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Milan, IT

• [Sept 2022 – June 2024] Client: Deloitte Consulting srl project for Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Central Bank "Cyber Threat Led Assessment for Critical Services Execution".
• Drafting of the RFIs for the Identification of critical assets
• Risk assessment of cyber-attack scenarios
• Evaluation of operational resilience, management of remediation plan(s) and final report
• Conduct workshops on site with stakeholders to gather knowledge and documentation (technical, functional, operational,etc) for all payment systems in scope - RTGS, Instant Payments, National Card System, Bill Payment
• Identify main flows, map assets to flows, analyse and define critical assets

• [Nov 2020 – May 2022] Client: TAS Group s.p.a. Components of cloud native Global Payment Platform.
• Design and lead development team of several “core banking” services part of a cloud-native global payment platform
• Accounts, transactions, position keeping, cash pooling, commission service, CBI reports, corporate banking reports, openbanking api through integration with CBI Globe PSD2 gateway for retail and corporate customers
• Deployed in production for a Tier 2 Digital Bank on AWS
• Initial post-production support and maintenance

• [Jan 2022 – July 2023] Client: Deloitte Consulting srl project for Italian National Debit Payment Scheme New Payment System and Card Scheme.
• Lead a team of analysts to write the ATM part of a new Card Scheme Rulebook using Nexo Standards and ISOPayments 20022
• Review Scheme artifacts delivered by other teams, including architecture designs
• Define Rulebook deliverables and its content
• Provide guidance and initial work for: implementation guidelines, E2E flows, functional specs, technical scheme requirements
• Design and developed of a tool to: starting from XSD ISO schemas automatically generates: templates of message catalogue, REST service interfaces compliant to the ISO guidelines and enriched with message catalogue.

• CEO and CTO Fintech start-up Epiphany srl[Feb 2018 – Feb 2021]FSI Marketplace and Platform for the Open Finance.
• Accountable for strategic vision and direction, business and product development, sales, client relationships, financialmanagement, solution design and deployment, process improvements, onshore and offshore project.
• Providing leadership in developing, planning and implementing the business plan with shareholders and executives.
• Managing all aspects of the teams, including utilization, growth, and development.
• Formulating, recommending, and approving the implementation of organization-wide programs, policies, and procedures.
• Designed the strategy for new technology platforms. Managed partnerships and external relationships.

• [Feb 2015 – Jan 2018] Client: SIA s.p.a.New Payment System - Central Bank of Russia.
• Senior Software Architect of the new Payment System for the Central Bank of Russia
• Gather system requirements, interview stakeholders to define Quality Attributes
• Read and map business requirements
• Defined software architecture based on reference architecture, identified appropriate architectural style using SystemArchitecture and Business Architecture
• Interact with Business Analyst to convey requirements and functionality into sub-systems to reduce system complexity

• [Sep 2013 – Jan 2015] Client: SIA s.p.a.Online Bill Payment Re-engineering – Poste s.p.a.
• Bill Payment system refactoring to meet SLA
• Analysis of system components to identify issues
• design and re-engineering of components with impact on performance or causing system
• Deployed in production with reliability and performance KPI in line with defined SLA Protocol Adapter – Société générale
• Design and implementation of a message adapter SEPA SDD – ALISE (proprietary format SocGen)

• [Jan 2012 – Jun 2013] Client: SIA s.p.a. Mybank Payments – Preta s.a.s.
• Software Architect for "MyBank Payments Directory Service"
• Review and contribute to the MyBank Payment Scheme
• Understanding requirements, interfacing with business analyst and translating the requirements into application andsystem architecture
• Lead the development team, responsible for architecture and design of critical components
• Writing UML diagrams and technical analysis, prototypes, testing of design attributes and coordinating with other teammembers

• [Apr 2010 – Sept 2011] Client: CRIF s.p.a.Credit Flow Upgrade - Business Process Outsourcing platform for Loans
• Service-Oriented Architecture tailored specifically to streamline the customer acquisition process, a solution supportingloans, credit cards, and other financial products both for retail and commercial business markets.
• Planning and assigning tasks to the team while actively contributing to analysis and development of Products and Servicesrelated to Credit Application Processing for banks and financial institutions. Local and offshore.
• End to end management and coordination of all phases (Requirements to Release to production)
• Release deployment planning and execution of releases
• Technology JBoss, Weblogic, EJB 2, Axis, SOA, XML, XSLT, Alfresco, SQL Server, Oracle, Struts

• [Feb 2009 – Mar 2010] Client: SCAI s.p.a.Doqui & ACTA “ERP for Government Agency” SaaS – CSI Piemonte
• Team lead of software development, responsible for analyzing functional specifications and coordinating designers and developers
• Managed team activities, including assigning UML design tasks and reviewing work
• Provided support, guidance, and verification for development tasks
• Oversaw bug fix cycles and client interactions
• Supported problem resolution and ensured quality of deliverables

• [Sep 2004 – Jan 2009] Client: Intersiel s.p.a., Finsiel s.p.a. (Now Almaviva Group) Web Based ERP and Digital Archiving - Italian Government
• Team lead of software development, responsible for analyzing functional specifications and system design
• Managed team activities, provided support, guidance, and verification for development tasks
• Oversaw bug fix cycles and client interactions
• Supported problem resolution and ensured quality of deliverables
• Deployed in production for 2 GovernmentSoftware for Tax Forms – Sogei s.p.a.

• Lead Software Developer[Dec 2005 – Feb 2006] Client: Software House Project: Customer Relationship Management
• Team lead of software development, responsible for analyzing functional specifications and system design
• 3 Tier application
• Managed team activities, provided support, guidance, and verification for development tasks
• Oversaw bug fix cycles
• Supported problem resolution and ensured quality of deliverables

• [Jan 2000 – May 2004]Web Application for Fuel Cards Management - Canada Clean Fuels
• Web application for fuel cards managementFleet System - Canada Clean Fuels
• Re-engineering of an existing Unix-based system into a modern client-server application for fleet management, integrationwith handset devices.Paid and Controlled Circulation – CLBMedia
• Engineered a custom solution upon company acquisition & merge of 4 different publishers. Optimized for fast data entry; reporting and fine grained role based authorization. Planned and implemented data migration and.
• Created a custom search engine for company documents, enabling easy access to information across multiple branches. Built using Lucene technology, we enhanced it with additional features like fast file processing and.