Personal information

Nationality

Italian

Date of birth

10^th September 1981

Gender

Male

Work experience

Dates

September 2009 – Present

Occupation or position held

RF MMIC Design Engineer

Main activities and responsibilities

Design, Manufacturing and Test of Ku-Band On-chip BFN, using IHP SiGe foundry process.

Design of Automatic Test sequences in C # and in TestStand for the EGSE used in Alphasat payload acceptance tests.

Design and definition of test procedures UNCLA for Galileo program.

Name and address of employer

Space Engineering S.p.a. Via dei Berio 91, 00155 Rome

Type of business or sector

Space Engineering is active in telecommunication, navigation, environmental monitoring, GIS development, tele-medicine and SAR applications.

Dates

April 2008 – September 2009

Occupation or position held

Consultant as Test Engineer @ Thales Alenia Space S.p.A.

Main activities and responsibilities

I was Consultant in the Industrial Unit EL MAIT, MODULES AND SUBASSEMBLIES of satellite transmitter and receiver units being involved, among others, in the following projects: COSMO SKY MED, NILESAT, PALAPA, INTELSAT, Koreasat, OPTUS and other commercial satellite for telecommunication in C, Ku and Ka band.

I was involved in performing test and in the suggestion/implementation phases of Design changes in order to solve problems occurred during testing and tuning activities.

I am able to realize and to use a test bench (manual or automatic) with basic and advanced electronic instrumentation (oscilloscopes, vector network analyzer, spectrum analyzer, power meter, phase noise meter, etc.) to implement the different measurement in the RF bands (S-parameter, Power measurement, Modulations, etc.).

Writing of technical documentation, test reports and test procedures, from reference of test specifications.

Name and address of employer

Altran Italia S.p.A. via Goito 52, 00185 Rome

Type of business or sector

Altran offers comprehensive and high value-added consulting services based on three business lines: technology and innovation consulting;organization and information systems consulting; strategy and management consulting.

Dates

January 2008 – April 2008

Occupation or position held

Consultant as Test Engineer @ Thales Alenia Space S.p.A.

Main activities and responsibilities

RF Test, tuning and debug of satellite modules.

Use of electronic instrumentation (oscilloscopes, vector network analyzer, spectrum analyzer, power meter, phase noise meter, etc.).

Writing of technical documentation, test reports and test procedures, from reference of test specifications.

Name and address of employer

RSI Tech S.p.A. Via Terenzio 35, 00193 Rome

Type of business or sector

RSI Tech offered (until it merged with other companies in Altran Italia) comprehensive and high value-added consulting services based on three business lines: technology and innovation consulting; organization and information systems consulting; strategy and management consulting.

Dates

November 2006 – December 2007

Occupation or position held

Researcher

Main activities and responsibilities

During this period I was a PhD Student. My work was focused on research about Nanotechnology. I was involved in design, realization and characterization of electronic and optoelectronic devices in nanoscale region. I left the PhD course due to serious family problems.

Name and address of employer

Università degli Studi dell’Aquila

Dates

July 2003 – September 2003

Occupation or position held

Trainee

Main activities and responsibilities

I developed the topic of my bachelor degree in Micron where I designed and implemented an automated system for the characterization of integrated circuits, studying the CV (capacitance-voltage) characterization of MOS transistor.

Name and address of employer

Micron Technology Italia S.r.l. Via Antonio Pacinotti, 67051 Avezzano AQ

Type of business or sector

Micron is one of the world's leading semiconductor companies. The DRAM components and modules and NAND Flash memory products are used in everything from computing, networking, and server equipment, to consumer, mobile, automotive, and industrial applications.

Education and training

Dates

2003 – 2006

Title of qualification awarded

Master Degree in Electronic Engineer

Principal subjects/Occupational skills covered

Thesis Title: CMOS IMAGE SENSORS: architectures and pre-characterization. (Mark: 110/110 cum laude)

Topics: in this work I studied and simulated the architectures of several image sensors built in CMOS technology. I designed and developed a system to capture the sensor outputs and by processing data derive physical characteristics of the device through software written in Matlab.

2006 GMEE (L’Aquila 11-13 September) Italian Group of Electrical and Electronic Measures

2005 XV ITSS (International Travelling Summer School) on Microwaves and Light Waves (L’Aquila 8-15 July).

Name and type of organisation providing education and training

Università degli Studi dell’Aquila

Dates

2000 – 2003

Title of qualification awarded

Bachelor Degree in Electronic Engineer

Principal subjects/Occupational skills covered

Thesis Title: Design and realization of an automatic measurement system for characterization of integrated circuits (Mark: 110/110)

Topics: during this work, developed at Micron Technology Italy, I design an automatic system for characterization of integrated circuits: measures were directly taken on silicon wafers. The main advantage in the development of ATE was the significant reducing of time and operator mistake in measurement operation. Moreover it was possible to develop techniques for characterize these circuits with real-time measures.

Name and type of organisation providing education and training

Università degli Studi dell’Aquila

Dates

1995 – 2000

Title of qualification awarded

High School

Name and type of organisation providing education and training

Liceo Scientifico V.Pollione Avezzano (Mark: 98/100)

Personal skills and competences

Mother tongue

Italian

Other language(s)

  English

Social skills and competences

Well inclined to establish good relationships and good capability of adapting to different situations.

Organisational skills and competences

Ability to work in team and individually.

Determined, whishing to grow up professionally. Available to work in foreign country.

Good sense of organization.

Technical skills and competences

Laboratory instrumentation

Use of the main tool to design circuits (Cadence, Spice, ADS, LASI, Microwave Office)

EM analysis tool (Momentum, Axiem-Microwave Office, CST)

Automation tool for electronic instrumentation (LabView, CVI, TestStand)

programming and problem solving (Matlab , C).

Optical and electronic microscopy (optical microscope, SEM, TEM) and SEM preparative samples.

Use of optical bench (lenses, mirrors, laser, crystal, chopper, Optical Power Meter, prism, detector, etc.).

Optical Lithography, EBL (electron beam lithography), resist deposition and development, metallization, lift off, ion milling, dry and wet etch

Computer skills and competences

Good knowledge of: Windows (95, 98, Me, XP, Vista, 7), Office suite, Linux (Fedora)

Driving licence(s)

Category B.

References

References are available on request, meantime you can look to my Linkedin personal page where you can find some of them (add me to your professional Linkedin's network).

Here there are some of them:

“Vincenzo is a very flexible engineer; he is able to perform every task, either familiar or unfamiliar, with high skills and focused to the result. He is a very nice person, with a sympathetic attitude towards colleagues and customers. Very recommended.” Alessandro Cima, Computer and Software Engineer, Space Engineering S.p.A.

“Vincenzo is a very skilled space technical engineer. His good academicals background and the experience in the field of test equipment, allow Vincenzo to propose and find solutions and to be a propositive element in the team.” Guido Ronza, Project Manager, Thales Alenia Space Italia

“Vincenzo is a highly motivated person, objective-focused, proactive and open minded professional, with strong technical skills. Through his enthusiasm he achieves to capture the best results from himself. He is indeed a very good consultant.” Marcello Mazzocchi, Senior Business Manager, Altran Italia

“Vincenzo was in my team doing his thesis work. He demonstrated solid technical skills in the field of microelectronic, and great dedication and focus on the work. He also went along well with the other colleagues and was immediately part of the team.” Pietro Piersimoni, Director Flash Design Europe, Micron Technology Italia

“Vincenzo was one of my best students. I always appreciated his technical intuition and ability to get the points of the problems.” Antonio Orlandi, Full Professor, University of L'Aquila

Additional information

I attended the following professional courses:

• 2010 Lingua Inglese ed.25 (CEDEL)
• 2007 Workshop on Nanotechnologies (University of L’Aquila)
• 2007 Open Days Faculty of Engineer (University of L’Aquila)
• 2006 GMEE (L’Aquila 11-13 September) Italian Group of Electrical and Electronic Measures
• 2005 XV ITSS (International Travelling Summer School) on Microwaves and Light Waves (L’Aquila 8-15 July). Certify 41/05
• 2003 Professional Course about Computer Aided Design to develop Electronic Circuits, hold by Eng. Comparini of Alenia Spazio (now Thales Alenia Space)

I was involved in the following activities:

• 2009-2010 Design of MMIC in SiGe technology.
• 2009-2010 Proposals for SiGe, GaAs and GaN MMICs.
• 2008-2009 System Engineering and Integration for space modules transmitters
• 2007 Realization of nano-scale devices in silicon at CNR in Rome, with use of sub-microelectronic techniques
• 2006 Study of growth’s techniques of Silicon nanowires, doping and heterostructures. The growth was done at University of Rome 3 with in clean room class 100,000, using the CVD technique (Chemical-Vapour-Deposition) of SiH4 or GeH4 using He as a precursor in a controlled environment and nano-particles of Au used as a catalyst for Vapor-Liquid-Solid Grown.
• 2005 Design of an integrated pressure sensor interfaced with a microcontroller. The design has followed all the steps for the implementation on silicon sensor (MEMS technology) and the interface with a microcontroller of the family MC9S08LL. The layout has been developed in LASI, PSpice for interfacing the microcontroller. The simulations were performed in Matlab and PSpice.
• 2005 Issues of electromagnetic compatibility of RF circuits, deepened the techniques for reducing errors between neighbouring lines.
• 2005 Design and implementation of a solid state double FET amplifier @2.7GHz with output power. The simulation and layout were performed with Microwave Office, through the use of non-linear model of transistors used (NEC). The circuit, made at the laboratories of the Faculty of Electronic Engineering, with numerical control milling machine was made on a substrate of Duroid ®. The measures were performed at the laboratories of the Faculty of Electronic Engineering in L'Aquila
• 2004 Develop audio application (filters, mixer, EQ) with Texas Instruments C50 DSP 
• 2003 Design of low voltage-low power operational amplifier to develop techniques for offset reduction. The simulations were performed in PSpice using AMS 0.35um CMOS library.
• 2003 Design a virtual voltage-frequency converter with LabVIEV for industrial applications.
• 2002 active methods to shield electromagnetic fields for applications in rail transport systems.
• 2002 Developed different architecture in Matlab (approximate calculation of function Q Marcuum, development of controllers, and FFT over sampling)

I made the following publication:

• V. Guaiani, F. Ciancetta, G. Bucci, M. Faccio, E. Palange, “From CMOS Image Sensor Output back to the evaluation of the device Quantum Efficiency”, accepted for SSD2007, IEEE conference