Career break to reconnect with family and friends, pro bono coaching, visual art activity.

The IBM Innovation Studio is the crossroad where Clients meet Sales and Business Partners. With immersive experiences and IBM's expertise, progressed clients to the next step in their sales cycle.- Demonstrated how IBM can solve their challenges. Used my enthusiasm, facilitation and engagement skills, and my understanding of the IBM business, to create a strong emotional connection, leaving the clients inspired, energised, and excited.- Built strong relationships with Business Partners and IBM Ecosystem teams, to create memorable experiences and increase revenue. Contributed to 30% increase YoY of Client and Business Partners events delivered, resulting in Win Revenue increase of 300% YoY attributed to the Studio.

Led the Agile transformation of the Marketing organisation as a whole in Europe. With the wide range of countries and cultures represented, my ability to embrace diversity, as well as my multilingual skills, ensuring people were heard and understood, enabled me to be successful in international environments.- Collaborated with CMOs and executives to define strategies and success metrics for the rollout.- Delivered a program of organisational coaching, based on a coaching-the-coaches approach, to develop skills across a broader employee base.- Kickstarted local Agile advocate communities and supported monthly sessions.- Created and facilitated ad-hoc sessions for up to 150 marketers, virtually and in person. Sessions leveraged gamifications, with elements from Role Playing Games, resulting in increased energy and engagement, more creativity, and better outcomes.- Supported US Agile teams remotely transforming their practices and enhancing business results.- Contributed to an increase of marketers engagement worldwide: up 4 points in 2019, then up 
12 points in 2020.

Set the foundations for my upcoming role in London.- Coached 20+ Leadership teams in Europe, Middle East, and Africa.- Supported Agile advocates throughout the organisation, and collaborated to scale the coaching.

Introduced Agile practices to IBM Marketing, working with an 8-person team to roll out Agile for 4,000 individuals worldwide. Travelled internationally to tailor and strengthen the approach.- Scaled the approach, going from coaching seven to twenty teams in one year by adopting a coaching the coaches approach. - Increased speed and quality of campaign delivery by coaching Marketing Leadership senior executives to adopt agile mindset and behaviours.- Collaborated with Senior Leadership in Marketing education programs.- Faculty Agile Lead for the “Making the Marketer”, an internal IBM Marketing event. Presented at 
6 worldwide events for audiences with up to 200 attendees.

Managed development and quality assurance for several Nickelodeon websites (Nick, Nick Jr, Nick at Nite), new features and entire redesigns. Also managed creation of the first Nick Jr. iOS App: the app went through several iterations over the span of two years and finally launched in December 2014. Worked with on-site teams, offshore vendors, and mixed teams; helped ensure good communications within the team and with other parties.- Led projects from inception to launch, managing schedules and resources.- Supported technology and product teams in adopting Scrum and Kanban methodologies.- Coached teams through all stages, collaborating on backlog grooming, roadmaps, and releases.- Served as Kanban process owner, managing biweekly releases, status reporting, and maintaining performance metrics in Confluence.- Created and maintained JIRA dashboards for Kanban and Rapid boards for Scrum.All of this contributed to several achievements, including:2007 Increased Nick Jr Parents TV video streams by 90%. Increased Nick at Nite traffic by 45%
2011 World Wide Day of Play (sponsor Michelle Obama). TeenNick HALO Awards (+238% visitors)
2013 Supported Nick iOS App to win the Emmy Award
2014 Nick Jr. iOS App (Editor's Choice in iTunes and #2 Free iPad Apps)

(G2 direct and digital was a subsidiary of Grey Global Group, interactive and direct marketing leader)Managed online projects for several pharmaceutical accounts: branded and unbranded web sites, paid media and email campaigns (Pfizer, Procter & Gamble, Boehringer Ingelheim, Novartis, BMS).- Evaluated project feasibility, took ownership of schedules, and managed client expectations.- Oversaw the submission process for client-side medical, legal, and regulatory approvals.- Coordinated technical development and quality assurance across internal teams, client IT, and third-party vendors.- Cultivated strong relationships with external partners, including media planners, rich media vendors, and interactive agencies.All of this contributed to the following achievements:
DTC National - 2007 Advertising Awards - Best Branded Website (Gold - Flomax, Bronze - Actonel); Best Digital Media Campaign (Bronze – Flomax)

(FASTWEB was the first company to provide phone, Internet, and IPTV via fiber optic. Now is a key broadband telecommunications company in Italy)
Senior Project Manager, January 2003–September 2005
Head of development for the online customer acquisition. Managed several desktop applications: subscription cart (to customize and evaluate the offer before buying); availability tool via SMS (also utilized by sales); customer care system (reduced the number of phone calls); recruiting system for HR.
PHP/Oracle developer and Project Manager, November 2000–December 2002
Designed, developed and managed several desktop apps: service availability tool; store locator; technical assistance system; customer profiling to provide a customer base description; IPTV GUI.

- Developed Web-Based Training for RAS Group (Insurance company) with multimedia features- Designed and developed in VRML2 the 3-D section of the corporate website (www.chromatron.com)- Produced several CD-ROMs for pharmaceutical and insurance companies- Served as cameraman and editor for several videos- Designed and developed web sites