My role implies understanding my customer's business needs leveraging empathy and experience; meet them with the best combination of strategy, architecture, technology and sensible processes; balance innovation with robustness; drive innovation by leveraging knowledge in many different areas; seed new ideas with design thinking; keep on having geek fun tinkering with new contraptions.Started my professional life in medical research at Rome's University, have since then been with IBM on several technical, sales and leadership customer facing roles. Because of my cosmopolitan upbringing, while working from Rome, I've often been engaged in international roles mainly in Europe and the U.S.A.Since my formal certification as an IT Architect back in 2000 (and Executive Architect in 2009) and my subsequent consulting roles, I have been directing younger Architects helping them to mature technical and soft skills and the right experiences to reach their own objectives.Goals:Specialties: Digital Transformation StrategyIBM Design ThinkingCloud Computing Architectures and Transformation StrategyIT Architecture designIT SecurityEnterprise ArchitectureIT ConsultingTechnological innovationBiomedical ImagingCognitive Computing and Big Data in Medicine