Andrea Piovani Email & Phone Number

Milan Area, Italy

Thoughtworks is a leading global technology consultancy that integrates strategy, design and software engineering to enable enterprises and technology disruptors across the globe to thrive as modern digital businesses.My job:- Manage projects lifecycle from the inception to the deliveryInvestigate the domain, get the context, conduct user interviews, data analysis, define actionable strategy, objectives and key results, formulate hypothesis, create user scenarios, validate with domain experts, make sure that the entire development cycle delivers working valuable software, create and conduct UAT plan, test cases, measure the results, validate hypothesis and provide feedback. - Lead workshops with clients, helping them create impactful software that people want to use- Manage client's expectations and feedback. Partner with client teams to manage risks- Build motivated, autonomous, and empowered teams- Validate ideas and translate them into working software through a collaborative and iterative process- Conduct end to end analysis in complex projects in a large program of work- Liaise with client's teams and final users trying to understand pain points, implicit and explicit needs - Continuously investigate the problem space by conducting interviews with business, technical stakeholders and final users to create solid foundations for the solution spaceLearn and adapt continuously. Be passionate of what you do.

Dublin

- Understand customer needs- Describe user experience and product features- Create user stories and acceptance criteria- Discuss and refine user stories and task with development teams- Backlog prioritization, escalation of requests and liaison with internal and external softwaredevelopment agile teams- Liase with UX/UI teams- Set the goals of the sprints- Track the project progress- Manage relations and projects with internal, external stakeholders and third party vendors- Coordinate the release process and the product launch- Collect and analyze data to validate the goals

Dublin

- Create functional specifications for development projects in accordance with the objectives of the business channels.- Carry out requirements analysis and assist with formulation of new development proposals- Populate the development teams backlog with well-defined user stories and assign the appropriate priority. - Liaise with internal and external software development agile teams to clarify development requirements- Support the development process to deliver demonstrable functionality to the business on an on-going basis- Manage relations and projects with third party vendor / software integrator- Complete user-acceptance testing of new developments- Assist change management required for roll-out of new developments- Drive the use of Agile methods within the Product Management group and work with the development team to drive process design, delivery and release planning. Act as a Product Owner.- Define and measure metrics of the development cycle in order to improve the processKey competences:Online Product DevelopmentBusiness Analysis and Requirements AnalysisSoftware Selection and assessmentMobile StrategyAgile MethodologiesRelease PlanningSoftware DocumentationProduct managementProject managementBusiness documentation design and improvement

WhyMCA - Mobile Developer Conference (www.whymca.org), brings together the italian mobile developer community since 2009 through multiple formats and initiatives on the Italian territory. The main event of the movement is the Mobile Developer Conference. The contents offered in the various events - workshops, happy hours, hackathons and conferences - are prepared by experts from the community to the community itself.WhyMCA led for the first time in Italy in 2011 a Mobile Hackathon and in 2012 a hackathon related to the interaction between mobile and hardware. The formats stands out for frontier topics and an informal atmosphere that describes well the spirit of the initiative. The main topics addressed are development on all mobile platforms, smart connected device, internet of things, back-end issues, hardware, mobile vision and user experience on mobile devices. WhyMCA is the main Italian event for mobile developers: over the years, more than 3,000 mobile developers have been trained and had fun during WhyMCA initiatives.Events just delivered:- WhyMCA Mobile Developer Conference @Politecnico di Milano - Campus Bovisa, 21/05/2010- WhyMCA Happy Hour Milano The future of Mobile @Il Volo, 21/10/10- WhyMCA Happy Hour Roma Mobile Gaming @Oppio Caffè, 27/01/11- WhyMCA Happy Hour Bologna Mobile Monetization- WhyMCA Mobile Developer Conference @Centro Congressi Milanofiori, 21-22/05/11- WhyMCA Happy Hour Roma Open Data @Oppio Caffè, 15/12/11- WhyMCA Hackathon Hack Reality! @CNR Bologna, 18/02/12- WhyMCA Hackathon Hack with emotion, Codemotion @Rome, 28/03/12- WhyMCA Mobile Developer Conference @Bologna, 24-25/05/12- WhyMCA Codehack hackathon Codemotion @H-Farm Venice, 17-18/11/2012- WhyMCA SurpriseHack - MakeItBetter Hackathon, Codemotion @Rome 22-23/03/2013- WhyMCA Hackathon - Hack Reality 2, Talent Garden Milano 25/05/2013

Milano

Technical evangelism of Libero Cloud Technologies (Joyent) (http://cloud.libero.it/)Design of the strategy to promote Joyent Technology on Libero Cloud infrastructure amongdevelopers (events, communities, tech materials etc)Advisor and mentor at Starthappy acceleration program (www.starthappy.it) in order to select candidate startups Design and management of an editorial plan for Starthappy program on social networks

Italy

Advisor, Project Manager.Assessment of the technological infrastucure (As400 and .NET Backend). Translation from gas authority specifications to process and technical requirement. Design of Web Services and relational databases (SQL) and implementation of web & B.I. solution with Zend Framework and Pentaho Data integration

Brescia

Requirement analysis, mobile applications development planning & maintenance. Web application development & maintenance. Technical IT manager: deployment and maintenance of the IT infrastructure in the cloud (Heroku) & Amazon RDS (Mysql)Product management

Cremona

Pre Sales, project management and software solutions. - Provided technical assessment and solutions according to customers requirements - Gathered and conveyed requirements for sales and technical teams - Responded to functional and technical elements of RFIs/RFPs - Provided product demonstrations, education and advices within proper sessions

Web application developer. Languages: PHP, Javascript (Framework: Dojo, jQuery). (Example: web application about events, people and job scheduling management) Mobile Widget Developer (Betavine, Vodafone 360). E-commerce customized solution (Prestashop) and system integration. Sms Gateway integration. Project Manager : Web&Mobile project about multi platform sms clients.CMS management and customization (Drupal).

Analysis and implementation of a methodology to select ERP suitesSoftware solution - ERP area

Authentication systems for H.323 voip protocolSoftware solution and system integration in VoIP area

Laurea Specialistica, Computer Science Engineering

Maturità Scientifica