10/21/2026 updated
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Freelance IT Project & Programme Manager
Monza, Italy
Only remote
MSc Finance, London Business SchoolProgramme & Project Management
25 years of experience delivering complex technology programmes in banking, payments and global technology organisations. Management of budgets up to 5M EUR, programmes of 150+ engineers across multiple countries, with full ownership of scope, risk and executive reporting.
Agile Delivery & Frameworks
Deep expertise in Agile, Scrum, SAFe and Kanban methodologies, including hybrid waterfall approaches. Certified ScrumMaster (CSM) with hands-on experience coaching financial services teams through Agile adoption, ceremony design and delivery maturity assessments.
Cross-Border Team Leadership
Proven track record coordinating distributed and cross-border teams across EMEA and APAC since 2023. Direction of programmes spanning 15 teams and 8 countries, ensuring governance, steering and a reliable delivery rhythm for all stakeholders.
PMO Setup & Governance
Establishment of PMO structures from scratch, including backlog management, sprint cadence, release governance and single source of truth for scope and status across fully distributed teams.
Banking, Payments & Regulatory Delivery
Extensive domain knowledge in banking and payments, including GDPR, PSD2 and regulatory delivery programmes. Led a GDPR compliance programme covering 2 million customers, delivered on time and under budget.
AI & Technology Product Delivery
End-to-end delivery of AI and software products, including an AI-based fraud detection platform that prevented over 2M EUR in fraud losses within six months, and an urban-safety AI platform taken from problem definition to working prototypes.
Vendor & Contract Management
Experience managing vendor relationships and contracts within large-scale technology programmes across multiple geographies and business functions.
Tools: Jira, Confluence, MS Project, Miro, ServiceNow, AWS, Azure, Google Cloud
Proficient use of a broad set of project and collaboration tools including Jira, Confluence, MS Project, Miro, ServiceNow, as well as cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure and Google Cloud.
Product Strategy & Go-to-Market
Development of commercial layers including positioning, roadmap, competitive analysis, due-diligence documentation, pitch deck and B2G/B2B strategy for municipalities, security companies and investors.
25 years of experience delivering complex technology programmes in banking, payments and global technology organisations. Management of budgets up to 5M EUR, programmes of 150+ engineers across multiple countries, with full ownership of scope, risk and executive reporting.
Agile Delivery & Frameworks
Deep expertise in Agile, Scrum, SAFe and Kanban methodologies, including hybrid waterfall approaches. Certified ScrumMaster (CSM) with hands-on experience coaching financial services teams through Agile adoption, ceremony design and delivery maturity assessments.
Cross-Border Team Leadership
Proven track record coordinating distributed and cross-border teams across EMEA and APAC since 2023. Direction of programmes spanning 15 teams and 8 countries, ensuring governance, steering and a reliable delivery rhythm for all stakeholders.
PMO Setup & Governance
Establishment of PMO structures from scratch, including backlog management, sprint cadence, release governance and single source of truth for scope and status across fully distributed teams.
Banking, Payments & Regulatory Delivery
Extensive domain knowledge in banking and payments, including GDPR, PSD2 and regulatory delivery programmes. Led a GDPR compliance programme covering 2 million customers, delivered on time and under budget.
AI & Technology Product Delivery
End-to-end delivery of AI and software products, including an AI-based fraud detection platform that prevented over 2M EUR in fraud losses within six months, and an urban-safety AI platform taken from problem definition to working prototypes.
Vendor & Contract Management
Experience managing vendor relationships and contracts within large-scale technology programmes across multiple geographies and business functions.
Tools: Jira, Confluence, MS Project, Miro, ServiceNow, AWS, Azure, Google Cloud
Proficient use of a broad set of project and collaboration tools including Jira, Confluence, MS Project, Miro, ServiceNow, as well as cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure and Google Cloud.
Product Strategy & Go-to-Market
Development of commercial layers including positioning, roadmap, competitive analysis, due-diligence documentation, pitch deck and B2G/B2B strategy for municipalities, security companies and investors.
Experience
Professional experience5 - 10 years
Freelancer since2021
Languages
EnglishFluentItalianNative speakerSpanishGood
Project history
Founded Milano Sicura around a concrete failure in urban emergencies. Designed the end-to-end flow from report to incident management, delivered 4 navigable prototypes, and generalised the platform into UrbanOS, a modular white-label platform connecting citizens, operators, sensors, cameras, emergency services and public systems. Built the commercial layer including positioning, roadmap, competitive analysis, due-diligence documentation, pitch deck and B2G/B2B strategy.
Own end-to-end delivery of AI and software products for a fully distributed team, from scoping and estimation through release. Built the delivery framework from scratch including backlog structure, sprint cadence and release governance, giving stakeholders a single source of truth on scope and status.
Directed an EMEA programme spanning 150+ engineers across 15 teams and 8 countries, owning scope, budget, risk and executive reporting. Delivered a network automation programme generating 500K+ EUR in recurring annual savings.