Lorenzo Ferrari Email & Phone Number

Florence, Italy Metropolitan Area

Florence Area, Italy

IT Manager in Turbomachinery & Process Solutions (TPS) business unit, responsible for tools and processes ranging from material planning, manufacturing scheduling, to enterprise asset management.• Led Healthy Metrics tool implementation on GE Predix platform: 11 types of transactions monitored across 5 main metrics, measuring not only if IT systems works, but also how they perform & trend.• Led Packaging Throughput Project, a Brilliant Factory single tool tracking materials, activities, alerts and actions, enabling real time control of packaging in Massa plant (0.5 M$+ of extra costs reduction estimated, related to packaging activities acceleration, premium transportation, and others).• Led Cyberplan manufacturing scheduling tool implementation in Newcastle (UK) and Niteroi (BR) Wellstream plants.• Led datacenter consolidation and cloud migration activities for TPS supply chain software portfolio, driving down costs by 68% and achieving an actual saving of 581 k$ in 2015. Recognized for "Stay lean to go fast" with an Above & Beyond Silver Award.

Florence Area, Italy

Led the Oracle ERP implementation in the new GE Oil & Gas plant in Fót (Budapest, Hungary), enabling the insourcing of control panels production for all Turbomachinery products (annualized benefits: 10 M$) and contributing to build one of the first multi-modal plants in GE Oil & Gas.Promoted the Oracle ERP blueprint implementing manufacturing execution using only standard Oracle modules, removing dependencies with legacy manufacturing execution tools.

Florence Area, Italy

Project Manager and Lean Six Sigma Black Belt in IT for GE Oil & Gas Turbomachinery organization.• Carried out the integration of Oracle Primavera with Oracle ERP and Teamcenter PLM, setting the foundation of the GE Oil & Gas Integrated Project Planning platform, and positioning it as the main cross-functional company tool for project control.• Led the roll out of the Integrated Project Planning platform to plants in France (Le Creusot) and Italy (Bari), and promoted it as a best practice in other GE O&G facilities in UK (Aberdeen and Nailsea) and Norway (Sandvika).• Ran the Vendor Recovery process redesign and digitization: starting from a baseline recovery of only 20% of suppliers generated cost of quality in 2009, the new process and tool introduction resulted in $15M of additional recovery in 18 months (2011/2012).

Florence Area, Italy

IT Manager of Project Planning & Control systems of GE Oil & Gas Turbomachinery organization.• Drove the roll out of Oracle ERP planning modules to France (Le Creusot): first ERP implementation in GE Oil & Gas without outages in production environments (benefits: 3.2M€/year).• Led planning system (Artemis ProjectView) integration with Oracle ERP in North America (Oshkosh, WI), improving data quality of plans and reducing manual tasks.

Florence Area, Italy

IT Manager of Manufacturing Planning and Execution systems of GE Oil & Gas Global Supply Chain organization.• Headed the roll out of Manufacturing Execution Systems (Oracle ERP + custom software) to Italian plants, Talamona (SO), Bari and Vibo Valentia.• Responsible for the yearly physical inventory process: introduced ad-hoc reports and software tools that made possible to complete operations in a single day vs. a full weekend (previous typical required time).

Florence Area, Italy

Business Analyst in IT Quality organization of GE Oil & Gas. Led the Application Simplification global GE initiative, aiming to decrease the number of active and supported software applications: reached in 6 months more than 75% of end of year target (151 of 200 applications dismissed).

Pisa, Italy

Wireless based (Wi-Fi) open network architecture design and implementation: market and legal regulations analysis, state of the art technologies and standards evaluation, optimal requirements gathering, security and monitoring problems resolution, final implementation of a working prototype.

Laurea, Computer Engineering

Core Leadership Curriculum

• Influential Leadership and Innovation • Leadership Development at GE • Foundations of GE Leadership • Influencing Skills at GE •.

Maturità, Liceo Scientifico, 58/60