Making sure all the servers in the Vodafone European datacenters are securely patched and hardened, compliant with the established regulations an properly tested after deployment or major changes.

We ensure business customers successfully enable their services in the Gloabal Datacentres distributed across europe.Being part of the Joint Design Authorities (JDA) we drive software development standards, automation, and adoption of Cloud. Current focus is on NFV Infrastructure design and deployment for glogal network services.

Define and implement Capacity Management process and operating model for Internal and Hybrid Cloud platform and Big Data solution.Deliver traditional IT Infrastructure Capacity Management for 12 Datacenters across different countries in Europe.

Lead the Vodafone IT Infrastructure Capacity and Configuration Management functions for the European Datacentres, with a team located in UK, Germany and Italy.Manage the Accuracy and CMDB Enhancement programme, aimed to increase accuracy, timely update and data discovery automation.Drive the Vodafone Global Capacity Management initiative with the purpose of harmonize the Capacity Management processes and tools across Europe, Africa, Asia.Guarantee the timely delivery of the capacity plan for the different Local Market, CMDB accuracy, rightsizing and resource availability for virtual and shared environment infrastructure.Implement Storage and Cloud Capacity and Configuration management concepts.

IT Infrastructure Delivery programme governance, project management and IT solution design for Spain and Portugal with a team of 15 located in Milan, Lisbon and Madrid.Provisioning strategy and infrastructure purchasing with major vendors like HP, IBM, EMC, Oracle.Virtualization of existing services

Collect infrastructure requirements, negotiate the budget planning with the Local Market representative, monitor and control projects spending throughout the year, execute the projects and the related purchasing process and manage external suppliers engagement and relationship.Markets in scope are Germany, Netherlands, UK, Ireland, Portugal, Spain, Italy, Greece, Albania, and Group Functions.International team of 25 people working in Newbury, Düsseldorf, Milan and Madrid.

Lead the consolidated Capacity Management Team, with people located in Italy, Germany and UK, looking after the capacity of about virtual and physical servers, Enterprise Storage, DBs, distributed in the different European datacentres.Assets in scope: 25,000 virtual and physical servers, 17,000 TB of Enterprise Storage,1,200 DBs. Work, in close cooperation with the Demand Management team, in the Budget Planning process (100+ Mio €), and develop the resulting IT Resource Forecast and resulting long term scenarios.Support the IT Infrastructure Optimisation projects, identifying underusage situations and consolidation scenarios.

Team management in an international setting.Budget Planning and IT Resource Forecast.Project Management for Continual Process Improvement.ITIL Process Management.Capacity Planning for the Southern Europe Data Centre organisation - Milan, Madrid, Lisbon and Athens.Capacity Planning Datawarehouse Design and Maintenance for UK, Germany and Ireland datacentres.Storage Capacity Planning, Information Lifecycle Management, Vodafone Global Infrastructure Maintenance Tender

Team management, coaching and controllingITIL and Sarbanes-Oxley compliance and remediationBatch process scheduling and control for Italy, Spain, Greece and Portugal - 36,000 different jobs, 2,400 servers and 300,000 daily tasks in scope. Scheduling and Process flow software management - BMC ControlM and CA Autosys Workload Automation

Define standard future proof and cost-effective datacentre architecture for IT Systems.HW and SW Certification of new Server and Storage Platforms.Support Vodafone Global IT Infrastructure Tender and the creation of the Global Component Catalogue for the datacentres.Support the Due Diligence and Asset Inventory process as part of the datacenter management organization carve out.

Application migration from Spain, Greece and Portugal to the central datacenter in Milan. Project management, budget planning and cost control – 80 Mil € in three years.Configuration and Asset Management. Virtual and multicultural team working in a broad international context.

Management of the Omnitel, mVillage, Vizzavi Internet Server Farms and Internet Mailbox Service, Self Care Web Potal and Payment servicesManagement of Internet Services reengineering and Consolidation projects aimed to improving the application service level and reducing the operational costsWeb Portal migration from Microsoft to Java technologies (Apache, Weblogic, Broadvision)

Team Leader Office IT and Mail service support for the Italy north west regionProblem Management for Email and client-server applications LAN/WAN connectivity Email backup serviceSupport Sale force in mobility

Electromagnetic Compatibility EngineerTest and Measurement design and operationHW/SW Design of microcontroller based industrial electronicsDesign of robotic test and calibration facilities