In my new role I am in charge of leading the following functions / areas, covering both sites of the company and all the BUs:- commercial: business development and customer relations with high end luxury brands;- supply chain: planning and scheduling, purchasing and procurement, logistics and warehouses;- new products development and industrialisation;- project management;- ICT, information and communication technologies;- master data management

Operations Director at DiMar Group SpA, a company based in Central Italy, specialized in leather goods production, serving major firms of luxury sector.In my role, I head production (c/o internal plants and c/o sub-contractors), industrialization, purchasing, planning, logistics and quality. I also contribute to customer relations and business development.www.dimargroup.com

Trainer, senior consultant, advisor in Lean Production, Lean Office, Lean Thinking, Kaizen, processes Continuous Improvement, organizational change, strategy.Missions: training in management schools and chemical industries; Lean transformation projects in packaging, furnitures, mechanical, chemical, fashion and glass industries; Lean organization project in services bodies.Lenovys is a consulting and training company specialized in Lean Management. We are known for having created two methodologies: The “Lean Lifestyle” and The “Impact Innovation”. We are the only one, within the European array of consulting companies, that guarantee the improvement of the business performances jointly developing technical excellence (processes, tools, business systems) and social excellence (habits, culture, energy, individual systems).Our key activities in the company are the followings:- Increasing the energy in the company in order to combine the improvement of business performances with the well-being of individuals and the teams involved.- Building innovative systems with a high impact on people-products-processes capable of delivering to the companies a sustainable, competitive and long lasting advantage. - Setting up personalized projects based on the need of each company to achieve maximum results with the minimum effort without binding to prepackaged and redundant methods.- Fulfilling ad hoc change management projects for the customers together with every technical project; in order to make the company autonomous to sustain the results over time.- Reducing waste within the entire value chain producing the increment of performances and the level of service together with the satisfaction of the employees.www.lenovys.com

Due to the hard difficulties of the Italian construction sector, the company didn't have enough resources to sustain and complete the turn around programme and has been obliged to liquidate its activities. The Court has appointed me as company liquidator, thanks to my reliable profile.

Consultancy and training missions in order to introduce, implement and sustain Lean and Continuous Improvement methods in industrial and services companies.Missions and projects in companies of the following sectors: shop furnitures, medical and scientific devices, electro-mechanical facilities installation.

Support Changepond Engineering Services in focusing on possible businesses in Italy and advise the Customers in individuating the best opportunities that Changepond can offer.

Member of the board and CEO of a company working in three sectors:- concrete floors production- building materials sales- bathroom furnitures salesHQ in San Quirico d'Orcia and six shops in SIENA province (Tuscany, Italy).In spite of a severe and reliable turn around programme, the deep crisis of the construction sector and the lack of financial resources have obliged the company to liquidate its activities.

Due diligence and company acquisition (ex Antolin Transport SAS), by Italian industrial holding Gruppo Industriale Tosoni and its affiliate Saira Europe.Site management of the company specialized in transports seats engineering, manufacturing and sales. Responsability on manufacturing, logistics, purchasing, engineering, finance and customer support. The company is part of the Transport Division of Gruppo Industriale Tosoni.

Cooperations with Contino & Partners consultancy firm to design, implement and develop operations improvement, operations change projects, by means of LEAN manufacturing/enterprise and other effective tools.

Electrical generators and handling systems manufacturing.Mangement of: manufacturing, engineering and supply chain at group level. Plant manager of two Italian facilities (180 people). Supervision of three foreign factories: Murcia (Spain), Lyon (France), Shunde (China). Global responsibility of some 450 people. Start up of a new factory in Ploiesti (Romania), in 2009.

Industry manufacturing mobile homes, shelters and prefabricated modules, headquartered in Castelfiorentino (Florence - Italy), with three factories in Castelfiorentino, Barcelona area (Spain) and Pula area (Croatia).Management of the group operations: manufacturing, engineering, supply chain. Feasibility studies for new investments.

Two years as program manager, to develop and launch new Fiat and Iveco products (mechanical R&P gears, hydraulic assisted R&P gears, electrical assisted columns (EPS)), coordinating international cross-functional teams (UK, Italy, Germany, Czech Republic, USA) and managing key suppliers development (in Italy, Austria, Liechtenstein, Korea, UK, Spain...).

Experience in Livorno plant (Italy), manufacturing car and van steering systems, covering roles of growing responsibility (up to production manager and module manager).

Manager of assembly and testing of "bikers dreams", such as MONSTER, 996, 748, SS, ST2, ST4.Participation in the following key projects: ISO9001 certification, Kaizen implementation.

Management of the development of face lift, restyling and new models, including delivery versions of small scooters, like Zip, Free and Ciao.

Training course in lean manufacturing (five months).Management of a production area (welding shop) employing up to 200 people (two years and a half).