Salvatore Branca

Current

Consultant at IBM

Past

Advisory Software Engineer at IBM
Consultant at IBM
Software Test Technical Leader at IBM

Italian Navy Officer at Italian Navy
INFM Fellow at INFM c/o Università LA Sapienza Roma

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Education

University of Warwick - Warwick Business School
Università "La Sapienza", Roma
Università "La Sapienza", Roma

Liceo Ginnasio T. Campailla, Modica (RG)

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Information Technology and Services

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Salvatore Branca’s Summary

I've eight years experience as software engineer working at the IBM Software Group Development Lab, I've covered different leadership position in both software development and test teams.
I have a deep and broad knowledge of software development processes, best practices and techniques as well as of the technology used in today commercial applications.
As team and technical leader my goal has always been to drive effective changes in product design and development in order to improve product quality and to provide tangible benefits to the customer.
I've a good experience in working with international geographically distributed teams.

Recently my main focus has been on SOA and BPM (I've attained a SOA certification and a Business Process Modeling certification), particularly as a speaker at different SOA customer events.
I've also served as consultant for business solutions of the Government industry at the Rome SWG Briefing Center.

Before joining IBM I've acquired a deep research background working at the Quantum Optics Lab in the Rome "La Sapienza" University.

I'm a versatilist with both technical and business expertise, a fast learner with a continuing passion for technology and business.
I aim to pursue a consultant/managerial career in dynamic and international environments.

Salvatore Branca’s Specialties:

IBM Certified Business Process Analyst
IBM Certified OnDemand Business Solution Advisor
IBM Certified SOA Associate
ITIL Foundation Certified

Business Analysis and Design
Service Oriented Architecture
Business Process Management
Software Development
Business Solutions
IT Strategy
IT Management
Services Science
Issue-based Consulting Technique
Software Performance Engineering (SPE)
Innovation
Creative Problem Solving

Salvatore Branca’s Experience

Consultant

IBM

(Information Technology and Services industry)

June 2008 — Present (1 year 2 months)

Consultant in GTS IT Strategy&Architecture Service Product Line.
Advisory Software Engineer

IBM

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; IBM; Information Technology and Services industry)

April 2006 — June 2008 (2 years 3 months)

- 04/2006 - 02/2007 Advisory Software Engineer, Rome Lab
IBM Tivoli License Compliance Manager v2.3, v3.1

Project description: IBM Tivoli License Compliance Manager (ITLCM) for IBM Software v2.3 and v3.1 are main releases of a software license management application.

Contribution: Development component owner responsible for the design and development of the installation, deployment and configuration components of ITLCM, particularly focused on removing consumability problems that could negatively affect the customer experience as well as on simplifying ITLCM installation.
Consultant

IBM

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; IBM; Information Technology and Services industry)

March 2007 — June 2008 (1 year 4 months)

03/2007 - to date Rome Lab, IBM Software Group

Consultant

SOA (Service Oriented Architecture) Technical speaker presenting SOA in different briefings, both for IBM internal audience and customers.
Software Test Technical Leader

IBM

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Computer Software industry)

March 2000 — March 2006 (6 years 1 month)

- 08/2004 - 03/2006 System Test Technical Leader, Rome Lab
ITLCM v2.2
Adopted and promoted the use of innovative solutions inside the test team, introducing a new approach to System Test aimed at modeling customer environment in test environment so to make tests closer to customer reality.

- 11/2002 - 07/2004 Scalability Test Technical Leader, Rome Lab
ITLM v2.1
Responsible for the design and implementation of the overall scalability test strategy of IBM Tivoli License Manager (ITLM).
Developed and implemented an innovative strategy for the scalability test, which allowed code reuse, execution and automation of complex, realistic, customer-like scalability scenarios.

- 03/2000 - 10/2002 Function Test Technical Leader, IBM Poughkeepsie Lab
IBM License Manager
Assigned at the IBM Poughkeepsie Lab as Function Test technical leader for the IBM License Manager for zOS product.
Italian Navy Officer

Italian Navy

(Government Agency; 5001-10,000 employees; Military industry)

January 1999 — March 2000 (1 year 3 months)

- 01/1999 - 02/2000 Italian Navy Officer on board of "Minerva" warship

Attended my military duties as Italian Navy Officer with the rank of Ensign (Guardiamarina) on board of the "Minerva" warship.
Participated to all the warship missions during that year, traveling for about 2000 nautical miles.

Responsible for the whole phisical security of the ship, ranging from fire and flooding prevention to fire-extinguishing.
Obtained a "Fire Manager" license.
INFM Fellow

INFM c/o Università LA Sapienza Roma

(Educational Institution; 501-1000 employees; Higher Education industry)

October 1997 — October 1998 (1 year 1 month)

I had a fellowship of National Institute for Physics of Matter for research on sources of highly correlated (entangled) photons, generated by parametric fluorescence in non-linear crystals. By these sources it's possible to code and transmit information at a quantum level (quantum information), to increase the capacity of transfer of communication channels (quantum teleportation) and it's possible to develop optical circuits for quantum computation and quantum cryptography. I carried out a test of the non-locality of quantum mechanics [Physical Review Letters 79, 2755 (1997)], and the first experiment of state teleportation [Physical Review Letters 80, 1121 (1998)]. This experiment has raised remarkable interest in the scientific community for the perspectives which has opened; many reviews, infact, have reported information about the experiment: Nature,(11/12/97); Science, (12/12/97); Physics World, (3/3/98); The Economist, (13/12/97); Sapere, (feb. 98)[http://www.galileonet.it].

Salvatore Branca’s Education

University of Warwick - Warwick Business School

Master Business Administration , 2008 — 2011 (expected)
Università "La Sapienza", Roma

Master Course in Physics , 1998 — 1998
Università "La Sapienza", Roma

Degree in Physics, 110/110 with honor , Physics, Structure of Matter, Quantum Optics, Photonics, Non-linear Optics, Quantum Information , 1991 — 1997

Degree thesis in QUANTUM OPTICS: "Experimental test of the violation of local realism in quantum mechanics without Bell Inequalities"
Liceo Ginnasio T. Campailla, Modica (RG)

Diploma Maturità classica , September 1986 — July 1991

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Salvatore Branca’s Interests:

management consulting, strategy, emerging technologies, services science, SSME, SOA, BPM, innovation

Salvatore Branca’s Groups:

Blue: The DallasBlue Business Network (25,000+ members)
ASSODIGITALE - www.assodigitale.it -
Executive Suite
Warwick Business School
The Greater IBM Connection: IBM's alumni program for past and present IBM employees
MBAs Without Borders
NOVA - Italian US MBA Association
TEN - Top Executives Net
Eccellere Business Community
Worldwide Management Consultants (22,000+ members)
Systems Thinking
ITSM (ITIL) Professionals
Innovation People Expert Innovators Creative Network
DataShaping Advanced Analytics
Service Oriented Architecture Special Interest Group
The Enterprise Architecture Network
Lean Six Sigma
Sicilian Members
IT Governance
Professional People in Urbe (PPU) - Business Club
Google Group
BusinessWeek Group
Consultants Network
eMarketing Association Network
itSMF Roma
Hedge Fund Group (HFG)
Economist Group
Organisational Development
The Executive Search Group
Innovative Marketing, PR, Sales, Word-of-Mouth & Buzz Innovators
U.N.U.C.I.
Sicily Social Network
Organizational Change Practitioners
Warwick MBA for IBM
The Global Business Development Network
INFORMS
Alumni of Università La Sapienza, Roma
Blue Ocean Strategy
Xing Members
Change Consulting
Worldwide SOA Professionals
Service Science
Italian ICT Managers
Italian Startups, entrepreneurs, ventures, jobs, networking...
Business Analytics and Optimization
Il Mercato Italiano del Lavoro - The Italian Job Market
AIDP Associazione Italiana per la Direzione del Personale