Decades of experience in project management of multi-million, multi-disciplinary, and multi-cultural projects across Europe and the world.I am very interested in finding ethical ways to use EU-research-born AI technologies with a Service Design approach for creating new products that can be adopted and loved by people from diverse cultures. My main expertise includes data collection, GDPR/Privacy, dataset analysis, machine learning dataset preparation, EU grant writing, and EU project management, technology transfer, open software and multimedia content creation.
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Founder - Acting CeoAlma FrancaTrento, It -
Senior Project ManagerUniversità Di Trento Oct 2023 - PresentProject Manager of the Horizon Europe project Tango https://tango-horizon.eu/Horizon Europe project (8million€ with 18 EU top institutions) which aims to develop synergistic human+AI decision-making protocols and solutions. -
Visiting Researcher At University Of TrentoUniversità Di Trento Jul 2022 - PresentTrento, Trentino-Alto Adige, Italy -
Senior Project ManagerOpencontent Feb 2023 - PresentTrento, Trentino-Alto Adige, ItalyWorking on the Upsurge project https://www.upsurge-project.eu/, where technological improvements like Blockchain are leveraged for creating and managing NBSs (Nature-Based-Solutions). -
Co-Founder / CtoWitmee May 2021 - PresentMilan, Lombardy, ItalyCo-founded a spin-off for the exploitation of the work done over the last 10 years at the University of Trento. In this role I:• Worked on IPR transfer from university-developed technology to the newly founded start-up• Collaborated in the creation of roadmaps and market studies towards the exploitation of the IPR into concrete products.• Collaborated on the preparation of grant applications and pitches -
Postdoctoral ResearcherAalborg University Jul 2022 - PresentRemotePost Doctoral Researcher at Aalborg University's Service Design Lab and participating in the ZOOOM and BC4ECO projects -
Product ManagerKnowdive Group Jan 2020 - Jul 2022The WeNet Research Infrastructure is an upcoming online catalog for hosting, documenting and managing research datasets, currently in alpha as part of the WeNet project (https://www.internetofus.eu/). As a product manager I: • Collected customer requirements, to inform the top-level design• Translated the top-level design and requirements into a technical architecture and documentation actionable by the development team• Defined milestones on objectives and desired outcomes. Established criteria for measuring the development progress. • Coordinated project planning and execution with team members and team leads.• Managed benchmarks, testimonials and user interaction as a means for performance evaluation and to revise features/objectives -
Data Collection/Analysis EngineerKnowdive Group Jan 2018 - Dec 2019Knowdive is an AI research group at the University of Trento, that has successfully provided a data collection/dataset-generation service for research projects (Wenet and Qrowds: https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/732194 ) and in collaboration with public statistical institutions (Eurostat: https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/cros/content/i-log_en). In this role I: • Defined the procedures for the required activities (Experiment design, data collection, dataset preparation and anonymization, Dataset analysis and refinement)• Defined service level, by using standardization frameworks like ITIL, to align performance to business needs• Defined the privacy protection regulation compliance procedures by interacting with the institutional Data Protection Officer and legal consultants• Defined and operated a data collection helpdesk to assist with common issues and obtain feedback from clients and end usersThe resulting datasets comprise data from 1088 participants in 8 countries over a total of 38 weeks, generating terabytes of logged information that were then prepared and summarized into a few gigabytes of legally anonymized data. These datasets cover domains such as transportation and mobility, food intake, pollution, academic performance, among others. -
Project ManagerUniversità Di Trento Mar 2014 - Dec 2018Project Manager of FP7-ICT SmartSociety (https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/600854) and FET-Launchpad WhiteRabbit ( https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/754436 ). In this role I:• Outlined work plans, during the proposal writing phase. Determining resources, writing timelines and generating initial budgets as part of project scope determination.• Coordinated the collaboration of multimillion, multidisciplinary and multicultural teams across Europe and the world by organizing teleconferences, project meetings and other events• Clarified and kept track of main agreements, problems and progress in a manner that was transparent and actionable for all partners• Oversaw internal and external review procedures, producing reports and documentation capturing progress, risks and issues. Communicated with stakeholders at all levels. -
Product Development LeadUniversità Di Trento Jan 2013 - Apr 2017Managed the development of components belonging to a still under R&D platform for representing information and knowledge into semantic knowledge graphs. Later moved to manage the development of the data collection app iLog ( https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=it.unitn.disi.witmee.sensorlog&hl=it&gl=US ). In this role I:• Managed and coordinated multiple micro development teams (2-3 persons) by using agile methodologies and continuous reporting tools (gantt, kanban, etc).• Wrote and implemented code quality assurance procedures, and documentation/testing requirements for platform components and organized development wikis and code-repository• Direct contribution to the Java back-end code base• Collaborated on App certification and troubleshooting procedures -
Postdoctoral ResearcherUniversità Degli Studi Di Trento - University Of Trento Mar 2012 - Dec 2014 -
Freelance Software EngineerFreelance, Self-Employed Jan 2000 - Dec 2007Design and development of sales and stock keeping web-based software system over Internet formultiple sale points
Ronald Chenú Abente Acosta Education Details
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Information Technology
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