Paolo Zanella

Current

Dealer Station Factory Manager & Business developer at Finsoft s.r.l

Past

European Project Manager and Coordinator & Business developer at SISGE Informatica
Innovation Manager at Vodafone IT
Indirect Sales Channel Solutions Manager at Omnitel

Site Manager at EDP Center of “Politecnico di Milano” at Bull HN
Technology Senior Project Manager in the "System Integration and Software Solution Division" at Bull HN
"Systems Integration" and "Multimedia User Interface Subsystems" Project Manager at Honeywell - Bull
"Mos components technology Analysis and Memories Design" Unit Manager at Honeywell ISI
VLSI Component Analysis Responsible at Honeywell ISI

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Education

SDA Bocconi
University of Strathclyde - "The Turing Institute" Glasgow
Università degli Studi di Pavia

Liceo Scientifico L.da Vinci - Milano

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Industry

Telecommunications

Paolo Zanella’s Summary

Paolo Zanella’s Specialties:

Experience in startup and coordination of EU financed projects
Innovation and R&D Groups Management
Business Unit Management
IT/TLC Projects Management
Inter company teams coordination
Management of HW/SW solutions geographically distributed (design, distribution, online Help Desk, users training, …)
Service Creation & Innovation using enabling technologies (IT, Network, RFID, NFC, Positioning systems and localization, multimodality, etc

Paolo Zanella’s Experience

Dealer Station Factory Manager & Business developer

Finsoft s.r.l

(Computer Software industry)

February 2009 — Present (6 months)
European Project Manager and Coordinator & Business developer

SISGE Informatica

(Privately Held; Information Technology and Services industry)

April 2007 — January 2009 (1 year 10 months)

Project Manager and Consultant.
Actually Project Manager and Coordinator on behalf of Vodafone Italia of the European Project PERSONA .
( http://www.aal-persona.org )
Business Developement for SISGE
Innovation Manager

Vodafone IT

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

March 2002 — March 2007 (5 years 1 month)

In 2002 the CTO gave me the responsibility to constitute and coordinate the new group “Service Innovation & User Experience” in the Technology and Network Strategy Department.

The group mission is: Technology scouting, discover and invent concepts for Services and Applications using old and new enabling technologies (IT, Network and other - RFID, NFC, Positioning systems and localization, multimodality etc.).

The activities (create/scout concept, use cases, scenarios and implement trials of those concept/services) are done collaborating with other company departments (MKTG, Sales, CRM, IT etc. and Global Vodafone), Academic Institutions (I.E. Universita’ di Milano, Pavia, Pisa, CNR, Cefriel, Bocconi) and Partner companies.

For strategic long term activities my group has developed experience to access at National and International funds.
Indirect Sales Channel Solutions Manager

Omnitel

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

April 1995 — March 2002 (7 years)

Responsible of the IT Unit developing the applications for Customer services of Indirect Sales Channel (Dealer Station System). With Business department and CRM we conceived and implemented the process and the network of Dealer Support (Teaching process, Help Desk, technical & maintenance support).
In collaboration with Marketing and Sales Department, we defined architecture and functionality of applications for indirect sales Channel, developed and deployed them.
Site Manager at EDP Center of “Politecnico di Milano”

Bull HN

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

April 1994 — April 1995 (1 year 1 month)

Supervision/coordination of Bull projects and for proposal and promotion of innovative solutions (Secretary automation, multimedia information kiosks for students, etc)
Technology Senior Project Manager in the "System Integration and Software Solution Division"

Bull HN

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

June 1992 — March 1994 (1 year 10 months)

Marketing support for Multimedia, Bio-images technology-Offer Definition, promotion for HealthCare vertical solutions, new products definition and development, Sales Support (PreSales, offer definition, project definition and evaluation)

CEE Project "Medical Archive Generation with O-O Techniques – MARGOT” Coordination & Tech Management
(AIM Project A2021- Bull HN: Prime contractor; European Partners: MARI Systems - UK; ERITEL - Spain; Prisma Informatica - Italy)
"Systems Integration" and "Multimedia User Interface Subsystems" Project Manager

Honeywell - Bull

(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Computer Software industry)

January 1988 — May 1992 (4 years 5 months)

Ad hoc projects for several industrial realities ("Expert Systems Division").
Most significant projects:
“Airplane Flight and Maintenance intelligent planning” for Alitalia,
“Manufacturing resources automatic planning” (loom setup and usage optimization for production) for MION textiles industry.
"Mos components technology Analysis and Memories Design" Unit Manager

Honeywell ISI

(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; Computer Hardware industry)

September 1984 — December 1987 (3 years 4 months)

Unit tasks:
-VLSI Component Analysis & Electronic Design Rules
-Hardware Systems Architecture design.
-Memory Subsystem Projects for Standard e Proprietary Systems
-Bus Project for Proprietary Systems
VLSI Component Analysis Responsible

Honeywell ISI

(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; Computer Hardware industry)

June 1978 — August 1984 (6 years 3 months)

Hardware Technology Department - R&D Laboratories, Pregnana Milanese, Italy
Tasks:
Electronic components functional analysis and quality assurance (Microprocessor Families)
"Electronic Design Rules" issue
Hardware Systems Architecture design and development.
Several transfers to the Billerica (Boston-USA) associate company.
Several overseas flights to USA for technical meeting with electronic components' suppliers ("Silicon Valley")

Paolo Zanella’s Education

SDA Bocconi

“Diventar Manager della R&S” 2003 — 2003
University of Strathclyde - "The Turing Institute" Glasgow

"User Interface and Multimedia", "Artificial Intelligence" 1987 — 1988
Università degli Studi di Pavia

110/110 , physics , 1972 — 1977

Activities and Societies:

Theoretic/Experimental graduation thesis on "Effetto Jan-Teller cooperativo: misure NMR sul PrAlO3"
Liceo Scientifico L.da Vinci - Milano

1967 — 1972

Additional Information

Paolo Zanella’s Groups:

Member of the Scientific Committee (as Vodafone representative) for the organization of the “Methods for Management of Complex Systems” Master of the IUSS (Istituto Universitario di Studi Superiori di Pavia).

Near Field Communications Group
Università degli Studi di Pavia Alumni
Link to Milan Expo 2015
Ex Omnitel employee group - Now Vodafone Italy
CloseToPay Group
Collegio Cardano Pavia
Milano ICT
Profumo di carriera
ICOMO La fabbrica delle idee - network per l'innovazione
Worldwide Recruitment Manager Network >100K€+ Job Network for all Mid/Senior Level Professionals
Il Mercato Italiano del Lavoro - The Italian Job Market