Giorgio Occhioni

Current

Business Analyst at ABET ICT Consulting
Owner - Founder at MGO Enterprises Ltd
Co-Owner at Location Tempo (Holiday Homes in Ivory Coast)

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Past

Business Analyst at Engitech Ltd
IT Consultant (R&D Manager) at Engitech Ltd
Principal SW Engineer at Airtel ATN Ltd

Lead Business Analyst, Customer Care and Billing System at Omnitel Pronto Italia
Systems Analyst, Team Leader Application Support at Omnitel Pronto Italia
Application Systems Analyst at Omnitel Pronto Italia (now part of Vodafone group)
Software Engineer at System Wizards SpA
IT Development and Support at Gruppo Abele

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Education

University College Dublin
Università degli Studi di Torino
G & M Montani College (Italy)

Istituto Tecnico Industriale G&M Montani

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Giorgio Occhioni’s Summary

With nearly 2 decade of professional experience in all aspects of Application Software Development, I recently started ABET ICT Consulting in London with the mission of helping Small and Medium Enterprises to innovate in their business by using efficiently Information and Telecommunication Technology Solutions.

I provide advice and support in the identification of Business processes that can benefit from Information and Communication Technologies; I analyse, define, manage and translate Business Requirements into Technical Requirements or Technical solutions.

I am keen to take Consulting (Business Analyst/Problem Solving) roles in UK/EMEA region, and I am happy to travel for short/medium assignments.

Worked for more than 17 years on Software Development Lifecycle (and that's not counting another 10 as student in Electronic Engineering and then in Computer Science), Business Analysis (Telecom and Aerospace) and Project Management.
I enjoy new challenges, I moved to and from different arenas, from Newtorking protocols to GSM service provisioning to Maritime applications, Grid Computing, e-Healthcare and Semantic Web.

I still enjoy hands-on technical and tactical challenges together with more long-term business strategic problems.

Giorgio Occhioni’s Specialties:

Information Systems Design, Applied Research and Development, Innovation, Technology Management, System Integration, Problem Solving, Bid and Project Management, Customer Care Billing Systems, GSM Service Provisioning, Technology Audit, Requirement Gathering, UML, Rational Unified Process, Aeronautical Telecommunication Network (ATN), Satellite Location Base Services (GPS/Galileo), Aeronautical Message Handling System (AMHS)
Languages: native Italian, fluent English
Myer-Briggs Type: INTJ

Giorgio Occhioni’s Experience

Business Analyst

ABET ICT Consulting

(Privately Held; Myself Only; Information Technology and Services industry)

May 2008 — Present (6 months)

ABET (Assist) ICT Consulting has the mission of helping Small and Medium Enterprises to make the best use of Information and Telecommunication Technologies in order to be innovative in their business.

Also I am able to assist Hi-Tech SMEs in participating in European Community funded R&D projects.
Interested in ICT applications for Intelligent Transport Systems (Location Based Systems) and Distributed Computing technologies.
Owner - Founder

MGO Enterprises Ltd

(Information Technology and Services industry)

September 2007 — Present (1 year 2 months)

MGO Enterprises is the company holding for the different businesses I am involved:

Information Technology Consulting: ABET ICT Consulting (UK) active from April 2008
Tourism & Hospitality: Location Tempo (Cote D'Ivoire)
Furniture Import/Export: AntiqueIvoire
Co-Owner

Location Tempo (Holiday Homes in Ivory Coast)

(Leisure, Travel & Tourism industry)

December 2006 — Present (1 year 11 months)

I am helping my wife in running an holiday house rentals business in Abidjan, Cote D'Ivoire, which includes 1 luxury apartment (kitchen, large sitting/dining room, two double bedrooms, one en-suite) with private terrace, and 6 other smaller apartments (4 studios, 2 one bedroom apartments) in one of busiest Abidjan quarters, not far from the city center and the airport.
We have also a beautiful private beach (more than 2000 sq.m.) half an hour east of Abidjan, located between the Ocean and the Lagoon: between means there is the land goes straight in the Lagoon, and there is only few meters between you and the Ocean!
Is the perfect place for relaxing, sunbathing, canooeing, visiting the old capital (Gran Bassam), enjoying the fish (daily fished from Ocean or Lagoon) on the property's barbecue, or for having a fully serviced company party (seating for 40 in place, more can be made available)!
Business Analyst

Engitech Ltd

(Privately Held; 1001-5000 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

September 2006 — April 2008 (1 year 8 months)

Worked as Business Analyst/Team Leader in a multi million euro project for the development of integrated communication and information management system (web based, three tier) in UK. Involved in the Business Development side of the company (RFI, RFQs, Bespoke Projects, EU FP7 Projects), with main focus now on developing a customer base in UK.
IT Consultant (R&D Manager)

Engitech Ltd

(Privately Held; 1001-5000 employees; Computer Software industry)

March 2003 — August 2006 (3 years 6 months)

Involved in new business development, exploring prospective markets in Ireland and Europe, analysing R&D project opportunities in the European Union, strategic alliances, tenders in the public sector in Ireland. Markets of interest: IT Security (Identity and Resource management), e-Healthcare, Banking, Insurance, e-commerce.
Previously Project Manager for a R&D project involving novel technologies such as Semantic Web, channel independent internet access, Business Process workflow management, Neural network-based CRM.
Principal SW Engineer

Airtel ATN Ltd

(Public Company; 11-50 employees; Defense & Space industry)

February 2000 — October 2002 (2 years 9 months)

As Principal Software Engineer, was involved in various projects, in different roles. Participated as analyst in the SDLS 2 project where the Analysis of Requirements, Specification and Design of the AES (Airborne Earth Station), GES (Ground Earth Station) and MES (Master Earth Station or Network Management Center), both on Hardware (Network Architecture, Antenna, Modem) and Software side. Worked on the SDLS Demonstrator (working prototype of the full system) project too, as team leader for the AES and GES (Satellite to Avionics, vice-versa) modules.
Participated in the Architectural Definition (GALA) of the Galileo project, specifically the study related to the integration of Galileo Satellite Communication and Navigation capabilities with the Aeronautical Telecommunication Network infrastructure and requirements.
Lead Business Analyst, Customer Care and Billing System

Omnitel Pronto Italia

(Privately Held; 5001-10,000 employees; Telecommunications industry)

October 1998 — January 2000 (1 year 4 months)

Team Leader, Business Analyst, IT Customer Care and Billing Systems Development, Service Provisioning Group, Omnitel (now Vodafone Italy).
Principal responsibilities were to prepare feasibility studies and to write functional specification about all the service provisioning processes of GSM services on Network Elements and on other specific systems on GSM network (SMS Application server for business customers, IP AAA access servers for Internet browsing, Location-based services), systems integration for new types of Network Elements (e.g. Intelligent Network System from different suppliers for Mobile Number Portability, SMSC and Pre-Paid SIM ) in the existing network. Liasion with Network Planning, O&M, Customer Care, Products & Services, VAS, Dealers, IT Operations, for all phases of introduction of new services/products in the service provisioning processes.
Systems Analyst, Team Leader Application Support

Omnitel Pronto Italia

(Privately Held; 5001-10,000 employees; Telecommunications industry)

October 1996 — September 1998 (2 years)

Team Leader, System Analyst in IT Operations Department, for Roaming (TAP), SIM logistics support, Service Provisioning Groups.
The position required problem solving skills under heavy pressure, development of related IT Operation procedures and documentation (problem resolution, IT side FOA, migration procedures), training of IT operators, resource management (as Team Leader for a 4 people operational team on availability 24x7).
Managed the Service Provisioning Group while the processes have been transferred under the IT Operation control, and then during one of the fastest customer growth in the Italian mobile telecommunications market.
Liasion with internal customers (Marketing, Product and Services, SIM Logistics, VAS, Finance, Network O&M, Network Planning) at all levels.
Application Systems Analyst

Omnitel Pronto Italia (now part of Vodafone group)

(Information Technology and Services industry)

1996 — 1998 (2 years)
Software Engineer

System Wizards SpA

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

April 1993 — April 1997 (4 years 1 month)

Covered various roles, from Software Engineer, System Administrator, Postmaster/webmaster (realised and maintained the first website of the company). Being the company a pioneer of ISO/OSI X.500, X.400 application, I enjoyed quite a lot of R&D experience, major projects for Italian customers and also international contacts exposure. I have been involved in two R&D Esprit projects for development of X.700 Management of Directory Services and Messaging application, with partners in Germany (GMD), Uk (UCL) and Italy (CSI Piemonte).
IT Development and Support

Gruppo Abele

(Non-Profit; 51-200 employees; Non-Profit Organization Management industry)

February 1992 — February 1993 (1 year 1 month)

Civil substitutive service in the EDP center of Gruppo Abele, a private non-profit agency with different activities, from immediate support for people in need ((residential communities, daytime centres, dormitories, low-threshold services and outreach work) to cultural activities (periodicals, documentation and study centre, a publishing house, prevention and education support).
Tasks ranged from software and hardware maintenance on MS-DOS PC compatibles, PC installation training on Office suite applications and dBase applications, HW maintenance on IBM terminals for the Documentation Centre.
Rebuilt hundreds of PCs donated by Telecom Italia, looked after an old IBM S/36 and an AS/400, developed a dBase II application for time-billing in the carpentry cooperative. Made a lot of friends and had a lot of fun too!

Giorgio Occhioni’s Education

University College Dublin

MSc, Technology Management, 2002 — 2007

MSc candidate, writing final assignment project report
Università degli Studi di Torino

BSc, Computer Science, 1985 — 1991
G & M Montani College (Italy)

BSEE, Industrial Electronics, 1980 — 1983
Istituto Tecnico Industriale G&M Montani

BSEE, Electronics, 1980 — 1983

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Giorgio Occhioni’s Interests:

New technologies, FP6, FP7, Eureka, New Product Development, Business Processes, Telecommunication, GSM, CCBS, Service Provisioning, Mediation, WiFi, Stage-gate(tm), system integration, Open Source, Healthcare Information Systems, Healthcare, Banking, Insurance, Wireless home, tech gadgets, books, reading (technical, fiction), travelling, travels, airplanes, sandy beaches, islands, flying, Sardinia, Ivory Coast, Cote d'ivoire, Greece, music (classical, pop, progressive rock, opera, world), Everything from Apple, Mac Cube, Powerbook, iPod, iPhone, Apple Newton, MacOS X, Silicon Graphics, Franco Battiato, Good Food, Italian wines, French wines, cheese, chocolate, London, Paris, Amsterdam, Barcelona, Rome, New York

Giorgio Occhioni’s Groups:

ACM (Association for Computing Machinery), BCS British Computer Society, EuropeanExpert (www.europeanexpert.net) AIS (Association of Information Systems), ALSI Associazione Laureati Scienze Dell'Informazione (Italian Association of Computer Science Degree Holders), ADC Apple Developers Connection, Clubmac Ireland, Mensa UK, LinkedInnovators, LinkedinLions LION http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LinkedInLions