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Michele Vallesi

Michele Vallesi

Senior Director Business Applications
Pistoia

Summary

Senior Director with solid track of records about business processes transformation, configuration management, system engineering and product life cycle management.
Long IT background on enterprise architectures, software development process and systems integration.
Strong knowledge about agile methodologies and their adoption, certified scrum master and product owner.
Passionate on emerging technologies , willing to manage and generate innovative solutions driving business to the next digitization era.

Overview

21
21
years of professional experience
13
13
years of post-secondary education
2
2
Certifications

Work History

Director Business Application

Baker Hughes
Florence
01.2014 - Current
  • Provided strategical direction and projects implementation support on CPQ, Product Definition, Design Automation, Configuration
    Management landscapes, across all the Baker Hughes product companies.
  • Delivered business applications and design automations solutions generating >5M$ saving (Cost of Quality & productivity).
  • Worked with company and Italian Government to kickoff and execute the research project "Galileo", defining target goals and supervised execution activities across all involved parties.
  • Managed team of international employees with mixed skills (IT and Engineering), overseeing hiring, training and professional growth of employees.
  • Developed and implemented performance improvement strategies and plans to promote continuous improvement.
  • Managed CAPEX and OPEX budgets worth 3M$
  • Guided adoption of new technologies and/or architectural patterns inside engineering: Rulestream, Cadenas, Predix, EDA

Program Manager and PLM SME

GE Oil & Gas
Florence
09.2008 - 01.2014
  • Drove 2 major PLM upgrades managing OPEX 2M$ each. Collaborated with business leadership to set priorities based on business needs, resource capacity and risk exposure. Established milestones and objectives based on input from functional areas and stakeholders.
  • Provided program management expertise in lean Six Sigma strategies and agile methods, practices and execution.
  • Facilitated engineering business processes integration for new business acquisitions: Thermodyn and Cameron
  • Redesigned, implemented and managed the transition to new engineering processes: Document Management, BOM Management, Design Change Management and Planning
  • Organized and executed the global training for employees in Italy, Poland, France and India.

Program Manager

Gilbarco Veeder Root
Florence
04.2007 - 09.2008
  • Drove internal project to design and deliver a new unmanned payments system (HW and SW) compliant with EMV specification and the different countries regulations (fiscal laws, currencies, languages and metrology directives). The new unmanned payment system has been then rolled out for MOL and Exxon Dealers
  • Drove implementation and rollout an integrated solution allowing distributes Petrom' s filling stations (~600 located in Romania) to synchronize their transactions, daily generated, with the centralized ERP (SAP) system.
  • Introduced and piloted Agile Methodologies for execution of main projects, changing the way projects were executed and controlled. Acted primarily as product owner

Senior Consultant

Accentue
Various
04.2001 - 04.2007
  • Worked primarily on digital transformation for european telco companies.
  • Helped to redesign and implement following processes : Order Management, Customer Care and Billing for major european incumbents and ISP
  • Led COE development team in Bratislava specialized in CRM (Siebel), billing and integration implementation, delivering consistent and effective solutions for our customers.
  • Helped Accenture CHT organization to achieve CMMI level 3 assessment contributing to final appraisal.

Education

Bachelor of Science - Electronic Engineer

University of Florence
Florence, Italy
10.1992 - 12.2000

High School Diploma -

ITIS Silvano Fedi Pistoia
Pistoia, Italy
09.1987 - 07.1992

Skills

    Applications development

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Certification

Certified Scrum Master, Agile Alliance

Accomplishments

    PLM EUROPE 2019 : Presenter
    "BHGE Integrated Design Environment with Rulestream"
    PLM EUROPE 2015: Presenter
    "Product Configuration Management by KBE: Our Journey with Rulestream™ ETO configurator"

Timeline

Director Business Application

Baker Hughes
01.2014 - Current

Program Manager and PLM SME

GE Oil & Gas
09.2008 - 01.2014

Program Manager

Gilbarco Veeder Root
04.2007 - 09.2008

Senior Consultant

Accentue
04.2001 - 04.2007

Bachelor of Science - Electronic Engineer

University of Florence
10.1992 - 12.2000

High School Diploma -

ITIS Silvano Fedi Pistoia
09.1987 - 07.1992

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