Francesco D.

Lecturer of Telematics Engineering

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Munich, Germany

Experience

Jan 2006 - Dec 2007
2 years
Italy

Lecturer of Telematics Engineering

Polytechnic of Bari

Jan 2005 - Present
21 years

Senior Technology Director/Consultant

Various Global Companies

  • Forged relationships with international clients, including Fortune 500 companies, offering IT management consultancy and advisory services
  • Developed and executed tailored strategies aligned with corporate objectives and goals
  • Led digitisation, transformation and change management initiatives
  • Implemented process automation, risk management and regulatory reporting solutions
  • UniCredit Spa (Germany): headed up credit risk and regulatory reporting software release process, working alongside the Group Data Officer and communicating to stakeholders across 15 legal entities
  • UniCredit Spa (Germany): drove reengineering of access management processes, assisted GDPR compliance assessment, implemented data protection regulations and reduced authorisation process by 50% through automation and standardisation
  • UniCredit Services (Germany): managed a €2M portfolio to upgrade credit risk management and regulatory reporting systems across 15 European countries, accountable for IT governance, stakeholder engagement and multi-cultural virtual teams, embedding PDCA methodology to increase UAT efficiency by 25% and achieve highest user satisfaction scores
  • UniCredit Services (Germany): directed integration of credit risk management and regulatory reporting processes and systems under the DeLorean project, leading a multi-functional team of 30 FTEs to harmonise functions
  • UniCredit Business Integrated Solutions (Germany): designed new software and hardware architecture leveraging Big Data and process automation to scale liquidity management system for LCR regulation, increasing computation capacity by 50x
  • UniCredit Business Integrated Solutions (Germany): led delivery of fair value adjustments calculation and reporting aligned with IFRS 13 across all legal entities, introducing Internal Model Methods for FVA, CVA and funding value adjustments with 100% compliance
  • UniCredit Business Integrated Solutions (Germany): accountable for the market risk workstream in a multi-year risk management transformation programme across major UniCredit entities, devising IT strategy for group risk reporting and supporting regulatory inspections under Basel III
  • UniCredit Spa (Italy): implemented an ESMA transparency solution under directive 2014/302, directing a virtual talent pool of six
  • UniCredit Global Information Services (Italy): designed and developed a Basel III compliant market risk management system for processing equity, FX and interest rate derivatives using Sophis Risque, Murex and Kondor+
  • Vodafone (Italy): architected a patented Big Data analytics service to estimate geographic people density from mobile network usage, supporting security and business intelligence use cases
  • Alcatel-Lucent (Italy): led development of IPTV value-added services, building business intelligence for user profiling and .Net applications to manage 50+ servers
  • Alcatel-Lucent (Italy): provided on-site support across datacentre, telecom fixed, WAN and broadband environments, analysing issues, proposing solutions and leading disaster recovery
  • Degitech Srl (Italy): developed a PHP and jQuery prototype MVP for an IP video surveillance solution based on open source technologies
Jan 2005 - Dec 2008
4 years
Italy

Research Assistant

Polytechnic of Bari

  • Conducted research on semantic matchmaking and developed an artificial intelligence service for an automated reasoning system providing non-standard inference services
  • Formulated a graphical ontology manager in Java and published "OwlEd: An ontology manager for MaMaS-tng"

Summary

Accomplished, versatile and customer-centric Senior Technology Director who shapes strategic visions and champions delivery of advanced technological solutions involving intricate transformation and change, which propel global organisations including Fortune 500 companies to next stage of evolution. Acts as driving force behind resolution of complex IT strategic challenges, takes charge of client relationships and engages with senior level stakeholders to secure buy in for radical changes, directs multi-cultural talent pools in virtual environments to deliver major projects/programmes. Possesses comprehensive knowledge of entire IT landscape, from networks and datacentres through to software development lifecycles, translates business requirements into technical specifications to yield impressive results. Trusted IT advisor, instrumental in business process engineering/re-engineering, advocates digitisation, automation and improvements to optimise operations and save costs.

Skills

  • It Strategic Development, Governance & Direction Setting
  • Big Data & Analytics, Cloud Computing, Ai
  • Business & Digital Transformation
  • Process Automation & Optimisation
  • Regulatory Reporting & Risk Management
  • Decisive, Motivational Leadership & Coaching
  • Client & Stakeholder Relationship Management
  • It Advisory & Management Consultancy
  • End-to-end Technology Solution Design & Delivery
  • Continuous Improvements/efficiencies
  • Design Thinking & Enterprise/solution Architecture
  • Complex Business Analysis & Process Mapping

Languages

Italian
Native
German
Advanced
English
Advanced

Education

Oct 2015 - Jun 2017

Henley Business School, University of Reading

Executive Master of Business Administration · Business Administration · Reading, United Kingdom

Oct 2000 - Jun 2005

Polytechnic of Bari

Master of Science · Information Systems and Automation Engineering · Bari, Italy

Certifications & licenses

Advanced Data Science With IBM Specialization

IBM

IBM Data Science Professional Certificate

IBM

Certified Scrum Master (CSM)

Scrum Alliance

GDPR: EU Regulation 2016/679

the Italian National Engineering Council

Home Automation

the Italian National Engineering Council

Tackling Challenges Of Big Data

MIT Professional Education

Communication And Management

DMT Training

Fundamentals Of Digital Forensics

the Italian National Engineering Council

Innovative Arduino

the Italian National Engineering Council

PRINCE2 – Project Management Certification

Axelos

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