
independent management consultant
Other

independent management consultant
Other
Technology Assessment, Strategy Formulation & Implementation:
- technology, service, manufacturing, and process industries
- collaborative strategy development, to ensure agreement and execution.
Entrepreneurial
- carried out several pre-startup or pre-market entry analyses.
- networking to secure resources and find opportunities
- took part to US-China food sector investment management start up
- facilitates real estate transactions in Europe: hotels, office blocks & business parks, retirement and long term care homes, resorts, shopping malls, either existing or planned and approved.
Leadership in Operations:
- focus on people management, to drive to success in technical management
- change management work spanning from factory shop floor to boardroom
- quantitative and information technology based tools
- Operations - Strategy integration.
International: worked in a variety of countries and cultures, reasonably versatile in dealing with different settings and circumstances.
- technology business development
- operations in process industries
- startup support, new business, sales promotion, large properties brokerage
- training & coaching
- whispering in the ear of recalcitrant individuals
(Self-Employed; Myself Only; Management Consulting industry)
2000 — Present (8 years)
Promotes (preferably large) real estate transactions in Europe.
Strategy, technology, and business development support in microchip design services, microwave data equipment, power distribution, gold mining, telephone terminal equipment, water utilities, biomass energy, oilfield services, backbone network services, steelmaking, steel plant servicing.
(Privately Held; 501-1000 employees; Management Consulting industry)
1987 — 2001 (14 years)
Full time 1987-1990 in Italy & USA, + several freelance projects (for Monitor and other companies) after 1993.
Telecoms policy and facility based operator economics. Power generation control technology market research. Power generation engineering management dashboard. White goods manufacturing cost intelligence. Retail distribution logistics cost reduction. Supported market-entry into fruit juices by a diversified foods company, and into biodegradable plastics by a chemical company. Telecoms system integrator order-fulfillment processes. Strategy-driven human resources management practices.
(Public Company; 201-500 employees; NASDAQ:NOVL; Management Consulting industry)
1997 — 1999 (2 years)
Working in various west-European countries, improved maintenance and production at a large cement plant, analyzed production operations in polymer resins, drainpipes, packaging film, chemical catalysts, enabling sales of change-management projects worth $4 million and major redundancy programs.
(Venture Capital & Private Equity industry)
1991 — 1995 (4 years)
In '92 - '94 I helped in a variety of finance and operations roles a start-up investment management company in the US in promoting and developing food sector joint ventures in China. In '91 I briefly worked for privatization-assistance organization in Poland, helping a manufacturer of diesel engine parts.
German language 2001 — 2001
Just a summertime business German course, where I met lots of interesting people.
MS, Management, 1990 — 1992
MS, Management, September 1990 — June 1992
Concentrations in Operations, Accounting, and Finance. Thesis on performance-based management and workforce compensation systems worldwide.
DES, Industrial Economics, 1981 — 1986
Thesis on national financial systems and technological innovation patterns. Fall '85 at New York University.
European languages, (English, French, German, Italian, Scandinavian, Slavic), international relations, military strategy, defense, cultural history, technology development, fashion, ethnic foods, computer operating systems, radio-frequency electronics.
American Mensa., Milan In