Francesco - Chef de projet JAVA

Professional experience
As from March 2016: Consultant at Touring – Brussels - Belgium
Project Manager for the data migration project within the program Touring One. Migration from a proprietary legacy application to SalesForce and SAP-FSCD. Ensuring the management of the migration team (4 functional analyst and 3 developers). Coordinating all analysis and development activities. Alignment meetings between projects intra-track. Reporting to the program manager weekly.

May 2015 – March 2016: Consultant at FOREM – Charleroi - Belgium
Project Manager for the CRM implemented at FOREM. Web application using a proprietary tool Efficy and a layer developed in .NET (C#) to manage all clients (companies and unemployed people). Team of 8 developers and 4 business analysts.

March 2013 – May 2015: Consultant at Euroconsumers (Test-Achats) – Brussels - Belgium
Project Manager for the Financial line of Euroconsumers association across Europe (Belgium, Italy, Spain & Portugal). Set-up of Project Management governance and tools (change management). Leading an international team of software development (web application in .NET C#) professionals to higher maturity level by implementing standard processes. Management of the content migration to the new website in Sitecore. In charge of ensuring the planning, follow-up, requirement and risk analysis, management reports and presentations. Managing maintenance and improving features of the financial websites. Team of 4 developers, 2 business analysts and 1 IT architect.

January 2012 – November 2012: Consultant at the European Commission’s DG-EAC – Brussels - Belgium
Technical Team Leader of ErasmusForAllLink, a DotNet application managing the 2014-2020 ErasmusForAll programme within the Informatics Unit into DG EAC (Education and Culture). The main tasks were: collecting new requirements, producing and verifying technical and business documentation. The team was applying Agile techniques in order to reduce the communication gap between the technical team and the business and to better manage continuous changes in requirements. The technology used was .NET (VB.NET)

September 2008 – September 2011: European Commission – Brussels - Belgium
Project manager of IT projects within the LIFE unit into DG Environment: IT-related financial planning (in coordination with the Head of Unit), monitoring, and procurement activities related to the IT projects.
IT service definition, analysis, design and requirement management, documentation, monitoring and control.
Applying Project Management and ******** methodologies for a high level quality standard of the projects.
Contract management under rules of framework contract of EC and coordination of external service providers.
Selection of IT-tools and products.
Supporting ABAC (financial IT application at EC) users in financial reports and in the integration of ABAC within LIFE IT applications. Dealing with financial concepts (more or less specific to EC) such as budget, commitment and payments. Managing several IT tasks and working with Office tools. Working as IT correspondent of the operative unit (LIFE) to the informatics unit. Close collaboration with LIFE programme selection procedure.
Among the IT projects, 2 of them (BUTLER and ESAP) were managed in close collaboration with the IT unit. The main tasks related to these 2 projects were: collecting new requirements, change management, testing, user management and assistance. BUTLER is a collaborative and workflow-wise system able to maintain data and documentation related to LIFE projects. ESAP is the tool providing a collaborative environment for the selection exercise of LIFE projects.
Another project – eProposal – was managed within the LIFE unit. This project was outsourced to an external company and its quality was assured by following ******** methodology. The web application eProposal allows applicants of LIFE programme to submit their proposal on-line. The main role for this critical project was contract management (administrative and practical tasks) and ensure that deliverables were in line with the requirements and specifications coming from the LIFE funding programme.

April 2008 – September 2008: ALTI – Woluwe St. Etienne - Belgium
Project manager of an IT project (web application in ASP.NET 3.5, C#) for Ontex.
Leading a small development team (3 people); reporting to the steering committee. Business and technical analysis.
The main tasks related to this project were: creating project offers, producing business and technical analysis, analysing business and use cases, coordinating clients, collecting requirements, producing and verifying technical and business documentation, change management, testing, risk analysis, planning and scheduling.

September 2007 – March 2008: CSI DOC – Heverlee - Belgium
Project manager for a web application (ASP.NET 2.0, C#) interacting with SAP system (Governance, Risk, Control modules), putting in place all methodologies and artefacts ensuring the quality of the project life cycle (Business Requirements, Unit and Integration Tests, Parallel Development with Team Foundation Server) and playing in first line the architectural role (three tiers application, choice of NHibernate framework).

September 2006 – September 2007: Belgian Post Group – Brussels - Belgium
Project manager of ARS/PRS (an application and database containing all Parties, i.e. customers having commercial relations with the Post, and all Agreements) leading a team of 5 people and coordinating communication with 20 other applications (using web services of ARS/PRS) and following the PMF (Project Management Framework) concepts and the Software Development Methodology (standard at Post-ICT).
Main tasks were: managing the planning of every release, people (resources) management, managing the business requirements and the relationship with the business department, improving the relationship with the other project managers, managing the project scope, taking care that all the planned deliverables were completed on time.

April 2004 – September 2006: I.R.I.S. as Consultant at the European Commission’s DG-Press - Brussels-Belgium
Project manager of RAPID, a web application that functions with a database that contains all the press releases of the European Commission since 1985, using RUP (Rational Unified Process) methodology and all its aspects (UML, use cases, time planning, etc.).
Project manager and team leader for new workflow developments using Java and .NET framework technologies and Oracle database.
Main tasks were: coordinating the development team, reporting to the head of unit on the project status, managing the business requirements, being the interface between all the stakeholders and the development team.

October 2000 – December 2003: Dedalus S.p.A . (Datamat Group) Florence-Italy
Analyst-programmer in Power Builder 7, Delphi 5, Visual Basic 6, Visual C++ 6: development of the Millewin software (application processing medical and health care records).
Maintenance and development of new parts of the Millewin application developed in Power Builder: development of a objects’ class in order to manage data export to Millepocket programme.
Two modules OCX developed in Visual Basic (using class MsMapi) to do automatic sending (or with confirmation) of e-mails from Millewin.
DLL developed in Visual C++ for crypt data to be attached to emails that are sent to the C-Care server.
Full library OCX developed in Delphi to manage (create, modify) XML documents.
Delphi programme to manage a Access DB (access to DB made by ADO technology). DB developed to manage medical/scientific terms used by Millewin and to create a flexible exchange data interface (XML).
Project manager of MillePocket, application Pocket PC interfacing with MilleWin.
Development environment: Visual Studio .NET (VB.NET 1.1)
Development and management of Millepocket software in Visual Basic .NET and a SQL Server CE database. Management of a team of 2 persons for software maintenance, management of the project’s timing and collaboration with the sales department in order to launch the service onto the market. Planning and managing test list.
Responsible of European projects:
C-CARE (Continuous Care): creation of one server managing security reception and transmission of health and hospital case sheets. Use of XML for information exchange and DTD for data similarity. The XML files are encrypted and attached in e-mails that are sent to the server. A Lotus agent will upload the XML file onto an Oracle DB. Only authorised users can have access to the information which visualisation is enabled by means of XSL files.
e-ProLearn (e-learning for professional development): creation of an identification engine of scientific know-how in medicine and development of a server managing on-line courses and distance learning.

June 2000 – October 2000: Computer Sharing S.p.A. - Milan-Italy
Analyst-programmer in Visual Basic 6 (with COM and ADO technology): software development of an application managing data brought by the sales representatives working for the Debora Cosmetics company.
Creation of software developed in Visual Basic under Windows 2000 and SQL Server DB. Translation of functional specifications into technical specifications. Managing of a developing team of 3 persons.

January 1999 – June 2000: SECETI S.p.A. - Milan-Italy
Analyst-programmer in Delphi 5 and J-Builder 3: analysis and development of remote banking application software.
Development and management of the program SeceCBI in Delphi and creation of a web client in Java.
Collecting requirements concerning bank transfers (B2B) and other concepts related to banking environment.

December 1997 – January 1999: Pirelli Cavi & Sistemi - Milan-Italy
Customer service member in Network Management: computer system managing and controlling optical fibre telecommunication networks.
Computer system of performance, measure and alarm for the telecommunications network system: operating system Unix, database Oracle, programming language C++. Experience in full installation of the system and client assistance.

April 1997 – December 1997: Nuovo Pignone (General Electric) - Florence-Italy
Analyst-programmer: programming language: CVMac belonging to Computer Vision which is specific for the automation of CAD design.

June 1996 – April 1997: Military Geographic Institute, Elaboration data centre (during military service: from January 1996 to April 1997 in Rome and Florence)
Computer expert with the specific role to digitalise territorial maps out from raster maps (manual digitalisation) and transformation of vectored maps into maps with altitude information (matrix altitude maps). Creation of applications with algorithms in Fortran (under operating system VAX-VMS) to automation of digitalisation.

January 1995 – December 1995: CEFRIEL - Milan-Italy
Development of a project of computer simulation for television signal transmission: operating system Unix (Sun Solaris) and languages C and Matlab in order to create FFT (Fast Fourier Transform) algorithms. Analysis and conclusion discussed in thesis: Non linearity effects of OFDM modulation systems.

Computer know-how
Programming language: Visual Studio .NET (C#, VB), Delphi 5, VB6, Power Builder 7, Java, C, Pascal, Basic.
Web: XML, XSL, HTML, Front Page, Javascript, PHP, ASP, ASP.NET, SOAP, Web Services.
Databases: Oracle, Paradox, Access, Sybase, SQL Server, MySql.
Windows Software: MS Office (Excel, Word, Power Point, Outlook, Visio), Corel Draw, Photoshop.
Project management: RUP, UML, Jira, Rational Software Architect, MS Project, Trello, Target Process, PMBOK.