Jacopo’s Profile

Professional profile

Jacopo (LinkedIn) is a seasoned IT Infrastructure and Cyber Security professional with over a decade 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.

Jacopo brings a strong combination of technical knowledge and leadership, specialising in IT Project Management, Infrastructure Transformations (M&A, Migrations, Upgrades, Decommissioning) Disaster Recovery, and Business Continuity Planning (DR/BCP), with deep awareness of regulatory and risk frameworks such as ISO/IEC 27001 and DORA (Digital Operational Resilience Act).

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