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Roma, Lazio, Italia

• IT Service Continuity and Operations Manager at the IT Department of Banca d'Italia, the central bank of the Republic of Italy that hosts the IT infrastructure of the Eurozone payment system, security settlement system.
• Implement the Incident Management process as defined by ITIL v4.
• Coordinate all the stages of an incident response, from the detection, assessment and prioritization to the diagnosis and resolution.
• Monitor system performance and conduct investigations into IT infrastructure operational issues to identify opportunities for further improvement.As focal point of the IT Service Continuity Management process, I am.
• Coordinate a cross-functional team of 5+ IT infrastructure specialists to implement IT Service Continuity plans to restore normal operations of the IT Infrastructure of the Eurozone payment systems after a total.
• Plan Disaster-Recovery live exercises (8 per year), leading a cross-country team of 10+ people to simulate a total outage and rest normal operations within the recovery time agreed with the ECB in the SLA.

Frankfurt Am Main, Hesse, Germany

• Incident Coordinator on the IT Infrastructure of T2-T2S TARGET services at Deutsche Bundesbank, in Frankfurt am Main (Germany).As a member of the first-level of technical support, I collaborated with a team of 10+ IT.
• Coordinated the incident management workflow, focusing on incident detection, prioritization, diagnosis and resolution.
• Conducted the escalation of major incidents, triggering the Crisis Management process.
• Designed and improved system monitoring solutions to speed up incident analysis and resolution.
• Optimized the collaboration and communication between Banca d'Italia and Deutsche Bundesbank IT Departments.

Milano, Lombardia, Italia

• IT Project Manager at IBM Italia, leading a €5 million project for Terna SpA, Europe's largest independent electricity transmission system operator.As a coordinator of an Agile cross-functional team of 5+ IT.
• Acting as a single point of accountability for the customer, directed weekly progress meetings, negotiated deadlines and reported progress and constraints to the key stakeholders through the discussion of a Gantt chart.
• Implemented Agile-oriented tools (Jira, Slack, Confluence, and Trello) to streamline the processes, improve team communication and assign tasks and responsibilities, boosting the team's productivity.
• Established daily stand-up meetings and distributed product backlog's tasks into 2-week sprints, using the agile project management concepts of epics and stories.
• Collaborated with the Procurement Department to prepare the Request for Proposals (RFP) for purchasing software and hardware solutions from external suppliers.

Milano, Lombardia, Italia

• Cloud Software Engineer at IBM Italia, member of a Scrum team of 6 IT Specialists and focused on developing, testing and releasing the Java back-end code of 3 microservices of the SaaS solution "IBM Cloud Identity.
• Designed, developed, and maintained Java back-end code of 3 microservices as part of the SaaS IAM solution “IBM Cloud Identity Govern”, implementing the RBAC authorization and the hierarchical management of user roles.
• Developed Java REST API code to enable users from a web GUI to interact with the IAM public cloud solution “IBM Cloud Identity Govern”, implementing features to assign, request, grant, and revoke roles and entitlements
• Implemented DevOps methodologies to automate the CI/CD pipeline for code building, testing and deployment process into a Docker-based container environment via Jenkins, resulting in a reduction of human errors.
• Implemented Agile methodologies with Jira to manage software development lifecycle, bug tracking, sprint planning, and task management.
• Implemented automated integration tests, regression tests and acceptance tests through the testing framework Cucumber and included them into the CI/CD pipeline, resulting in a reduction of incidents impacting the.

Roma, Lazio, Italia

• Java Software Developer at Babelscape, an innovative startup focused on multilingual Natural Language Processing with the main goal of enabling multilinguality and text understanding in customers'.
• Implemented the full-text search through the Apache Lucene framework to add high-performance search capabilities to business applications.
• Implemented automated unit tests relying on the test automation framework Junit.
• Coded a Python web-scraping solution to retrieve data from online dictionaries and organize it into a PostgreSQL DB.
• Code maintenance and change tracking via the Distributed Version Control system GitHub.

Laurea Triennale In Scienze E Tecnologie Informatiche, Informatics

Diploma Di Perito Industriale In Informatica, Computer Systems Networking And Telecommunications, 86/100

Titolo di studi conseguito nell'anno scolastico 2018/19 da privatista.

Diploma Di Liceo Scientifico Ad Indirizzo Tradizionale, 100/100