Certified Business Continuity and Operations Manager at Banca d'Italia, leading the IT Service Continuity and Incident Management strategy on the IT Infrastructure of the Eurozone payment system, security settlement system and instant payment system (T2-T2S and TIPS TARGET services).Focused on implementing and maintaining an IT Service Continuity program to build organizational resilience and embed Business Continuity and Operation awareness into business-as-usual activities, by developing documented procedures that guide organizations to respond and restore to a pre-defined level of operation following disruption. Being in the role since January 2022, after being a Cloud Software Engineer and IT Project Manager at IBM (Milan, Italy) for one and a half years.5 years of experience in the IT industry, transitioning from Software Development to IT Management, with a strong focus on service delivery, Agile project management, IT infrastructure and operation management and implementation of Incident Management process (ITIL v4) to enable the organization to respond proactively to incidents and crises, by establishing procedures, roles and responsibilities.As a people-oriented IT Service Manager, my core competencies are relationship management, analytical thinking, continuous improvement and promoting visibility to make cross-functional teams work together effectively.I also collaborated as Incident Coordinator for 3 months with the first level of technical support at Deutsche Bundesbank, in Frankfurt am Main (Germany), with a focus on recognizing and assessing threats when they occur and driving investigations into IT infrastructure operational issues to identify opportunities for further improvement.As a member of the training program "T2-T2S Qualification Program", I crafted and presented training content on how IT Service Continuity is implemented on the IT Infrastructure of T2-T2S TARGET Services, during on-site training sessions in Rome and Frankfurt with an international audience of 30+ people.
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It Service Continuity And Operations ManagerBanca D'Italia Jan 2022 - PresentRoma, Lazio, ItaliaIT 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 and instant payment system (T2, T2S and TIPS TARGET services).As an IT Operations Manager, member of the first-level of technical support on the IT infrastructure of the TARGET services, I am responsible for ensuring the efficient operations of the business, relying on strong analytical capabilities and a holistic view over the systems to minimize the impact of incidents, by restoring the normal service operation as quickly as possible and reporting to the top management.Main tasks & responsibilities:• 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 also responsible for managing an IT Service Continuity Program to build organizational resilience, by ensuring a clear understanding of Service Continuity principles through workshops and live training sessions.Main tasks & responsibilities:• 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 service disruption, covering natural catastrophes, system failures and cyber-attacks.• 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.• Implement ITIL processes, focusing on Change Management and Continual Service Improvement. -
Incident Coordinator (Secondment)Deutsche Bundesbank Oct 2023 - Dec 2023Frankfurt Am Main, Hesse, GermanyIncident 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 infrastructure specialists to implement the best practices in IT Operations Management, safeguarding the normal functioning of technical processes essential to the smooth running of the business.Main tasks & responsibilities:• 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. -
It Project ManagerIbm Jul 2021 - Dec 2021Milano, Lombardia, ItaliaIT 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 Specialists (DBA, IT Architect, DevOps Engineers, Infrastructure Specialists), coordinated the development and delivery of an IoT Platform aimed at collecting, aggregating and analyzing live data streams on several metrics (temperature, location, voltage, inclination) from sensors installed on high-voltage pylons and implementing a real-time monitoring system with customized alerts and Kibana data visualization dashboards.Main tasks & responsibilities:• 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. -
Cloud Software EngineerIbm May 2020 - Jun 2021Milano, Lombardia, ItaliaCloud 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 Govern".Main tasks & responsibilities:• 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 and entitlements.• 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 customer experience in the production environment.• Implemented automated web application tests through the framework Selenium.• Log analysis and performance monitoring through the data visualization tool Kibana. -
Java Software DeveloperBabelscape Sep 2016 - Nov 2018Roma, Lazio, ItaliaJava 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' applications.Developed and maintained a software solution in Java, to create and keep updated an inverted index of data extracted from the Postgresql database of a web multilingual semantic network (BabelNet).Main responsibilities:• 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.
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Valerio Varone attended Sapienza Università Di Roma, I.s.i.s.s. Taddeo Da Sessa - Istituto Tecnico Informatico E Delle Telecomunicazioni, I.s.i.s.s. Agostino Nifo - Liceo Scientifico E. Majorana.
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