Leonardo Boni
Sitges
Summary
IT Delivery and organizational transformations are my passions. I have extensive experience managing large, complex and cross team initiatives with high impact and value. I love learning new ways of working and I bring empathy and enthusiasm with me wherever I go. I bridge strategy and tactics in order to delight our customers and I thrive working in a diverse, data driven environment.
Overview
12
12
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Director of IT Program Management
Ankorstore
Barcelona
06.2022 - Current
- Developed and implemented comprehensive strategies to improve operational processes and organizational efficiency.
- Optimized business value by creating light weight and easy to follow standards for IT delivery which focused on increasing transparency of work, risk mitigation and cross team collaboration and enablement.
- Established a new team of program managers. Recruited, trained, supervised, evaluated and mentored team members.
- Collaborated with senior leadership to set long-term objectives for the company. Introduced just-in-time roadmapping which enabled us to move to a more adaptive and customer focused roadmapping strategy.
- Prioritized the portfolio of work against company OKRs, ensuring initiatives were successfully managed and properly resourced.
- Managed several high impact programs, creating the most effective marketing campaign which resulted in the highest volume transactional day in company history
- Improved website performance by 4% by successfully managing a cross organizational program aimed at improving performance and SEO metrics.
Director of IT Agile Delivery
Stuart
Barcelona
06.2019 - 06.2022
- Established and developed a new team of Agile Coaches and Scrum Masters.
- Created best practices and standards, communities of practice and coaching programs for teams and agile champions across the organization.
- Created the vision and strategy for the Agile Evolution of the company which resulted in massive performance improvements and value add to our customers.
- Lead major organizational restructuring, creating a new delivery framework focusing on Agile methodologies, design thinking and design sprint principles enabling value based, iterative development.
- Established a culture of continuous improvement, creating several high performing delivery teams. As a result I was asked to speak at a leadership conference about our success.
- Implemented strategic aspect of Agile at Scale
- Built a comprehensive training program called the Agile Academy and established a community of practice which resulted in Agility becoming the cornerstone of the organization.
- Coached and trained Engineering and Product Senior leadership in establishing OKS, vision and strategy.
- Was promoted from Head of Agile to Director of Agile in recognition of my achievements and impact.
Director of Data Engineering, Platform Integration
Zaplabs
Emeryville
08.2018 - 06.2019
- Developed the integration strategy, quality and effectiveness models of data engineering products.
- Lead a team that built the next generation analytics platform to serve our agents.
- Managed the integration of the backend MLS systems with our frontend transactional system, providing higher quality of service and enhancing the experience of our customers.
- Created effectiveness, adoption and return of investment models of our products to provide insights Executive Leadership and align on strategy and vision to optimize the quality of our offerings.
Senior IT Portfolio Manager
Gracenote
Emeryville
04.2016 - 08.2018
- Responsible for the delivery and management of Data Platform Engineering and Content Tools portfolios for the video business unit, representing over 30 initiatives.
- Increased revenue and facilitated the company's venture into a new market by managing the creation of data pipelines into new markets.
- Managed the implementation of a new Video Data Platform which centralized the video service, allowing s to standardize our data across markets and data sources, thereby improving the customer experience as well as providing analytics and business intelligence capabilities to the company.
- Increase executive visibility into the portfolio by implementing a Project Portfolio Management tools which was used to effectively allocate resources, prioritize work, identify dependencies and bottlenecks and generally provide transparency and analytics to Executive Leadership.
Senior IT Portfolio Manager
Trulia
San Francisco
04.2015 - 04.2016
- Managed the development of a new Personalization platform, bringing relevant content to our customers. The customized experience increased engagement and revenue.
- Delivered a predictive analytics model through the integration of Data Science algorithms, personalization engines, and communication which resulted in exposing more relevant content to our customers.
- Integrated GeoCoder and Listings Search services, providing standardized data and enhancing business analytics.
Senior IT Program Manager
Walmart eCommerce
San Bruno
09.2013 - 04.2015
- Built the technical delivery of the US Grocery program. This included working with product and marketing teams to establish the vision, align on goals and objectives, identify dependencies and manage stakeholder communication.
- Provided clarify into the progress and status of the program by developing comprehensive roadmaps, milestones and dependency mitigation plans.
- Delivered the US Grocery platform which was a new business for Walmart at the time.
IT Program Manager
Salesforce
San Francisco
09.2011 - 09.2013
- Delivered new data warehouse to meet the requirements of an expanding business. This made use of the first every big data system in the company.
- Managed the implementation of Big Data Hadoop which brought analytics capability to the business, providing valuable insights and metrics.
- Lead the use of Open Compute platformed which saved the company approximately 20% on hardware purchased and mainteneance cose while bringing state of the art technology and services to the company.
- Managed the core IT infrastructure builds, both domestically and internationally for new offices. This required me to lead a team of network, voice and AV engineers around the globe.
- Delivered the core infrastructure to the 50 Fremont building which, prior to the Salesforce Tower, was the flagship office.
Education
Bachelor of Arts - Anthropology
University of California
Santa Barbara06.1996
Skills
- It Program Management
- Agile Methodologies
- Organizational Leadership
- Continuous Improvement
- IT Delivery
- Cross Functional Team Leadership
- Project Management
- Strategic Planning
- Stakeholder Management
- OKR Creation
- Resource Management
- Budget Management
- Vendor Management
- Change Management
- Organizational Transformations
- Risk Management
- Process Creation
- Process Improvement
- Team Building
- Operational Leadership
- Standards Creation
- Team Coaching
- Workshop Creation
- Organizational Training
- Staff Management
- Organizational Development
- People Management
Affiliations
- I am a part time Yoga teacher. I love bringing my passion for yoga to others.
Websites
- https://medium.com/stuart-engineering/servant-leaders-the-cornerstones-of-an-agile-organization-3647acdfb66f
- https://medium.com/stuart-engineering/creating-and-developing-high-performance-agile-team-part-1-the-benefits-of-high-performance-24495db82951
- https://medium.com/stuart-engineering/creating-and-developing-a-high-performance-agile-team-part-2-4b7052d7bf6a
Certification
- PMP: Project Management Professional
- A-CSM: Advanced Certified Scrum Master
- SAFe: Scaled Agile Framework
- Yoga Alliance Certified Yoga Instructor
Languages
English
First Language
Italian
Advanced (C1)
C1
Spanish
Intermediate (B1)
B1
Timeline
Director of IT Program Management
Ankorstore
06.2022 - Current
Director of IT Agile Delivery
Stuart
06.2019 - 06.2022
Director of Data Engineering, Platform Integration
Zaplabs
08.2018 - 06.2019
Senior IT Portfolio Manager
Gracenote
04.2016 - 08.2018
Senior IT Portfolio Manager
Trulia
04.2015 - 04.2016
Senior IT Program Manager
Walmart eCommerce
09.2013 - 04.2015
IT Program Manager
Salesforce
09.2011 - 09.2013
Bachelor of Arts - Anthropology
University of California
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