Gabriele Francesco Di Carlo

Member of board, at head of SW Solution Factory ( around 100 employees).

Responsible for program delivery of all project included in portfolio. Head of Automotive and blockchain business units.

• Conducted research, gathered information from multiple sources and presented results

Involved in Lamborghini Cross Team (IT,Product, R&D). Responsible for design & delivery of Connected Car services on some Lamborghini supercar's models.

Strict cooperation with product for user requirements and design definition of attractive and remunerative connected services.

Delivery of unique iOS, Android Lamborghini Unica APP. Strict integration with After sales process and billable B2B, B2C sales process.

Full Customer Journey CRM implementation process trough Salesforce CRM, Salesforce Marketing Cloud etc etc

Working in Agile Scrum paradigm, Confluence and jira and Kanban tools & methodologies.

International context involving Italian, German team. Salesforce & Heroku platform technologies, microservices and REST on backend side.

Working with Product team on design of cuttinge edge Connected Telemetry services with R&D department

Responsible for ensuring fast and safe delivery of all projects and in accordance the company policy and procedures respecting

Involved in some projects focusing:

• convergence of Maserati Alfa Romeo - Product Development business process
• study and implementation of a suite of cost engineering applications
• analysis and study of new vehicle's Registration process (WLTP) B2B & B2C IT impacts, in EU28 area

In this complex scenario, multi brand, process and so on, i followed all phases of a wide variety of projects, from plan to successfully completion on budget.

My principal activities:

• Working closely with clients to understand their needs
• Arranging and managing all project related meetings (continuous Information)
• Attention to timing, costing and scoping documentation
• Establishing the overall success criteria for a project, including; time, cost, technical and performance parameters ( metrics,KPI )
• Manage vendor relationships reconciling cost to budget, milestone tracking, and verifying adherence to security and safety procedures
• Coordinate training and communications strategies to effectively manage change
• Recognize and reward team members hard work and dedication leading to project success

Particularly proud for go live of two application respectively mapping entire purchasing process, and vehicle's change management process.

• Partnered with project team members to identify and quickly address problems.

Directly reporting to Maserati CIO, i managed a large project portfolio characterized by projects of different nature (infrastructural and applicative).

On infrastructural side:

• CMDB tool introduction - Asset management
• Network performance improvement on China (with Accenture China collaboration)
• Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery
• Cloud introduction
• Content Delivery Network (CDN) players benchmark
• AS400 Migration
• Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) assessment and optimization

On applicative side:

• Vehicle's Issue Management application integration with FCA's one
• Prototypes Management (WBS, Cost, material's procurement, activity planning)
• AWS Cloudfront introduction for ECU SW deployment
• Official dealer application porting on BEA Weblogic application server
• Workflow-oriented framework platform introduction
• Weight Vehicle Benchmarking application
• Cost Analytics application
• Vehicle Experimental Integrate Plan application POC
• Traceability application on Alfa 4C production line

Almost the whole of these projects was delivered according to time, cost, quality constraints, thank to the work of involved teams

I briefly resume my governance's activities:

• frequent staff meeting organization
• weekly steering committees organization
• scouting and benchmarking of external vendor
• monitoring of cost, time, quality of delivery
• risk management

Working on a great WEB transformation project (PICASSO for Vodafone Global/Italy) outsourced by IBM.

My principal activities/projects:

• Stream coordination of delocalized (GD Team - Bangalore - India) development team
  
• Middleware solution's Architect
• Technical leadership of Configuration & System Management Group
• Capacity & performance analysis
• SW Configuration Management Workflow design & Implementation
• IBM RTC framework adoption covering full software development lifecycle

In this context i was one of principal interface with our client [Vodafone Italy]

Web Configuration Management group technical manager at Vodafone Italy Solution Center 190.

• manage Test and Preproduction environments
• manage sw delivery toward Vodafone Operation
• managing transition phase toward IBM outsourcing

Committed on great platform migration project (TRILOGY) for Vodafone Italy, as System Architect - Change Management team leader.

Main focus:

• Migration of institutional website www.190.it, from a WINTEL based platform to a J2EE based solution, lying on new sw stack (Sun Solaris - Apache - Broadvision - Weblogic - Fortè - Oracle DB)
• Domain's migration from www.190.it to www.vodafone.it
  
• Design and implementation of all deployments workflows
  
• Automation and efficiency of delivery procedures across multiple environments (DEV, PREPRODS, UAT, PROD)
  
• Bugfixing management system implementation
• Configuration Management Team leadership

Great challenge

The challenge was to extend the voice chat (in which the client had the national leadership) on the then nascent SMS channel

With a small developer team we finalized www.smschat.it startup

Some technicalities:

• VPN interfacing with telco SMS provider
• Processing and routing SMS engine on .NET framework written in C#
• SW stack: Win 2000 – SQL Server 2000 – framework .NET 1.0 (C#,ASPX.NET), IIS web server

On a banking context, committed on a customization development of a backoffice banking platform:

• NBA - New Banking Architecture: a 3-level architecture developed by Accenture (host: IBM Mainframe - CICS transaction layer - MFC C++ client-side)

Brief teaching experience. Held two courses (basic + advanced) of Object Oriented programming based on C ++ language for CEDACRI Spa.

The audience was made up of young and deserving graduates and doctoral students.

As a freelancer (analyst/programmer), i worked on development of distributed web applications C ++ / VB, COM / COM + on the Omnitel2000 portal based on Microsoft's three-layer DNA architecture lying on (winNT-win2000, MTS, SQL Server platforms, OracleDB) sw stack

Development activities in company's laboratory on internal projects for Siemens on COM-DCOM technology.

XML technology for data transfer between applications.

UML (Visio 2000) for design

Worked for NICOTRA Spa (Milan): custom application for fiber optic cables monitoring. Study and implementation of algorithms for the scanning and analysis of graphical plots. Alarm management.

SIRTI SPA (Milan): SIGRA-CAVI 3 - project commissioned by Telecom Italia for infrastructural network planning.

E.N.F.A.P. Abruzzo: Held courses on computer's architecture, operating systems from DOS to Win95/98, Office 97

Linea Informatica S.r.l. (TE): Support for the company's ISO 9000 certification, LAN creation.

Ettorre Gomme Group (TE): Creation of little ERP application with Logistic,Warehouse, customer/supplier registry, earn actual and forecasting