Francesco Di cugno - Senior Technology Director/Consultant

Munich, Germany

Experience

Jan 2004 - Present

20 years 7 months

Senior Technology Director/Consultant

Various Global Companies

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.

Jan 2004 - Dec 2009

4 years

Bari, Italy

Research Assistant and Lecturer of Telematics Engineering

Polytechnic of Bari

As Research Assistant (2005-2008):
Assigned to Information Systems Laboratory, conducted research on Semantic Matchmaking and developed artificial intelligence service for automated reasoning system that provided non-standard inference services.
Formulated graphical ontology manager in Java, published in “OwlEd: An ontology manager for MaMaS-tng”, and produced a range of own publications.
As Lecturer of Telematics Engineering (2006-2007).

Italy

Senior Technology Consultant

Alcatel-Lucent

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.

Italy

On-site

Senior Technology Consultant

Alcatel-Lucent

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.

Italy

Senior Technology Consultant

Degitech Srl

Developed using PHP and JQuery, first prototype of start-up’s minimum value product for IP video surveillance solution based on open source technologies.

Germany

Senior Technology Consultant

UniCredit Business Integrated Solutions

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.

Germany

Senior Technology Consultant

UniCredit Business Integrated Solutions

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.

Germany

Senior Technology Consultant

UniCredit Business Integrated Solutions

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.

Italy

Senior Technology Consultant

UniCredit Global Information Services

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+.

Germany

Senior Technology Consultant

UniCredit Services

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.

Germany

Senior Technology Consultant

UniCredit Services

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.

Germany

Senior Technology Consultant

UniCredit Spa

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.

Germany

Senior Technology Consultant

UniCredit Spa

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.

Italy

Senior Technology Consultant

UniCredit Spa

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.

Italy

Senior Technology Consultant

Vodafone

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.

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.