Marco De Vecchi

• Operate as an embedded executive with direct accountability for execution and results. • Lead digital transformation initiatives in environments with misalignment between strategy and operations. • Recovered a Microsoft Dynamics 365 implementation stalled after 12 months at a 250-person systems integrator: froze scope, cut customisation to the essential, cleansed the legacy data, and went live in 4 months with a team of 6 - 140 users, efficiency up 45%, costs down 15%. • Delivered projects for Ferrari, Eni, Enel, Leonardo, Vodafone, Pirelli, Poste Italiane and Alitalia, and in institutional settings the Italian Presidency of the Council of Ministers, the Italian Navy, the Italian Army and the Office of the President of Mexico. • Co-founded Na-If Srl, Quantic Srl and White3 Srl, building technology solutions in telecom and digital services, and closing agreements exceeding EUR 2M. • Drove international expansion with Na-If and Quantic across Italy, LATAM, the Middle East and Asia, through 200+ executive presentations and 30+ international events.

Independent Consultant

• Run the programme management of a large-scale sensor deployment across the Italian high-voltage electricity transmission grid. • Coordinate 8 project managers across 8 parallel workstreams, holding governance, dependency control and executive reporting together as the rollout progresses. • Moved the delivery teams from spreadsheet-based tracking onto platforms suited to a programme of this complexity, and lead the development of a dedicated tool to manage the sensor network and the operational data it produces.

Reply

• Designed and launched a nationwide cybersecurity programme: a distributed network of system administrators coordinated centrally, a security audit across all territorial organisations, and a national Security Operations Centre. • Negotiated and signed framework agreements with technology and cybersecurity vendors, consolidating demand fragmented across the regions: pricing improved by up to 40%, with savings worth hundreds of thousands of euros. • Implemented a centralised registry unifying 5M users and 50M records. • Oversaw the development and nationwide adoption of the DIGITA application, contributing to a 40% increase in registered users within one year. • Directed the technology execution behind Italy's first referendum campaign run on a digital platform, enabling the collection of 500,000 digital signatures.

CGIL Nazionale

• Defined and launched a new innovation initiative, securing board approval and closing the first contract within 10 months. • Advised on technology strategy, aligning architecture and governance with business priorities, and managed relationships with external partners, startups and research institutions.

Par-Tec S.p.A.

• Led Faberbee, a group company, with the mandate to design and bring to market a blockchain-based platform. • Coordinated a team of 10 in the development of Lexecute (www.lexecute.io), a blockchain-based contract management platform. • Enabled clients to build vertical solutions on the platform, including ChainOn (www.chainon.it). • Contributed to the sale of the platform to 4 clients in the lending sector, for use cases related to loans and credit facilities. • Reached EUR 1.5M turnover in 2022 and raised EUR 3M in investment.

Faberbee (Par-Tec S.p.A.)

• Engineered the RADIUS network access architecture for Telecom Italia, spanning SGSN nodes through to the service platforms. • Carried 50 million access requests a day on that architecture. • Built every monitoring system for the estate from scratch, leading a team of 4. • Diagnosed and resolved production faults across the whole chain, from SGSN nodes to service platforms, on a live network at that scale. • Continued to support the infrastructure through to 2016, alongside my first fractional engagements with other clients.

Telecom Italia