Marco De Donno

I’m currently responsible of the HV cable projects portfolio in North Europe region. Current project portfolio value is in excess of 4b€. My main responsibilities are as follows:

· Successful management and development of a team of over 15 project managers;

· Ensuring proper execution of the portfolio projects in line with quality & time contract requirements;

· Monitor of economic&financial key performance indicators of project portfolio;

· Establishing relationships with Clients ensuring periodic steering committees meetings;

· Contributing to continuous improvement process in project management methodologies.

I managed large-scale EPCI Contracts for Supply, Installation, Construction and Commissioning of High Voltage cable Systems. List of Projects I’ve managed as Project Director:

IFA2 project (UK – France).

Value > 350M€( IFA-2 - Wikipedia). Project hand-over: April 2021.

DOLWIN 3 project (Germany).

Value > 350M€ ( HVDC DolWin3 - Wikipedia). Project hand over: Dec 2019.

MALLORCA-IBIZA project (Spain).

Value > 80M€ (Connection between the Balearic Islands of Mallorca and Ibiza | Prysmian). Project hand over: April 2016.
SYLWIN 1 project (Germany).

Value > 280M€ (HVDC SylWin1 - Wikipedia). Project hand over: April 2015.

HUDSON RIVER project (US).

Value > 170M$ (Hudson Project - Wikipedia). Project hand over: March 2013

I’ve managed an R&D team; the most important achievement was the design & development of new family of Devices based on the integration of semiconductor and liquid crystal technologies. Particularly my most important responsibilities were:

· DEVELOPMENT of NEW PRODUCTs with the target of transferring manufacturing&testing processes in the internal mass production facility;

· MANAGING AN R&D GROUP of 17 researchers organized in 3 main workstreams: Design, Process Development and Testing.

· MANAGING OF BUDGET granted for new product development;

· PROTECTION OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTIES that brought to the several patents issuance;

These activities allowed obtaining a prize for Industrial Innovation (Premio AIRI 2007). CNR (Rome) 9 May 2008.

I was member of a DESIGN team for innovative Opto-Electronic devices. During this period I gained an important professional and human experience in a start-up organization.

My first professional experience was in a Spin-Off of Pirelli Cavi. During this period I was involved in the development of ASSEMBLING PROCESS of telecom devices with high technological content. This activity produced several papers and patents.