HELLO, MY NAME IS

Nicola Paone

A well-seasoned, savvy and innovative multi-lingual technology visionary with 10+ years of quantifiable success managing multiple large scale technology projects, network and system infrastructures as well as building and leading top performing teams servicing users globally.

ABOUT ME
Nicola Paone

About Me

Howdy!

I have demonstrated superior expertise in leading Infrastructure and Platform Service Teams in the delivery of smooth and effective IT Operations. I possess an international and culturally flexible outlook – having excelled in various countries, including Italy, Ireland, Luxembourg and Germany – adapting swiftly to and operating effectively in new environments, and assigned territories.
My career accomplishments consist of more than 13 years of experience implementing technology projects, developing product requirements, and analyzing support strategies and processes to facilitate improved operations and efficiency. With a leadership style which focuses on engaging team members to communicate, dynamically solve problems and deliver the high quality solutions, I am adept at helping companies adopt disruptive technologies to advance innovation and increase agility.

Hybrid Clouds

IT Infrastructure

IT Operations

Leadership & Innovation Mang.

My Experience

Clouds Lab

2019-

CEO, Principal Consultant

SAP Hybris, Germany

2016 - 2019

European Cloud Operations & Services Manager

Primarily responsible for the management and advancement of infrastructure support teams:
System, Network and DBA European teams.

SAP Hybris, Germany

2013 - 2016

Team Leader | Senior Infrastructure Solution Architect

Promoted to Tech Leader EMEA with particular focus on IT infrastructure strategic projects. Responsible for the support and administration of core infrastructure and client services.
Collaborated with virtual teams that are located all around the world.

Vaone GmbH, DBike

CTO | Co-founder

Led an On-Demand express delivery platform to provide businesses and individuals with a seamless technology to send and receive items within one hour by bike.
Representative and decision maker for strategic plan, and business objectives.

Kneip Communication SA, Luxembourg

2012 - 2013

IT Infrastructure Architect & Production Infrastructure Supervisor

Led all aspects of project design and architecture IT infrastructure including voice and data networks, servers, storage and backup devices, and datacenters. Oversaw the full cycle of personnel and project management of design and implementation teams.

Hewlett Packard, Ireland

2011 - 2011

Technical Engineering

Provided high quality technical support for Linux (80%) and Microsoft Windows Server products (20%) to enterprise customers and partners.

Register.it, Italy

2010 - 2011

Senior Linux System Administrator

Successfully deployed a systems monitoring platform which aided a seamless implementation and consolidation monitoring systems in firm’s datacenters located in Italy, Spain, UK, France for monitoring 2000+ servers and 21000 services.

Edizioni Master, Italy

2009 - 2010

System Administrator Linux/Windows

Systems administration and support in Linux in order to support Edizioni Master infrastructure. Responsible for the management of ~700 domains with the different authorities' European.

Self Employed Consulting, Italy

2006 - 2010

System Administrator Linux

Performed optimization and maintenance of the IT infrastructure that allowed company to grow traffic by 150% in only 1 year.
Performed systems/infrastructure administration and support for several customers.

My accomplishment

Team Building

Built from scratch, a globally distributed Infrastructure support teams (System, Network and Database) in EMEA and APJ regions.

IT Cloud Operations

Overseeing the infra support operations across multiple datacenters around the globe, +20000 VMs.

Cloud/infrastructure Architecture

Architect, designed and implemented an HA, secure and innovative IT Infrastructure, DevOps friendly with Container support leveraging infrastructure-as-code approach.

Startup Technical Co-founder

Co-founded DBike and successfully launching and releasing multiple products to support the company vision.

Technical Competencies

I excel at conducting client needs assessment, translating business requirements into technology solutions, managing risks and ensuring sustained business value.

One Page Technical Skills

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Andre Boutet

Sr Director - Cloud Operations & Services

Nicola is a tireless worker, he works smart and knows how to lead others and drive stability and effectiveness into the organization. Nicola has shown, over time, an ever increasing amount of leadership, and drive to lead growth and to hire the right people, at the right time. He is a very good judge of character and skill. Nicola also has the ability to be low maintenance/high yield, the work just happens and it happens consistently and well. Regular status reports come in, and problems are managed with seldom any escalations.

Luca Pasquali

DevOps engineer at Netsons

Human beings like Nicola should be endorsed by default. Nice skills and manners, ideal workmate.

Martin Doyer

Service Delivery Manager at TickSmith Corp.

Great personality, great team member and always there to help on top of his responsibilities. Nicola support his team mates and always finds the right solution!

Margarita Rubio Pàyer

Snr. DBA at SAP

Nicola was my direct manager in SAP Customer Experience during 2017. As manager he has strong interpersonal skills, is an empathic person and a great communicator, which makes working with him very easy. I think he has a special talent to motivate his team and get the best out of each one. A personal level I want to highlighter his positive attitude and his optimism.

Simone Berretta

Senior Technical Expert at Intel

I worked with Nicola for more then one year, he was one of the H24 staff. Work with him it was a pleasure for me, he has a very high Linux knowledge and he is very accurate and collaborative. His problem-solving level is high and permit him to solve any possible problem.

Lilia Vesselova

Senior consultant

Nicola possesses a unique combination of technical and leadership skills, he is a dynamic, goal-oriented executive with a charismatic personality.

Mike Lochtchinine

DBA

Nicola Paone is a rare example where strong technical background meets excellent organisational and management skills. For a short year working with Nicola I've whitnessed his honesty, strong responsibility, open-mindness, incredible perseverance; incomparable ability to create, organize, follow and finish projects, always aiming for the result, thus at the same time making himself available for on-site, real-time technical support.

Francesco Bruscella

Head of Operational Development and Incubator at KNEIP

Working with Nicola was a pleasure: his skills and his commitment to delivery eased our projects and made the delivery smooth. Nicola is also a fast learner, eager to increase his knowledge outside his core competencies.

Get in touch

Feel free to connect with me if you are looking for an IT leader proven at directing the implementation of a wide variety of complex IT systems and solutions.