In charge of the US Subsidiary of NPO Sistemi Torino (a Ricoh Company). NPO Sistemi is HPe Tier1 Platinum Partner in EMEA (Top HPe partner in Italy). Also partner with APC, Cisco, EMC, HP Inc, Intel, Lenovo , Microsoft, Oracle, Sophos, Veeam, VMware.NPO USA is currently Partner / Reseller for: HPe, HP Inc, Dell/EMC, Cisco, VMware, Lenovo, CheckPoint, QNAP.Covering NAFTA region, to deliver products and services as IT System Integrator and Service Provider, with main focus in the automotive industry.NPO USA has been recognized as one ot the top 15 HPE USA partners in the Ingram Micro Partner Grow Campaign 2018.

Covering NAFTA region, delivered products and services on behalf of IT SystemIntegrator and Service Provider, with main focus in the automotive industry.

In charge of International Projects for kicking off the establishment of the new US Subsidiary

Infrastructure consultancy focused role, from migration readiness assessment to advanced Datacentre relocation and consolidation, with the use of cloud services where opportune. Initially engaged in a datacentre relocation project for a New South Wales government agency, now focusing on cloud services readiness assessment and migration.

From a 20 years passion, started a new business as the sole official Authorized Distributor in Australia for the US brands Hazard 4 and Civilian. Hazard 4 is a California based company, leader in manufacturing of Modular Tactical Gear, currently in use by Special Forces all around the world.Extreme Gear became official supplier of the Australian Defense Forces (Special forces deployed overseas) and Australian Federal Police.After opening our own online shop for direct sales, we also have already started establishing a network of Authorized Dealers, and still we are looking to cover more territory. Our brand awareness is growing in Australia market, also thanks to our social media presence, and we are receiving very positive feedback from Customers, even the most demanding in term of product quality and customer service.

Main objectives: improving web sales by renovating website using SEO and other technologies, redesign wholesale applications, restructuring IT infrastructure, review contracts with Vendors.

In charge of both Professional Services and Customer services teams, total of 13 engineers and project managers (overseeing also service delivery from technical point of view, for NICE products).• Performed a redesign of the Japan Services organization, established professional relationships with all key Business Partners and many Direct Customers (such as Citi, JPMC, Amex, Mizuho, Nomura, Hartford, AIG), and reviewed service agreements with related SOWs/SLAs/OLAs.• Suggested the adoption of private cloud for reproducing issues in virtual labs and deployment of virtual classrooms accessible from multiple countries, for better ROI.• Established best practices and new policies for Services. Working on a daily basis with HQ in Israel and APAC offices, and be the mediator between very high Customer expectations and NICE’s currently feasible deliverables.Achievements: Over-achieved all financial targets in 2012. Awarded as “Best APAC Service team” twice. One of our projects got awarded as“ Most significant for Customer Impact” in APAC. Recovered jeopardized relationship with major investment bank to the complete Customer satisfaction. Requested and obtained many improvements in processes from APAC and HQ. Improved Partners, Customers and internal Employees satisfaction levels. Overall improved all processes involving Business Partners, and promoted more collaboration with Sales. Promoted enhanced QA initiatives for improving product stability and quality.

The APAC responsible for the global major desktop virtualization project: Adoption of Virtual Desktop and Windows7 as standard technologies. Define and implement an Operational Readiness Framework of agreed Policies and Processes to put in place before going to production, discussing with global global peers local amendments where needed. Define how/when migrate the entire Asia population, with focus on three main areas:- VPC Lifecycle management, including DR strategies;- IT Standard Operative Procedure revision and implementation (for all APAC Morgan Stanley IT teams);- VPC Support, including application and Window 7;My responsibilities are:- Oversee all aspects of project management, following Project Management ITIL Standards.- Analyze, design and validate technical proposals for migrating applications from existing build to a new Win7 build.- Co-ordinate with all global team on their ongoing projects related to ours.- Develop tools for profiling user population base on IT and Business risk level, prepare a capacity plan for multiple datacenters in Asia, evaluating solutions for technical issues like bandwidth/latency problems.- Interface with all APAC groups (Australia, China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Japan, Philippines, Singapore), reviewing the global proposals for design and implementation amendments.- Manage APAC virtual teams across functional lines and co-ordination of schedules and resources for all delivery.- Define a project plan, including migration strategies, and track progress against schedule and objectives.- Advanced technical support to the APAC teams for planning and execution of their tasks (including training).- Responsible for Stakeholder management and communication, including Business Groups.- Report to Stakeholders on status, risks and issues.

FXonline's Server Consolidation and Disaster Recovery Project became a Success Story for Vmware Japan (http://www.vmware.com/go/jp_cs_fxonline): 24 ESX Server with 2 Virtualcenter Servers and a complete VDM infrastructure, all based on NetApp NAS. Virtualization and consolidation of Windows and Linux boxes from 3 different datacenters (one in USA). The whole project (ready to be integrated with Site Recovery Manager), including DR tests, was realized within a tight deadline, with compliments of Vmware Japan. Some of the projects completed so far are integration with IG group IT infrastructure, survey and setup of new offices, migration of FXO services in UK, desktop support, integration of UK services with FXO’s ones, decommissioning of two datacenters, setup of a new server room, integration of the Japanese phone systems at group level, review of all the IT and security policies, in compliance with FSA and JSDA regulations, definition, implementation and testing of a new Business Continuity plan, including Disaster Recovery and Influenza Emergency plan. My team works in constant contact and synergy with UK and Australia teams. I am daily dealing with Japanese colleagues, in Japanese and English. Our Systems were also awarded from ORICON as #1 for Trading System and Network Connection Stability in December 2009.

After the acquisition of ALLASSO by MAGIRUS GROUP, my work consists in managing the new Professional Services Business Unit (built as a fusion of former Allasso and Magirus services: Software, Storage, Servers, Security). Actually Magirus is one of the leading VAD in Italy (more then 40 Vendors and more than 1500 Reseller and System Integrators as Customers).

My work consists in managing any technical aspect in italian branch of the leading European VAD of Network Security: internal IT support, delivering of training and both pre-sale and post-sale support to the customers, organization of internal training and certification of the Allasso technical team, managing contact with vendors, evaluating new products, managing technical demos and events, designing and delivering project and follow any technical aspect of solutions, managing consultancy services, very often interacting with people from other EMEA countries and USA.

After proven experience as senior IT consultant, I started working as manager of different groups of specialists on different projects on key customers, focusing my attention on the technical point of view, and using my seniority to keep monitored every phase of the designing, implementing, delivering and supporting the solutions.

I moved to IT consultancy to use better my experience and skills. After a little period with many customers, I made an agreement with TXT as unique Client. I worked for TXT's most important customers on many big projects, for both programming and system engineering in different markets: Automotive, Bank & Finance, Pharmaceutics, Enterprise Portals, Fashion, Food & Beverages, Furnitures, Healthcare, Media & Telco, Utilities & Services.

I opened a new business, selling OEM PC and evolving my offering to services like custom software development and network installations. I got a very good reputation about the quality of my products, especially for the serious selection of components used. I had 3 people working for me as programmers/installers/system builders.I managed the business 360 degrees: administration, sales, human resources, technical support.For the automotive sector, I personally become specialist for ECU tuning, using DimSport products (www.dimsport.it).

Transformed my interest in IT (since I was 10 years old) into a work: as developer in several languages, I wrote/sold software (financial, administrative and technical) for many different companies and, as consultant I sold also IT training. Started to attend Computer Science at University in Genoa (Italy), using what I studied in my work.

As part time job during I was studying, I worked as sales clerk in an consumer electronics shop. I could start to experience the basics of communications, marketing and selling.