Experience

Research and Development (R&D) Manager, Cloud Architect, Agile Transformation Lead, Project Manager

Sectors: Industry Networking iOT Information Technology News Media Entertainment Digital

I am an R&D Manager with over 20 years of experience in managing scalable IT projects and leading multidisciplinary teams.

My expertise lies in Agile methodologies and digital transformation. I have increased operational efficiency by building strong relationships with colleagues, maintaining continuous dialogue, and sharing goals and results with other departments. My primary goal is to build trust within the entire team.

I started my career as a software developer, evolving into roles with more responsibility and strategic insight.

I'm always looking to grow my personal and professional network.

Feel free to connect via LinkedIn or contact me directly me at +393396522544.

I founded Molekola, managing high-profile projects for clients like Cisco, Warner Records, and Sky.

I believe in team success rather than traditional leadership concepts. As a facilitator, I take joy in seeing the group I belong to succeed. My role at Sercanto demonstrates my facilitation skills. I developed a new R&D department from scratch and tackled significant challenges, such as delivering millions of notifications daily.

My technical skills include Java J2EE, Spring, MySQL, Oracle, MongoDB, cross-platform development with Flutter, and many JavaScript frameworks like React, Angular, and Vue.

Additionally, I have DevOps skills on Linux, Docker, Ansible, GCP, and AWS. This makes me a valuable asset in guiding organizations through digital transformation and managing complex projects.

Beyond technical skills, I promote a collaborative and flexible workenvironment. I managed remote teams, ensuring productivity through Agile practices. Effective communication across multidisciplinary teams has been crucial in achieving project goals.

In summary, my experience, strategic insight, and technical expertise enable me to deliver exceptional results in digital transformation.

Skills:

Research and Development (R&D), Product Development, Engineering, Data Science, Java, J2EE, Spring, MySQL, Oracle, MongoDB, Flutter, JavaScript, React.js, Angular, AngularJS, Vue, Node.js, Git, SQL, Linux, Docker, Ansible, Maven, GCP, AWS, Agile Methodologies, Project Management, Team Facilitation, Digital Transformation, Software Development

Interests:

  • Passion for emerging technologies
  • Continuous Learning
  • Enthusiast in theatre and music

Research and Development (R&D) Manager | Cloud Architect | Agile Transformation Lead | Project Manager @Sercanto

Pubblicato il 29 giugno 2024
  • Developed a new R&D department from scratch, implementing managerial skills.
  • Tackled technical and architectural challenges, including delivering 25 million email alerts and 250 million web push notifications per day.
  • Assumed managerial role without prior expertise in PHP and Go Lang.
  • Built a development team of 12 people through Agile methodologies.
  • Built a trusting relationship with team members, which improved performance and ensured timely delivery of projects, meeting expectations.
  • Achieved excellent results through collaboration and company support.

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Solution Architect @Youco

Pubblicato il 05 marzo 2021

The company assigned me the task of modernizing the development process in terms of methodologies, tools and technological choices.

To achieve the goal, agile methodologies, atlassian tools and a continuous learning process were introduced in which developers, designers and managers were involved. A team of about 20 people.

During this journey I also participated in several research and development projects in various areas; the most exciting was definitely YouWorkForce Mobile App.

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You Work Force Mobile App

Pubblicato il 05 marzo 2021

Development of a mobile multi platform mobile app with Flutter, Dart and Material Design Principles.

The application uses a mixin of GPS, Sensors, Push Notifications and Microphone for detecting user motions in background, exchanges push to talk, vocal and text messages.

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Ticketone M.A.I. Fiscale

Pubblicato il 05 marzo 2021

Adjustments to the new tax regulations created to stem the secondary market phenomenon

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Orion Shop

Pubblicato il 05 marzo 2021

Setting up a brand new backend reporting service, integrated with legacy ERP.

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Solution Architect @Kalpa

Pubblicato il 05 marzo 2021

In kalpa I designed and developed some different cloud software and REST WebServices, used by iOT and home automation player like Vimar, Italtractor (Caterpillar), FAMA, Ledworks, Fantini Cosmi

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MySky App

Pubblicato il 05 marzo 2021

Development of some Rest API consumed by the new MySky App and Website.

The activity allowed me to improve the know how on some Amazon AWS tools, such as Lambda, EC2, S3 and DynamoDB.

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CISCO Admin Plane

Pubblicato il 05 marzo 2021

No-DB Administration Tool used to control docker instances of DWDM ROADM / OLA / DGE Network.

Each Network Element needs a management software called CISCO SVO. The Admin Plane is a server application installed on a linux board, that instantiate and controls each of this CISCO SVO instances.

The Admin Plane application, is made by two distinct components: Server Application based on Java + Spring framework that provides a pure HTTP RESTful Web Service, controlled by a Web UI written with REACT.

This is a component of CISCO GACRUX Project

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CISCO SVO

Pubblicato il 05 marzo 2021

Management Application, used to control CISCO NCS2K ROADM / OLA / DGE series of DWDM multichassis Network Elements, through Netconf Yang Protocol.

The application collects and stores data from a set of physical NCS2K devices, into TAIL-F NSO, an existing middlewhare application, throught CORBA RPCs.

NSO exposes data and APIs via HTTP/S, JSON RPC, REST , SSH and CLI to automated tools and real users.

A Javascript Web UI Application written in REACT consumes NSO JSON RPC APIs.

I partecipated in this project from scratch since the definition of the YANG Models, to the development of the WEB UI application in a global distributed team.

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CISCO Optical Plugin

Pubblicato il 05 marzo 2021

Pure REST Service Application made with Java 8 and Spring MVC that collects data from CISCO NCS2K Network Devices via CORBA and provides REST APIs with Yang RESTCONF Protocol.

This is an integrated application, used by CISCO Planning Network tools for providing APIs to creates and manages L1/L2/L3 network services.

I started this project from scratch, by defining Yang models, desining the application architecture and implementing in team composed by 10 software engineers, in Italy, German, USA, India and Cina.

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Warner Rights Managements

Pubblicato il 05 marzo 2021

Backoffice application used to manage music (Song & Authors) rights by Warner Chappell producion music.

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Web Monitoring Panel for Biogas production tanks with Sigfox Antennas

Pubblicato il 05 marzo 2021

Web Monitoring Concept Application written in Ruby that receive, parse and collect messages from SIGFOX Antennas and display data in graphics.

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UNIQA Extranet

Pubblicato il 05 marzo 2021

Enterprise Extranet tools written with Magnolia and Java, used to internally communicate with employees and remote agencies

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Privacy Care Management

Pubblicato il 05 marzo 2021

Java administration tool, used to proxy internal ERP and hide sensible data.

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CISCO CTC on DWDM Networks

Pubblicato il 05 marzo 2021

Administration tool written in Java, used to manage DWDM (Optical Fiber) networks and devices in big infrastuctures like Verizon, Deutsche Telekom, etc.

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SevendaysWeb.com

Pubblicato il 05 marzo 2021

Multi tenant cloud CMS Platform hosting more than 500.000 contents, 300.000 unique visitors and thousands websites

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EPR Mobile – Eletronic Patient Record Mobile UI

Pubblicato il 05 marzo 2021

Mobile User Interface Application used by medical team to provides and manage medical records using a tablet.

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Comune di Milano Election Day Project

Pubblicato il 05 marzo 2021

Server Side Java Scheduler that collects electoral data from polling service, via SOAP Web Service and populates a JS based static DB. JSON Data are consumed by the comune di milano website, iOS / Android mobile App and Touchscreen totems in Palazzo Marino (MI).

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Corriere Viaggi @RCS Media Group

Pubblicato il 27 agosto 2013

CMS Development, MS Bing and Google Maps geo localization integration. Used Tecnologies:

  • Java
  • Struts 2 (with Rest Plugin)
  • Freemarker
  • iBatis (SQL)
  • jQuery
  • Bing Maps (first)
  • Google Maps (@ review)

Gazzetta Community @RCS Media Group

Pubblicato il 30 maggio 2007

Next Step on MediaCenter was to integrate it with User Generated Contents: videos and photos. The project was very heavy and we was no mouch time to go live, but wi did it!

I loved the way our team was capable of doing the impossible.

MediaCenter Administration Tool @RCS Media Group

Pubblicato il 01 novembre 2006

Since the MediaCenter was a very critical project on RCS, because of the attention on videos by the users, the company heavy invested on it and asked me to build a lightweight CMS tool to give to thear external partners on football stadiums, the possibility to publish videos at the end of the match.

Canale Milano @RCS Media Group

Pubblicato il 01 ottobre 2006

The goal was to create a web application to handle Milano events, moderate User Generated Contents, create events around the city and provides a complete support to the drafting. In 2 working weeks, using Java, Struts 1, Hibernate and a lot of stuff.

MediaCenter @RCS Media Group

Pubblicato il 01 maggio 2005

Now called Corriere TV and Gazzetta TV, was a web application used to display Corriere della Sera and Gazzetta dello sport's videos.

Critical project designed to improove ADV performance.

The web site was completelly customizable and skinnable and it was integrated to the internal CMS, using XML.

Dasiweb @Sweet Engineering

Pubblicato il 01 maggio 2003

Our customer decided to give to Hospitals and nursing homes a web application to register patients and exames, download the medical reports and print barcode labels designed to tubes. This was my first J2EE experience, I worked with success with engineers and doctors and the project is still running today, after 10 years in many hospitals, here in Italy.

Software restyling @Sweet Engineering

Pubblicato il 10 settembre 2002

My first job in a software house concern the UI design of an existing application. The function was to build about a thousand icons 16x16 px, before to start to write one line of code. It was a little bit hard to me but I had the opportunity to deep understand that a quality software needs a very big investment on design.

Delphi programmer @Elettrodata

Pubblicato il 30 ottobre 2001

The company had the need of a new shipment software to integrate Bartolini courier. Everything was quite new to me. What I had was an heavy Integration Manual written by the courier, a Zebra printer and an email written by my boss, that was explaining the software they need. I did the DB Analysis, a printer communication library, a bar code generation tool, a shipment back office tool, an integration with billing software and a nightly export to the courier.

PC Customization @ Ingram Micro

Pubblicato il 30 luglio 1998

I was young and I had the need to earn some money to go holidays with my friends. That summer Ingram Micro acquired a new big order and hired me for July, to customize HP PC orders. It was not a strategic or creativity project, but it was My First Real Job and I was so excited about it, i learned to work in a team, on a big company. Each fellow was kind to me, because i was young and full of passion for any kind i've done.