1. CURRICULUM VITAE
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1. Surname: MENINI CASANICA
2. Name: DAVIDE
3. Date and place of birth: 08/05/1967
4. Nationality: ITALIAN
5. Civil Status: MARRIED
6. Education:
Institutions: University of Turin
Date: 10/1986
From (months/year)
To (months/year) 07/1993
Degree: Graduate in Political Sciences
Institutions: EADA
Date: 02/2006
From (months/year)
To (months/year) 03/2007
Degree: Master in Marketing Director
Institutions: Politechnician University of Catalunya
Date: 10/1997
From (months/year)
To (months/year) 07/1999
Degree: Master in Teacher Training
Institutions: Polytechnician University of Catalonya
Date: 10/2000
From (months/year)
To (months/year) 07/2001
Degree: Postdegree in Quality and Training
Institutions: University of Girona
Date: 10/1992
From (months/year)
To (months/year) 07/1994
Degree: Master in Euro-Arabian Studies
Institutions: Ancifap
Date: 10/1995
From (months/year)
To (months/year) 07/1996
Degree: Euroconsultant
7. Language skills (Mark 1 to 5 for competence, where 5 is the highest):
Language Level Passive Spoken Written
2. Italian Mother Tongue
Spanish Bilingual Bilingual Bilingual Bilingual
English 4 4 4 3
French 1 1 1
Arabian 1 1
Catalan 5 5 5 4
8. Membership of Professional Bodies by the College of Doctors and Graduates
in Political Sciences and Sociology of Catalunya
9. Computer skills:
Operating systems Software Internet
Windows Vista Office Netscape
MacOS; Leopard Microsoft Project Explorer
Open Office Front Page
OCR /Adobe Flash
Spss Dreamweaver
Dyane II Mozila
Fireworks Remote control systems
10. Present Position: CEO; Senior Consultant and trainer. ARE, Alto rendimiento
empresarial S.L.
11. Years of professional experience: 15
12. Key qualifications: CEO, Manager, Market analysis and strategy
development, Market director, SMEs and micro enterprise specialist and developer,
Trainer, European Project Manager, Developer of ODL (Online Distance
Learning) Skills, Department developer, Social Investigator, Trainer of Trainers.
13. Specific experience in non-industrialized countries:
Country Date: from (month/year) to Name and brief description
(month/year) of the project
Morocco 6/1990 – 10/1990 Fieldwork upon
Migrating People from morocco
to Italy. Social and economics
impacts
Ukrania, Kiev1 02/2000 STACIS Meeting International
Fair on ODL (on line distance
learning) to present the EETP
Project (see below). Meeting
with local commercial and
educational authority, the dean
of Kiev Polytechnic University,
Ukrainian Chamber of
Commerce.
Egypt February and march/2005 Senior International Expert in
Educational Marketing and
Trade TEP A – FTTC – Keep in
contact with KPMG in Cairo, ICE
(Italian Trade Centre), Unido,
JICA and Jetro.
Serbia Montenegro, Turkey 2006 Market analysis for several
and Senegal sectors (rail and public transport,
Agro food, Ntci)
Syria Damascus July - August 2007 Senior International Expert in
SNE support in Syria.
Assessment of SMEs’ needs
to identify Training Needs of
1
Cooperative Program of the EU and UNESCO to ease the development of common projects between the Member States of
the EU and the States of the CIS
3. Local Consultants
Syria Aleppo November – December 2007 Senior International Expert in
SNE support in Syria.
Assessment of SMEs’ needs
to identify Training Needs of
Local Consultants
Syria Damascus & Aleppo January – March/ 2008 Senior International Expert in
SNE support in Syria.
Set up the training and career
development model for Local
Consultants
Syria Damascus August – September/ 2008 Senior International Expert in
SNE support in Syria.
Identification of at least three
possible business clusters
with the potential to export to
EU (and regional markets) and
outline their export strategy
14. Professional experience:
Date: from (month/year) to 2008 -2010
(month/year)
Location Europe /spain (Expero 2 Leonardo Project)
Company / Organisation ARE Altorendimiento empresarial
Position Project Manager
Job Description Coordination.
Management and financial.
Management of process quality
Date: from (month/year) to August – September 2008
(month/year)
Location Damascus (MEDA PROGRAM MEDA/2005/17542)
Company / Organisation Eca Global
Position Senior International Expert
Job Description Identification of at least the three sectors
where clusters with export potential could be
created.
Suggest some enterprises that could be part
of the identified clusters.
Provide a SWOT analysis of the selected
sectors
Definition of minimum standards for
enterprises to be part of the clusters.
Provide relevant and comprehensive
guidelines to develop internationalization
(export) strategies to position the clusters in
E.U. markets
Summary of cluster specifications
Conclusions and recommendation for future
cluster development
Date: from (month/year) to February 2007 – actually
(month/year)
Location Sant Cugat, Spain
Company / Organisation ARE Altorendimientoempresarial
Position CEO
Job Description 1. Administration of my Own enterprise
(consultancy sector)
2. Take part to EU Project as International senior
4. expert
3. Develop a feasibility plan for my own business
4. Consulting activity focused in sales and
marketing
5. Realize and coordinate market analysis and
mistery shopper (Ntci sector, beauty sector,
industrial oven for pizzeria, pastry and
restaurants)
6. Develop and coordinate sales strategy to enter in
Spanish market for ours customers (in special
Italian companies)
7. Teaching marketing and sales
8. Develop and coordinate training program for
private company
Date: from (month/year) to January – March 2008
(month/year)
Location Damascus (MEDA PROGRAM MEDA/2005/17542)
Company / Organisation Eca Global
Position Senior International Expert
Job Description 9. Realise Career Analysis
10. Consultant in organization
11. Develop a career path to SEBC and SMCA local
consultant
Date: from (month/year) to July – August 2007
(month/year)
Location Damascus (MEDA PROGRAM MEDA/2005/17542)
Company / Organisation Eca Global
Position Senior International Expert
Job Description 1. Realise Training Need Analysis
2. Consultant in Training
3. Propose a training Program to SEBC and SMCA
local consultant
Date: from (month/year) to July – August 2007
(month/year)
Location Damascus (MEDA PROGRAM
MEDA/2005/17542)
Company / Organisation Eca Global
Position Senior International Expert
Job Description 1. Realise Training Need Analysis
2. Consultant in Training
3. Propose a training Program to SEBC and SMCA
local consultant
Date: from (month/year) to December 2006
(month/year)
Location ROME “IFP & PMI”
I/04B/F/PP-154008
Professional competences and credit units in craft
firms and SMEs (Leonardo Project)
Company / Organisation Polytechnician University of Catalonia UNESCO Chair
Position Expert in the evaluation process
Job Description 1. Analyse Project Conclusions and deliverables
2. Prepare an evaluation proposal
Date: from (month/year) to February 2007 June 2007
(month/year)
Location Barcelona
Company / Organisation Ari Business Consulting
Position Marketing Director and Consultant
5. Job Description 1. Project manager of training need analysis
Leisure Sector in Catalonia
2. Sectors analysis in Catalonia (tourism,
restaurants and leisure)
3. Training and leader interviewer team
4. Analyse Investigations result and product final
conclusions
Date: from (month/year) to February 2005 – March 2005
(month/year)
Location Cairo (MEDA PROGRAM)
Company / Organisation Eca Global
Position Senior International Expert
Job Description 1. Realise Market analysis on Egypt Business
schools and training offers
2. Develop a Marketing Plan for a local Business
school
3. Propose the Marketing Plan to Official Business
School (FTTC)
Date: from (month/year) to July 2004 – February 2007
(month/year)
Location Sabadell
Company / Organisation MercaConsult
Position Marketing Director and Consultant
Job Description 4. Developing marketing and commercial
department, job description, build the team.
Define strategies and planning to growing the
company
5. Consultant in marketing and sales for some
costumers of the company
6. Consultant in development of Marketing and
sales department: strategy, objectives, human
resources
7. Teaching marketing, sales and management
strategies
8. Realize Marketing analysis for several industrial
sectors (textile, railway and public transport, agro
food, services, NTCI) in several country (Serbia –
Mntenegro, Turkey, Senegal)
Date: from (month/year) to January 2000 - July 2004
(month/year)
Location Barcelona
Company / Organisation Free lance
Position Consultant, Trainer and Manager of Training courses
Job Description 1. Marketing and sales
2. International Marketing and Foreign Trade
(copca courses)
3. Market Study
4. Training of sales teams and salesmen
5. Management skills
6. Experiential learning
7. Outdoor training
Date: from (month/year) to (month/year) February 1997 - January 2000
Location Barcelona
Company / Organisation Ancifap
Position Project Manager for local partner and Marketing
Director for the consortium
Job Description 1. Responsible of the local development of the
project European Educational Teleport (EETP)
(IV FP Program) based on creation and
development of a continuous Training on-line-
System (EAO) in the enterprise itself (via
6. Internet), within a European Enterprise
Consortium, basically integrated by Telecom.
Italy, Telecom Portugal, RAI, Helsinki Telephone
Company (HPY), Dublín University, Open
University of Lisbon, Bank Training Institute of
Lisbon (IFB) supported by European Funds
inside the IV Frame Program and the
Telematic Application Programs of the DG XIII
2. Director of the Marketing and sales strategy of
the consortium
3. Development a Fair participation program for the
consortium to present the project and the final
product.
Date: from (month/year) to (month/year) 1997 – 2004
Location Several Country
Company / Organisation Free lance
Position Trainer and Professor
Job Description 1. Develop training programs
2. Realise incompany training
3. Develop outdoors programs
4. Trainer of trainees
15. Others: Expert Trainer in Marketing and market investigations, in the PHD of the Emi
Foundation (Ramon Llull University of Barcelona) and Degree in EUNCET (Polytechnician
Unvesrity of Catalonya)
• Expert in cluster development for local technologic cluster. This cluster is managed
by Fundació Barcelona Digital
15a. Publications and Seminars:
• Publications:
• 1990 VVAA Uguali e Diversi ed. Rosemberg & Selier Turín “Storie di vita
degli immigrati a Torino”, (Stories about immigrants’ lives in Turín).
• Seminars
• 2009 (12th of February) seminar on development of connectors between
firms inside a cluster, III Urban cluster meeting, Barcelona
• 2001 1st Congress of Politicals and Sociologists, speech about: “El
Experiential Learning como herramienta para el aprendizaje y la
formación continua”, (Experiential Learning as a resource for continuous
studying and learning).
• STACCIS2 Meeting at the Politechnical University of Kiev (February 2000),
organized by the UNESCO and the European Union in order to ease the
development of the new Independent States (C.I.S). In this meeting my
speech was under the title: "Las perspectivas de mercado de la
teleformación en Europa y en Europa del Este", (The perspectives of
market of the ODL in Europe and East Europe).
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Cooperative Program of the EU and UNESCO to ease the development of common projects between the Member States of
the EU and the States of the CIS
7. • 1991 Centro di Studi africani di Torino: “Gente de Kourigba, Analisis de
una migración Magrebina”, (Kourigba people. Analysis of a North African
migration).