Antonio Russo

Partner in Sixtema (Business Unit TEC Director) + Founder in Texplora

Naples, Campania, Italy

About

25 years of experience, most of which as Technical Director and Program Manager in strategic IT initiatives for global companies. After some years in major consulting companies, I joined Fiat Group in 2002 where I managed the main IT projects for automotive engineering for 12 years. In 2013 I joined Sixtema, as partner and Technical Director, coordinating Business Intelligence projects and software products development, and co-founded Texplora, as CEO, with main focus on Artificial Intelligence. My main skills: - Strong attitude in Project Management and team building, ability to manage complex stakeholder relationships and negotiation issues. - Economics, financials and controlling competences to manage small and medium companies. - Wide knowledge of enterprise processes in large manufacturing industry, with long experience in Automotive. - Up-to-date IT competences in software architectures, IT infrastructures and cloud computing. - Wide knowledge of major commercial IT solutions and vendors for PLM, ERP, Business Intelligence.

Experience

  • Partner - Business Unit TEC Director at Sixtema - Sistemi e tecnologie manageriali
    Oct 2013 - Present · 12 yrs 9 mos

    As BU Director: - responsabilities on economics and financial results - IT human resources selection, development and allocation - customer offers, billing plan and annual budget - Research and Development programs definition - activities planning and control

  • Founder & CEO at Texplora Srl
    Feb 2014 - Present · 12 yrs 5 mos

    Creating and developing the business idea. Building and managing the company organization. Developing technological partnerships, academic collaborations and commercial network.

  • Project Manager - Account Manager at FIAT ITEM
    Jan 2011 - May 2014 · 3 yrs 5 mos

    IVECO Account Manager - identify business needs & priorities - share the budget with customer and revise it during the year - support new initiatives definition - create technical and economic offers and billing plan - ask for the people allocation on IVECO projects to the departments managers Project Manager on Fiat Industrial IT strategic initiatives - Activities planning and control - Coordinate mixed team Fiat Item + IVECO / CNH / FPT + software vendors (about 20 people) - Process senior specialist with a complete knowledge of Fiat Industrial (IVECO, CNH, FPT) engineering processes and IT solutions - PLM solutions definition to support new processes

  • Project Manager - Account Manager at Elasis
    May 2002 - Dec 2010 · 8 yrs 8 mos

    As Account Manager - identify business needs & priorities - share the budget with customer and revise it during the year - support new initiatives definition - create technical and economic offers and billing plan As Project Manager - Activities planning and control - Coordinate mixed team Fiat Item + IVECO / CNH / FPT + software vendors (about 20 people)

  • Project Manager at Ekar - Altran Group
    Feb 2002 - Apr 2002 · 3 mos

    - Activities planning and control - Coordinate team work