Executive Manager

Qualifications Profile

Executive with 20+ years of experience with: FCA (Comau, Ferrari, Magneti Marelli), General Electric, Foster Wheeler

Extensive operation experience worldwide: USA, Mexico, Brazil, China, South Africa, EU, Bangladesh.

Selected Accomplishments:

Implemented the Project Management Office at Magneti Marelli and its IT suite (Atlassian Based) in less than 8 months (Magneti Marelli 2016).

Successfully completed In Aerospace the Airbus Final Assembly Project in Mobile Alabama with significantly improved: Quality KPI and Customer relationship (Comau 2015).

Opened new market with Tesla Motors with an unconventional contract mode: $90M T&M (Comau Inc. - 2014).

Re-built the After Sales team doubling the revenue and tripling the profit margin (Comau Inc. 2013 - 2014).

Reorganized the USA Body Welding Site / Planning team in preparation for the successful Ford F150 rollout with extremely tight installation deadline. We were ready in Dearborn in August 2014 (Comau inc - 2014).

Earned Customer Recognition for successfully completing projects in various countries, particularly in Brazil for GM (Comau - 2011)/ in China for CHANA (Comau China - 2008), and in South Africa for Mercedes (Comau Africa - 2007).

Established a new power plant that made Ferrari energy independent under an exceedingly demanding schedule (Ferrari - 2009) and developed the Formula 1 Driving Simulator (Ferrari 2010)

Implemented actions for 20% reduction within the Cost of Failure reduction program (General Electric – 2005)

Areas of Expertise

Industrial Automation / Automotive / Aerospace / Energy - Oil and Gas / Information Technology

Strategic Leadership Operational Planning

Project Management / Business Development and Finance Change Management

Legal and Compliance Industrial/Manufacturing Engineering

Professional Experience

Magneti Marelli § NAFTA

Project Governance NAFTA in Magneti Marelli, 2016 –Present

Magneti Marelli is an international 8B$ Group committed to the design and production of hi-tech systems and components for the automotive sector with a worldwide footprint.

Within NAFTA Region: Oversight of the 70 project product development plan, while achieving milestone and customer satisfaction at seven productions plants and one R&D Center.

Implementation Team Member for PMO in Magneti Marelli, 2016

Established the Project Management Office at Magneti Marelli headquarter and worldwide.

A team composed by executive members was appointed to implement this game changer within the Marelli Organization in a challenging time frame, leveraging best practices within the Company and supporting everything with a real data reporting system based on team collaboration approach. (8 months goal achieved)

Comau Corporate § Italy – Alabama, USA

Head of Continuous Improvement, 2015 –2016

Special Task: Airbus Final Assembly Line in Alabama as Executive Sponsor, helping the team in this new Business for Comau with a special focus on quality vs execution and customer interface.

My task was to oversee strategic projects in the whole company leveraging the footprint and the cross-fertilization between the Comau business units (Body Welding, Power Train, Robotic)

Comau Inc. § Michigan, USA - Brazil

Chief Operating Officer, Body Welding USA 2014

In the automation business, Comau Body Welding USA is the division responsible for engineering and building the body construction line for the USA customers.

Provide oversight to $0.5B profit and loss in the automation business as a Tier 1 for the automotive industry

Direct daily corporate operations, with focus on executing all execution phases of the portfolio, from proposal to buy off and warranty

Project Management Director, BW USA - Brazil 2012–2014

$900M Body Welding Project Portfolio in North America and in Brazil for selected strategic project with GM and Ford

Had full accountability for planning and managing project portfolio, setting priority on function capacity for reaching a proper fulfillment strategy

Finance Control Director, BW USA 2011–2012

Lead the cost control team of a 500M$ Business unit

Ferrari § Maranello, Italy

Head of Infrastructure and Investment Department, 2008–2010

Handled all infrastructure (Production Unit / Formula 1 / Real Estate) investment planning and realization according to a multiyear budget master plan with an average of $40M euro per year

Managed and maintained (environmental, maintenance and safety) the entire Ferrari plant and associated tracks (Fiorano, Mugello) with a budget of $20M

Comau § China – South Africa - Italy

Business Manager, BW China § Shanghai, China 2007–2008

Special Assignment Program Manager Mercedes c class project, BW § East London, South Africa 2006–2007

VP Quality § Italy 2006–2007

General Electric § Florence, Italy

Cost of Quality Leader / Continuous Improvement (MBB) § Italy 2004–2005

6 Sigma Master Black Belt (MBB)§ Italy 2003–2004

Senior Project Manager, Italy 1998-2003

Foster Wheeler § Italy

Site Manager Project Manager 1995 -1998

Filippo Fochi § Italy

Project Engineer 1992-1995

Education

Master of Science in Chemical Engineering

Universita’ di Bologna § Bologna, Italy - Graduated Cum Laude on March 18, 1992

Professional Development

Sigma Master Black Belt - Certified in G.E. May 2004

Personal Information

Italian Passport and Green Card Holder

Ready to travel 50% of the time internationally

Native Italian, English Fluent, Intermediate Portuguese

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