Paolo Tortora is an Italian software engineer and architect from Milan. He has over 15 years of experience working in industries like telecommunications, retail, banking, energy, and IT consulting. Throughout his career, he has gained skills in areas such as software development, architecture, processes, enterprise architecture, and service management. He believes in continuous learning, embracing change, and helping colleagues.

1. What about me ?!
Email: to contact me
Slideshare: to present myself
LinkedIn: to dive into my professional career

2. My name is Paolo Tortora.
I am from Milan , where I currently live
and work.
I love Milan but I wouldn’t say that is my
home, since wherever I am…
my home is my family !
I like these words …
The beauty will save the world

3. Skills &
Compete
nces
Pills

4. I got the university degree in “Scienze dell’Informazione” (i.e.: Software
Engineer /Computer Science), in Milan – Italy.
I had my first experiences in the telecommunication world, then I got some
chances of working abroad (Dublin – Ireland, Cambridge - England), it was a
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fantastic human and professional experience !
A second circle, of my working experiences, took me back to Italy. Before as freelance and then back with an
international company. In this circle I did a deep dive into IT world !
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In my third and last circle I joined HP as software consultant. Wow … here the company gave me a lot of
possibilities in terms of professional roles, competence areas and of business industries.
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5. 1
ATM, TCP/IP
...
OMC – Element/Network Manager
for GSM/UMTS network
My professional career began with the world of telecommunications.
I worked for three major network carriers: Italtel (joined with Siemens), Lucent Technologies and Marconi.
I was in charge of developing and maintaining the OMC (Operating Maintenance Center). As explained by
the ITU-T standard, OMC is an element manager that at least provides functionalities of configuration and
fault management.
In terms of software development, software architecture and software development life cycle, it has been
a very strong and worthy experience.
OMC is a complex distributed system, that uses an advanced technology and must be implemented with a
well designed architecture, requiring a high level of competence in software programming.
About software architecture, programming and processes of development,
… keep everything as simpler as you can and then …
without loosing any bit of requirements and of goals, try to simplify again !

6. 2
At some point during my professional career I realized that I grew a lot in terms of software development
area but my knowledge lacked an overall IT vision. So after a period working as freelance, I got a job to an
international company in the retail distribution business and I started to work for the IT staff.
It was a big change, because I had to accept new professional paradigms such as:
 Learn the concept of software application as service,
 Be aware of the constraints imposed by the business costs,
 Working with very heterogeneous teams,
 Having to deal with old and obsolete architectures, wrong choices concerning technologies and
sometimes the lacking of a real software programming culture.
But at the same time, it was a perfect chance to learn about IT infrastructure, IT services, business
processes, and new methodologies and models.
Accept the fact that life is CHANGES.
Not just in terms of concepts but in essence, everything in the universe is subjected
to a continuous uninterrupted changing, slow or fast, gentle or abrupt.
In your working, don’t be afraid of changes, live the changes as a part of you.

7. processes
processes
projects
projects
I joined HP the 8th January 2007. At that
time I was part of the C&I (Consulting and
Integration) group, and for some years I
have worked on two fronts:
 Migration and transformation
application as a solution architect;
 Application Delivery as a team leader.
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Note: moving mainframe applications toward a unix/linux environment is a very hard job, very formative in
terms of computer technologies, software programming, life cycle and risk management.
A second part of my HP career was covered in the area of Technologies Services where I did others two
rehosting/application migration, then I worked for a while with Cloud and Data Center practice. In the
meantime I also worked as Service Manager for a customer of public sector.
Then I have been back to my origin and currently I am a part of ABS Group (Application and Business
Services Group) , as Information Software Architect.
When you think they don’t give you correct feedbacks, the requirements are
missing and around you all is a mess…
Be calm, focus on your objectives .. everything will be clear
before that you can imagine !

8. Insights
on
career
Pills

9. … let’s summarize competences and skills
Software
Programming
Software Quality
Assurance
Application
Architecture
Software
Dev and Architecture
Development
Processes
Processes
Improvement
Enterprise
Architecture
IT Service
Management
Mobile
Development
IAAS/SAAS
Monitoring
Network
Management
from basic to excellence
Infrastructure
and Technology
Migration and
Transformation
Governance

10. …
My skills & competences
Retails
TELCO
Bank/
Assurance
ICT
World
in
IT Consulting
Industry and Business Processes
Governance
Software Dev and Architecture
Windows, Linu
x/Unix
processes
processes
Development processes:
versioning, continuous integration,
agile development, alm
projects
projects
Enterprise Architecture, distributes
architectures and systems
J2EE & .NET
Processes improvement and maturity
models: CMMIforDev, TOGAF
UML, Design Patterns
Software Quality Assurance:
Compliances, guidelines, best practices, conf
mgt, test and automation
Java, C#, C, C++, perl, python, php,
plsql and shell scripting
Android
Energy
Enterprise Architecture
Mgt, Application
Portfolio Mgt
ESB, MOM, BPM
Service
management, ITIL v3
certified
Infrastructure and Technology
Oracle db, mysql, SQL
Server, db2, sqlite
Application and Infrastucture
monitoring
Migration and
transformation
Network Management: protocols, ITUT, OMC element managers
Elememts of cloud - IAAS: service catalog, service
life cycle, charge$back
Application maintenance:
change management, SLA

11. [Company]
[industry]
[Software Area]
[Role]
[Context]

12. Barclays [C.]
bank
Arrows Electronics
retail
Application Development
Project Team Leader and
Software Architect
Carrefour [C.]
retail
Cedracri [C.]
bank
UBI Banca [C.]
bank
Application Migration & Transformation
Rehosting Life Cycle
Manager
Rehosting Solution
Architect
Configuration Manager and
Dev Process Manager
Data and datafile migration
Departmental mortgage application
Cobol and jcl migration
Custom ERP Gui application
Application re-engineering
Custom ERP application
Oracle database migration
Chief Software Engineer and
Software Architect
Software Architect e
Senior Developer
Software Developer
Weblogic and Oracle migration
OMC – GS/UMTS Element Manager
Marconi
telecom
Carrefour [C.]
retail
Fastweb
telecom
Enterprise Architecture
Regione Veneto[C.]
public sector
Intesa San Paolo [C.]
bank
IT Service Consultant
Snam Rete Gas [C.]
energy/utilities
Operation Consultant
Software Quality
Software Architect
Application Architect
IT service processes and assets
ESB and BPM for Business
processes re-engineering
Trouble ticketing system
EA group initiative
ESB/OSS architecture
Vodafone
telecom
Italtel
telecom
Lucent
telecom
Generali
insurance
Application monitoring system
Test Automation
Remediation (help desk)
processes automation
Application architecture
Development processes and change management

13. Insights
on career
Skills &
Compete
nces

14. After many years of working experience I
shaped my approach with these beliefs …
Share all you know
Be correct, transparent, trustable, and
help colleagues whenever you can
Don’t be afraid of changes
Put passion in your
job, whatever you are
doing
Trust you in people, because after all, people that helped us are defintely
more than of those people that didn’t it !

15. … and I’ve learned about software engineering
that …
On budget, on time and within the
specifications are good drivers but sometimes
they don't produce a successful software
development project.
[Agile development paradigm]
If you have managed working with
nibbles and calculating in hexadecimal
.. ok I would ask you “how many
mainframe rehosting did you do ?”
When I concern software
development i like to think on:
•interface programming
•refactoring
•test cases
•design patterns
Good software versioning practices and
guidelines are for me the base for building up a
development process that can become
complex, flexible and robust
For people that don’t use agile development methodologies: bear in mind that… if
you've covered 80% of development does not mean you've covered 80% of
development time … much less !

16. Thank you
Email: to contact me
Slideshare: to present myself
LinkedIn: to dive into my professional career