit risk and regulatory reporting access management across all 15 legal entities, with the aim of driving standardisation.

• Drove reengineering of access management processes.

• Assisted GDPR compliance assessment for credit risk and regulatory reporting function.

• Implemented data protection internal regulations

• Successfully reduced authorisation process by 50%, introduced process automation and standardised approach, this was viewed by UniCredit as best practice for rollout across other processes.

• UniCredit Services (Germany): requirement to upgrade credit risk management and regulatory reporting system spanning 15 European countries, managed €2M portfolio of projects to deliver technical solutions and improvements.

• Accountable for IT governance, multi-cultural virtual teams, stakeholder engagement and nurtured relationships with associated business users and legal/regulatory parties.

• Initiated continuous improvements and embedded Plan-Do-Check-Act (PDCA) methodology, and realised +25% UAT efficiency through deployment of positive changes that transformed lifecycle delivery.

• Safeguarded bank's compliance to authority regulations as result of release, achieved highest user satisfaction score.

• UniCredit Services (Germany): as result of cross-border merge of CEE division in UniCredit Spa under DeLorean project, directed integration of credit risk management and regulatory reporting processes and systems.

• Directed multi-functional team of 30 FTEs and fully integrated solution to harmonise functions.

• Handled project and governance, delivered benefits: Integration Project & Achievements

• UniCredit Business Integrated Solutions (Germany): due to new Liquidity Coverage Ratio (LCR) regulation, existing liquidity management system needed to be scaled up to handle 50x previous calculation workload, took ownership for design of new solution architecture in response to directive 238 of Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (BCBS).

• Leveraged Big Data and business process automation to outline brand new software and hardware architecture, this was designed to dynamically increase computation capacity and guarantee performance levels.

• UniCredit Business Integrated Solutions (Germany): approached to head up delivery of fair value adjustments calculation and reporting in alignment with IFRS 13 directives, and coordinated deployment across all bank's legal entities.

• Blended requirements of all legal entities and delivered systems that introduced Internal Model Methods (IMM) for the calculation of adjustments to improve consistency of Fair Value Adjustments (FVA), Accounting Credit Value Adjustments (CVA), Fair Value Hierarchy and Funding Value Adjustments, with 100% compliance to IFRS 13.

• UniCredit Business Integrated Solutions (Germany): integral part of multi-year risk management transformation programme aimed at consolidation of bank's financial risk management systems and methodologies across all main UniCredit's legal entities.

• Full accountability for market risk workstream at UniCredit Bank AG, UniCredit Bank Austria and Central Eastern Europe legal entities, with a team of 15 FTEs.

• Devised and implemented IT strategy for group risk reporting, this fed into risk standard reporting solution.

• Provided technical support to senior leaders during periodic inspections by bank regulatory authorities, such as Bank of Italy and Austrian National Bank (OeNB), relating to BASEL III compliant Internal Model Methods (IMM) for Market and Counterparty Credit Risk Management (CCR). Integrated Risk Report 2014 - Acknowledgement

• UniCredit Spa (Italy): Seamlessly implemented innovative solution to fulfil shareholder requirements under European Securities and Market Authority (ESMA) transparency directives 2014/302, directed virtual talent pool of six.

• UniCredit Global Information Services (Italy): part of Group Risk Officer sponsored transformation programme to consolidate financial risk management systems and processes across entire group.

• Applied solution architecture prowess to outline and develop market risk management system that provided market risk analysis, monitoring and regulatory reporting in accordance with BASEL III standards.

• Elicited requirements for processing equity, foreign exchange (FX) and interest rate derivatives transactions to calculate risk indicators, and translated into technical specifications and documentation.

• Analysed and identified Value-at-Risk, Incremental Risk Charge and P&L data using data produced from front office systems, including Sophis Risque, Murex CRD/FI/IRD/FX and Kondor+.

• Vodafone (Italy): Vodafone's innovation lab initiated project to explore new business opportunities that utilise data generated by wireless network, engaged to architect solution for analytics service.

• Designed/developed solution that estimated geographic people density determined on mobile network usage data and featured adaptive measurement algorithm based on Big Data (patented), this supported business cases such as governmental security intelligence and business intelligence.

• Alcatel-Lucent (Italy): as part of first launch IPTV service, responsible for development of value-added services.

• Headed up development in JE22 of business intelligence for user profiling to support client marketing department during launch, and .Net applications to automatically maintain 50+ servers contained in IPTV infrastructure.

• Alcatel-Lucent (Italy): Provided on-site customer support across datacentre, telecom fixed, WAN, backbone architectures, broadband and triple play services environments, analysed issues, proposed solutions and led disaster recovery.

• Degitech Srl (Italy): developed using PHP and JQuery, first prototype of start-up's minimum value product for IP video surveillance solution based on open source technologies.