Jacopo’s Profile

Professional profile

Jacopo is a seasoned IT Infrastructure and Cyber Security professional with over 16 years of experience delivering complex technology projects in global financial institutions. He holds a Master’s degree in Computer Science (2010) and a second MSc in Cyber Security from Northumbria University, where he graduated in 2019 with a dissertation on blockchain technologies, focusing on anonymity features, use cases, and implementations.

After starting his career in Milan, Jacopo relocated to London in 2011 to accelerate his professional growth within international enterprise environments. Since then, he has led and contributed to a wide range of critical IT initiatives, primarily within the Financial Services sector in the City of London.

Alongside his core background in IT Project Management and Infrastructure Transformations (M&A, Migrations, Upgrades, Decommissioning), Jacopo has built specialised expertise in IT Disaster Recovery and Resilience over the past 5 years, running DR programmes end to end for major banking, healthcare, and higher education organisations. This spans DR strategy and SME advisory, DRP creation, recovery runbook development, DR testing across hybrid infrastructure (AWS, VMware, Veeam), and regulatory alignment (DORA, NIST, ISO 27001/22301).

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He brings a strong combination of technical knowledge and leadership, having managed global teams of up to 50 resources and multi-million-pound programmes, consistently balancing regulatory rigour with delivery pace.

Skills and expertise

Project Management

  • Expertise in delivering large scale Infrastructure Projects / Programs for global organisation
  • As Lead Migration Project Manager, he managed global technical teams of up to 50 resources
  • Strong Stakeholder and Change Management skills
  • Project planning techniques, reporting and budgeting

Industry and infrastructure knowledge

  • Disaster Recovery (DR) and Business Continuity Planning (BCP) strategy, documentation, and testing.
  • Deep understanding of ISO/IEC 27001 implementation and audit alignment
  • Familiar with DORA compliance requirements and operational resilience mandates in Financial Services.
  • NIST Assessments
  • Network Migrations: Load Balancers (F5 to Citrix) vips and wideips, VPNs, Voice and Multimedia devices
  • Cyber Security and Security best practices
  • Big Data Hadoop Migration Project (Market Data Lake Migration for Commercial Bank)
  • Several Data Centre Migrations (Physical, P2V, V2V)
  • Servers and application decommissioning
  • Banking IT infrastructure processes and architecture
  • Excellent knowledge of key elements and processes of the infrastructure landscape

Certifications

  • DORA (2024)
  • Comptia Security+ (2021)
  • Comptia Network+ (2020)
  • Agile and DevOps
  • PRINCE2 Foundation and Practitioner (2012)
  • ITIL Foundation Certificate in IT Service Management (2013)
  • BCS Certificate in Business Analysis Practice
  • The Role of Global Capital Markets
  • CCNA – Cisco Routing & Switching Training (5 days – 40 hours course, 2017)
  • VMware: Cloud and Data Center Virtualization Fundamentals [V6, 2015]

Clients and Projects Portfolio