Work experience

Dates

 01/07/2008 - Present

Occupation or position held

I’m a Ground Segment Engineer at Telespazio, Napoli.

I have supported several experiments related to scientific payloads on the International Space Station(ISS) working on both European Space Agency (ESA) and NASA ground segment.

Main activities and responsibilities

Support to the implementation of ESA and NASA scientific experimental program on the ISS. The work included the design, configuration,  operations and maintenance of the ground segments for the different experiments and the support to data processing and distribution to the scientific community. The work was performed according to the specifications and policies provided by the two agencies and included the operations of different ground segment systems (e.g. Monitoring and Control systems) and operational interfaces.

Responsibilities included:

●        Engineering consulting in the field of telecommunications and information technology.

●        Setting up and maintenance of the ground segments.

●        Configuration, integration and testing of the systems H/W and S/W.

●        Validation and testing with external interfaces interfaces.

●        Implementation of security policies.

●        Configuration, integration and test for telemetry and telecommands systems.

●        Development and testing of operational products (e.g. displays and procedures)

●        Development, Configuration and maintenance of DB and SW specific modules for managing data and video.

●        Development of systems’ performance analysis processes in support to data distribution.

●        Development of user front-end Monitoring & Control interfaces.

●        Support of real-time operations and troubleshooting.

Past Experiments:

●        Mice Drawer System (Nasa)

                ●        Geoflow I and Geoflow II (Esa)

                ●         SODI (Nasa)

                ●         MVIS (Esa-CSA)

Name and address of employer

Telespazio

Education and training

Dates

15/09/2001 – 31/03/2007

Title of qualification awarded

Bachelor degree in computer engineering.

The degree thesis was focused on the analysis  of a  projector with programmable trajectories and the development of algorithms to follow required speed profiles.

Principal subjects / occupational skills covered

Network and Computer Security , Operating system, Computer and Calculator Design, Object-oriented language, Software Engineering,  Telecommunications and statistics, Technology and control systems, Elettronics Industrial systems.

Name and type of organisation

providing education and training

Seconda Università degli Studi di Napoli

Level in national or international

classification

Bachelor Degree

Dates

15/09/2007 – Present

Title of qualification awarded

Master degree in computer engineering

Principal subjects / occupational skills covered

High performance systems, Reliability of integrated systems, Industrial Robotics, Industrial Elettronics Machines,  Optoelectronics.

Name and type of organisation

providing education and training

Seconda Università degli Studi di Napoli

Level in national or international

classification

Master Degree

Date

2009

Principal subjects / occupational skills covered

CDMCS (ESA systems for monitoring data  and remote control for payload on board  of International Space Station) training. HRDP (ESA system  for high rate data distribution and storing, it is used to delivery the scientific data, from payload on board of international space station  to the scientific community)  training. Security  training

Name and type of organisation

providing education and training

Rovsing, Dyregaardsvej 2, DK-2740 Skovlunde, Denmark

Level in national or international

classification

Training

Mother tongue(s)

Italian

Other language(s)

English

Social skills and competences

Excellent relational skills, learned during the training, the meetings and in  different professional contexts.

Computer skills and competences

Excellent skills in electronic/information technology  gained from education and training experience.

Excellent knowledge of the major laboratory instruments, and different

software programming languages (e.g. C, C + +, Visual Basic, Java).

Good knowledge of Matlab and Spice.

Excellent knowledge of operating systems Windows 95-98-200-XP-Vista-Seven.

Excellent knowledge of Office programs "win32 compatible".

Good knowledge of Linux (in particular of the shell) and bash programming.