Federico Descalzo

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Sales, R&D and Innovation, Agile PMO at Netalia | Co-founder & CEO at AppNRun @ Netalia
provincia di genova, liguria, italy
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Genoa, Liguria, Italy, Italy
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About Federico Descalzo

Many years in the Telecommunications and ICT industry, spent at the Service Provider's side and at the Vendor's one. Now applying my experience to serve the sports community with AppNRun, the key resource to plan, live and share your running emotions.When I started as Call Centre agent for Directory Services, I realized that any job, when done with passion, can add great value to the business and to the worker him/herself. This is the spirit that has been driving me from my very early times and that I try to communicate to my collaborators every day.I like pragmatic and effective innovation, lateral thinking, talent discovery and development, knowledge sharing. I support the Agile Manifesto http://www.agilemanifesto.org/ and Large Scale Scrum http://less.works/Specialities: - Change management- Agile Enterprise, Agile Transformation (Scrum Alliance CSPO )- Company's Processes and Organization development (PLM, Offering, Delivery, Product Documentation)- Technology due diligence- Multi-site, direct and indirect resource coordination, planning and monitoring- “State-of-the-art” of SP and Enterprise Multimedia over IP architectures, signalling, numbering, addressing and routing aspects;- Introducing new services in Telcos;- Migration strategy of multimedia services from circuit to packet networks- Technical/commercial negotiation with Suppliers and Customers at CxO level- Internet of Things & Internet of Everything Use Case elaboration and development- Public speaker at international events- Exceptional interpersonal communication - Team building expertise - Effective leader, Deadline-oriented- Consistently meet goals - Critical and creative thinking - Budget forecasting

Federico Descalzo's Current Company Details
Netalia

Netalia

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Sales, R&D and Innovation, Agile PMO at Netalia | Co-founder & CEO at AppNRun
provincia di genova, liguria, italy
Website:
netalia.it
Employees:
17
Federico Descalzo Work Experience Details
  • Netalia
    Direttore Commerciale
    Netalia Apr 2024 - Present
    Genova, Liguria, Italia
    Sales Director of Netalia Cloud Services to all national, private and Government organisations.
  • Netalia
    Responsabile Ricerca, Sviluppo, Innovazione
    Netalia May 2023 - Present
    Genova, Liguria, Italia
    Industrial Research and Experimental Development, Industrial Asset Development / Tech InnovationInnovative Skills DevelopmentResearch ProjectsOffer EngineeringIT & Cybersecurity Certification Task Force member with the following achievements:ISO 27001, 27017, 27018, 27035, 20000-1, CSA STAR Lev.2, 22301, 14001.
  • Netalia
    Agile Pmo
    Netalia Oct 2022 - Present
    Genova, Liguria, Italia
    Coaching & Driving Netalia's Agile journey.
  • Appnrun
    Co-Founder And Ceo
    Appnrun Dec 2019 - Present
    Genova, Italia
    AppNRun is the digital platform dedicated to the Runners Community. With the mission of simplifying the life of the runner, AppNRun aggregates and enhances useful contents, information, products and services before, during and after the races.I am the Product Owner of AppNRun and, as such, I drive the development of our digital assets (website and mobile App) through a Product Backlog and using 2-week sprints. I act as well as mentor and coach to the team, as the need for testing automation (CI/CD), TDD and ATDD emerged quite immediately once we started dropping the first lines of code.I develop the market through direct contact and social networks, as the business is multi-sided and thera are variour client types and stakeholders (Runners, Organisers, Partners, Timing org., etc).Despite COVID, AppNRun is becoming more and more common among the Italian runner's community as a powerfool tool to find and enrol in running events.
  • Netalia
    Direttore Operativo - Coo
    Netalia Apr 2021 - Oct 2021
    Genova, Liguria, Italia
    I act as a "Corporate Scrum Master", considering Netalia as an agile organization where transparancy, inspect and adaptation are essential to pursuing continue generation of value towards our customers.I am helping people overcome organizational and cultural barriers, fostering collaboration and evolving Netalia from a small niche player to a more structured company, also through the adoption of minimal but essential cerimonies and proper support tools, such as CRM and more clear internal processes and procedures.
  • Netalia
    Enterprise Scrum Master
    Netalia Mar 2020 - Mar 2021
    Genova, Liguria, Italia
  • Italtel Poland Sp. Z O.O.
    Chairman, Member Of The Bod At Italtel Poland Sp. Z O.O.
    Italtel Poland Sp. Z O.O. Apr 2017 - Mar 2020
    Warsaw, Masovian District, Poland
  • Italtel Uk Ltd
    Sole Director
    Italtel Uk Ltd Apr 2017 - Feb 2020
  • Italtel Deutschland Gmbh
    Geschäftsführer At Italtel Deutschland Gmbh
    Italtel Deutschland Gmbh Mar 2017 - Feb 2020
    Düsseldorf Area, Germany
  • Italtel
    Director Northern Europe & Indirect Channel
    Italtel Jan 2017 - Feb 2020
    Settimo Milanese, Lombardia, Italia
    - I was in charge of Italtel's business in Northern Europe. This means I was managing some Italtel-controlled legal entities abroad (Belgium, France, Germany, Poland, UK) for a total yearly turnover exceeding 30M€. I was also taking care of the development and management of Indirect Sales and Distribution Channels of Italtel Products worldwide. All in all, my team counted 34 people at the moment.- I was personally managing the relationship with senior and CxO level managers at various CSP's, including top MNO across Europe.- At the same time, I was following up with the developments of DoctorLINK, as I was the trusted contact between the doctors (with whom we're trialling and improving this healthcare solution in a realenvironment) and the Italtel organization. - Also, I always kept an eye at new use-case-driven innovation in the context of Smart Cities, IoE and the so-called digital transformation of all businesses, also taking part to international conferences such as TM Forum SmartCity InFocus, held yearly in Yinchuan, China from 2015 to 2017.
  • Italtel
    Director Northern Europe And Asia
    Italtel Mar 2019 - Aug 2019
    Settimo Milanese, Italy
  • Italtel
    Chief Marketing & Technology Officer
    Italtel Jan 2015 - Jan 2017
    Milan Area, Italy
    -Redesigned the Company\'s offering portfolio, overcoming the traditional view by Italtel Products, System Integration and Professional Services and outlining a new value proposition around Solutions for the Service Provider, Enterprise and Public Sector markets;- Completely re-purposed and redesigned the public website www.italtel.com - Established collaboration guidelines for improving presales, product documentation and technicalbenchmarking activities, along with the relevant tooling, based on MS Sharepoint- Developed and effectively managed Strategic Alliances and Indirect Sales Channels of Italtel's Products.- Conceived and driven the realization of DoctorLINK, the first "contextual communication" product forItaltel in the healthcare vertical, specifically designed to enable caregivers and patient to stay in touchduring the various phases of the cures. Leveraging on WebRTC and IoT state-of-the-art technologies, this solution can be delivered as a Managed Service or on premises and implements the latest DevOps,Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery methodologies, also valuing customer collaboration.
  • Italtel
    Vp Smart Networks & Products
    Italtel Jan 2012 - Dec 2014
    Settimo Milanese, Milano, Italy
    - Having full responsibility on the business related to Italtel\'s proprietary products and the relevantCustomers\' solutions, I managed all activities from Product Strategy, Marketing, Management,Development, Engineering Delivery and back-end support to post-sales services, improving cost figures, while creating new product lines and evolving the relevant technologies.- The main task during that period was to innovate both technologies and methodologies by fully embracing virtualization, enabling at the same time new commercial and delivery models. This was required by the emerging needs from heterogeneous markets such as Service Providers, Enterprise and Public.- In this period (2012-2014) the workforce was reduced from initial 534 to ca. 320 HC and I wasinvolved in several activities related to this rightsizing task, also meeting with Trade Unions in Milan and Palermo. - At the same time, I sponsored and drove the introduction of Agile methodologies (Scrum) at Italtel, in order to improve Quality, time-to-market, RoI, flexibility and reliability. More detail at https://less.works/case-studies/italtel.html
  • Italtel
    Head Of "Multimedia Products & Solutions" Product Unit
    Italtel Jun 2010 - Jan 2012
    Settimo Milanese, Italy
    - Reorganized the complete Product Portfolio, innovating both the market coverage and the technologies of Italtel\'s Products, worth 60+ M€ in yearly revenues, excluding maintenance and services.- Reorganized work methodology and processes on two R&D facilities in Italy: Milan and Palermo, counting ca. 260 people. Starting from June, 2011, I started the conversion of the whole R&D into 28 Scrum teams, thus progressively abandoning the pre-existing waterfall operating model. The transformation took something more than one year to be formally complete and some more time to really work well, delivering improved quality, shorter decision cycles, reducing waste across the chain.
  • Italtel
    Head Of Platforms Evolution
    Italtel Jan 2009 - Jun 2010
    Settimo Milanese, Milan Area, Italy
    - Created and trained a team of 35 consultants through internal selection.- Succesfully deployed all consultants within four months from the launch of the initiative over four locations in Italy at TIM, in order to evolve their technology platforms and improve the delivery of business services (IPTV, Mobile Broadband Services, SME Business offer, Top Customers).- Achieved complete customer satisfaction by all client\'s representatives at the end of the activity, thanks to continuous monitoring and coaching along the execution.
  • Italtel
    Head Of Competence Centers
    Italtel Feb 2008 - Dec 2008
    Settimo Milanese, Milan Area, Italy
    - Coordinated a geographically distributed team (80+ people), delivering technical presales, catalogueevolution, roadmap management and Offering activities for: NGN-IMS, NGS&IT, IP Networks, AccessEquipment, IP TV, Unified Communication, Security and Professional Services.- Reduced general costs associated to offering activities by 20%- Recommended and executed process improvements for PLM and Offering.- Worked directly with Sales, R&D & Delivery, clients, top management to improve Italtel\'s Solutioncatalogue and to maximize sales.- Hired, trained and integrated new staff, while achieving targets on labour cost reduction.- Planned, directed, coordinated and assigned work force to meet aggressive business development and offering schedules.
  • Italtel
    Head Of Product Management Issw And Cscf
    Italtel Feb 2006 - Jan 2008
    Settimo Milanese, Milan Area, Italy
    - Coordinated multiple parallel teams (35 people in Milan and Palermo), working at High Level ProductRequirements, analysis for feasibility and cost estimation for new features and product customization,- Successfully delivered Technical roadmap management of Italtel Products, Support to the CustomerSolutions Dep't., Risk assessment and management in case of answers to RFI/RFP from prospect or captive Customers.- Supervisor and member of the PMO for the product evolution project regarding the adoption of ATCA as the HW/SW platform for Italtel products.
  • Italtel
    Project Manager
    Italtel Nov 2004 - Jan 2006
    London, United Kingdom
    Led the Bulldog (Cable & Wireless plc group) NGN design, deployment, coordinating also outsourcedoperations to Italtel. Voice services were delivered in LLU over V5.2, H.248, MGCP and SIP. The contractwas worth 10+ M€ over two years. - During my time spent in London at the Customer premises from July2004 to December 2005, I was the technical and business reference interface with the Customer. The successful completion of the project paved the way to the awarding of the nation-wide VoIP transit network at Cable & Wireless plc, still in production in these days at Vodafone UK plc.
  • Italtel S.P.A.
    Network Architecture Senior Manager
    Italtel S.P.A. Jul 2002 - Oct 2004
    Settimo Milanese, Milan Area, Italy
    - I assisted the Tender Offering department, in order to identify the most suitable network architecture and relevant telecom products to be employed in order to support large Telco\'s deployment cases.- Interfaced directly with France Telecom and Equant, during the RFP evaluation process, resulted in a multi-million € frame contract to Italtel, enabling the complete transformation of fixed line technology for the FT Group.
  • Italtel
    Product Manager Switching & Mobile
    Italtel Sep 2001 - Jun 2002
    Settimo Milanese, Milan Area, Italy
    - Acted as Solution Architect and Technical Leader within the Cisco-Italtel “ETNA”project.- Interacted with Cisco Systems for the definition of joint solution roadmaps. - Elaborated dozens of solutions/architectures, each studied for the specific network and service scenario, supporting the Customer Solution Proposal department for answering RFI/RFP/RFQ's by Large Telcos and Enterprises.
  • Italtel
    Technical Sales Support
    Italtel Sep 2000 - Aug 2001
    Settimo Milanese, Milan Area, Italy
    When I moved to Italtel, after eight years spent at Telecom Italia, I switched the side of the same table and I had the pleasure to answer my own requirements, as I was leading the Technical Sales Support towards TI, for the following main tasks: - Engineering and Design of the Telecom Italia National Backbone, a 3-year program worth beyond 100+M€ that led to the complete swap of 66 transit switches with the introduction of 24 Italtel Softswitches, along with Cisco Media Gateway IP core routing, and switching equipment ; - analyzing, designing and quoting the new features required by TI, acting as SPOC and key technical interface with TI.
  • Telecom Italia
    System Engineer
    Telecom Italia Feb 2000 - Aug 2000
    Rome, Italy
    - Prepared specifications of Telecom Italia\'s voice network evolution (National Backbone), leveraging on VoIP technologies, in order to migrate all national long distance traffic over IP. - Took part to international standardization activities at ETSI TIPHON #18 in Ottawa, where I contributed to Number Portability and QoS guidelines.
  • Telecom Italia
    Testing Engineer
    Telecom Italia Jun 1995 - Jan 2000
    Rome, Italy
    - Continually improved methods and procedures for testing Italtel's UT100 digital switches, DECT Radio Fixed Part, IN, PSTN & ISDN services, covering both functional, protocol conformance and non-functional requirements.- For three subsequent years, I was the testing engineer managing the highest number of test campaigns and reporting the highest number of bugs.- Thanks to the trust I had built with the Supplier, where I was normally deployed, I was frequently involved in design workshops and required to provide advise on various aspects of new features. This allowed to tackle many issues in advance and to avoid extra costs and delays for all parties.
  • Telecom Italia (Prev. Sip)
    Operation Engineer
    Telecom Italia (Prev. Sip) Dec 1992 - May 1995
    Genoa Area, Italy
    - Performed daily Operation & Maintenance tasks of analogue and digital local exchange (Italtel technology) and various transmission equipment, improving provisioning time for new lines and reducing the average duration of faults.- Analyzed local paper documentation of all inter-equipment cabling, verified consistency with physical implementation and populated data into new information tools. This led to alienation of 50+% of obsolete/unnecessary cabling.- In my spare time, I was playing the drums in a semi-professional band.
  • Alleanza Assicurazioni
    Independent Sales Representative
    Alleanza Assicurazioni Jun 1992 - Nov 1992
    Genoa, Italy
    - Managed my 100+ client portfolio, visiting them monthly for collecting insurance monthly fees.- Upsold on existing customer base: fee increase, new contracts to relatives, etc..- Sold new contracts for personal multi-year life insurance coverage, reaching and exceeding monthly targets (1-2 new contracts per month).
  • Telecom Italia
    Directory Services Operator
    Telecom Italia Jun 1992 - Oct 1992
    Genoa, Italy
    Dealt with directory enquiries for the incumbent Italian Operator, serving fixed lines. Up to 150 calls served in 3h30m.

Federico Descalzo Skills

Telecommunications Voip Ip Sip Pre Sales Ngn Product Management Telco Network Design Integration Team Leadership Network Architecture Management Iptv Lte Voice Over Ip Internet Protocol Product Marketing Session Initiation Protocol Ss7 Cisco Technologies Change Management Scrum Unified Communications Telephony Business Planning Business Development New Business Development Sdh Consulting Signalling Program Management Drums Synchronous Digital Hierarchy Documentation Due Diligence People Management Lean Transformation Software Documentation Iot Consultancy Cisco Product Owner Lean Thinking Metodologie Agili Agile E Health

Federico Descalzo Education Details

  • Civico Istituto Tecnico Ind. G. Galilei - Genova
    Civico Istituto Tecnico Ind. G. Galilei - Genova
    Telecommunications
  • Elis Corporate School
    Elis Corporate School
    Strategy And Execution Management

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Federico Descalzo attended Civico Istituto Tecnico Ind. G. Galilei - Genova, Elis Corporate School, Liuc - Università Cattaneo.

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Federico Descalzo has skills like Telecommunications, Voip, Ip, Sip, Pre Sales, Ngn, Product Management, Telco, Network Design, Integration, Team Leadership, Network Architecture.

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