Personal information

Nationality

Italian

Work experience

• Dates (from – to)

November 2009 - present

• Name and address of employer

European Commission – DG Information Society– Av. De Beaulieu 25 -  B1160 Bruxelles

• Occupation or position held

Project Officer (Contract Agent Group IV)

• Main activities and responsibilities

Scientific/Project Officer within Unit GEANT and e-Infrastructures. Coordination of topic for Calls  under the sub-programme Capacities of the 7^th FP . Follow up of  EC funded research projects. Policy development and communication activities for the GEANT project and general support to communications activities of the unit.

• Dates (from – to)

August 2007 – November 2009

• Name and address of employer

Committee of the Regions (www.cor.europa.eu) – Rue Belliard 101 – 1040 Bruxelles

• Occupation or position held

Contract Agent Group III/8/1

• Main activities and responsibilities

Responsible of communication activities for the Lisbon Monitoring Platform(LMP) and  general contribution to daily activities of Policy Analysis Unit within the Directorate for Consultative Work supporting the work of the Committee's thematic commissions. Management of relations with EU regional offices and European networks of local and regional authorities for the LMP. Event organization (eg Open Days).

• Dates (from – to)

November 2005  – July 2006

• Name and address of employer

Sony Corporation- The Corporate Village, Da Vincilaan 7 D-1, B-1935 Zaventem, Belgium

• Occupation or position held

Vaio-linkCustomer Relationship Manager

• Main activities

Resolution of advanced CRM issues for VAIO customers B2B and B2C.

• Dates (from – to)

October   –   November 2005

• Name and address of employer

European Parliament (www.europarl.eu) -  Rue Wiertz 60 -  B1050 Bruxelles (B)

• Occupation or position held

Trainee for Political Group

• Main activities and responsibilities

Participation and follow up of the works of the Committee on Industry, Research and Energy with particular focus on ICT and Telecommunications issues.

• Dates (from – to)

1^st  March – 31 July 2005

• Name and address of employer

European Commission – DG Information Society– Av. De Beaulieu 24 -  B1160 Bruxelles

• Occupation or position held

Traineeship (Blue Book)  within the department INFSO S.1 Co-ordination and Planning

• Main activities and responsibilities

Follow up and monitoring of the Commission Agenda Planning of the DG. Management of procurement procedure for studies. Web updates in the intranet and database management. Support to the development of indicators for the Annual Management Plan. Data search and analysis.

• Dates (from – to)

September 2004 – December 2004

• Name and address of employer

EUTELSAT (www.eutelsat.com) – 70, Rue Balard -  F-75502 Paris Cedex 15 (F)

• Type of business or sector

Satellite Communications

• Occupation or position held

Consultant/ Business Analyst

• Main activities and responsibilities

Analysis of business opportunities and benchmarking. Development of business plan and role model, for the deployment of new broadband internet services via satellite for aircrafts, vessels and trains, within an EU project under the 6^th FP (www.mowgly.org).

• Dates (from – to)

Mar. 2002 - Oct 2002

• Name and address of employer

Thöndo Communications (www.thondo.com) - 1058 Piedmont Avenue NE, Atlanta, GA 30309 (USA).

• Type of business or sector

Information and Communication Technology – Project and development of web sites.

• Occupation or position held

Internship

• Main activities and responsibilities

Web content editing; managing relations with Italian Trade Commission Offices across the US, Research works and preparation of the company’s marketing plan; editing and management of a service of news on e-business.

Education and training

• Dates (from – to)

June 2003 – June 2004

• Name and type of organization

MSc in e-Business (120 ECTS) - University of Catania, Italy.

• Principal subjects

Business planning and administration; project management; e-business applications, platforms and protocols; CRM; E-Government; relational database; legal and financial problems  of e-business.

• Dates (from – to)

Jan. 2003 – June 2003

• Name and type of organization

MA inInternational Affairs - Italian Society for International Organization (www.sioi.org), Italy.

• Principal subjects

International Law and European Community Law, Economic and Financial Policy, International co-operation and trade; Theory and History of International Relations, English, French.

• Dates (from – to)

Nov.1994 – May 2001

• Name and type of organization

University of Catania – Faculty of Economics (I) -  www.unict.it

Principal subjects

Economics, Accounting, Civil Law, Business Administration,, Finance, Commercial Law, Economic Statistics, EU Law, Economic Policy, Public Law, Mathematics.

• Title of qualification awarded

B.A. Hons in Economics – Final grade: 105/110

• Dates (from – to)

Jan. 2000 – Sep. 2000

• Name and type of organization

University of Liège (B) – Erasmus Programme   (www.ulg.ac.be)

• Principal subjects

Statistique; Politique Economique; Cours de français (niveau avancé)

Other Courses, Workshops and Seminars

• Dates (from – to)

13-27 April 2004

• Name and type of organization

IBM Italy

• Principal subjects

Analysiss and Object-Oriented projecting;  e-Business strategies with Websphere products;

DB2 for Windows: System management.

• Dates (from – to)

29-30 March 2004

• Name and type of organization

Workshop at the Products and Solutions Support Center of IBM – Montpellier (F)

• Principal subjects

eBusiness on demand; Autonomic Computing Architectures; Grid Applications; Virtualization

• Dates (from – to)

Nov 2002  – February 2003

• Name and type of organization

Course of journalism and communication organized by the Regional Province of Catania, the newspaper "La Sicilia" (www.lasicilia.it) and the association MediaNet - Catania.

• Principal subjects covered

Competences acquired: communication through press, radio, TV and web media; news values; professional ethics and rules of conducts. Practical skills: editing articles, newsletters and press releases; making interviews and reports.

Personal skills and competences

Mother tongue

Italian

Other languages

English

French

Spanish

• Listening skills

Excellent

Excellent

Good

• Reading skills

Excellent

Excellent

Good

• Writing skills

Excellent

Excellent

Basic

• Verbal skills

Excellent

Excellent

Basic

• Language certificates

Cambridge Certificate of Advanced Englishsat in December 2002 (Grade C)

TOEFLsat on 18^th January 2003 – Score: 627/677      TWE: 4,0

Social skills and competences

Living and working with other people, in multicultural environments, in positions where communication is important and situations where teamwork is essential

Ability to function in an international environment and in formal contexts. Study and work experiences in several European countries and in the USA. Solid leadership and motivational skills, with a proven aptitude to teamwork, developed also in local leading roles within international association such as AIESEC (as director of projects) and Amnesty International (as district reference for international affairs). Eager to learn, and able to effectively share learning with others.

Organisational skills

and competences

Coordination and administration of people, projects and budgets.

Skilled at handling multiple projects, public speaking as well as managing and coordinating timelines and strategies. Quick and effective understanding of technical issues. Excellent budgeting, planning, and administrative skills. Able to provide clearly written, logical reports and summaries both to technical teams and to non-technical management and administrators.

Technical skills

and competences

With computers.

Operating systems: Windows 95 / 98 / 2000; Mac OS/9 and X

Programming languages:HTML, CSS.. Notions of SQL,  XML, ASP.                                   

Packages  Word, Excel, Power Point, Publisher, Access, Project, SPSS, Adobe Photoshop, Frontpage, Macromedia Dreamweaver; Adobe Acrobat, Outlook Express, , Internet Explorer, WS_FTP

Artistic skills and competences

Music, writing, design, etc..

1989 – 1994: Attendance of the Conservatory “V.Bellini” in Catania.  Piano Diploma - Fifth year) obtained (Final note: 8/10).

Driving licence

European Driving Licence (category B) - US Georgia Driver’s License (class CP)

Further information

• Successful at both EPSO CAST25 (Co-ordination and drafting profile) and CAST27 (IT advisor profile) selection for Contractual Agents in EU institutions
• Member of Womens in Aerospace  association (http://www.wia-europe.org)
• Web manager/administrator of  website www.italiansonline.net
• Keen interest in European IT and Telecommunications Policies and Space Policy including regulatory aspects.