Pierfranco Ferronato

Current

Senior Consultant at Cutter Consortium
Chief Architect at Soluta.Net

Past

Principal Architect at Herzum Software
Architect at Tecnologie.net
R&D Manager and founder at Quality Software srl

Technical Director and Founder at Gifeb System sas

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Education

Università degli Studi di Udine

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Industry

Information Technology and Services

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Pierfranco Ferronato’s Summary

He has over 20 years of experience in all aspects of distributed systems development and is internationally recognized as an expert in large-scale architectures and object-oriented/component development.
He has provided technical and architectural leadership for several European projects using advanced Internet-related technologies, component-based development, Model Driven Architecture (MDA), Enterprise Architecture (EA), CRM, EAI, webservices and wireless technologies in a number of domains, including telecoms, pharmaceutical, facility management and tourism.
He is an active member of the OMG and a frequent speaker at conferences worldwide.

Pierfranco Ferronato’s Specialties:

Business modelling, UML; MOF, enterprise planning, enterprise architectures (TOGAF, Zachman), distributed architectures, enterprise classe project leader,

Pierfranco Ferronato’s Experience

Senior Consultant

Cutter Consortium

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

February 2006 — Present (3 years 6 months)

I've have been invited to join the Cutter Consortium (www.cutter.com) as a Senior Consultant in EA (Enterprise Architecture).
http://www.cutter.com/meet-our-experts/ferronatop.html

Cutter offers a different value proposition than other IT research firms; clients -- who are *users* of technology -- get practitioners’ points of view, derived from hands-on experience with the same critical issues corporate and institutional IT professionals are facing, not the perspective of a desk-bound analyst who can only make predictions and observations on what’s happening in the marketplace. Cutter partners with consultants are experts in their field. More than 100 internationally recognized experts provide the content, consulting and training to its clients. Cutter has about 5,000 clients worldwide, mostly IT management in large firms, of which about 40% reside outside N. America. These experts are committed to delivering top-level, critical, and objective advice.
Chief Architect

Soluta.Net

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

February 2004 — Present (5 years 6 months)

Soluta.net offers competencies and experience to support its customers in the development of distributed systems and applications. It has decades of professional experience in the organisation and management of complex software projects. Soluta has direct experience with a broad spectrum of systems, in particular ERP, SRC, supply chain, help desk, telecoms, pharmaceutical, business process, e-commerce, and destination management. Soluta provides valuable support in technical project management, MDA, architecture definition, design, and coordination of development tasks and activities in addition to the development itself. It's objective is to manage the organisational, architectural and technological complexity principally by separating the functional and technical aspects of the system, leading to an economy of scale for the customer's current and, perhaps more importantly, future projects.
Principal Architect

Herzum Software

(Privately Held; Information Technology and Services industry)

April 2001 — March 2004 (3 years)

Managed European and European-wide Enterprise Projects.
Was the Architect of majors FP5 EU projects.
Architect

Tecnologie.net

(Information Technology and Services industry)

February 1997 — February 2001 (4 years 1 month)

He spent 6 months in Milan, Italy as the Project Leader and Architect of the new Customer Care software for Omnitel Pronto Italia (now Vodafone). He has been the designer of the distributed architecture. The project is developed in Fortè 3.x using Select Enterprise 6.0 as the analysis tool. The project has 8000 man/day complexity and was made up of about 20 people. The software is currently distributed in about 3000 clients spread in the Italian territory. The technology comprises strong OO modeling, multi-tier architecture, multi channel technology, first and second level cache, EAI technique and Internet exported services. The project is currently in production phase;
R&D Manager and founder

Quality Software srl

(Computer Software industry)

November 1994 — April 1998 (3 years 6 months)

He spent 6 months in Rome, Italy for the development of IMAGO (a strategic project for TELECOM Italia S.p.A.) as a Project Leader. The project required developing a graphic tool CASE for the implementation of a proprietary methodology (IMAGO: developed by C.S.E.L.T. - now Telecom Italia Labs) for the analysis of the organization of the national telephone company (with process and activity diagrams). The output had to be published in Internet once the analysis had been completed. The project had a 5-year/man complexity. The project was a complete success and was concluded on schedule;
Technical Director and Founder

Gifeb System sas

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; GFS; Computer Hardware industry)

January 1990 — September 1994 (4 years 9 months)

Pierfranco Ferronato’s Education

Università degli Studi di Udine

Master , Information Technology , 1985 — 1991

Master degree in Geneva CERN, at the Delphi Experiment

Activities and Societies:

Karate, Judo

Additional Information

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Pierfranco Ferronato’s Groups:

Object Modelling Group (OMG)', Former president of the Regional Section of Italian Association of Computer Scientists (ALSI), Cutter Consortium Senior Consultant