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WALTER MIELE

Naples

Summary

AI & Cybersecurity Professional with 10+ years creating, selling, and delivering high-impact technology programs. Combines deep hands-on engineering (generative AI, malware analysis, embedded IoT) with executive-level business acumen, grant-funding mastery, and persuasive storytelling. Proven record of building and delivering products, projects and closing sales.


Overview

25
25
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Private Tech Consultant (Presales & R&D)

Nevill S.r.l.
01.2024 - Current
  • For undisclosable clients
  • Technical coordination – “Sauron” project: translated synthetic-psyche mathematical models into deployable AI algorithms.
  • Actually under evaluation for Filed patent: Hierarchical Self-Attention Model with Multi-Level Reasoning for Enhanced Language Understanding.
  • Managing and Delivering enterprise-level system hardening playbooks, for not disclosable clients
  • Designed AI anti-fraud OSINT agents for fraudulent activity during gambling scenarios.
  • Executed physical & logical adversarial engagements (attack/defence scenarios) for executive tabletop exercises.

Presales & Technical Consultant

Self Consulting
01.2024 - Current
  • AI R&D advisor for SME digital-transformation programmes.
  • Supported clients adopting cybersecurity & AI solutions, bridging business and technical teams.
  • Guided companies through local, national & EU grant processes; secured €2 M funding to date.
  • Negotiated and managed technical work-packages of funded projects with public administrations.
  • Achieved 90 % PoC-to-contract conversion through structured discovery workshops.

Co-Founder & CEO

Red&Blue S.r.l.
01.2019 - Current
  • Grew consultancy from 2 founders to 15 specialists in adversarial security, incident response & forensic analysis.
  • Conducted adversarial engagements & forensics for European law-enforcement agencies (details NDA).
  • Oversaw BE (PHP/Laravel) and quantised-model IoT fall-detection (Python) for FutureCare S.r.l. – Project Looky (ESP32 Cam + 4G PI).
  • Built web platform BE (Python/Django) + deep-learning recommendation engine for Teleserenità S.r.l. – Project MyCare.
  • Led CGIntelligence for Consulgest: BE (Python/Django/TensorFlow), data-pipeline, and embedded DL model (non-linear regression & DCN) → €1 M multi-year retainer.
  • Negotiated, staffed, and quality-controlled all outsourced teams.

Independent Consultant

Private Consultancy
01.2005 - Current
  • Security assessment, penetration testing, AI solution design, malware analysis, project management, technical consultancy, R&D funding negotiations.
  • Clients include Beghelli, Westpole, Unirec, HSH, EAV, RetailPro, SEC-1, Mare Group, Arrundia, Selcom, Assilea, Gesac, Unica, F6S, ICC, A.I.Tech, UNISA, Regione Campania, Consorzio C2T, Akron4Sec, among others.

Chief Technology Officer

SP-CYBERTEC
01.2024 - 06.2025
  • Guided the company-wide transition to AI-driven cybersecurity across product lines and SOC services.
  • Championed generative technologies for threat-detection, incident-response and analyst augmentation.
  • Led R&D on Skudo-Crypto: an IoT-grade, C++ embedded GPT-style model acting as a single-point domestic SOC assistant;
  • Drove AI application to SOC workflows (alert triage, automated playbooks) lowering MTTR by 35 % in pilot sites.
  • Ran forensic & malware-analysis practice for key incidents.
  • Developed AR transposition for remote maintenance of networking infrastructures, cutting on-site visits 25 %.
  • Oversaw asset-management and SOC management for multiple utility and telco clients.
  • Ran PT for several companies

IT Manager / Pre-Sales Lead

Crisalide Competence Center
01.2022 - 01.2024
  • Led 5-10-person dev teams in custom computer-vision & biometric-recognition project SlideWorld (Python/FastAPI/PyTorch, React.js); €2 M healthcare funding deal.
  • AI IBI Platform engine/end-to-end pipeline (edge IoT shirt → GPT-based inference → web dashboard) assessing biomedical signals; secured 3.1.1 Local funding.
  • Balanced project-management, presales demos, and DevOps pipelines for timely delivery.

Project Manager

Genesi S.r.l.
01.2014 - 01.2017
  • Full budget & project management for lighting-tech R&D (up to €1 M).
  • Handled commercial management, customer care, stakeholder relations, and visual & graphic supervision for 10+ projects.
  • Improved on-time delivery by 20 % via structured reporting and vendor alignment.

Project Manager & Presales

TWS Elettronica s.a.s.
01.2003 - 01.2006
  • Managed budgeting, commercial offers, customer care, and project supervision for electronic-design builds.
  • Boosted key-account revenue 25 % YoY through rapid prototyping and tailored demos.

Chief Executive Officer

Learn&Teach S.r.l.
01.2001 - 01.2006
  • Secured and managed €4 M in EU/local grants: 598, 488, 6.3, 181 programmes.
  • Delivered “Virteach” VR platform for autism therapy (EU 598), Virtual Keyboard Long-Range assistive tech, and “Explorator” fake-currency detector (EU 488).
  • Won and administered 6.3 regional grants for 10 SMEs (Esserre, Milone, DentalBioline, Biemmeggi, etc.).
  • Directed grant 181 disaster-recovery centres, coordinating civil-defence stakeholders.
  • Presales for Beghelli S.p.a. with €12.5 M in contracts with public administration for “Un mondo di luce” project.

Project Manager & Public-Funding Specialist

SI&T S.r.l.
01.2000 - 01.2003
  • Oversaw budget management, commercial management, customer care, project supervision, and R&D funding-programme administration.
  • Wrote proposals securing €1 M in national R&D funds; delivered all milestones on schedule.

Education

High School Diploma -

Liceo Scientifico “G. Mercalli”
01.1997

Skills

  • Empathic leader
  • Team-oriented & stress-resilient
  • Clear public speaker
  • Continuous-learning mindset
  • Risk analysis & mitigation
  • Business negotiation & grant strategy
  • Market research & target pricing

Certification

  • Certified TensorFlow Developer
  • IBM AI Engineer
  • Deloitte AI Trainer
  • IEEE NATO Quantum-Cryptography Speaker
  • Member, Anti-Camorra Cyber Task-Force

LANGUAGES

Italian (native)
English (fluent)
French (intermediate)

Training

  • IEEE Tech Defense NATO (Quantum Cryptography)
  • Anti-Camorra Cybersecurity Task-Force
  • Cybersecurity Trainer (UNISA-Fisciano & W.Academy)
  • Deloitte AI Instructor
  • Content Creator, Hacktricks (“AI Exploiting”)

CORE EXPERTISE

  • Presales & Solution Consulting – discovery workshops
  • RFI/RFP ownership
  • Architecture white-boarding
  • PoC/demo build
  • ROI/TCO analysis
  • Competitive positioning
  • Cybersecurity – adversarial engagements
  • SOC automation
  • Forensic & malware analysis
  • Infrastructure hardening
  • NIST
  • OWASP
  • Artificial Intelligence – LLM design & fine-tuning
  • Computer vision
  • MLOps
  • TensorFlow
  • PyTorch
  • Leadership & Funding – cross-functional team management (5-15)
  • EU & national R&D grants (€20 M+)
  • C-suite stakeholder negotiation
  • Cloud & DevOps – Azure
  • Digital Ocean
  • OVH
  • Docker/K8s
  • CI/CD
  • VMware

Timeline

Private Tech Consultant (Presales & R&D)

Nevill S.r.l.
01.2024 - Current

Presales & Technical Consultant

Self Consulting
01.2024 - Current

Chief Technology Officer

SP-CYBERTEC
01.2024 - 06.2025

IT Manager / Pre-Sales Lead

Crisalide Competence Center
01.2022 - 01.2024

Co-Founder & CEO

Red&Blue S.r.l.
01.2019 - Current

Project Manager

Genesi S.r.l.
01.2014 - 01.2017

Independent Consultant

Private Consultancy
01.2005 - Current

Project Manager & Presales

TWS Elettronica s.a.s.
01.2003 - 01.2006

Chief Executive Officer

Learn&Teach S.r.l.
01.2001 - 01.2006

Project Manager & Public-Funding Specialist

SI&T S.r.l.
01.2000 - 01.2003

High School Diploma -

Liceo Scientifico “G. Mercalli”
WALTER MIELE