EDUCATION

10/2000 - 4/2006            

Master Degree in Information Technology Engineering .

                                     Specialization: Automatic and industrial system control

                                           Year of Degree: 5

                                           University: Università degli Studi di Catania (Italy)

                                           Evaluation : 110/110 and honor.

9/1995 – 7/2000              Secondary school: Sciences

School: Liceo Scientifico “Ettore Majorana” Scordia (Ct).

Estimation : 100/100.

EDUCATIONAL EXPERIENCES

12/06/2006 –  Currently  Master in ‘Space & Communication System’

Student of Master in ‘Space & Communication System”, sponsored by Alcatel AleniaSpace – Telespazio – Selex-comms, for processes and technologies management of complex systems, regarding space and communications sectors.

                                          Main disciplines studied during the master:

·        System engineering;

·        Space systems;

·        ICT systems;

·        Knowledge management and human resources;

·        Project Management;

·        Quality management;

·        Orbital Infrastructures

·        Software technologies for the space data management.

10/2005 - 03/2006           Thesis-degree  realization:    

                                           Title: ‘A software-hardware platform for the study of complex dynamics based on FPGA and ACE16K board’.

                               Description:  The work has been realized using a platform based on a FPGA board, for the access to the ACE16K chip (a processor able to put together, into a single architecture, the potentiality of the analogical and parallel processing, typical of the CNN, and the versatility of the digital system.

Objective: realizing the lower level control of the CNN (Cellular Nonlinear Network) ACE16K chip, exalting the chip performance, simplifying the execution of some operations, such as program-memory writing or reading, image loading e downloading from and to a PC, image acquisition through the optical device integrated into the chip.

                                           Teacher: Prof.  Paolo Arena.

01 - 04 /06/2006              Staff member of  ‘Eurobot ‘06’ competition in Catania:

                                           Position :  Referee coordinator. 

Description: Member of the ‘EuRobot 2006’ organization team, with the role of referee coordinator and supervisor of the homologation, test and referring activities.

05 - 08 /05/2006              Referee  coordinator during the  ‘AustRobot ‘06’ competition:

Referee coordinator during the competition between Austria – Hungary – Czech republic.

Staff member for the EuRobot ’07 rules definition.

05/2005                            Participation at the ‘Eurobot ‘05’ competition: at the ‘La Marive’ center

                                           ( Yverdon Les Bains (Swiss)) such as student and staff member.

·   My role as student: developing a robot system vision for skittles recognition and localization.

Using two web-cams, the robot acquires images from two different points. It processes and transfers them for the motor control motion.

In this way, the robot autonomously, is able to play for a match of 90’’, against another independent robot.

·   Staff member: Referee.

FOREIGN LANGUAGE

 English:        Good knowledge of written english.

                        Fairly good on the oral communication.

COMPUTER LANGUAGES

Software Integrated languages:

Ø      Altera QuartusII

Ø      NiosIde

Ø      Modelsim

Programming Languages:

Ø      Borland Delphi

Ø      Java

Ø      C/C++

Technical computing languages:

Ø      Matlab

Ø      Femlab

Ø      Fluent

Hardware description languages:

Ø      Vhdl

Ø      Hdl

DataBase languages:

Ø      DB2

Ø      Access

Territorial data management languages:

Ø      ArcView

Suite Office

Ø      Word

Ø      Excel

Ø      Power Point

Ø      Access

Ø      Front Page

Base knowledge of modelling languages:

Ø      UML

Ø      Sysml

Web languages:

Ø      Html

Ø      php

OTHER INFORMATIONS

21/06/1997                       Involved in the activity of ‘’Team Building in Outdoor Training”, Organized by “Challenge”. Activity carried out during the Finmeccanica Master.

06/1997                             English study at Limerik (Ireland)

LEISURE INTERESTS

Astronomy, Physics, Sport, Music, Travel