Ing. Francesco di Cugno

A customer-centric and versatile Senior Technology Director/Consultant who has built a reputation for moulding intricate business solutions using latest technological innovations, assists global organisations to realise strategic vision, goals and objectives. Trusted IT advisor who advocates business process engineering/re-engineering, acts as driving force behind digitisation, automation and improvements that transform operational landscapes.

Fulfilled multiple engagement with UniCredit S.p.A., a global banking and financial services company with a network spanning 50 markets in 17 countries, worked in both Italy and Germany on regulatory compliance, change and transformation engagements, and engaged with senior level stakeholders.

Formally engaged on multiple occasions with this leading provider of services relating to ICT, Operations, instrumental in seamless design, development and lifecycle delivery of transformation and change lifecycles to support business requirements. Managed €multi-million portfolio of projects to deliver technical solutions and improvements for an upgrade credit risk management and regulatory reporting system spanning 15 European countries, directed multi-cultural virtual teams.

Undertook assignment as Solution Architect in global information technology services provider, worked on major transformation programme and led elicitation of requirements and solution architecture for consolidation of group financial risk management systems and processes. Part of Group Risk Officer sponsored transformation programme to consolidate financial risk management systems and processes across entire group.

Joined mobile telecommunications company to drive solution design and delivery for Vodafone’s innovation lab, as part of strategic requirement to explore new business opportunities relating to utilisation of data generated by wireless network, responsible for architecture of analytics service.

Designed, developed and implemented software solutions for this French mobile handset company as part of its launch of IPTV service, and provided on-site customer support across datacentre, telecom fixed, WAN, backbone architectures, broadband and triple play services environments, analysed issues, proposed solutions and led disaster recovery.