Public sector & international organisations

United Nations agencies, global alliances, governments and NGOs.

54 contributions across 4 experiences

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202621 contributions

Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance

Aligns the Innovation Lab architecture and experimentation portfolio to Gavi 6 Strategy 2026–2030 “Data Visibility & Use”, so every experiment traces to programmatic impact on global immunisation delivery.
Established and operates the Innovation Lab’s experimental AI tooling estate on Microsoft Frontiers models in Azure — including Cowork, Copilot Claude, MS Scout and OpenClaw for agentic-AI experimentation and architecture evaluation, alongside Cursor, Lovable, Bolt, v0, Microsoft 365 Copilot, Copilot Studio and Azure AI Foundry — under defined tool-selection rules, cost guardrails and an approved/excluded tooling list.
Leads AI enablement through a three-tier training architecture, a curated prompt library, an intranet AI Self-Service Hub and an organisation-wide AI Community of Practice with departmental champions — targeting 80%+ awareness-training completion and 70%+ monthly active Copilot users in year one.
Covered visitor and case lifecycles, category taxonomies, referral routing and service metrics under hard confidentiality controls — an immutable audit trail, a strict “Chinese wall” between functions, visitor numbers with no names stored and a <5 anonymisation threshold on all reporting — modelled in C4 and validated by an independent penetration test before go-live.
Designed the Azure architecture extending Gavi’s Programmatic Dashboard from reactive reporting to predictive early warning, forecasting country × vaccine stock-buffer breaches 6–12 months ahead — integrating SAP, UNICEF SD/Thrive360 and VaxNeed into Azure SQL and a row-level-secured Power BI model, with forecasting on Azure Machine Learning and grounded narrative generation on Azure OpenAI behind an API Management LLM gateway.
Coordinated architecture-board acceptance of the Governance Bot: a permission-aware knowledge assistant for audit-committee, board and governance-decision queries in Teams and SharePoint on Azure AI Foundry, with an eight-metric production-approval framework — answer accuracy ≥90%, citation coverage 100%, fallback precision ≥95%, access-control integrity 100% — so an AI service is not approved on technical completion alone.
Skills and technologies: Azure solution and security architecture (App Service, Static Web Apps, Functions, SQL, Blob, Key Vault, API Management, Data Factory, Machine Learning, AI Foundry, AI Search, Monitor) · Snowflake · Azure OpenAI, RAG, multi-agent and agentic AI · MLOps/LLMOps and AI evaluation · AI governance, Responsible AI and EU-aligned AI risk management · Entra ID, RLS, TDE/CMK, PIM, managed identities, TLS · C4 and TOGAF · Power BI, Power Platform, Copilot Studio, Purview, Sentinel · confidential-data governance · innovation portfolio governance, vendor selection and procurement · Design Thinking and rapid prototyping facilitation.
Principal AI Architect and Innovation Lab Coordinator consultant at Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, leading the AI architecture practice behind global vaccination programmes; owns the end-to-end innovation lifecycle — idea, experimentation, outcomes, stabilisation, operationalisation — as operational deputy to the Innovation Lab Lead, and leads architecture definition and deployment across the AI portfolio.
Leads and coordinates Forward Deployed Engineers embedded with business teams to carry AI systems from prototype into production use.
Member of the Gavi architecture board, responsible for standards, investment prioritisation, solution assurance, exception management and technology-risk decisions; set up and coordinates the Gavi Innovation Lab.
Manages the Innovation Lab governance model, structuring innovation into three stepped streams (Ideation → Experimentation → Stabilisation) with five accountable roles, RACI ownership per activity, entry and exit criteria, and a rhythm of weekly experiment reviews, monthly idea reviews and quarterly approval sessions.
Manages dual-mode execution governance for experiments: in-house delivery with mandatory Platform Architect validation of capacity, skills, security guardrails and environments, and external delivery by vendors, startups and academia through a four-phase collaborator workflow with capability-based assessment, compliance checks and post-experiment partner evaluation.
Managed the Innovation Lab KPI framework across Innovation & Delivery, Business Impact and Engagement.
Supported the conversion of the Innovation Lab from a project team into a consumable internal service, defining five entry pathways by idea maturity, a guided intake routed on maturity, urgency and strategic alignment, and three graduated support levels; participated in the launch of the new Innovation Lab Office.
Leads change management for innovation adoption, codifying the Lab’s operating values (human-centric, inclusive, transparent, business-grounded, outcome-oriented, open, ethical) and the adoption mechanics behind them: executive sponsorship, a distributed network of local advocates, continuous field feedback loops and evidence-based impact narratives.
Maintains the Innovation Lab vendor capability matrix, benchmarking six global delivery partners across five domains — AI & Machine Learning, Blockchain & Digital Assets, Immersive & Emerging Tech, Automation & Data, Research & Innovation — as the mandatory input to external-executor selection.
Operationalised AI governance controls covering data leakage, agent proliferation, cost overruns, prompt injection, hallucination and shadow AI, with per-agent monthly credit limits and threshold alerting, DLP connector policies blocking third-party connectors, and monitoring across Power Platform Admin Center, Microsoft Purview and Microsoft Sentinel, reported monthly to the AI Steering Committee.
Established the reusable reference architecture for grounding Copilot agents in enterprise knowledge — SharePoint → Azure Blob → Snowflake → Azure AI Search vector index → Power Automate → Azure OpenAI → Copilot in Teams/SharePoint — secured with Entra ID RBAC, Key Vault and Purview DLP, with mandatory citation traceability and token-consumption cost controls.
Develops AI and solution architectures in full collaboration with the information-security and compliance function, as a formal pre-review and clearance gate rather than an after-the-fact sign-off; controls such as Entra ID SSO, least-privilege service access, audit logging of queries, responses and data access, restricted-content protection, Key Vault, PIM, RLS and Purview DLP are specified at design time.
Designed the secure Azure architecture for Gavi’s confidential Ombuds, Staff Counsellor and Ethics & Compliance case- and visitor-management platform: three segregated functions on Azure App Service over Azure SQL with Transparent Data Encryption and customer-managed keys in Key Vault, row-level security, Entra ID app roles enforced per request, managed identity as sole database principal and Privileged Identity Management with no standing admin access.
Defined a multi-tier Governance Copilot ecosystem separating the user-facing Governance Bot, a Governance Knowledge Hub and a Power Automate + Azure OpenAI Query Executor, with Azure Blob ingestion, Azure AI Search vector indexing, Entra ID single sign-on and Azure Monitor / Log Analytics monitoring of latency, token usage and errors.

2002–201116 contributions

United Nations CGIAR

Coordinated a network of content and data providers in 20+ regional offices worldwide, enabling knowledge sharing and collaboration across the UN system.
Member of the Academic Committee of the Faculty of Engineering in Information Science at the University of Rome San Paolo, supervising 40+ master’s theses on digital and data science.
Held full responsibility for project budgets — an annual technology and innovation budget of about USD 500,000 — and managed cross-functional teams on large-scale digital transformation, achieving USD 100,000 cost savings in a single project, presented at the UN ShareFair.
Led enterprise SharePoint programmes (2003–2010 editions), delivering governance, templates, workflows and institutional training.
Designed a new data governance framework for the UN agency IPGRI (International Plant Genetic Resources Institute), aligned with DAMA and applying ISO/IEC 27001 principles, setting data-management standards for global agricultural research.
Designed the R&D bioinformatics data standard “Darwin Core Germplasm”, extending the Darwin Core international standard for agrobiodiversity analytics, presented at the Biodiversity Information Standards (TDWG) conference 2010 in Woods Hole, USA.
Designed and managed 40+ institutional knowledge-management platforms — intranets, repositories, websites and scientific databases — and rationalised them into about a dozen governed platforms under common taxonomy, metadata and governance standards.
Led global initiatives across digital, data science, knowledge management and bioinformatics, progressing from Multimedia Web Specialist to Digital Unit Head with responsibility for strategic planning and implementation.
Coached and managed teams on digital projects applied to plant genetics for food production in developing countries, motivating internal talent and external partners; created an Innovation Lab and innovation meetings to bring innovation into the organisation.
Built partnerships with universities, vendors and research institutes in data science, digital transformation and business intelligence.
Collaborated on international data-analytics projects on genomic datasets and global ontologies (PlantGDB, GBIF, AGROVOC, AIMS, Dublin Core).
Developed digital tools and methods for genetics and omics research for food production, including federated access, SOA services, RESTful applications and data standards.
Led the design, delivery and launch of the United Nations CGXchange Analytics Platform, enabling advanced analytics, data manipulation and cross-agency access for omics, germplasm, plant and species datasets. Evidence ↗
Developed a digital crop-identification platform combining taxonomies, scientific datasets and AI-assisted recognition for agricultural biodiversity research.
Developed data-visualisation portals for Asian tropical fruits and other agricultural datasets, launched in Tashkent (Uzbekistan) to support research in Central Asia and developing countries.
Designed and developed “Information Finder”, a semantic-search portal for crop datasets and genetic material for agrobiodiversity and food-production research, launched at IFPRI in Washington DC.

2012–201311 contributions

United Nations

Led a team of data scientists and architects on a climate-change project, designing a large-scale data architecture managing 1.2 billion records to analyse agrobiodiversity.
Implemented time-series analysis across 3,875 plant sensors in 12 countries for real-time monitoring of climate impact on agricultural systems.
Authored technical documentation defining recommended criteria for national and international data platforms and enterprise data architecture for desertification datasets, presented to Prime Ministers of several countries at UNCCD COP 10. Evidence ↗
Directed the integration of research data from 1,260 institutes worldwide through GBIF, spanning 358 taxonomies and ontologies, for analytics, reporting and scientific insight.
Designed multi-country sensor-data collection architectures, integrating real-time climate datasets from thousands of sensors into unified analytical systems.
Engineered REST/SOA services enabling cross-agency interoperability for scientific and environmental data platforms.
Built semantic data-integration components harmonising agrobiodiversity datasets with global ontologies for multi-agency use.
Established a corporate taxonomy and knowledge-management framework for UNCCD (Protégé, OWL), strengthening discoverability, semantic interoperability, information governance and institutional knowledge reuse.
Designed and documented a UN institutional data-governance framework, including enterprise database analysis and entity-relationship modelling for multi-country, multi-agency data systems. Evidence ↗
Applied time-series and dimensional modelling, including slowly changing dimensions, to real-time IoT and environmental sensor data.
Coordinated communities of practice and regional offices to scale analytics capabilities, data literacy and collaboration, and supported the application of the Dublin Core (DCMI) taxonomy to publications.

2024–20252 contributions

EPAM Systems

Spearheaded the global expansion of EPAM’s Data & AI practice across EMEA, North America, APAC, LATAM and CIS, defining strategic direction for AI, Generative AI and Agentic AI, and led client engagements and pre-sales across banking, government services, logistics, consumer goods, biopharma, chemicals, telecommunications, energy and industrials.
Major US county government: as principal AI/GenAI expert, spearheaded the response to an RFP for enterprise-wide AI and automation services — designed the global delivery model, defined the AI Factory approach and translated requirements into modular solutions for GenAI, automated document processing and operational decision support.

Profile2 contributions

Across the career

Leads enterprise AI literacy and adoption through training, prompt libraries, self-service resources, communities of practice and departmental champions at Gavi and EPAM.
Brings cross-industry experience spanning biopharma, banking, insurance, life sciences, chemicals, manufacturing, supply chain, finance, e-commerce, public sector, NGOs and FMCG.

Skills2 contributions

Skills & applied knowledge

High-scale logical data modelling for UN and NGO organisations, including institutional entity-relationship modelling frameworks. Evidence ↗
Fifteen-plus years of people management, executive management, organisational leadership and cross-functional stakeholder management, including at UN organisations and DSM-Firmenich.

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