Iona Cancelli

IT Product Project Manager. I take software products from requirement to release.

  • Colle di Val d'Elsa (SI), Italy
  • Agile & Waterfall
  • CAPM® certified
  • Master's, 110/110 cum laude
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Professional Profile

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IT Project Manager with 4 years of experience across software and industry. Today I lead the development of a ticket management software product, from requirement to release: I manage a portfolio of up to 10 parallel projects and coordinate teams of 5 to 9 people, including in-house developers and external vendors.

I turn stakeholder needs into requirements and priorities, choose Agile or Waterfall depending on the project and use Jira for planning and reporting. Background as a SAP/ERP analyst, Master's degree in Engineering Management with 110/110 cum laude (top graduate of the programme) and PMI CAPM® certification.

Planning & Governance

WBS supervision, schedule planning, resource allocation and budget control with a data-driven approach.

Stakeholder & Team Leadership

Coordination between in-house developers, external vendors and company management.

Risk & Cost Efficiency

Proactive analysis of critical issues, bottleneck prevention and continuous process optimisation.

Professional Journey

4 years of experience across software and industry.

IT Product Project Manager

Lascaux
Since September 2023 — Present
  • Portfolio Management
  • Jira
  • Agile & Waterfall
  • Team of 5-9 people
  • Managing the development of a ticket management software product, from requirements gathering to release.
  • Managing a portfolio of up to 10 IT projects in parallel.
  • Coordinating teams of 5 to 9 people (internal resources and external vendors).
  • Planning and tracking of activities in Jira.
  • Working with stakeholders to define requirements and manage priorities.
  • Flexible use of Agile and Waterfall methodologies.

Project Manager

BBS Automation
November 2022 — September 2023
  • Industrial sector
  • Microsoft Project
  • Risk Management
  • Managing about 3 parallel projects in an industrial context (automation machinery).
  • Planning activities and coordinating the team using Microsoft Project.
  • Tracking progress, risks and issues, with regular reporting to management.
  • Organising the company's presence at the international trade fairs CWIEME (Berlin) and Coiltech, in 2023.

SAP Business Analyst

Piaggio Group · Internship
September 2022 — November 2022
  • SAP SD & MM
  • Logistics
  • Supply Chain
  • Supporting business processes in the SAP Sales & Logistics modules.
  • Working with the IT and business teams to provide operational support for logistics and supply chain processes.

ERP Consultant

Readytec S.p.A. · Curricular internship
February 2022 — April 2022
  • Alyante ERP
  • Functional Analysis
  • Master's Thesis
  • Curricular internship focused on ERP systems (Alyante) and implementation logic.
  • Functional analysis preparatory to writing the Master's thesis.

Featured Projects

I design and build web applications with AI coding tools (Claude Code) and run them as products: requirements, releases and testing with real users.

GanttPro: Gantt view with tasks, statuses and dependencies PROJECT 01 // IT & MANAGEMENT

GanttPro

Role: Creator and Project Lead

Internal project management platform: Gantt with critical path, cost control (EVM), resources and sales pipeline in a single tool.

  • React
  • Node.js
  • PostgreSQL
  • EVM
Built end to end and running in production.
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Our Calendar: Home screen with greeting, couple status and events summary PROJECT 02 // PERSONAL

Our Calendar

Role: Creator and developer

Shared app for a couple's calendar, tasks, notes and mood, installable on a smartphone like a native app.

  • PWA
  • Supabase
  • JavaScript
Real-time synchronisation, zero running costs.
TravelThread: 3D globe with visited countries highlighted in orange PROJECT 03 // WEB APP & ANDROID

TravelThread

Role: Creator and developer

Multi-user travel map with a 3D globe, 313 iconic places, 23 badges and statistics. Works offline too.

  • React
  • PWA
  • Android (TWA)
Web app in production; Android app in closed testing on Google Play.
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Plotmark: Films page with the counter of ranked films watched and the Top 100 map PROJECT 04 // WEB APP

Plotmark

Role: Creator and developer

App to keep track of the anime, series and films you have watched, with Top 1000 and Top 2000 rankings, history, statistics and friends. Available in 16 languages.

  • JavaScript
  • Cloudflare Workers
  • D1 (SQL)
Online by invitation, with multi-user accounts and automatic nightly backups.
Carta Alta: game logo with a King and an Ace PROJECT 05 // MOBILE GAME

Carta Alta

Role: Creator and developer

Card game for Android inspired by War: play against the phone, or two players on the same screen. Works offline, in 10 languages.

  • Godot
  • GDScript
  • Android
Complete, with automated tests; in testing on Google Play.
Monteburniano website: aerial view of the Tuscan farmhouse with title and buttons PROJECT 06 // REAL ESTATE & WEB

Monteburniano

Role: Creator, research and development

Sales website in Italian, English and German for a Tuscan farmhouse to be renovated, preceded by market research across 57 sources.

  • HTML
  • CSS
  • JavaScript
  • Cloudflare Workers
Online in three languages, no trackers or cookies, with a security audit.
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Technical and Managerial Skills

Project Management

  • Project Planning
  • Schedule Management
  • Cost Management
  • Stakeholder Management
  • Risk Management
  • WBS & Resource Allocation

Methodologies

  • Agile
  • Waterfall
  • Scrum

Tools & ERP

  • Jira
  • Microsoft Project
  • Microsoft Office
  • SAP (Sales & Logistics)
  • Alyante ERP

Other & Tech

  • AI Coding
  • Process Optimization
  • Analysis & Reporting
  • Requirement Gathering

Academic Education

Master's Degree in Engineering Management

University of Siena (taught entirely in English)
2020 — 2022

Thesis: the Business Model Canvas applied to the Ferrero case

110/110 cum laude Top graduate of the degree programme (academic year 2021-2022)

Bachelor's Degree in Management Engineering

University of Siena
2017 — 2020
110/110 cum laude

High School Diploma, Applied Sciences

T. Sarrocchi
2012 — 2017
Final mark 100/100

Language Skills

  • Italian Native (C2)
  • English B2

Certifications and Awards

2026

CAPM® — Certified Associate in Project Management

Project Management Institute (PMI)
March 2026

2023

Certificate of merit: top graduate

Department of Information Engineering and Mathematical Sciences, University of Siena
November 2023Master's Degree in Engineering Management, academic year 2021-2022

Jira Fundamentals

Atlassian University
October 2023Score 100

2021

MATLAB Onramp

MathWorks
March 2021Online course completed at 100%

English, level B2 (CEFR)

University Language Centre, University of Siena
January 2021Score 85%

2020

Fundamentals of Digital Marketing

Google Digital Training
March 2020In collaboration with IAB Europe and The Open University

2016

Preliminary English Test (PET), level B1

Cambridge English
March 2016Passed, score 142

Contact

Email
iona.cancelli@gmail.com
LinkedIn
linkedin.com/in/iona-cancelli (opens in a new tab)
Location
Colle di Val d'Elsa (SI), Italy

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