Senior Project Manager at Microsoft
Rome Area, Italy
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- Senior Project Manager at Microsoft
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- Western Europe RCC Groove Senior Consultant at Microsoft
- Industry Engagement Manager at Microsoft
- Partner Engagement Manager at Microsoft
- Senior Partner Strategic Consultant at Microsoft
- MCS Consultant at Microsoft
- Senior System Engineer at CM Sistemi
- Senior System Engineer at MONOS Services
- System Engineer at Compagnia Aeronautica Italiana
- Junior System Engineer at CITEC - Compagnia Internazionale Tecniche di Elaborazione e Computers
- Indipendent IT Consultant at Indipendent IT consultant (Self-employed)
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Corrado Conforti’s Summary
PMP certified Project Manager, Strategic Consultant, Program Manager, Engagement manager, with more than 20 years experience in the IT market.
Deep knowledge of Microsoft Services organizations and processes;
Corrado Conforti’s Specialties:
Microsoft Infrastructure technology
Microsoft Messaging and Collaboration infrastructure and architectures
Microsoft IPTV solutions
End to End Program Management
Customer and Partner accounting
Public speaking
Corrado Conforti’s Experience
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Senior Project Manager
Microsoft
(Public Company; MSFT; Computer Software industry)
October 2005 — Present (3 years 10 months)
Since October 1st 2005 I accepted a Senior Project Manager role.
In this timeframe I was involved on several projects, especially in the Telecommunication Sector.
The main one was the largest and more visible project our services division in Italy ever did: designing and realizing the IPTV solution, based on Microsoft MediaRoom technology, for Telecom Italia. The project lasted 2 years and in this timeframe I coordinated a 50+ heads team, with day by day communicating with the product group, the customer and all the partners involved.
Since October 2005 to February 2006, I was involved in the final track of one of the highest impact projects we had in Italy, with Telecom Italia. We had to design and implement the architecture of the largest e-mail messaging system ever built in Italy, and one of the largest in the world. -
Western Europe RCC Groove Senior Consultant
Microsoft
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; MSFT; Computer Software industry)
January 2008 — May 2008 (5 months)
During the first five months of 2008 I assumed a temporary role as a Groove Ranger in the Western Europe Groove Regional Competency Center (RCC).
In this role, I was engaged with the Groove technology n the most complex opportunities and engagements in Western Europe with:
• Project Reviews (technical and functional)
• QA of Projects
• Direct engagement on projects which were considered very high risk and/or market moving
• Handling of project escalations
• Skills transfer both internally and externally (partners) to grow pool of skill resources in the marketplace
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Industry Engagement Manager
Microsoft
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; MSFT; Computer Software industry)
July 2004 — September 2005 (1 year 3 months)
Since July 2004 to October 2005, my job role was Engagement Manager in the finance practice for central & southern Italy. My job consisted in selling services, solutions and technology to the Central Bank of Italy. Moreover, I had to care my customer for any issue involving Services and technology and coordinate technology specialists and project managers working on this customer
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Partner Engagement Manager
Microsoft
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; MSFT; Computer Software industry)
March 2002 — June 2004 (2 years 4 months)
Since March 2002 to June 2004, with the new role of Partner Engagement Manager, I managed the team who developed the first Posta Elettronica Certificata (PEC) in Italy. Working together with Government agencies, partners, Financial companies and competitors, my team and I made the design and the implementation of the pilot. For more than one year, I made presentations and conferences to explain what the PEC was and why our solution was better than others.
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Senior Partner Strategic Consultant
Microsoft
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; MSFT; Computer Software industry)
June 2001 — March 2002 (10 months)
After three years employed as a Consultant, in 2001 my job changed to Partner Strategic Consultant. In this role, my job consisted in developing new business for the Services division together with partner companies and developing the partner technical readiness.
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MCS Consultant
Microsoft
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; MSFT; Computer Software industry)
June 1998 — June 2001 (3 years 1 month)
In this meantime I was an employee in the Microsoft Italy Services Division as Senior Consultant with skills in IT Infrastructure and Messaging. I worked in projects related to Active Directory, Exchange, Clusters, System Management and migrations from earlier technologies.
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Senior System Engineer
CM Sistemi
(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
September 1997 — May 1998 (9 months)
In this timeframe I worked on designing complex architectures and I was responsible to coordinate a 5 people system engineers team
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Senior System Engineer
MONOS Services
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
January 1997 — September 1997 (9 months)
During the short time I was employed in MONOS Services, my role was Senior System Engineer. My job consisted mainly in complex network topologies design.
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System Engineer
Compagnia Aeronautica Italiana
(Government Agency; 51-200 employees; Aviation & Aerospace industry)
November 1990 — December 1996 (6 years 2 months)
Starting 1990 and until the end of 1996 I was an employee of the Italian Government private airline company "CAI". My major role there was System Engineer and IT manager. In six years I completely redefined the way of working in their offices: I introduced the information technology from scratch in a very legacy office environment. I Introduced the network culture, designed and deploy a the company network, designed and deployed the complete IT architecture.
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Junior System Engineer
CITEC - Compagnia Internazionale Tecniche di Elaborazione e Computers
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)
January 1990 — November 1990 (11 months)
I was employed in Citec as a Junior System Engineer, and in that time I helped to design and to implement some network environments for large customers (ENI, ENEA, AGIP).
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Indipendent IT Consultant
Indipendent IT consultant (Self-employed)
(Self-Employed; Myself Only; Computer Software industry)
1987 — December 1989 (2 years)
I began to work while still attending University, being a self-employed.
During this period I wrote several technical articles for the IT magazine "MC Microcomputer".
Other customers were small companies in the Rome area, where I realized several businnes-related or communication-related applications in GW-Basic on MS-DOS.
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