Technical Product Owner and Solution Architect at Vodafone Global - VIS
Cologne Area, Germany
Technical Product Owner and Solution Architect at Vodafone Global - VIS
Cologne Area, Germany
An innovator, strategist with in-depth knowledge and experience of technology standards, commercial products, design methodology, software development processes, together with a profound sense of business drivers.
- PERSONAL SKILLS
• Good Communication skills, with the ability to report clearly and relevantly
• Creative with the imagination, inventiveness to generate new ideas
• Self Starter, able to learn the company’s way of working and to pass that on to others
• Ability to manage people across geographical boundaries, time zones, cultures, remotely
• Ability to operate effectively in a rapid growth/high change environment
• Ability to meet aggressive deadlines and to provide quick turnaround
• Ability to build and maintain effective working relationships. Ability to motivate others and work cooperatively in a group to achieve common goals
• Ability to professionally persuade, influence, and negotiate in critical situations
• Independent, able to work with and gain the trust of the customers with minimum support
• Able to derive the needs/requirements of the customer by listening to him and translating them into work. Ability to understand complex processes with multiple inputs,stakeholders.
• Exceptional organizational and time-management skills - ability to manage multiple, competing priorities and projects
• Solid Computer Science knowledge, strong problem solving skills and a passion for serving customers’ needs
• Strong Service Design and Architecture skills (design principles, methodologies such as UML)
• Wireless Expertise in OMA defined Services such as OMA DL, DRM, DS, DM or 3GPP defined Services like Packet Switched Streaming and MMS
- PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
• More than 10 years of experience in ICT market (IBM, Infostrada-Wind, Omnitel, Vodafone)
- GOALS
• Job position: Product or Project Manager of Mobile/Fixed network services,Business Analyst. Minimum Salary required: 100.000 EUR
• Availability to start: 3 months
- Experience working in geographically dispersed,multi-cultural environments
- Experience managing large Vendors in product development&deployment capacity
- Multilingual:mother tongue italian,fluent written and spoken english;good french;basic german.
- Open mind,lateral thinking;problem solving;formalization skills;technical sensibility to the best-of-breed products, state-of-the-art technologies
- VAS definition and analysis;architectural design of services for multi-operator environments
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; VOD; Telecommunications industry)
November 2007 — Present (1 year)
Solution Architect of "B2B Enablers" Global Program. The aim is to make VF the easiest operator to deal with for 3rd Parties, deploying a rich set of Enablers to create the best customer experience and capture B2B revenues, creating distinct advantage in the value chain. Main duties:
- Overall Architecture Definition and Interfaces with 3rd Parties and Operating companies;
- Vendor Selection (RfP) of an ESB and Partner Gateway;
- Managemement of the Pilot with DE and a worldwide Partner for mobile games, maps;
- Definition of main Business,Operational Processes;
- Global Acceptance;
- Deployments across Vodafone Operators Worldwide;
- Keeping track of Product Changes & Lifecycle Management;
- Design of new Core Enablers (Messaging, Location, Storage, Identity Management, etc) and Adapters to existing ones;
- Assure respect of approved development projects timelines, costs.
Training course attended:
- "Enterprise Architecture by John Zachman; IT-Business Alignement"
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; VOD; Telecommunications industry)
September 2006 — August 2008 (2 years)
Technical Product Owner of Global Device Management Project. Service launched in VF TR, PT, DE, GR, IE, NL, UK; ES, Malta, Albania on going. Main duties:
- Manage and coordinate all development activities as well as unit and system test with the Vendor
- Provide detailed Functional, Technical Specification per Release
- Assure compliance to defined Standards and Non-functional requirements
- High level Architecture Design and Planning
- Collaborate with new platforms architecture design and roadmap
- Where appropriate, supervise RFI/RFQ processes in cooperation with Supply Chain Management
- Managing the delivery of the required end-user, operational docs
- Change Management and Release Planning processes
- Assure respect of approved development projects timelines, costs
- Provide periodic reporting and tracking of activities and spending
Training courses attended:
- Effective Project Management (London)
Vodafone Group has almost 260ml customers on 5 continents.
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; VOD.L; Telecommunications industry)
September 2004 — September 2006 (2 years 1 month)
Vendor selection (RfQ), Architectural & Functional Analysis of Global Messaging (Mobile Address Book, Instant Messaging), Global Terminals-related Projects (Device Management).
Coordination of different activities among international countries (VF GR, ES, PT, EG, IT, DE, UK, NL, TR, JP). Leader of the integration of local country BSS/NW systems with the central hosting environment. Ability to envision multi-tier Service Architectures and articulate to such diverse constituencies as Project Managers, Business Stakeholders, Systems Engineers. Ability to identify and communicate different Architectural Options and their associated trade-offs.
Interface to VF R&D to push new service requirements in the standardization bodies like OMA or 3GPP.
Training courses attended:
- Basic 10 German lessons (Duesseldorf)
- Time and Priority Management (London)
- Advanced Presentation Skills (Duesseldorf)
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; VOD; Telecommunications industry)
July 2001 — August 2004 (3 years 2 months)
Business Analyst of Mobile Value Added Services. Main responsibilities:
- Assessment of impacts and costs of new Product Requirements
- High Level Design and Feasibility Analysis
- Functional and Technical Specifications
- Technical support to Service Development and Operational Departments.
Main projects: Multimedia Streaming & Downloading, Mobile Java Downloading, Mobile Instant Messaging, Digital Rights Management.
Vodafone Italy is part of Vodafone Group, which has almost 260 million customers on 5 continents.
Training courses attended:
- Project Management with Artemis Project View tool;
- Problem Solving;
- Communication for impact.
(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; Telecommunications industry)
June 1999 — July 2001 (2 years 2 months)
Telco/ISP services planner: I was working for 2 years as Project Leader in Infostrada (http://www.infostrada.it) to plan, schedule and maintain project plans. I was responsible for external suppliers selection (Request For Quotation), writing technical specifications, architectural design, development and deployment of Internet Services Platforms. The following is a list of services where i was involved in:
* E-commerce Business to Consumer
* Web Hosting
* Multimedia Streaming
* Instant Messaging
* Web to SMS
* WAP services, like WAP-mail
* Libero Videomail
* Internet Call Waiting (Telefono Libero)
Training courses attended:
- Open Market Transact API Workshop (Amsterdam);
- Introduction to OMG, CORBA and XML for Telecoms (Amsterdam).
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; IBM; Information Technology and Services industry)
July 1998 — June 1999 (1 year)
E-Commerce Marketing & Deployment analyst:1 year in the italian IBM e-commerce site development.
Training courses attended:
- Intensive english;
- Net.Commerce and E-commerce;
- Developing applications with Visual Age for JAVA;
- Developing basic Internet applications with Lotus Notes/Domino;
- Lotus Notes for end users.
Post-lauream Master, Information&Communication Technology, Final Mark: 95/100, 1997 — 1998
Post-lauream master in Information Technology at the research center CEFRIEL (http://www.cefriel.it). CEFRIEL is an ICT Center of Excellence For Research, Innovation, Education with industrial Labs partnership based in Milan.
Courses: Software Engineering, Network Management, Multimedia Information Systems; Master project: "Object-Oriented modeling of a database for a generic telecommunication network".
M.Sc. (Laurea), Computer Science, Final Mark: 109/110, 1989 — 1995
Thesis title: "Combinatorial algorithms for the reconstruction of DNA segments" (computational complexity and optimization area)
Diploma, Liceo Scientifico, Final Mark: 60/60, 1984 — 1989
- ICT market and state of the art of multimedia technologies - Swimming - Running and Jogging - Philosophy - Mathematics - Movie watching and Cinema - Travels, discovering different cultures and languages - I have no interest in borders, just cultures, fearless innovation and creative excellence where ever it is sourced.
- OpenBC (http://www.openbc.com)
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- Doostang (http://www.doogstang.com)