Adam Sroka

Data & AI Director

Hypercube Consulting

Chief Executive Officer

Director

The Data Lab - Innovation Centre

The Innovation Advisory Board is responsible for advising on innovation and collaborative project activity for The Data Lab – Scotland’s Innovation Centre for Data and AI.

Innovation Advisory Board Member

Origami

Head of Machine Learning Engineering

Incremental Group

Senior Data Scientist

Sure Thing! Insurance

Data Scientist

Clear Returns

Thales

Research Engineer

I build data and AI platforms for the energy sector | Director at Hypercube Consulting

Dr Adam Sroka is a Co-founder and CEO at Hypercube Consulting, a firm that helps organisations unlock value from data by delivering enterprise-scale solutions and building high-performing data and analytics teams from the ground up. With over 10 years of experience in data science, machine learning, and artificial intelligence, Adam is a recognised expert and speaker in his field.

Adam's mission is to bridge the gap between technology and business, and to enable data-driven innovation and transformation across various industries. He shares his insights and best practices through his blog, podcast, and tech community events, where he showcases his approaches and systems for effective communication, engineering discipline, and experimentation. Adam is passionate about helping organisations and data professionals maximise their potential and impact with data and AI.

Data sharing on digital/social transformation

In order to support my publications on change, collated, curated, released datasets, webapps, and first R then also Python Jupyter Notebooks (notebooks mainly on Kaggle, webapp on my portfolio website)

See https://robertolofaro.com/datasets

Research and publish on data

writing&research on change

Business mini-books on change-related issues (see robertolofaro.com/published):
Jan 2013:  #BerlinDiaries - a personal journey through the new nervous centre of Europe v2.0 robertolofaro.com/berlindiaries
Apr 2013-Sep 2013: knowledge update and business-experience sharing publishing plan 
Oct 2013: BFM2013 knowledge-based organizational change ISBN 978-1493581078
Nov 2013: BSN2013 business social networking from a business perspective ISBN 978-1493747498
Jan 2014: the business side of BYOD and the "Internet of Things" (IoT) ISBN 978-1494844264
Apr 2014: alpha release of the e-workshop on change embedding those books as a case study
Jul 2014: #SYNSPEC book on human resources management in the XXI century 978-1499798074
Sep-Oct 2014: test project on costs-optimization (feasibility, structuring/methodology, planning and deliverable definition for a small multinational company, including virtualization of service delivery)
Nov 2014: book on the integration of traditional politics/advocacy and social media 978-1505281521
Mar 2015: "#QuPlan - A Quantum of Planning" (book 9781508673422)
Apr 2015-July 2015, 2018: #QuPlan - compliance business case- a series of mini-books (over 200 pages following through a fictional yet experience-based compliance programme)
Jun 2018: the business side of GDPR (and issues related to Business 4.0)  ISBN 978-1718910836
Jul 2018: Just another book on innovation (in Italy) ISBN 9781723163937
Jan 2019: From #dataleaks to #consentdata ISBN 9781794049963
Dec 2020: A 25-year long case (and counting) - An organizational Journey through Italian bureaucracies ISBN 979-8570432130
Jan 2021: Jan 2020: AI organizational scalability - a sample data book https://leanpub.com/ai-organizational-scalability
Dec 2021: The business side of BYOD 2: you are the device & privacy at Edge 979-8539685225 2021-12-29

Key elements: organizational and technological change, negotiation, audit, vendor management, knowledge/IPR management, and related "change" issues

Writer

Structural Catalyst di Roberto Lofaro

registered VAT in Italy; after the one in 2018, another market experiment in Italy; both will be included within a future publication; the website StructuralCatalyst.com, started before "lending" the name to the activity, will stay on as a concept and then publication stream

consultant on on PM/PMO/P3O/Change services and R&D in technology and data

Iveco Group

(until 2022-07-18, continuation of project started as CNH Industrial 2021-07-19)
- Parts warehousing – FMI2Click Langenau project: PMO on post-BBP, to UAT, GoLive, post-GoLive
- From January 2022, following first phase of spin-off of Iveco from CNH, knowledge transfer to the new management team and support in preparing other projects; delivered training session on Jira

PMO/Senior Management Consultant o.b.o. Aubay

CNH Industrial

- Parts warehousing – FMI2Click Langenau project: PMO on post-BBP, to UAT, GoLive, post-GoLive
- From January 2022, following first phase of spin-off of Iveco from CNH, knowledge transfer to the new management team and support in preparing other projects; delivered training session on Jira

Change di Roberto Lofaro

Aim: to help deliver sustainable cultural, organizational, technological change

Approach: Delivering change management services to corporate customers, with and without technology.

Background: Based upon 30 years of experience of working as interface between Cxx and ICT/vendors in various industries and technological domains (see the "Projects" section for a sample of activities).

Services: 
> management of virtual teams and project/programmes/initiatives, audit and negotiation, 
> strategy/organizational business models assessment and (re-)design
> recovery and restructuring of projects/activities.

Founder

o.b.o. Maneat, as temporary employee 

Role: hired as  interface between Business, ICT, and vendors, working across all the regions and timezones on initiatives, projects, services within the ICT Purchasing portfolio (including on some organizational and system change initiatives on the business side)

Structure: initial contract 4 months, renewals of six months each, except the latest two (asked to be released in December 2017, customer asked to stay until first early February, then end February 2018)

ICT PMO Consultant within ICT Purchasing Global

various

main industries: automotive, banking/financial, gas/logistics, retail, start-ups

see under "Projects" for project management, ICT + change (cultural, organizational, technological)

Compagnie Générale informatique

CGI Compagnie Générale Informatique, Turin, Milan, other Italian locations and   occasionally abroad (France, UK)

reporting to the Italian CEO and the Marketing Director, with a charter to: 
1. develop the market on methodologies and the associated change management services, including localization (translation and development/delivery course curriculum) for MERISE (from French) and Yourdon (from English), and adaptation to the demand of the local market (e.g. expanding on the "iterative development" elements to make both "lighter")
2. help other unit managers in introducing methodologies and associated services within the company's activities based on CGI's packages (packages supported: PACBASE, PACDESIGN, PRODSTAR, SIGAGIP, TZAR)

Responsabile Metodologie e Formazione

Andersen unit (Andersen Software, working jointly with Comshare country management team in Italy)

specialist, business analyst, training developer, pre-sales engineer and consultant on Decision Support System model building on PC-based Comshare products (1988-1990), working directly with senior managers, financial controllers, and other Cxx

was trained in UK on solution pre-sales engineering and on-the-job in Italy on sales&negotiation

designed and delivered training on decision making and model building in Italy, working across all the Andersen divisions (see sample on CV), in multiple industries

sample projects:
1. 1998 Magneti Marelli, MIMESYS management reporting di gruppo; completamento modelli, produzione della documentazione utente (800 pagine), installazione e management training siti pilota in Italia
2. 1988-1990: projects directly for Comshare customers in Italy and in support to Andersen MICD in Italy across multiple industries, e.g. in banking and private banking, logistics/transportation, and internal controlling divisional models for Andersen; localized and designed training curriculum for customers and internal, coaching and supporrting recruiting new team members; designed methodology to design DSS models to enable scalability to other colleagues, based upon Andersen's "iterative development", that was then taken over for potential future integration into Method/1 (Andersen's methodology)

Comshare Decision SupporDSS model design expert/BA/PM

Latest update: 2024-03-04

If you have an opportunity or project to discuss, or are interested in remote support for planning, feasibility, or tender preparation - https://calendly.com/robertolofaro

If you work in project, program, portfolio, product, change, service, vendor management, you are welcome to connect on PMI's ProjectManagement.com  https://www.projectmanagement.com/profile/aleph123 - or to read my book QuPlan for free at robertolofaro.com/quplan (new edition coming by 2024)

Citizenship: Italian/EU (born in Turin, Italy); resident abroad de facto from 1997, de iure from 1998, re-registered in Italy 2012

Current interest: Project/Program Management, PMO, Change, Vendor Management roles, organizational development 
_ Interested in FTC/temp-to-perm "mission-based" activities, remote or onsite (worked also remotely since the 1980s)
_ since 2012 focused on "change" missions to support my publishing and data-based research activities (physical and digital)

Latest CV update and chronological career: https://robertolofaro.com/cv 

About me: focus (management consultant and PM) on cultural/organizational change, and IT for decision support
_ 1986-1990: employee Andersen units in Turin; 1990-1992 Senior PM then "cadre" Compagnie Générale Informatique Milan
_ Multinational business experience: since 1986, from 1988 interacting at the Senior Management and Cxx level, for projects, business analysis, management training, sales presentations, negotiations, management consulting
_ Worked in mainly EU+CH, some onsite USA, limited others (e.g. Brazil), remotely worldwide (NAFTA, LATAM, EMEA, APAC)
_ Main business language skills: (used also in negotiations and sales presentations): fluent English, French, Italian
_ Main industries: automotive, banking/financial, gas/logistics, outsourcing, startups; also public sector as PM/BA in Italy

Publications on change, see robertolofaro.com/published for outlines and downloads

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