Dr. Claudio D'Anzeo

Current

Solution Architect and Project Manager at Vodafone Group Services

Past

Technical Product Owner (TPO) and Solution Architect at Vodafone Group Services
Mobile Solutions Architect at Vodafone Group Services
Business Analyst Value Added Services at Vodafone Italy

Network Services Planning at Infostrada spa - WIND
E-Commerce Marketing & Deployment Analyst at IBM Italia

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Education

Politecnico di Milano
Università degli Studi di Milano
Liceo Leonardo da Vinci, PE

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Dr. Claudio D'Anzeo’s Summary

An innovator, strategist with in-depth knowledge and experience of technology standards, commercial products, design methodology, software development processes, together with a profound sense of business drivers.

- PERSONAL SKILLS
• Good Communication skills, with the ability to report clearly and relevantly
• Creative with the imagination, inventiveness to generate new ideas
• Self Starter, able to learn the company’s way of working and to pass that on to others
• Ability to manage people across geographical boundaries, time zones, cultures, remotely
• Ability to operate effectively in a rapid growth/high change environment
• Ability to meet aggressive deadlines and to provide quick turnaround
• Ability to build and maintain effective working relationships. Ability to motivate others and work cooperatively in a group to achieve common goals
• Ability to professionally persuade, influence, and negotiate in critical situations
• Independent, able to work with and gain the trust of the customers with minimum support
• Able to derive the needs/requirements of the customer by listening to him and translating them into work. Ability to understand complex processes with multiple inputs,stakeholders.
• Exceptional organizational and time-management skills - ability to manage multiple, competing priorities and projects
• Solid Computer Science knowledge, strong problem solving skills and a passion for serving customers’ needs
• Strong Service Design and Architecture skills (design principles, methodologies such as UML)
• Wireless Expertise in OMA defined Services such as OMA DL, DRM, DS, DM or 3GPP defined Services like Packet Switched Streaming and MMS

- PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
• More than 10 years of experience in ICT market (IBM, Infostrada-Wind, Omnitel, Vodafone)

- GOALS
• Job position: Product or Project Manager of Mobile/Fixed network services,Business Analyst. Minimum Salary required: 100.000 EUR
• Availability to start: 3 months

Dr. Claudio D'Anzeo’s Specialties:

- Experience working in geographically dispersed,multi-cultural environments
- Experience managing large Vendors in product development&deployment capacity
- Multilingual:mother tongue italian,fluent written and spoken english;good french;basic german.
- Open mind,lateral thinking;problem solving;formalization skills;technical sensibility to the best-of-breed products, state-of-the-art technologies
- VAS definition and analysis;architectural design of services for multi-operator environments

Dr. Claudio D'Anzeo’s Experience

Solution Architect and Project Manager

Vodafone Group Services

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; VOD; Telecommunications industry)

November 2007 — Present (11 months)

Solution Architect and Project Manager of "Business to Business Enablers Gateway" global Program. The aim is to make Vodafone the easiest operator to deal with for 3rd Parties, deploying a rich set of enablers to create the best customer experience and capture B2B revenues, creating distinct advantage in the value chain. Main duties:

- Overall Architecture Definition and Interfaces with External Parties and Operating companies;
- Vendor Selection process (RfP) of an ESB and Partner Gateway;
- Managemement of the Pilot with VF DE and UK and a worldwide Partner for mobile games and maps;
- Definition of main Business and Operational Processes;
- Global Acceptance of the selected solution;
- Deployments across Vodafone Operators Worldwide (ES, GR, NL, FR, Italy, etc);
- Keeping track of Product Changes and its Lifecycle Management;
- Assure respect of approved development projects timelines, costs.
Technical Product Owner (TPO) and Solution Architect

Vodafone Group Services

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; VOD; Telecommunications industry)

September 2006 — August 2008 (2 years)

Technical Product Owner of Global Device Management Project. Service launched in VF TR, PT, DE, GR, IE, NL, UK; ES, Malta, Albania on going. Main duties:
- Manage and coordinate all development activities as well as unit and system test with the Vendor
- Provide detailed Functional, Technical Specification per Release
- Assure compliance to defined Standards and Non-functional requirements
- High level Architecture Design and Planning
- Collaborate with new platforms architecture design and roadmap
- Where appropriate, supervise RFI/RFQ processes in cooperation with Supply Chain Management
- Managing the delivery of the required end-user, operational docs
- Change Management and Release Planning processes
- Assure respect of approved development projects timelines, costs
- Provide periodic reporting and tracking of activities and spending

Training courses attended:
- Effective Project Management (London)

Vodafone Group has almost 260ml customers on 5 continents.
Mobile Solutions Architect

Vodafone Group Services

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; VOD.L; Telecommunications industry)

September 2004 — September 2006 (2 years 1 month)

Vendor selection (RfQ), Architectural & Functional Analysis of Global Messaging (Mobile Address Book, Instant Messaging), Global Terminals-related Projects (Device Management).

Coordination of different activities among international countries (VF GR, ES, PT, EG, IT, DE, UK, NL, TR, JP). Leader of the integration of local country BSS/NW systems with the central hosting environment. Ability to envision multi-tier Service Architectures and articulate to such diverse constituencies as Project Managers, Business Stakeholders, Systems Engineers. Ability to identify and communicate different Architectural Options and their associated trade-offs.

Interface to VF R&D to push new service requirements in the standardization bodies like OMA or 3GPP.

Training courses attended:
- Basic 10 German lessons (Duesseldorf)
- Time and Priority Management (London)
- Advanced Presentation Skills (Duesseldorf)
Business Analyst Value Added Services

Vodafone Italy

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; VOD; Telecommunications industry)

July 2001 — August 2004 (3 years 2 months)

Business Analyst of Mobile Value Added Services. Main responsibilities:
- Assessment of impacts and costs of new Product Requirements
- High Level Design and Feasibility Analysis
- Functional and Technical Specifications
- Technical support to Service Development and Operational Departments.

Main projects: Multimedia Streaming & Downloading, Mobile Java Downloading, Mobile Instant Messaging, Digital Rights Management.

Vodafone Italy is part of Vodafone Group, which has almost 260 million customers on 5 continents.

Training courses attended:
- Project Management with Artemis Project View tool;
- Problem Solving;
- Communication for impact.
Network Services Planning

Infostrada spa - WIND

(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; Telecommunications industry)

June 1999 — July 2001 (2 years 2 months)

Telco/ISP services planner: I was working for 2 years as Project Leader in Infostrada (http://www.infostrada.it) to plan, schedule and maintain project plans. I was responsible for external suppliers selection (Request For Quotation), writing technical specifications, architectural design, development and deployment of Internet Services Platforms. The following is a list of services where i was involved in:
* E-commerce Business to Consumer
* Web Hosting
* Multimedia Streaming
* Instant Messaging
* Web to SMS
* WAP services, like WAP-mail
* Libero Videomail
* Internet Call Waiting (Telefono Libero)

Training courses attended:
- Open Market Transact API Workshop (Amsterdam);
- Introduction to OMG, CORBA and XML for Telecoms (Amsterdam).
E-Commerce Marketing & Deployment Analyst

IBM Italia

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; IBM; Information Technology and Services industry)

July 1998 — June 1999 (1 year)

E-Commerce Marketing & Deployment analyst:1 year in the italian IBM e-commerce site development.

Training courses attended:
- Intensive english;
- Net.Commerce and E-commerce;
- Developing applications with Visual Age for JAVA;
- Developing basic Internet applications with Lotus Notes/Domino;
- Lotus Notes for end users.

Dr. Claudio D'Anzeo’s Education

Politecnico di Milano

Post-lauream Master, Information&Communication Technology, Final Mark: 95/100, 1997 — 1998

Post-lauream master in Information Technology at the research center CEFRIEL (http://www.cefriel.it). CEFRIEL is an ICT Center of Excellence For Research, Innovation, Education with industrial Labs partnership based in Milan.

Courses: Software Engineering, Network Management, Multimedia Information Systems; Master project: "Object-Oriented modeling of a database for a generic telecommunication network".
Università degli Studi di Milano

M.Sc. (Laurea), Computer Science, Final Mark: 109/110, 1989 — 1995

Thesis title: "Combinatorial algorithms for the reconstruction of DNA segments" (computational complexity and optimization area)
Liceo Leonardo da Vinci, PE

Diploma, Liceo Scientifico, Final Mark: 60/60, 1984 — 1989

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Dr. Claudio D'Anzeo’s Interests:

- ICT market and state of the art of multimedia technologies - Swimming - Running and Jogging - Philosophy - Mathematics - Movie watching and Cinema - Travels, discovering different cultures and languages - I have no interest in borders, just cultures, fearless innovation and creative excellence where ever it is sourced.