I'm Vito Spinelli

Knowledge and Data Specialist

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About Me

I'm known for leading teams in the creation of innovative solutions that transform data into knowledge, enabling more useful, equitable, inclusive and accessible products and services. Through research, analysis and structured collaboration, I have a proven track record of leveraging structured and unstructured data to help organisations and communities thrive. I speak English, Italian, Spanish and French.

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Skills

Knowledge modelling

Human-machine communication

  • Ontology design and development
  • SKOS/RDF
  • SPARQL
  • Requirements formalisation
  • Chat bot design and development

Project management

Making things happen

  • Agile methodology
  • Leading teams
  • Stakeholder communication
  • Design and formalisation of business processes
  • Knowledge management (Confluence)
  • User experience design

Data analytics

Generating insights for better decisions

  • Pandas
  • Seaborn
  • SQL
  • API/Requests
  • Text parsing with Beautiful Soup
  • Entity extraction with Spacy
  • Dash Plotly
  • Excel Power Query
  • Networkx
  • PyVis

Labour market

Modelling labour market trends

  • Occupational and skill classifications
  • Digital labour market services
  • Education and training

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Portfolio

Recent Projects

ESCO

Enabling labour market interoperability across Europe

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XiBot

A chatbot to support student taking online courses

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RaffleBox

A Windows application written in Python randomly select entries from Excel files (ideal for raffles)

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Coursera skill extraction

Skill analysis of Coursera curses in Spanish

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Experience

2022-present
FAETHM by PEARSON
Ontologist
  • Validate machine-made skills to occupations mappings
  • Contribute to the maintenance and further development of the occupational ontology
FAETHM.AI
2019-2021
idbX program - INTER-AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK
e-learning and data consultant
  • Learning experience coordinator for the Inter-American Development Bank’s e-learning and professional development platform offering massive online courses (idbX program)
  • Designs, implements, and maintains the first virtual assistant (chat bot) of the IDBx program (from conception and prototyping to usability testing and delivery)
  • Analyzes data on users’ behavior and integrates the findings in the change management process
  • Leads the team in charge of students’ engagement monitoring and enhancement (users’ activation, retention and recovery)
  • Advises on the courses evaluation and reports on the courses performance
  • Plans and coordinates the maintenance and update of the online courses carried out by the external consultants
  • Trains on the use of the Edx platform (using Shell and Publisher) for creating and updating online courses editions
  • Advises on management support tools and processes
idbX Courses
2017-2019
ESCO - EUROPEAN COMMISSION
Project Manager
  • Collected and formalized user requirements towards the ESCO software suite
  • Coordinated the testing and user feedback of the ESCO IT support tools
  • Designed the business processes to collect users’ feedback EU-wide, enabling the continuous and consistent update of ESCO
  • Advised stakeholders on the implementation of ESCO in job boards (including Monster and EURES)
ESCO
2016-2017
ESCO - EUROPEAN COMMISSION
Public Sector Solutions Consultant
  • Collected and formalized the user requirements towards the ESCO software suite.
  • Collaborated in the development of the ESCO data model and versioning strategy.
  • Coordinated the testing and user feedback of the ESCO IT support tools.
  • Advised users on developing occupations and skills recommendation systems for e-portfolios.
  • Coordinated the design and development of two video tutorials on the ESCO use cases presented at a high-level European Conference in Brussels
  • Coordinated the publication of the ESCO classification in 27 languages
ESCO
2012-2016
TENFORCE
Taxonomy consultant
  • Provided support with the design of the data model and the methodology development for the ESCO classification
  • Reviewed, updated and re-designed the ESCO business cases based on research about users’ needs
  • Trained 11 sectoral expert groups of 10 to 20 members each on the ESCO data model and the development methodology
  • Coordinated and led the knowledge and information collection from more than 1000 sectoral experts across Europe
ESCO

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