Paola De Vecchi Galbiati

Current

• Board of Director Member at MilanIN Club
• Programme Manager & Business Coach - Consultant at Connexia srl

Past

• General Manager at MilanIN Club
• ICT & PMO Senior Consultant at Projectize Ltd
• IT Director - Application Solutions Manager at FILA Sport SpA

• Information System and Organization Manager at UNIVER SpA
• Information System Manager at Accessorio Radiografico SpA
• Computer Integrated Manufacturing Coordinator at Carrier SpA (UTC Group)

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Education

• Università degli Studi di Milano

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Industry

Information Technology and Services

Paola De Vecchi Galbiati’s Summary

I learnt to manage very complex work teams (directional consultant, project managers, financial controllers, analyst and programmers).
Good expertise in New Product Development process, ICT outsourcing agreements and in ICT & HR project portfolio management, Change management and Business Coaching.

Paola De Vecchi Galbiati’s Specialties:

ICT Outsoucing agreements, NPD process re-design, Project and Programme management, Change and Organization management.

Paola De Vecchi Galbiati’s Experience

• Board of Director Member

  MilanIN Club

  (Non-Profit; 1001-5000 employees; Non-Profit Organization Management industry)

  January 2008 — Present (10 months)

  Support MilanIN Board in Strategic Planning and Programme management; Support the Business Networking coaching and development

• Programme Manager & Business Coach - Consultant

  Connexia srl

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)

  January 2006 — Present (2 years 10 months)

  Managing Direction coaching and support;
  Multi Project Portfolio management: profitability analysis, make or buy policy, team building;
  Projects teams and cost/benefit control;
  Design & Development Projects' team management;
  SLA contract definition and management.

• General Manager

  MilanIN Club

  (Non-Profit; 1001-5000 employees; Non-Profit Organization Management industry)

  March 2008 — May 2008 (3 months)

  MilanIN is an OFF LINE Business Club: through a set of services and tools, facilitates spontaneous meetings between the members (4.000+ at march2008).
  The primary purpose is to provide opportunities for business and meetings offering a <market place > on-line and off-line.
  My role is to implement values and mission of MilanIN, managing a very skilled and committed team of volunteers and guiding the programme development.

• ICT & PMO Senior Consultant

  Projectize Ltd

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Management Consulting industry)

  January 2005 — December 2007 (3 years)

  For an important Italian newspaper, I built methods and techniques for the ICT portfolio management and control.
  This initiative is included in a complex review program of publishing products and innovation for production & logistics processes.
  The ICT projects portfolio was the following:
  1. publishing system upgrade
  2. workflow system implementation for plants
  3. SAP R/3 scope and services improvement
  4. Sales and distribution custom system redesign

• IT Director - Application Solutions Manager

  FILA Sport SpA

  (Privately Held; 1001-5000 employees; Sporting Goods industry)

  January 2000 — December 2004 (5 years)

  2000
  Under my responsibility, the new tools and systems for the new product development have been delivered.
  2001
  In addition to the previous duty, I assumed the resp. of the Marketing & Retail areas, achieving in time the improvement of a very bad situation in terms of projects costs and benefits.
  2002
  FILA acknowledged me an executive profile, giving me also the Technologies dept management. In this position the Tech dept has been reorganized and a better control of the costs and user services.
  In June FILA assigned to me the role of SAP/AFS Project Manager: in this case, I reached also a solid savings in the implementation costs.
  In November FILA entrusted to me all the application solutions, with the following main goals: new dept organization, budget definition and management, internal resources management.
  2003-2004
  After the SAP go-live (Jan03), I became the AMFM contract manager.
  From Jan to May I have been involved in the SAP/AFS outsourcing provider change.

• Information System and Organization Manager

  UNIVER SpA

  (Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Machinery industry)

  November 1995 — December 1999 (4 years 2 months)

  Sales and Logistics process redesign.
  Reorganization of the internal IT and org. dept (includind ISO9000 rules and user education/training)
  Project Manager of a italian ERP system (Hal Operations by HAL SpA) including roll-out in the headquarter, subsidiaries, sales agencies and plants.
  Quality System implementation Project Manager, for the UNI ISO 9002 quality management.(Qms; Ibimec srl).

• Information System Manager

  Accessorio Radiografico SpA

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Machinery industry)

  May 1994 — October 1995 (1 year 6 months)

  Project Manager of a new system to adjust the Company Balance IT procedures to IV European Instruction.
  Information flow management and control.
  Supplier selection and control.

• Computer Integrated Manufacturing Coordinator

  Carrier SpA (UTC Group)

  (Privately Held; 10,001 or more employees; Machinery industry)

  November 1990 — April 1994 (3 years 6 months)

  Project Manager of automation systems in the Manufacturing Advanced Technologies dept.
  In the Company's Total Quality programme, I was responsible of the ISO9001 Project for the Design & Development dept: during this period Carrier achieved the UNI EN ISO9001 approval (external auditor: Lloyd Register).
  Finally, I have managed several projects for system integration and for the product/process contents management (CAD, CAE, CAM, shop floor control).