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SKILLS SUMMARY

Entrepreneurial

Finding opportunities, securing resources, selling projects.
Pre-startup or pre-market entry analysis, vetting of business plans.
Promotional and organizational role in startups, new or foreign market entries, real estate developments, office openings.

Operational Leadership

Focus on people management, to drive to success in technical management.
Change management work spanning from factory shop floor to boardroom.
Quantitative and information technology based tools.
Operations-Strategy integration.

Strategy and Technology Services

Collaborative strategy development, to ensure agreement and execution.
First strategy work at Prof. Michael Porter’s consulting firm.
Manufacturing, process, service, and technology development industries.

International

Worked in many countries and cultures.
Versatile in dealing with varied settings and circumstances.

EXPERIENCE

References available upon request.

Freelance and subcontractor management consultant - Milan, Italy, 2000 - present

Market, technology, & organizational analyses and change projects for businesses involved in microchip design services, microwave point to point transmission equipment production, power distribution, gold mining, telephone terminal equipment production and distribution, water distribution & effluent treatment, biomass-to-power conversion, oilfield supplies and services, data & multimedia backbone network services.
On behalf of a major Italian industrial group, developed a marginal-profitability model demonstrating amount of damages in a $ 2B+ arbitration proceeding stemming from a joint venture between the country’s top two steelmakers.
Working for an arbitration panel, adjudicated technical, operational, and economic implication of opposing parties’ actions in a blast-furnace rebuilding project.

Celerant Consulting - A leading international operational improvement implementation consultancy, part of the Cambridge Technology Partners group (www.celerant.com).
Project Manager and Analyst - London, UK, 1997-1999

Led a maintenance and production management project on a 700,000-ton/year cement plant in Northern Italy, resulting in maintenance savings of $500,000/year and output increase of 20%, in conjunction with an SAP multi-module roll-out.
Analyzed plants producing cement, polymer resins, packaging film, and chemical catalysts, contributing to sales of change-management projects worth $4 million.
Analyzed internal communication, tactical decision-making, and external market environment for a leading UK natural gas storage business.
Analyzed production processes for a ceramic drainpipes manufacturer in the UK and the Netherlands, contributing to a making a major redundancy program possible.

Freelance and subcontractor management consultant - Milan, Italy, 1995 - 1997

Telecommunications: Assessed Italian facilities based operators as potential partners for a major US Telco, reviewed policy development. (for Monitor Group Inc., see below).
Power Generation Equipment Manufacturing: Implemented an organizational change program and introduced a performance improvement scoreboard at a $2B supplier of power plants and components. (For Bain & Company, an international strategy and organization consultancy - www.bain.com).
Power Generation Control Technologies: Investigated the potential of new products and services developed by an R&D company owned by a large utility. (Bain & Co.).
White Goods manufacturing: Estimated an Italian industry participant’s manufacturing costs of on behalf of foreign competitor. (Client: confidential).

American Flavors China, Inc. - a start-up company devoted to promoting and managing food sector joint ventures in China.

Investor & Director of Research - Boston, Massachusetts, 1992 - 1994

Developed business plans and investor communications.
Monitored competitors in Chinese food sector.
Explored procurement and marketing potential for dairy commodities.
Assisted COO with upgrading of plants.

International Team for Company Assistance – a privatization support organization.
Project Leader - Warsaw, Poland, summer 1991

Led a team of Polish and American consultants in a restructuring and privatization project for a manufacturer of diesel engine fuel injection parts.

Monitor Group Inc. - an international strategy consultancy (www.monitor.com).
Consultant - Milan, Italy and Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1987 - 1990

Implemented a module of a logistics project for a top US retailer, yielding $10 million a year in personnel cost savings.
Initiated contacts with Czech Republic institutions to market industrial policy advice services developed by Prof. Michael E. Porter.
Analyzed markets, technologies and operations to assist entry into new markets, into fruit juices by a diversified Italian foods company and into biodegradable plastics by a major Italian chemical company.
Analyzed costs of an order-fulfilment process for a leading US telecommunications equipment provider.
Surveyed strategy-driven human resources management practices in US high tech manufacturing, to introduce a management by objectives system at an Italian company.
Led recruiting campaign at Italian and Spanish universities.

Norges Statistisk Sentralbyrå - Norway’s national bureau of statistics. (www.ssb.no)
Summer Intern - Oslo, Norway, summer 1985

Compiled energy statistics for UNO and OECD.

EDUCATION

MIT, Sloan School of Management, Cambridge, Mass.. MBA. 1990 - 1992

Concentrations in Operations, Accounting, and Finance
Thesis on performance-based management and workforce compensation systems worldwide.

Università Bocconi, Milan, Italy. MS in Industrial Economics ("DES"). 1982 - 1987

Thesis on national financial systems and technological innovation patterns.
Official of Etats Generaux des Etudiants de l'Europe, Milan chapter.
Board member of a local volunteer civil defence corps.

New York University, New York, NY. Exchange student. Fall 1985

Courses in Economics, Finance, High-Tech Investments.
AIESEC delegate to US convention.

LANGUAGES - Fluent in English, French, Germaan, Italian. Working knowledge of Spanish. Some knowledge of Scandinavian and Slavic languages.

PERSONAL - Interests include international relations, cultural history, developments in ICT & other technologies, fashion, ethnic foods. Enjoy Unix family operating systems and radio-frequency electronics. Admitted to American Mensa in 1992. Italian national.