Francesco Federico

Current

On Line Senior Process Manager at Vodafone IT
Contributor at EJC European Journalism Centre

Past

Consultant at Digital Natives
Founder, CEO at Shreppy
Head of Business Development at TripShake Limited

Partner at GingerCraft
Consultant at PSFK
Teacher at Step Teachers
Blogger at HWUpgrade
Editor at HTML.it
Project Manager at Mediasafe S.r.l.
Founder, CEO at a TE l'esame!
Beta Tester at Microsoft
Group Leader at EF Education

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Education

Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore
Liceo Scientifico Virgilio
British Council

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Francesco Federico’s Summary

I'm a passionate Internet entrepreneur, digital project management professional and social media expert with 8+ years of experience in the internet industry.

I currently work for the e-care group in Vodafone Italy Web Services function, developing useful web interfaces that help customers solve issues on their own and gather relevant information, both from institutional sources and crowdsourcing.

Prior joining Vodafone Italy I had several experiences in consultancy and Internet startups. While I funded my own digital marketing consultancy firm, serving SMEs and professionals, I also funded and lead Shreppy: a personal shopper for consumer electronics goods.

Among my other commitments I also served for a few months as Head of Business Development at TripShake, a question&answer service for the smart traveler.

My digital project management experience brought me to teach PM techniques in corporate education classes.

Due to my previous experiences in the consumer electronics and e-commerce markets, I share my insights on many online and offline magazines. Among those, I regularly write on the European Journalism Centre Magazine.

I also had lots of speaking engagements, mainly about social media, enterprise 2.0 and startup entrepreneurship.

I just love what I do! I can't imagine myself doing anything else than building and managing successful businesses and useful Internet applications!

Francesco Federico’s Specialties:

entrepreneurship, mobile, internet, project management, internet law, business development, travel, startup

Francesco Federico’s Experience

On Line Senior Process Manager

Vodafone IT

(Privately Held; Telecommunications industry)

October 2009 — Present (2 months)

Vodafone Group Plc is the world's leading mobile telecommunications company, with a significant presence in Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Asia Pacific and the United States through the Company's subsidiary undertakings, joint ventures, associated undertakings and investments.

At 30 June 2009, based on the registered customers of mobile telecommunications ventures in which it had ownership interests at that date, the Group had 315 million customers, excluding paging customers, calculated on a proportionate basis in accordance with the Company's percentage interest in these ventures.

Vodafone Italy serves over 30 million mobile customers, of which more than 10 million are using our mobile broadband capabilities. After a few months upon launching the DSL offer, Vodafone Italy now delivers landline and DSL services to over 3 million customers.

At Vodafone Italy I work for the e-care group in On Line Services function, part of the larger Customer Operations department. My main focus is on planning, developing and delivering self care solutions to help our customers solve their issues on their own, trough a fast, simple and usable web interface.

I also keep exploring the social media space and the Internet startups environment, to spot interesting applications and best practices that could be translated in the Vodafone world.
Contributor

EJC European Journalism Centre

(Writing and Editing industry)

December 2008 — Present (1 year )

The EJC plays a unique role at the European level as a partner and organiser for media companies, professional organisations, journalism schools and governmental bodies seeking to establish activities and projects.

I write for EJC Magazine (www.ejc.net/magazine), sharing my insights about Internet and Mobile industries, with a particular focus on European trends.
Consultant

Digital Natives

(Privately Held; Internet industry)

February 2009 — October 2009 (9 months)

Digital Natives is a network of professionals organized in a flexible structure. We do digital marketing, using the tools offered by social media to promote products, services, brands and people. We design and develop marketing tools for companies and professionals.

At Digital Natives I mainly focused on accounting of key customers and project management as well as I helped defining the main business strategies.
Founder, CEO

Shreppy

(Privately Held; Internet industry)

April 2008 — October 2009 (1 year 7 months)

Shreppy is a personal shopper for consumer electronics goods that helps users find the best device for them, analyzing their needs and crowdsourcing other peers experiences about those devices.

Shreppy is a B2B tool as well, as it helps retailers and manufacturers in better understanding their market and, more importantly, their customers' needs.

I co-founded Shreppy in early 2008 and lead it since the beginning as CEO, mainly working on strategy, product development, venture fund raising and business development.
Head of Business Development

TripShake Limited

(Privately Held; Internet industry)

February 2009 — August 2009 (7 months)

TripShake is a question&answer engine designed to help users planning their trips with the support of locals, experts and professionals. TripShake is the marketplace where travel professionals get the opportunity to promote and sell their value added services to a vibrant travelers community.

I helped TripShake finding new business opportunities as well as deploying its go to market strategy, focusing on sales and advertising.
Partner

GingerCraft

(Privately Held; Internet industry)

January 2008 — August 2009 (1 year 8 months)

GingerCraft is a web company, specialized in developing advanced internet solutions, leveraging the power of new and social media. Our digital marketing strategies include web monitoring, WoM campaigns and creative websites production.

We believe that the best way to predict the future, is to create it. Our team is built by some of the best experts, thus allowing us to provide a 360° solution for all the needs of our customers: from developing rich social web application, to planning an advanced marketing and editorial campaign.

At GingerCraft I managed day by day operations, organizing teams around the projects and ensuring milestones were met.

I personally managed key projects for international mobile network operators who wanted to ignite social media marketing campaigns, crossmedia marketing projects which involved Second Life, Internet and physical installations (Digital Signage). I also led large teams in thinking, building and delivering rich internet applications.
Consultant

PSFK

(Privately Held; Market Research industry)

April 2007 — July 2009 (2 years 4 months)

PSFK is a trends and innovation company that publishes daily, provides consultancy and hosts events. We aim to inspire our readers, our clients and our guests to make things better - whether that’s better marketing, better services, new product ideas or a new way of working.

I provided data, insights and forecasts of the mobile industry, focusing both on the technology and on the social consequences of its adoption. I mainly focused on the European and U.S. market.
Teacher

Step Teachers

(Privately Held; Education Management industry)

November 2008 — February 2009 (4 months)

Step is a human resources and corporate education firm, that organizes classes to update mid-size corporations employees, giving them information about new technologies and procedures they may not be familiar with.

I held a class about Digital Project Management, explaining how to successfully manage an Internet project (such as building a complex website), starting from project management essentials (such as the waterfall model) and finishing the class with a glimpse on more aggressive and recent PM techniques (such as Agile development, XP, etc.).
Blogger

HWUpgrade

(Internet industry)

September 2007 — December 2008 (1 year 4 months)

HWUpgrade is the N°1 Italian technology online website, featuring news, reviews and previews of the most popular technologies in the computing, mobile and internet world.

I wrote articles about new startups and internet entrepreneurship on Appunti Digitali (www.appuntidigitali.it), a blog part of the HWUpgrade network which reached more than 2.000.000 unique visitors per month.
Editor

HTML.it

(Privately Held; Online Media industry)

July 2007 — October 2008 (1 year 4 months)

HTML.it is the N°1 Italian tutorial resource about programming languages and Internet technologies, founded back in 1997.

I wrote for a group of e-zines and blogs part of the HTML.it group:

-Webnews (www.webnews.it)
-Webnews Blog (www.blog.webnews.it)
-oneVista (www.onevista.it)
-oneITVideo (www.oneitvideo.it)

My main focus was on the software and internet markets, from which I extracted insights that I shared with my audience in a entertaining yet informational way.
Project Manager

Mediasafe S.r.l.

(Internet industry)

August 2006 — April 2008 (1 year 9 months)

Mediasafe is an Associate Member of the 3GSM World Association and delivers B2B solution to large and mid-size corporations.

Core activity of the company is to associate rich and meaningful mobile phones technical specifications to each IMEI code. Among our customers we have major mobile network operators, banks and insurance companies.

As Project Manager I managed a group of IT pros in developing new legacy data management software solutions to achieve high profile output information about mobile phone devices (specs, features, etc.)
Founder, CEO

a TE l'esame!

(E-Learning industry)

January 2006 — March 2007 (1 year 3 months)

I've successfully managed a small Company that sold to students, online and offline, University related content such as notes, summaries and books. We also organized successful social events in Milan's glamour nightlife.

After a rapid grow we sold a TE l'esame! and the academic content to a larger Italian university community.
Beta Tester

Microsoft

(Public Company; MSFT; Computer Software industry)

January 1999 — January 2007 (8 years 1 month)

I was involved in many private beta testing campaigns. Among the others I gave significant contribution to Windows XP, Vista, 2003 and Office 2003, 2007.
Group Leader

EF Education

(Privately Held; Leisure, Travel & Tourism industry)

June 2003 — August 2004 (1 year 3 months)

EF Education First is the leading international company in study travels and cultural exchanges, with offices and schools in more than 50 countries.

I successfully organized and managed several study trips for Italian undergraduate students to the UK and Ireland.

I was responsible for groups of 30-40 people, having to manage their accomodations, study courses and guarantee their security.

I also had a major role in one-day trip planning as well as successfully managing emergency scenarios.

Francesco Federico’s Education

Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore

J.D. , Law , 2003 — 2009

I've mastered the role of traditional law schematics in online worlds, such as SecondLife and the Web 2.0, and deepened my knowledge on Expert Systems and Artificial Intelligence while writing my final essay: "Artificial Intelligence and Law: Expert Systems applied to law practice".

My IT ability has been recognized and awarded by the Informatics teacher of the Law Dept., who asked me to held some workshops for other students about how lawyers can take advantage of informatics in their day-by-day activities.

Activities and Societies:

I've been involved in several sport activities held by my University. Besides, I've also been part of social activities organized by a student group I am member of. We mainly focused on raising tech awareness among other studens and staff, trying to augment internet and technology penetration in our athenaeum.
Liceo Scientifico Virgilio

High School Diploma , Scientific studies , 1998 — 2003
British Council

First Certificate in English (FCE) , English , 2002 — 2002

Additional Information

Francesco Federico’s Websites:

Francesco Federico’s Interests:

new technologies, internet, traveling, cooking, photography, movies, theater, biking, music, blogging, mobile

Francesco Federico’s Groups:

Founding Member, Counselor, Deputy Treasurer; Rotaract Club "Milano Parco Sud", District 2050, Italy

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ASSODIGITALE - www.assodigitale.it -
Rotaract
Executive Suite
Business Club 2.0 Milan-IN
KIVA
World Wildlife Fund
On Startups - The Community For Entrepreneurs
MobileMonday
Global Worker
Skype for Business
Association of Virtual Worlds
Digital Natives
Friends of Britain
FON!!
Netwo Group
ASMALLWORLD.net
Friends of the United States of America
Slow Food
CXO (CEO, COO, CKO, CFO, CMO, CAO, CVO, CDO, CRO, CLO, CSO & CTO) Community
Vodafone Friend
Startup Specialists
Mobile Content
Professional Second Lifers
Comunitazione
Link to Milan Expo 2015
GingerCraft
FlorenceIN - ClubIN Firenze & Toscana
Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore di Milano Alumni
Mobile start-ups - 7,000+ members and growing!
Codice Internet
Club dei Media Sociali
Social Media, Social TV, Monitoring, Mobile Social Networks, Marketing, Web 2.0, Enterprise 2.0, PR
FrequentFlyer.it
Internations
Innovate!Europe
VoiceComNews - La gestione delle relazioni con i clienti - www.voicecomnews.it
SYNC3
VSAPAC Asia-Pacific