2005 - today: Various projects as Contractor
Role: Solution Architekt | Projektleiter | Business Analyst | Data Analyst
Customer: Various Clients
Tasks:
During this period, forging relationships with international clients, including Fortune 500 companies, offering IT management
consultancy and advisory services, involving development and execution of tailored strategies aligned with corporate
objectives/goals, digitisation, transformation, change management, process automation risk and regulatory reporting.
- UniCredit Spa (Germany): business needed to ensure compliance of credit risk and regulatory compliance platform to bank
regulations, in addition to guaranteeing quality of managed data
- Headed up credit risk and regulatory reporting software release process, worked alongside Group Data Officer and
communicated effectively to all stakeholders covering 15 legal entities (IT divisions, risk, financial and data officers )
- Controlled entire release lifecycle from scope, budget, tasks and schedules, and managed IT governance.
- UniCredit Spa (Germany): responded to client?s need to consolidate 14 local processes and systems relating to credit risk
and regulatory reporting access management across all 15 legal entities, with the aim of driving standardisation
- Drove reengineering of access management processes
- Assisted GDPR compliance assessment for credit risk and regulatory reporting function
- Implemented data protection internal regulations
- Successfully reduced authorisation process by 50%, introduced process automation and standardised approach, this
was viewed by UniCredit as best practice for rollout across other processes
- UniCredit Services (Germany): requirement to upgrade credit risk management and regulatory reporting system spanning
15 European countries, managed ?2M portfolio of projects to deliver technical solutions and improvements
- Accountable for IT governance, multi-cultural virtual teams, stakeholder engagement and nurtured relationships with
associated business users and legal/regulatory parties
- Initiated continuous improvements and embedded Plan-Do-Check-Act (PDCA) methodology, and realised +25% UAT
efficiency through deployment of positive changes that transformed lifecycle delivery
- Safeguarded bank?s compliance to authority regulations as result of release, achieved highest user satisfaction score
- UniCredit Services (Germany): as result of cross-border merge of CEE division in UniCredit Spa under DeLorean project,
directed integration of credit risk management and regulatory reporting processes and systems.
- Directed multi-functional team of 30 FTEs and fully integrated solution to harmonise functions
- Handled project and governance, delivered benefits: Integration Project & Achievements
- UniCredit Business Integrated Solutions (Germany): due to new Liquidity Coverage Ratio (LCR) regulation, existing liquidity
management system needed to be scaled up to handle 50x previous calculation workload, took ownership for design of
new solution architecture in response to directive 238 of Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (BCBS)
- Leveraged Big Data and business process automation to outline brand new software and hardware architecture, this
was designed to dynamically increase computation capacity and guarantee performance levels
- UniCredit Business Integrated Solutions (Germany): approached to head up delivery of fair value adjustments calculation
and reporting in alignment with IFRS 13 directives, and coordinated deployment across all bank?s legal entities
- Blended requirements of all legal entities and delivered systems that introduced Internal Model Methods (IMM) for
the calculation of adjustments to improve consistency of Fair Value Adjustments (FVA), Accounting Credit Value
Adjustments (CVA), Fair Value Hierarchy and Funding Value Adjustments, with 100% compliance to IFRS 1
- UniCredit Business Integrated Solutions (Germany): integral part of multi-year risk management transformation
programme aimed at consolidation of bank?s financial risk management systems and methodologies across all main
UniCredit?s legal entities
- Full accountability for market risk workstream at UniCredit Bank AG, UniCredit Bank Austria and Central Eastern
Europe legal entities, with a team of 15 FTEs
- Devised and implemented IT strategy for group risk reporting, this fed into risk standard reporting solution
- Provided technical support to senior leaders during periodic inspections by bank regulatory authorities, such as Bank
of Italy and Austrian National Bank (OeNB), relating to BASEL III compliant Internal Model Methods (IMM) for Market
and Counterparty Credit Risk Management (CCR). Integrated Risk Report 2014 - Acknowledgement
- UniCredit Spa (Italy): Seamlessly implemented innovative solution to fulfil shareholder requirements under European
Securities and Market Authority (ESMA) transparency directives 2014/302, directed virtual talent pool of six
- UniCredit Global Information Services (Italy): part of Group Risk Officer sponsored transformation programme to
consolidate financial risk management systems and processes across entire group
- Applied solution architecture prowess to outline and develop market risk management system that provided market
risk analysis, monitoring and regulatory reporting in accordance with BASEL III standards
- Elicited requirements for processing equity, foreign exchange (FX) and interest rate derivatives transactions to
calculate risk indicators, and translated into technical specifications and documentation
- Analysed and identified Value-at-Risk, Incremental Risk Charge and P&L data using data produced from front office
systems, including Sophis Risque, Murex CRD/FI/IRD/FX and Kondor+
- Vodafone (Italy): Vodafone?s innovation lab initiated project to explore new business opportunities that utilise data
generated by wireless network, engaged to architect solution for analytics service
- Designed/developed solution that estimated geographic people density determined on mobile network usage data
and featured adaptive measurement algorithm based on Big Data (patented), this supported business cases such as
governmental security intelligence and business intelligence
- Alcatel-Lucent (Italy): as part of first launch IPTV service, responsible for development of value-added services
- Headed up development in JE22 of business intelligence for user profiling to support client marketing department
during launch, and .Net applications to automatically maintain 50+ servers contained in IPTV infrastructure
- Alcatel-Lucent (Italy): Provided on-site customer support across datacentre, telecom fixed, WAN, backbone architectures,
broadband and triple play services environments, analysed issues, proposed solutions and led disaster recovery
- Degitech Srl (Italy): developed using PHP and JQuery, first prototype of start-up?s minimum value product for IP video
surveillance solution based on open source technologies
2005 - 2008: Information Systems Laboratory
Role: Research Assistant
Customer: Polytechnic of Bari, Italy
Tasks:
- Assigned to Information Systems Laboratory, conducted research on Semantic Matchmaking and developed artificial
intelligence service for automated reasoning system that provided non-standard inference services
- Formulated graphical ontology manager in Java
2006 - 2007: Lecturing
Role: Lecturer of Telematics Engineering
Customer: Polytechnic of Bari, Italy