1. Professional Skills
• Innovation Management
• Quality Management
• Transformation Management
• Business Development
• Lean Methodologies
• Business Networker
Nicola Mezzetti, Ph.D.
Innovation & Transformation
Manager
Trento, Italy
nicola.mezzetti@gmail.com
+39-391-4272626
linkedin.com/in/nicolamezzetti/
nicola.mezzetti
About
Some identify me as a technical
business developer, others as an
innovation manager, and others as a
problem solver. Concretely, I take
companies to succeed through
innovation.
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Researcher Lead Engineer
Consultant Project Manager
Business Dev.
Roles in Projects
Soft Skills
• Goal Orientation
• Positive Thinking
• Customer Orientation
• Leadership
• Complex Problem Solving
• Assertiveness
Freelance Consultant Dec 2015 - today
Freelance delivering consultancy services and professional training in the fields of
innovation and transformation management, quality management, business
development.
Lecturer, University of Trento Sep 2014 - today
Contract professor of “Quality and Innovation Engineering”, covering the topics of
quality management (e.g., customer focus, process reengineering, ISO 9001, Statistical
Process Control, Six Sigma, System Reliability) and innovation management (e.g.,
innovation management, open innovation, lean methodologies, IP management).
Corporate Innovation Manager, Tree srl Apr 2016 - Aug 2017
Senior mentor for the startups of TIM’s #WCAP acceleration program and management
consultant in charge of facilitating the successful design and implementation of
innovation and transformation strategies for the company’s customers.
Associate Researcher, University of Trento Sep 2015 - Apr 2016
Researching in the field of Smart Cities, with specific focus on community and
educational services, smart tourism and mobility as a service.
Project Manager, Engineering Group Jul 2010 - Sep 2015
IT service manager on a 33M€ e-Gov project, project manager in charge of Smart City
projects, and lead engineer on an industrial research project on the employment of big
data and semantic technologies for fiscal assessments.
Education
• 2012: Master Engineering in
Management, Engineering Group
• 2006: Ph.D. in Computer Science,
University of Bologna
• 2003: Advanced School on Mobile
Computing, SNS, Pisa
• 2002: M.Sc. in Computer Science,
University of Bologna
Additional Information
• 2012: Creator and program manager
InnoTech event about innovation and
technology transfer, co-organized with
the Giovani Imprenditori group of
Unindustria Bologna
• Since 2010 he volunteers organising
and holding workshops for
entrepreneurial training
Project Manager, DiTech May 2008 - Jul 2010
Lead, from the requirements collection to the delivery, a family of projects aiming to
realising the sell-in module of the new generation company’s ERP for large wholesalers.
Professional Experience
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