CTO, Internet, eCommerce, SaaS expert, Lean Thinker
London, United Kingdom
- Current
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- CTO at Internet Startup
- Past
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- Chief Engineering Officer at The Fizzback Group
- CTO at Venda - e-Commerce SaaS
- Executive Director at Venda - e-Commerce SaaS
- Network and Systems Manager at Virgin Net
- System Architect at Sportal
- Internet Systems Administrator at M.A.I.D. / The Dialog Corporation
- Technical Director at Prestige
- Network and Systems Manager at Consorzio Mario Negri Sud
- Education
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- The Open University Business School
- Università degli Studi dell' Aquila
- Consorzio Mario Negri Sud
- Consorzio Mario Negri Sud
- Istituto Tecnico Industriale Statale "G. e M. Montani"
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Osvaldo Spadano (Ossy)’s Summary
Passionate about getting extraordinary results from ordinary people and lead them toward significant achievements. A qualified and experienced manager with a strong technical background with over 17 years of quality experience of which 16 in the Internet arena. Worked as CTO and Executive Director of a successful and growing fully managed e-commerce solution business, manager, system & network architect and developer. Influential and credible at board level and well respected for his knowledge, skills, innovative ideas and systematic approach. The attitude of continuing self-development and focus on what matters is key for his constant career progression, ability to take new challenges and deliver quality work with professionalism.
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Osvaldo Spadano (Ossy)’s Specialties:
e-Commerce
Toyota Production System (TPS) / Lean Thinking in "Software as a Service" industry
Plan and execute strategies and technology roadmaps
Geographically Distributed Development
Lead and motivate people
Recruitment, coach, develop talents
Programming, System Architecture, Software Development Life Cycle
Manage relationship with customers and suppliers
Design and co-ordinate scalable, resilient and low-cost Internet infrastructures and services (SaaS)
Osvaldo Spadano (Ossy)’s Experience
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CTO
Internet Startup
(Internet industry)
October 2008 — Present (10 months)
Working on building another successful and fast growing Internet company
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Chief Engineering Officer
The Fizzback Group
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
November 2007 — May 2008 (7 months)
Fizzback help companies change the way they listen to their customers by empowering consumers to give their feedback at the point of experience, using easy and fast and direct channels such as mobile SMS & email.
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CTO
Venda - e-Commerce SaaS
(Internet industry)
August 2001 — May 2007 (5 years 10 months)
Devised and developed the Venda solution to fully manage e-commerce services. I joined Venda as CTO from the very beginning with a small group of like minded people led by Dan Wagner, limited angel funds and no Client. After few years Panasonic, BT, Hamleys, Sharp, BBCShop, Monsoon, Superdrug, Xerox, The Body Shop, Austin Reed and many more Clients were successfully trading on the Venda platform
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Executive Director
Venda - e-Commerce SaaS
(Internet industry)
June 2005 — November 2006 (1 year 6 months)
Appointed Executive Director in 2005 in recognition of my significant contribution and business acumen. I then stepped down with two other directors to give board seats to Investor Growth Capital, following our largest investment round.
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Network and Systems Manager
Virgin Net
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Internet industry)
January 2000 — March 2001 (1 year 3 months)
Designed, deployed, supported and constantly developed internal and externally co-located system platforms and services (i.e. BushInternet.com TV portal site was designed and launched in 5 weeks)
Managed a team of 10+ System Administrators and Architects
Member and advisor of the technical board
Strategy deployment, budgeting, forecasting, planning, change management
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System Architect
Sportal
(Internet industry)
July 1999 — December 1999 (6 months)
Leading global provider of interactive sports content and e-Commerce. They ran the official Website for EURO 2000. During this brief spell I improved their live infrastructure, provided a test infrastructure and automated some of the key processes
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Internet Systems Administrator
M.A.I.D. / The Dialog Corporation
(Information Services industry)
May 1997 — July 1999 (2 years 3 months)
Administration and development of the Internet services, systems and security Integration of the front-end and back-end services for the leading provider of Internet-based information and technology solutions with over 600 industries databases. It served over 20,000 corporate customers worldwide. Dan Wagner was the founder and CEO. I later worked with him as CTO at his new e-Commerce business, Venda
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Technical Director
Prestige
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)
February 1996 — March 1997 (1 year 2 months)
Designed and deployed a high quality infrastructure for a new ISP in 2 months. Managed the relationship with key suppliers, business partners and customers
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Network and Systems Manager
Consorzio Mario Negri Sud
(Non-Profit; 201-500 employees; Research industry)
October 1990 — June 1996 (5 years 9 months)
Great place to work and develop, thanks to the MD Giovanni de Gaetano and Giovanni Angeli (see my connections), who were very supposrtive and full of enthusiasm.
Championed and co-ordinated a Computer Mediated Communication project (NegriLink) to facilitate the interactions between schools and the academic environment through Internet based services. It was awarded of the International EGO-CreaNET prize as best Group of Educational Research
Designed, implemented and rolled-out a highly reliable, easy to use and maintain client-server service to collect data and provide real-time treatment decision to patients hospitalised for heart attack, as part of a key and successful 5 years epidemiological study (GISSI-Prevenzione) involving 250 health care units
Data collection and statistical analysis of drug consumption in Italy. It required managing relationship with a variety of external customers (e.g. health care units), specifying and communicating requirements
Osvaldo Spadano (Ossy)’s Education
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The Open University Business School
Postgraduate Certificate in Management May 2000 — April 2001
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Università degli Studi dell' Aquila
Computer Science faculty 1990 — 1998
Part time degree student while I was studying and working at the Consorzio Mario Negri Sud research centre
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Consorzio Mario Negri Sud
“Expert in Advanced Pharmacological and Biomedical Technologies” Certificate January 1994 — December 1994
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Consorzio Mario Negri Sud
“Technician in Biomedical Research” Certificate October 1990 — September 1992
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Istituto Tecnico Industriale Statale "G. e M. Montani"
Computer Science 1985 — 1990
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Osvaldo Spadano (Ossy)’s Interests:
Management, Leadership, TPS / Lean Thinking, Japanese, Athletic, Jazz & Classical Music
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