Education
Ph.D. in "Management Information Systems" - XI Cycle - A.A. 1995-98. His thesis is about Software Metrics and Quality, with particular attention to Software Process Improvement through Software Product Assessment.
Master Degree in Economics (cum laude), at the University of Rome "La Sapienza", 1995 with a thesis in Computer Science entitled "Graphical User Interface (GUI): technical, economic and social advantages".

Working experience & Certifications
Actually he is working in Engineering.IT (formerly Atos Origin Italy and SchlumbergerSema) as Quality & Process Specialist, managing the SPIMQ (Software Process Improvement, Measurement & Quality) program. In 2003 he coordinated as SEPG Leader the tasks for achieving the Sw-CMM v1.1 Maturity Level 3 (see press news: Italian-English). Previously he also worked as Project Quality Manager for CRM projects.
Previously, he has worked as Software Engineer at the European Software Institute (ESI) in the Measurement Product-Line (1998-2000), with a particular attention to the Balanced IT Scorecard (BITS) and EFQM developments for the ICT domain (EFQM-SPICE; EFQM+BITS)
He achieved the IFPUG CSMS (Certified Software Measurement Specialist) certification, Level 3 (Consultant), valid for the period Sept/2006-Aug/2009 and renewing for the period 2009-2012.
He achieved the COSMIC Entry-level certification, for version 3 (Nov 2009).
He achieved the following ITIL certifications:ITIL v3 Foundation (11/2009), Service Operation (12/2010), Service Design (06/2011), Service Strategy (09/2011).
He achieved the COBIT v4.1 Foundation certification (May 2010).

Research Activities & Academical Appointments
He is "Associate Professor" at the University of Montreal (UQAM, 1999-2003; ETS, 2003-2006; 2006-2009; 2009-2011; 2011-2014), presenting with regularity at International Conferences on Software Measurement and Quality from 1997.
Member of CUBIT at the Computer Science Department of the University of Alcala' (Madrid, Spain)
Member of the IFPUG (International Function Point User Group) Educational Committee (2010-) and Management Reporting Committee (MRC) (2009-)
Member of the Technical and Product Advisory Group in ISBSG (International Software Benchmarking Standards Group) (2007-)
Partner of the Software Engineering Group at the Department of Distributed Systems, Faculty of Computer Science, Otto von-Guericke University of Madgeburg (Germany)
Partner of the Software Management Research Group (SMRG) at the Informatics Institute, Middle East Technical University (Ankara, Turchia)
Program Committee Member for several Software Engineering Events and Groups from 2001.
Reviewer for the SWEBOK project - Stoneman phase (version 0.7 and Trial 1.0), IronMan (2004 version) and version 2010.
Technical reviewer for Software Engineering journals as Transaction on Software Engineering, IEEE Software, IEEE Computer and Annals of Software Engineering , and guides (COBIT and IT Service CMM) and for Software Engineering Conferences
Lecturer for PhD courses on Software Measurement & Quality (DIT, 2004)
His main scientific interests are about software measurement, software quality and process improvement, multidimensional performance models and design of GUIs. He developed and was part of ESPRIT and Basque Government projects on metric programs, EFQM models, the Balanced IT Scorecard and QFD for software.

Memberships
Member of IEEE Computer Society, AICA (Italian Association for Computer Science) and the Italian Association on Quality Culture (AICQ).
Delegate at GUFPI-ISMA (Italian Function Point User Group - Italian Software Metrics Association) representing Engineering.it (2008-), where has been one of the founders of the Software Measurement Committee (SMC), and formerly representing the University of Rome "La Sapienza" (1997-98), SchlumbergerSema (2001-2003) and Atos Origin Italy (2004-2007).
Member of the GUFPI-ISMA Board of Directors (2004-), Event Manager (2007-08) and current Vice-President (2009-12)
Coordinator of the AICQci Working Group on "CMMI and other Maturity Models" (2005-)
Member of the 2003-2004 CMG-Italia Board of Directors, Italian chapter of Computer Measurement Group (CMG) representing SchlumbergerSema
Founding Associate of ISIPM (Istituto Italiano di Project Management - Italian Institute for Project Management) (2005-2010)
Member of ITSMF Italy, participating to WG2 on ISO/IEC 20000 appraisals (2008-09) and leading a new WG on ITSM Mappings (2009-10) and also the WG on a ISO 20000-1 Light Maturity Model (LMM)(2011-).
Member of Automotive SPIN Italia, participating to ASAI (AutomotiveSPICE Assessors & Improvers) WG (2009-); leading the MASP (Metrics in Autotive Software Projects) WG (2011-)


Cross reference to this page
DACS Expert Network: Measurement Experts
DACS Software Process Improvement (SPI): Software Process Experts

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