2005 - today: Various projects as Contractor

Role: Senior Technology Director | Business & Data Analyst

Customer: Various Clients

Tasks:

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.

• 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).
  • Executed strategic support for Data Modelling, Data Governance and Data Engineering in alignment with the overarching corporate data strategy. This involved a hands-on approach to developing robust data frameworks and governance protocols that facilitated informed decision-making and ensured data integrity across the organization. Analysed and documented the data lineage of 200+ data flows in Collibra as part of the feasibility study for migrating on-premises solutions for data processing and reporting to the cloud following the bank data mesh strategy.
  • Led the development of a toolkit for automatic reconciliation of COREP and FINREP reporting systems according to Regulation (EU) No. 2019/876 of the European Parliament.
  • Controlled entire project lifecycle from scope definition, requirement gathering, budget, tasks and schedules, and managed IT governance.
  • Directed the implementation of projects to enable strategic partnerships for the specialized management of Unlikely-To Pay (UTP) loans such as and Projects.

• Convolut GmbH (Germany): For commercial purposes, several business cases for business development and pre-sales were built.

  • Headed up the development of proof-of-concepts aimed at enhancing client retention strategies within retail banks. Leveraging AI-powered dashboards, predictive analytics, and cloud-native data pipelines, designed and implemented machine learning models to predict customer churn probability. Additionally, interactive dashboards were created to visualize historical CRM KPIs, enabling effective client segmentation and the development of targeted marketing strategies.
  • Developed an AI-powered toolkit for the automatic reconciliation of bank accounts, leveraging machine learning and rule-based systems to ensure consistency between accounting and transactional databases.
  • Supported the automation of financial business processes by leveraging cloud-based client infrastructure and Microsoft 365 services.
  • Guided the selection of software solutions based on client needs, utilizing the balanced scorecard method for evidence-based decision-making. This involved considering factors such as cost, features, and expected return on investment.
• LBBW Landesbank Baden-Württemberg (Germany): business needed to streamline and optimise the end-of-month process in core banking for accounting, regulatory, and managerial reporting.
  • Streamlined the process for monitoring the end-of-month process across core banking systems, automating the status reporting and monitoring. Established a process for root cause analysis. Created efficient business operations while maintaining compliance with regulatory standards.
  • Augmented the completeness of the daily status monitoring process by 30% and defined dashboards using Microsoft Online Services for the monitoring of the process stability and dependability.
  • Provided accurate statistical evidence for optimizing the processes and systems and recommendations for tactical and strategic process improvements along the dimensions of People, Process, and Technology.
  • Proficiently conducted business process analysis and mapping, facilitating workshops to meticulously analyze technical and business processes related to the IT systems involved in end-month processing, including SAP FI/CO/AFI/PaCMan/SEM, Abacus 360, Kondor+, Calypso, OSPlus, various SAS Data Marts, and user-developed processes (IDP). Leveraged insights to provide strategic recommendations for process improvement through technological upgrades and optimization.
• Intesa Sanpaolo-Banca Fideuram (Italy): utilizing CRM data, the bank seeks to analyze client behavior in private banking and create effective marketing strategies. 
  • Directed the design and execution of cutting-edge dashboards utilizing Denodo, SAS, Python, SharePoint, and Power BI.
  • Enabled precise trend analyses and detailed sales data visualization in private banking to facilitate effective commercial strategy development.
  • Designed efficient data model and implemented innovative data reduction techniques to enhance dashboard performance without compromising the depth of information.
  • Developed and applied rule-based churn algorithms and utilized machine learning techniques to pinpoint churn drivers.

• UniCredit Spa (Germany): responded to the client?s need to consolidate 14 local processes and systems relating to credit risk and regulatory reporting access management across all 15 legal entities, to drive standardization
  • Drove reengineering of access management processes and successfully reduced authorization process time to complete by 70%, introduced process automation and standardized approach. The client viewed this as best practice for rollout across other processes
  • Assisted GDPR compliance assessment for credit risk and regulatory reporting systems
  • Implemented data protection internal regulations for physical and logical data segregation and anonymization
• UniCredit Services (Germany): requirement to upgrade credit risk management and regulatory reporting system spanning 15 European countries, managed multi-million 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 realized +25% UAT efficiency through deployment of positive changes that transformed lifecycle delivery
  • Safeguarded the bank?s compliance with authority regulations by implementing processes and systems to comply with several regulations, including regulations and frameworks such as Single Resolution Board (SRB), COREP, CRR II, DPM 3.0, Leverage Ratio, AnaCredit, FINREP, and Securities Holding Statistics (SHS)
  • Supported a milestone for the implementation of the client data mesh strategy for the migration of onpremises processes to the Cloud
• 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 Linux, PHP, HTML, and JQuery, first prototype of start-up?s minimum value product for IP video surveillance solution based on open source technologies

2005 - 2008: Information Systems Laboratory

Role: Research Assistant

Customer: Polytechnic of Bari, Italy

Tasks:

• 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 (see relevant section on CV

Role: Lecturer of Telematics Engineering

Customer: Polytechnic of Bari, Italy