Andrea Patuzzo
Verified Expert in Project Management
Project Manager
Sainte-Croix, Switzerland
Toptal member since February 5, 2020
Andrea is an experienced agile IT project manager with a solid technical background. He's spent nearly two decades contributing to the development of complex applications, mostly for the banking, finance, and logistics industries. An experienced scrum master, SAFe Agilist, and coach, Andrea is passionate about supporting enterprises and teams along their agile transformation journey. He blends precision, expertise, and creative thinking to enhance both team spirit and operational efficiency.
Project Highlights
Expertise
- Agile
- Agile Coaching
- Agile Leadership
- Certified ScrumMaster (CSM)
- Design Sprints
- IT Project Management
- Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)
- Software Architecture
Work Experience
Senior Project and Program Manager
Kermit Labs
- Mentored and trained team members on Agile methodologies, product development, and project management.
- Collaborated with stakeholders to understand their needs and strategically aligned development efforts to meet business objectives.
- Rolled out multiple key projects successfully, enabling the client to dramatically scale operations through enhanced productivity, improved quality control, and streamlined oversight.
- Introduced software and automation tools to support the adopted Agile methodologies.
Senior Project Manager | Agile Coach | Scrum Master
SIX Group AG
- Managed international, multidisciplinary teams ranging from 4 to 25 developers in a SAFe environment.
- Supported and coached teams in adopting SAFe and scrum as part of the company's agile transformation initiative.
- Helped upper management clarify its vision by facilitating the strategy definition process.
- Led a 15-member team in developing a large-scale financial data distribution application.
Senior IT Project Manager
Rolotec AG
- Set up and led a new mobile application development unit, developing various mobile applications for several renowned Swiss financial institutions.
- Introduced Agile and Lean best practices and supporting tools within the company and coached the teams in their Agile transformation journey.
- Led the development of several web applications and frameworks in the financial data, trading, and e-banking fields.
IT Project Manager
Swisslog AG
- Led a team of eight developers in an international, interdisciplinary, large-scale project set up.
- Managed the development of the IT system, controlling Norway's largest automated warehouse distribution center.
- Analyzed and defined processes to be followed by the software-realization units by introducing new methodologies and tools to increase documentation quality, requirements tracking, and infrastructural testing.
Team Leader, ECM Solutions | Application Architect | Technical Consultant
Unic AG
- Oversaw the implementation design, detailed request specifications, technical planning, budget estimation, and resource allocation on medium-to-large scale projects.
- Defined different processes related to project lifecycle and collaborative development best practices for the company's ISO9001 certification.
- Joined the technical consultancy team as an enterprise content-management specialist.
Founder
Devcenter Sàrl
- Founded a company specializing in developing web applications on OpenSource software.
- Implemented a Content Management System for a United Nations/International Labour Organisation (IPEC) project.
- Developed an application for a french regional administration to manage and integrate geo-based datasets on dynamically generated maps.
Head of Development
Worldsoft AG
- Worked on the design of a new product—then was promoted to the chief programmer and head of development—to take over the technical lead of the IT department after eight months.
- Created products that led the company to receive the eco-Award for ASP and Online Services 2004 from the Association of the German Internet Economy.
- Contributed to an application currently being used by more than 800 companies worldwide.
- Introduced several development best practices and helped grow the development team from three to fifteen people.
Project History
Agile Leadership Day
Spoke and shared my experience on the topic of technical design sprints.
We became inspired and tried to slightly adapt the methodology to help us tackle technical software architecture questions and efficiently reach consensus across teams, and have been quite impressed by the results.
We shared the process we used and what we learned from the experiment in this talk.
Realization of Norway’s Largest Automated Retail Warehouse
Managed the development of the software controlling the automated warehouse.
Tasks Accomplished:
• Led a team of eight developers in an international, interdisciplinary, large-scale project setup.
• Interfaced between stakeholders and multiple multidisciplinary teams.
• Responsible for software automation and robotics.
The Third Largest Swiss Bank | New Intranet Platform
Defined the application architecture and led a team of 14 developers during the implementation.
• Led a team of 14 developers.
• Oversaw the design of the application.
• Supervised the code.
• Provided project management from a technical standpoint.
• Developed a custom framework on top of Day Communiqué's application server.
• Integrated with several external systems.
Established and Led a Mobile Applications Development Team
Setup, coordinated, planned, and organized a team of six developers that implemented various mobile projects.
• Participated in the development of the company’s mobile framework by providing a unified financial data layer to be consumed by various mobile applications along with SDKs for integration in native iOS, Android, and HTML5/hybrid mobile applications.
• Led the implementation of various web and mobile applications (financial data, trading, e-banking) for renowned financial institutions in Switzerland, Italy, the US, and Spain.
Swiss Cantonal Government Agency
Redesigned the authentication and permission management framework for the web services provided by the government agency.
Tasks Accomplished:
• Served as the technical consultant for designing a permission management framework to regulate access to different systems and online presence for a Swiss canton's government agencies.
• Elaborated on the specifications.
• Reviewed the vendors' implementation proposals.
SIX Flex
Led a 15-member team in developing a large-scale financial data distribution application.
Education
Associate's Degree in Architecture
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL) - Lausanne, Switzerland
Certifications
Inbound Marketing
Hubspot
Workshopper Master
AJ&Smart
Design Sprint Master
AJ&Smart
Professional Scrum Master
Zühlke
SAFe Agilist
Scaled Agile Framework
Project Management Professional
PMI: Project Management Institute
Skills
Tools
Trello, Miro, Jira, Confluence, Balsamiq, Project Management & Work Tracking Tools, Slack, Git, GitLab, GitLab CI/CD, GitHub, Figma, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Affinity Designer, Affinity Photo, Google Sheets, Jenkins, SaltStack, 3ds Max, Corona Renderer, SketchUp, Revit, Asana, HubSpot
Paradigms
Scrum, Agile, Agile Leadership, Design Thinking, Agile Project Management, Kanban, Requirements Analysis, Agile Product Management, DevOps, Microservices, Implementation Project Management, Change Management, Lean, Lean Project Management, Organizational Change Management (OCM), Architectural Visualization
Platforms
Firebase, Monday.com, Oracle, Shopify, Blockchain, OpenShift, iOS, Android, Docker
Industry Expertise
Banking & Finance
Other
Scrum Master, Certified ScrumMaster (CSM), IT Projects, Project Management, IT Project Management, Software Architecture, Web, Design Sprints, Agile Coaching, Software Development, Financial Software, Scrum Coaching, Project Discovery, Discovery Workshops, Facilitation, Workshop Facilitation, Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe), Structured Facilitation, Technical Project Management, Backlog Grooming, Feature Backlog Prioritization, Backlog Management, Leadership, Team Leadership, Planning, PI Planning, Sprints, Agile Sprints, Strategy, Reporting, Stakeholder Engagement, Stakeholder Management, Requirements, Requirements & Specifications, Documentation, Dashboards, Communication, Team Mentoring, Process Improvement, Operations, Client Relations, Product Management, Project Delivery, Sprint Planning, Feature Planning, Jira Administration, Remote Team Leadership, Jira Administrator, Web App Development, Distributed Team Management, Release Management, Quality Assurance (QA), Automation, Project Tracking, Coaching, Process Mapping, Startups, Project Planning, Project Timelines, Discovery, Knowledge Bases, Project Reporting, Progress Reporting, Process Optimization, Workflow, Detail-oriented, Process Improvement Project Management, Risk Management, Evaluation, Operational Assessments, Content Management, Roadmaps, RESTful Development, Best Practices, APIs, System Integration, SOP Development, Agile Certified Practitioner, Integration, Agile Program Management, Standard Operating Procedures Development, COE, Software Integration, Technical Architecture, Content Management Systems (CMS), Document Management Systems (DMS), Node.js, Java, Python, Vue, React, React Redux, Fintech, Release Train Engineer (RTE), Program Management, Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG), Crypto, User Experience (UX), Cryptocurrency, Mobile Apps, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Vendor Management, eCommerce, Chief Operations Officer (COO), Regulations, Compliance, Investment Banking, Training, Angular, Finance, Financial Systems, Workshops, Ideation Workshops, Presentations, Databases, 3D Modeling, Smart Contracts, CGI, Gaming, ClickUp, Kubernetes, HubSpot CRM, Excel Macros, Airtable, Training Materials, Marketing, Inbound Marketing
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