Nationality         Italian
Date of birth     July 4th, 1958
Marital status   Married with three sons
Hometown        Rome

Education
Degree in Mechanical engineering at University of Rome ‘La Sapienza’, 1985

Current Job
Senior Program and Proposal Manager at Rheinmetall Italia S.p.A, (Roma). Head of CSV (Contratti Segmento di Volo) Department in the Company Space Division
After a past experience of several years in the Oerlikon Contraves (now Rheinmetall) Research and Development Department, in 1998 I became the responsible of the department which managed all the proposals and all the programs in structural and mechanical field for Space applications. At the time being, I’m the responsible of CSV department; the people who belong to this team are devoted to manage programs and proposals in the frame of Space Flight Segment Programs relevant i.e. to launchers interstages, mini and micro satellites, solar panels structures and mechanisms, deployment mechanisms and so on. Our main Customers are the Agencies as ASI , Italian Space Agency and ESA Europe Space Agency and major Companies working in this fileld as Thales Alenia Space, Carlo Gavazzi Space, ELV and AVIO

Main Personal characteristics

In the following I summarize my most important working characteristics:

Team leader approach

Ultimate goal achieving oriented

Problem solving oriented,

Excellent ability to synthesize

Very good ability to motivate the working team

Past Experience
2008- Present

Head of CSV Department Main programs developed or in progress in these years:
• Vega Launcher Interstage 2/3 under ELV contract (in progress) Final customer ESA
• Lares payload for Vega demonstation flight under Carlo Gavazzi Space contract Final Customer ASI
• Prisma satellite (bus structure, solar panels , System and Subsystem analyses, technical interface with launcer provider, launch campaign (in progress) Final Customer ASI
•Miosat fase A/B : System and Subsystem phase A/B activities for the development of a microsatellite for Earth Observation (in progress) final Customer ASI
•MAGIA: Feasibility study for a lunar mission Final Customer ASI

2000-2008 Responsible for mechanical and structural programs in Oerlikon Contraves Space division.
Main developed programs
•Agile Program for the development of Agile minisatellite (bus + payload structure) for gamma rays detection including System and Subsystem activities. The satellite has been launched on April 23rd, 2007 and it’s still working with satisfaction of Scientific Community
•Coarse Pointing device (structure and mechanisms) platform to orientate the inside payload towards the sun in coarse mode First external payload to be mounted on the International Space station Contract with Thales Alenia Space Launched with the Shuttle on 2007 Final Customer ESA Still working

1993-2000
The most important programs developed in structural and mechanical field in those years have been:
•UVstar telescope platform launched three times on the Shuttle in the frame of a cooperation between ASi and NASA
•Sac C solar panels substrate and mechanisms in the frame of a cooperation between ASI and Argentina Space Agency
•Sac B solar panels and mechanisms in the frame of a cooperation between ASI and Argentina Space Agency

1986-1991  Mechanical engineer in Contraves with the responsibility of mechanical and thermal analyses

Additional education info 

Registered to Engineers Order of Rome since 1989

Registered to Ministero degli interni List of professionals authorized to fire prevent certificate

Course at Engineers Order on Photovoltaic Systems in the frame of renewable energies

Main published articles in last years

•The Italian Precursor of an Operational Hyperspectral Imaging Mission Small Satellite Missions for Earth Observation Publisher Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2010

•The Agile Mission Astronomy and Astrophysics, Volume 502, Issue 3, 2009, pp.995-1013

•Rheinmetall Italia B,U, Spazio ecco come è fatta la prima piattaforma esterna della ISS Dedalonews 17/02/2008

Main related knowledge

Very good knowledge of the methodologies to solve conflits

Very good knowledge of Risk management techniques

Very good knowledge of Program Management tools (as MS Project, Sap system)