Expert Details
Project, Program and Portfolio Management, Enterprise-wide Transformation, and Security, Privacy and Reliability
ID: 739086
Switzerland
Expert currently works for a Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Exchange company. Here, he is responsible for product development, infrastructure evolution, and acquisitions. Prior, he spent 9 years at Google as a Program Manager. Most recently, he worked with Site Reliability Engineering, where he was the creator and head of a globally distributed PMO organization, responsible for Google wide programs to improve reliability and security of Google infrastructure.
Education
| Year | Degree | Subject | Institution |
|---|---|---|---|
| Year: 2005 | Degree: Master Degree | Subject: Computer Science | Institution: University of Milan |
| Year: 2003 | Degree: BS | Subject: Computer Science | Institution: Universita degli Studi di Milano |
Work History
| Years | Employer | Title | Department |
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| Years: 2022 to Present | Employer: Undisclosed | Title: Director of Program Management | Department: |
Responsibilities:● Created and set the vision of the Program Management organization at Employer responsible for product development, infrastructure evolution and acquisitions.● Managing a fully remote team of 21 Program Managers distributed globally. Scope of the team covers 2000+ employees across Product, Engineering, Design, Data, Marketing and Business functions ● Partnering with C level executives and senior leaders to constantly align Program Management to company priorities ● Responsible for improving Employer product development effectiveness by defining and improving standardized practices within the product organization. For example, but not limited to: -- Introduced OKR framework at Employer and led the quarterly and annual implementation -- Managed annual planning activities (financial and people) |
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| Years | Employer | Title | Department |
| Years: 2018 to 2022 | Employer: Google | Title: Head of Program Management - Site Reliability Engineering | Department: |
Responsibilities:● Creator and head of a globally distributed PMO organization responsible for Google wide programs to improve reliability and security of Google Infrastructure.● Led a team of 28 Technical Program Managers across 7 locations, working daily with 300+ engineers. ● Set the strategy and directly led the execution of engineering programs to transform the operation and effectiveness of multiple thousands engineers across Google. ● As one of the most senior Program managers for Google in EMEA, he was a founding member of the EMEA and APAC hiring committees for all new Program Managers and Technical Program Manager hires in the regions. |
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| Years | Employer | Title | Department |
| Years: 2016 to 2018 | Employer: Google | Title: Senior Program Manager - Google Search | Department: Core Search |
Responsibilities:● Drove the work to improve quality and efficiency of the infrastructure for the Google Knowledge Graph● Worked with Product Managers, Search Executives and Engineering leads through the full lifecycle of Google Search features development and new product launches ● Transformed Knowledge Graph Data onboarding, resulting in: -- 60% reduction on time required for new data ingestion -- improved data quality thanks to additional guardrail checks ● Created a data analyst team to improve Google Search data quality, resulting in improved efficiency and happiness of 100+ engineers. |
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| Years | Employer | Title | Department |
| Years: 2013 to 2016 | Employer: Google | Title: Program Manager - Google Privacy | Department: |
Responsibilities:● Led the Privacy engineering team (15 members) for Maps and all other Google location based products (e.g. Android, Ads, Search…)● Partnered with Product Managers, UX, Data and Engineering leads to transform approach to Privacy from a compliance requirement to a core product value ● Scaled up the Privacy team engagement model to reach 1600+ product launches per year from ~600 without growing the team. ● Recognized as Google authority for Location Privacy. Speaker to Google wide events and authored policies on use of Location Data |
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| Years | Employer | Title | Department |
| Years: 2011 to 2013 | Employer: Alcatel-Lucent | Title: Program Manager | Department: Professional Services |
Responsibilities:● Responsible for the delivery of products and services for 10M€+ projects for Telecom Italia, Telecom Italia Sparkle and Tim Brasil.● Led the work of subcontractors, Alcatel-Lucent and customer engineers (50+ FTE) ● Developed stakeholder relationships with executives across Alcatel-Lucent and Telecom Italia. ● Full accountability for the successful delivery of projects, including project profitability and resource utilization. |
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| Years | Employer | Title | Department |
| Years: 2010 to 2010 | Employer: Alcatel-Lucent | Title: Training Lead | Department: Alcatel-Lucent University |
Responsibilities:● Head of the Customer Learning team (8 FTE) within Alcatel-Lucent University Central Mediterranean Countries (Italy, Greece, Israel and Malta) whose mission is to make customers achieve maximum proficiency with Alcatel-Lucent products.● Partnered with Sales, R&D departments and pre-sales team to provide tailored offerings for each customer. ● Responsible for people management and P&L of the function. |
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Career Accomplishments
| Licenses / Certifications |
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| 2012: PMI Project Management Professional (PMP) certification 2010-2011: Alcatel-Lucent MBA program for high potential employees delivered by top business universities: Ashridge University, EM Lyon and SDA Bocconi |
Language Skills
| Language | Proficiency |
|---|---|
| Italian | Native |
| English | Fluent |
| German | Beginner |