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Trieste Area, Italy

Responsible for the content and delivery of the modeFRONTIER product releases. Established development and release management processes as the company started to adopt agile development standards in 2013.• Delivered eight major releases of the modeFRONTIER product, together with twenty minor releases.• Drove and coordinated the evolution of the development, release management and project management disciplines with the progressive adoption of agile methodologies and the establishment of a repetitive process. The resulting level of maturity of the development process was a key aspect in the success of the modularization of the new modeFRONTIER code base. This allowed to reformulate the product licensing and packaging in a modular way.• Shaped the definition of a new product working closely with the CTO and the marketing organization. The new product exposes a foundation for the implementation of the company strategy in the field of data analysis and visualization.• Rendered highly technical product features into consumable content for client executive briefings, sales and training collateral, articulating its value for the specific target audience.

Padova Area, Italy

Lead the design and delivery of solutions based on early adoption of design optimization technologies, products and services in the Chemical and Pharmaceutical markets. Manage project scope, risk and requirements. Typical solutions are based on process integration and graphical workflows supported by optimization algorithms and machine learning predictive models.• Successful implementation of a design optimization workflow for drug design at a major pharmaceutical company in Italy.• Established content and process to identify product gaps and enhancements for 2 major releases of modeFRONTIER, driving product strategy and keeping product features in sync with client requirements in Chemical and Pharmaceutical markets.• Enabled ESTECO sales and technical representatives in the U.S., Europe and Japan on technical aspects and opportunity qualification criteria in Chemical and Pharmaceutical markets.

Padova Area, Italy

Member of the company Visualization team. Technical leadership in dimensionality reduction based visualization of multidimensional data.• Designed first implementation of a Multivariate analysis module in modeFRONTIER. The implementation was used to drive product strategy and new features at strategic clients in the Japanese market.• Java implementation of algorithms and Graphical User Interface for Principal Component Analysis, Hierarchical clustering, K-means clustering, Self-organizing maps, Support Vector Machines, Multidimensional scaling.• Technical support to marketing for collaterals, training of application engineers and technical sales.

Padova Area, Italy

Member of the company Applied Mathematics team. Technical leadership in data mining applications.• Customized data mining methods for strategic clients. Python, R or MATLAB prototypes.• Championed the extension of the data mining field in the company and partners network.• Studied effective visualizations of multidimensional data targeted to design engineers in the automotive field.• Introduction of new data mining technologies at strategic clients, working closely with the technical and business partners worldwide, for the rapid generation of applications.

Trieste Area, Italy

Italian research funded project “Soft computing methods applied to financial complex systems”. Technical leadership on textual data mining.• In charge of the automatic information extraction from financial online magazines and news feed.• Java implementation of an information extraction module based on Text Mining methods: Term-Document matrix based on Term Frequency – Inverse Document Frequency.• Championed the first attempts to integrate the Term Document Matrix into a predictive model for financial time series based on Recursive Unsupervised neural networks.

Master'S Programme, Bioinformatics

Study plan focused on machine learning and scientific programmig

Master'S Degree, Physical Chemistry

• 5-years course • Study plan focused on molecular modeling and simulation • Dissertation titled “Cranklike conformational transitions.