Author

SUMMARY

Emiliano Soldi is a senior Project Manager with over 15 years of experience in the field.

He is a PMP, PMI-ACP and CSM certified professional, with solid knowledge of the project management standard and of the agile disciplines. He is currently managing software development projects for his company and giving project management consultancy, using both the Traditional and Agile/Scrum Project Management approaches.

His core skills lie in Project and Portfolio Management as well as PMO (Project Management Office) setup and operation, i.e. methods, techniques and tools to ensure projects are always aligned to business needs, coordinated and executed at maximum efficiency.
He is an experienced trainer in various Project Management disciplines.

As a founding partner of a Project Management Consultancy agency, Emiliano has experience in the main aspects of client management, from sourcing the business and negotiating bids to full delivery of assignments with multiple teams, as well as an huge technical experience in conducting software development projects.

Emiliano is an active member in the Project Management communities: he is part of the PMI-NIC (Project Management Institute, Northern Italy Chapter), Scrum Alliance Organization, Agile Lean Europe and Italian Agile Movement.

Emiliano is a very flexible and experienced Project Manager who can easily interact with stakeholders at all levels, mixing competence in the mainstream methodologies with practical business knowledge to achieve results quickly and efficiently taking advantage of his depth knowledge of the agile and traditional disciplines.

WORK EXPERIENCE

1998 to today: Project/Program Manager and Owner at Diesys Informatica, Milan (IT) He led, mainly as a consultant, projects aimed at developing and delivering of software solutions using both the agile and traditional approach of project management. He is one of the company founding partners. Important experiences gained also as a trainer in the IT and project management fields.

As one of the founding partner he was also involved in business development, account management duties and main consultancy activity and experience described below:

Sep 2011 – today: UBI Bank (Everis Italy Spa). Bergamo (IT). He is giving support to the operations and IT departments as a consultant, in a big bank program regarding new laws and regulations about the protection of the transparency of contractual conditions and of the correctness of relations with customers.
2000 – 2011: STMicroelectronics Spa, Agrate Brianza (IT). He managed projects and released enterprise software solutions: web-based or windows client/server, multi-languages, multi-sites, with large numbers of connected users. He was responsible for the coordination of the internal development team and the relationships with the line management of the customer.
1998 – 2011: European School of Oncology, Milan (IT). He led projects for the designing and development of software solutions (accounting, CRM, B2B, portal), for the provision of training courses in the medical fields.
2011: Codd & Date Education, Milan (IT). He taught several project management courses for banks, assurances and utilities.
2011: European School of Project Management, Turin (IT). He taught agile project management courses.
2006 – 2010: Toshiba Europe GmbH, Neuss (DE). He managed the realisation of system integration, back office and extranet software applications.
2005 – 2009: Technoprobe Spa, Merate (IT). He worked for the company during the period of its greatest expansion. He was involved in re-engineering of software information systems procedures. He led and participated in the development of solutions for managing the life cycle of production and development of industrial automation applications.

2000 – today: Project Management and IT trainer. Topics include, Project Management Fundamentals (based on PMI), PM Advanced Techniques, SCRUM and Agile Project Management for IT.
Courses offered for: Pramerica Life, ING Direct Bank, Medio Factoring (S. Paolo Bank), Fideuram Bank, Unicredit Bank (English), BAPR Bank, ENI, SNAM Rete Gas, Bicocca University.

1995 to 1997: Software Analyst at Global Service, Milan (IT). He was Involved in the analysis and development of customized software applications.

1993 to 1995: Developer at Datalog Srl, Milan (IT). He was involved in the development of an enterprise software for accountants. He acquired skills in the accounting field, relating to sales processes, billing, accounting and warehouse management.

EDUCATION

Jan/2011, CSM Certified Scrum Master Training
SCRUM Alliance Organization (Scotland – U.K.)
2010, Master24 – Management and Leadership
Il Sole 24 Ore – Business School (Online)
2007, PMP Certification Exam Preparation
Eureka srl (Milan – Italy)
Nov/2004, Microsoft Visual Basic.Net Programming
Global Knowledge (Milan – Italy)
May/2001, Project Management in Information Systems
School of Management Bocconi (Milan – Italy)
Sep/1999, Migration to OO Programming with Java
Sun Microsystems (Agrate B.za – Italy)
1986-1990, Secondary school information technology diploma
Istituto Tecnico Industriale Parco Nord (Milan – Italy)

CERTIFICATIONS

Feb /2012, PMI-ACP – PMI Agile Certified Practitioner
Project Management Institute
Jan /2011, CSM – Certified Scrum Master
SCRUM Alliance Organization
Nov/2008, PMP – Project Management Professional
Project Management Institute
Jul/1999, MCP – Microsoft Certified Professional (SQL Server)
Microsoft

SKILLS AND INTERESTS

Project Management: in depth knowledge of PMI – PMBoK – PMP, SCRUM – Lean – Agile Project Management
Languages: italian mother tongue, english advanced
Presentation skills: proficient
Communication skills: brilliant
Information Technology: Office, VB.NET, ASP.NET, MS SQLServer, MySQL, MS Project, MS Visio, MindJet, MS SharePoint, Crystal Report
Qualities: Passion, Agility, Effectiveness, Leadership
Abilities: Communication, Pragmatism, Proactivity, Commitment
Hobbies: guitar, sports