Tommaso Dell'Erba

COO of Saira Asia, tier-1 supplier in the market of interiors (seats and ceilings) for the major train builders (Bombardier, Alstom, etc). In charge of the industrial management, with a staff of 30 white collars and 100 blue collars in 3 sites. Specially focused on a big change management. Working with the CEO on governance. General goal of reducing the delivery delay and recover the trust with the customers through results and effective communication.

Consultant on projects with high-level of complexity delivering diagnosis, analysis, recommendations, implementation and trainings in matters of : - Program / Project management - Change management - Risk management - Performance Management

Advanced PMO support to the head of the construction site of the project of fuel rack replacement at the nuclear plant of Cattenom. Delivering consulting on PM good practices: planning, indicators, progress status reports, governance, crisis management, customer communication, problem solving. Claim management for key projects for several M€. Plant design cost analysis. Engineering department performance assessment and monitoring.

Improve the efficiency and the visibility of the global ERP worldwide implementation project. Main actions on project governance and visual management. Facilitation of workshop to get business process consensus within the stakeholders. Parallel action on the methodology to early discover/assess/arbitrate GAPs in the pre-kick-off assessment phase for the new wave of affected

Support in the definition of the system of the operating rules managing the creation of the 3D models in the Configured Digital Mock-Up for the legacy projects via the existing Change Process. Facilitation of workshops to get technical consensus. Focus on roles & responsibilities, configuration management, collaborative work, optimization of the designers’ workload.

Mandated to improve the organizational efficiency of the local project team in India for the Australian QNGR project. To define and implement the visual management, the roles & responsibilities and the project governance in order to secure the manufacturing of the first train set. To enhance the autonomy and the skills development of the local Indian team and ensure the planning risks analysis and related action plan. To secure the Change Implementation Process.

Assessment of the ICx project: 3 sites DE, IT and FR. Instaure an operational War Room (OBEYA) for Visual Management into the ICx project platform in Piossasco in order to improve the functional management, the crossfunctional interactions and the synthetic visibility for the Executive Management. Harmonisation of the ICx War Rooms within the 3 sites and the mirror War Room in the HQ. Coaching the project local team for the crossfunctional comm and the intrafunctional multi-site coordination.

Airbus A350-900 Tubes & Pipes Program Manager. In charge of the cross-functional End-to-End coordination (Engineering/Industrialization/Manufacturing/Logistics) and of the negotiation with the Customer on the major technical, planning and manufacturing issues. Dealing with the industrial development of the various head of versions and the ramp-up of the overall program, referring at the company executives with dedicated KPIs. In charge of a PMO engineer and coordinating a dedicated multi functional team.

Technical project manager for Ferrari Automatic Parking Brake: responsible for technical relationship with Ferrari/Maserati in Italy, management of different suppliers in Germany and Austria, coordination of CAD designers in Paris, Stuttgart and Turin, cross functional interaction with quality/purchasing/sales depts., lead of gates reviews, simulations/statistics/tests management and planning, task force for project versioning simplification and supply chain cost cutting.

Technical interface for engine control strategy of the onboard electronics between Bosch and internal design/validation teams for anomalies management. (Alten consultant)

Software integration and validation (HIL, MIL, SIL and track) for embed electronics in the engine control strategy domain. (Alten consultant)

Management of a project of comparison between tires tests on track and bench for bench improvement analysis. Tests resources, workers and planning management. (Alten consultant)

Management of a project of design and implementation of a technical database of engine and gear parts weight for benchmark analyses. (Altran consultant)

Thesis on Fatigue & Gearbox Durability Testing: Design of a durability validation test for mechanical endurance of the gearbox wheels with analysis of suppliers’ proposed procedures. (in collaboration with Politecnico di Torino and Fiat Research Center)

Leader of the organizing team of international events like cultural exchanges or summer courses dealing with logistic, academic and budgeting matters of the project. I became a trainer in 2003 to deliver soft skills trainings on topics like team building, leadership, communication and negotiation.