Dario Quintavalle - CV

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Bio:

Born Rome, Italy, April 7th 1966

Italian National. Single. Childless.

Education and trainings:

Laurea (BA+MA) in Law at University of Rome "La Sapienza"

Master in IT and Public Management at Bologna University

Certificate in Security Policy at Geneva Center for Security Policy

Master in Public Management at Italian Civil Service College

Training as Navy Officer at Leghorn Navy Academy

General Professional experience:

Currently: Court Manager to "Tribunale di Sorveglianza di Roma" (Parole and Probation High Court of Rome). Senior Executive, rank Director Junior Grade, of the Ministry of Justice, Italy.

Two international experiences: as Detached National Expert to the European Commission, DG Transport and Energy, Maritime Security and International Relations Unit (TREN-G1); as trainee in Security Policy in Geneva at GCSP.

Seven years of professional experience on field with court administration of whom 3 as Court Manager at Public Prosecutor’s Office of Frosinone (Rome) and one as Court Manager at General Prosecutor’s Office of Rome (Procuratore Generale);

Formerly: Navy Officer + various experiences in the private sector.

(2002-present)

My current Job as Court Manager at Ministry of Justice :

As a Court Manager, my position involves administrative, managerial, and public relations work, with the responsibility for planning, organizing, staffing, coordinating, directing, and evaluating the administrative functions of a Jurisdictional Office of the Italian Republic (be it of the Judicial or the Prosecutorial branch), in strict coordination with a President of a Court or a Chief Prosecutor. 

As chief of human resources:

• I have the responsibility of supervisioning and training a work force of around 200 people including state employees (court’s clerks), judiciary police, and contract (and volunteer) personnel performing supervisory, technical, casework, security, and clerical functions. Occasionally, I may also be in charge of selecting and hiring people directly for temporary jobs.

• I have disciplinary power over all civil servants depending from the Ministry of Justice, for all misdemeanours, in the name of the Ministry.

• I’m as well responsible of occupational safety and health administration (Law 626);

• I’m the chief negotiator with Trade Unions for all local matters.

My administrative duties involve the responsibility of ensuring:

• the use of appropriate and up-to-date technology and logistics;

• the maintenance of accurate court records;

• the timely scheduling and preparation of court hearings;

• the preparation, distribution and filing of court documents such as notices of decision, court orders and verdicts;

• the military security of the court buildings.

As financial and fiscal agent I’m in charge:

• of e-procurement of capital goods and services;

• of the payment of justice expenses (reimbursement of witnesses, judicial police, experts, forensics, wiretappings) of which I’m responsible directly to the National Court of Auditors (fonctionnaire deleguée), and of the collection of justice fees.

My public relations work include:

• ensuring the provision of courteous and professional assistance to all who use the court;

• representing my Office in maintaining effective working relationships with other Jurisdictional offices, the Bar, law enforcement agencies, representatives of the media, prison officers and social service agencies, local authorities such as the Mayor and the Government’s Provincial Representative (Prefetto);

• receiving foreign delegations and preparing the ceremony of the opening  of the Jurisdictional Year, ensuring the respect of the Protocol.

As local representative of the Ministry of Justice:

• My offices are also administrative branches of the MoJ on the territory, and as such, I have the duty to enforce orders of the Central Administration, and to provide citizens the issuing of public certifications.

• Occasionally, I may also superintend the organisation of public access exams for Barristers and Solicitors.

• My position requires that I regulate and discipline the activity of my offices with Executive Orders, which are given by law Regulatory Power and can only be challenged in an Administrative Court.

European Commission (2001)

In 2001 I served as Detached National Expert (END) at the European Commission, DG TREN (Directorate General for Transport and Energy), in the team of M. Michaux, Head of the Maritime Policy and International Relations Unit. (TREN-G1). The mission of the Unit is to take care of the International Maritime Relations. One of my duties was to study the provisions of the draft Maritime Agreement between EU and China.

See more about my European experience here
See a letter of reference written by my Head of Unit

Trainings:

"The European Senior Civil Servant" course

In March 2008. I had the opportunity to represent MoJ in the first pilot training course of the European Senior Civil Servant project, which is an initiative implemented within the framework of the Agreement between the Dipartimento della Funzione Pubblica (Italian Department of Public Administration) and the Scuola Superiore della Pubblica Amministrazione - SSPA (Italian Civil Service College), entitled “The promotion of coordinated initiatives to implement the Lisbon 2000 objectives for training senior civil servants from the Italian State and other European Union countries”.

It follows the positive experience of the Patent Project (Public Administration Training European Network for the Harmonization of Training Approach) funded by the Leonardo Da Vinci programme of the European Commission.

The aim of the project is to develop shared knowledge, key skills and competences among middle rank civil servants of National Public Administrations in order to increase and improve collaboration and civil servants mobility within the European Union countries.

Training included an e-learning part from Feb. 1st to 29th 2008, followed by an intensive 5-days course in Caserta  Italy in the period from March 3rd to 7th 2008 (24 hours e-learning followed by 27 hours in-class).
Germany, Greece, France, Bosnia Herzegovina, Macedonia, Albania, Uk, Poland, and several departments of the Italian Governemnt sent their participants, for a total of 27.

The training was organized by a consortium of the following institutions:

1. Scuola Superiore della Pubblica Amministrazione (IItaly)
2. London School of Economics and Political Sciences (UK)
3. National School of Government (UK)
4. Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (France)
5. Krajowa Szkoła Administracji Publicznej (Poland)
6. Ecole Nationale d’Administration (France)
7. Associazione  delle Giovani Classi Dirigenti delle Pubbliche
Amministrazioni (Italy)

on the basis of the “scientific curriculum of the European senior civil servant”, developed by a Scientific Committee of Experts.

See the website.
See the detailed training program.
See the Diploma

The International Training Course in Security Policy

In 2004 I was nominated by my government to take part to the nineteenth International Training Course in Security Policy (ITC19), held at the Geneva Centre for Security Policy (GCSP), representing the Ministry of Justice of Italy. The course took place from the 4th October 2004 to 27th May 2005. There were 30 participants from 25 countries. The primary activity of the GCSP is to provide expert training in comprehensive international security policy for midcareer diplomats, military officers and civil servants. The ITC is an intensive 8 month course about the most important aspects of current international security policy.

Read more about this experience in my website
Read my final dissertation about "Is there a West?":

Scuola Superiore di Pubblica Amministrazione

Between 1999 and 2001 I was a Senior Executive trainee at the Italian Civil Service College, which is a top-level cultural and training school for high ranking civil servants, directly dependant from the Office of the Prime Minister, of whom it is a special branch. Through an extremely selective national competition, I was awarded a bursary to attend a 30-month fast stream experimental program of studies to enter Civil Service directly as Senior Executive with rank Director j.g.

See the Curriculum of studies
See my certificate

Navy Academy
In 1992 I was trained as an officer cadet in the Navy Academy in Leghorn, achieving Officer Patent, speciality Harbour Master Officer, the Naval Licence and the rank of Midshipman. I was then posted to the Coast Guard National Highquarters - Rome, were I mainly served as Staff Officer in the Nato Control Point Situation Room during the embargo against former Yugoslavia. I completed my Military Service in 1994. I'm now in the reserve role as Lt. J.G. (OF-2)

See my Navy page

Languages:

• English (fluent) - working language

• French (fluent) - working language

• Russian (basic)

• German (basic)

Honors:

On December 27th, 2007, I was awarded by the President of the Republic the Cross of Knight of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic (Cavaliere Ordine al Merito della Repubblica Italiana) for contributions in the field of public service.

See the Proposal from the Ministry of Justice (english translation),
See my page on the website of the Presidency of the Republic.

Key Qualifications:

• Managerial and leadership experience in the private and public sector, both on national and international level.

• Some experience with entrepreneurial start-up

• Organisational and planning skills

• Familiarity with IT

• Effective communication skills, fluency in written and spoken English and French

• Ability to work cross-culturally

• Willingness to travel extensively

• Ability to relocate when necessary in any foreign country

Goals:

my aim is to develop my career in the International relations sector, focusing in the field of the Administration of Justice, Human Rights, International Humanitarian Law, European and Euromediterranean cooperation. This field has an enormous growing expectance, and offers a wide number of opportunities for people with managerial and legal skills trained with a cross-cultural and multidisciplinary approach.