CV Summary:

I have a strong experience in data processing, quality control, workflow management, overall in the field of geospatial data processing, with a deep knowledge of GIS, data analysis, web development. I have also a very good knowledge of image and data analysis about Emergency Engineering. My knowledge of mainly is in using GIS and remote Sensing techniques to manage the environment. So I have  a good understanding of the Earth Observation domain: systems, data, applications and services. I have experience in the design and or integration of software systems, in particular end-to-end applications relevant to Earth Observation. I have just worked in a small team with responsibility for maintaining and operating a wide range of user applications based on Earth Observation data. I’m able to generate high-level, clear and concise system performance figures and reports. I have a good knowledge of GPS and DGPS technology developments and applications. I’m able to obtain cm level accuracy ( survey, geodesy, reference datums, conversion Carrier phase measurements, cycle integer ambiguity interferometry; differencing of measurements accuracy, potential and limitations ). I’m an ArcIMS specialist so I’m able to deliver dynamic maps and data via the Web. I have experience and familiarity with Grid technology and middleware components (grid-ftp, GIS, MDS, Replica catalogue, CA, etc) and concepts. I have knowledge of W3C and OGC standards, Java, JSP, XML, HTML, Web Services, applets and related tools.

Biographical sketch:

I received the Degree in aerospace engineering from the University of Rome "La Sapienza", and the Msc in Emergency Engineering "ESA" in 2004 and 2006 respectively. Now, I’am attaining the Msc in space telecommunication at University of Rome "La Sapienza" and "Tor Vergata". I was involved in several projects such as TeleGEO. My research interests concerns the space mission (AGILE, SWIFT) telemetry, the space environment, the GIS/ remote sensing applications (subsidence phenomena and natural disasters) and ICT as a Java trainer.

Competence Sectors:

Satellite Communications- REMOTE SENSING - GIS & CARTOGRAPHY- JEE5

Description of my experience in the field of my specialisation:

During the past three years I have been focusing my researches on Disaster Monitoring and Mitigation through Optical-SAR remote sensing techniques. After the catastrophic event of 26/12/2004, I was involved, during a one year internship for the Earth Observation Applications Department of ESA-ESRIN (European Space Agency ), and the remote sensing Broglio Space Centre (CRPSM- University of Rome La Sapienza), in a surface change detection analysis of the Tsunami affected areas in the Northern of Sumatra. Multi source and multi sensor data were used such as Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) images and , SPOT5,CHRIS/PROBA,QUICKBIRD images; a Geographic Information System (GIS) multi relational database was built and integrated with geophysical, topographic and hazard maps. A geo-statistical analysis was done to calculate the probability of changes. Different change detection algorithms were used. The active and passive remote sensing and GIS integration of the Tsunami affected area of Banda Aceh, were efficient instruments for evaluating and quantifying damages. The applied methodology showed how remote sensing techniques could be adopted for the post emergency operations. Now, I am interested to understand if satellite altimetry is sufficient for the early detection and warning of an approaching tsunami. I know from the literature that this kind of techniques had provided only an important contribution to the better understanding and an improvement of the modelling of tsunami propagation and dissipation. Since It is known that tsunamis readily manifest themselves as sea level anomalies, in this case it is sufficient that one satellite overflies the wave almost immediately after it originates, given the great propagation speed of a waterberg ( then tsunami signals in the open ocean are quite weak). I have been also involved in a project for the development of interferometry techniques for the control of subsidence phenomena.  I am working with telemetry and telecommunication data regarding the analysis of SWIFT and Agile satellites accesses. Parallelly to my studies I’m working in the sector of the ICT just doing  recruitment and training of the J2SE-J2EE technology for a roman company. My technical-scientific formation of base and a good preparation in English have represented an incentive to specialize me in the study and in the application of this language. Previously I had increased in fact my knowledges in the world of the programming, especially the object oriented one, attending, with positive result,  intensive courses.

Education :

Master of Science Degree on: Space, Galileo, Telecommunications and formation.

University of Rome “Tor Vergata”, scuola IAD.

From 2007 to be delivered on Novembre 2008

Supervisors      Prof. Marina Ruggieri, Prof. Mirko Antonimi, Dott. Cosimo Stallo

Master of Science Degree on Emergency Engineering

Istituto Superiore Antincendi

From 2005 to 2006

Degree thesis title:        Surface Change Detection based on Multi Sensor data Integration

Case study: Post Tsunami Banda Aceh district

External Supervisor      Prof. Maurizio Fea (ESA Earth Observation Applications Department)

Internal Supervisor       Prof. Carlo Ulivieri (La Sapienza Aerospace Departiment, San Marco Project Research Centre (CRPSM))

Aerospace Engeneering Degree

University of Rome “La Sapienza” Mechanic and Aeronautic Department

From 1996 to 2004

Degree thesis title         Aerodynamic Decelerator System Motion

Case study: T17 Military Parachute Motion

Supervisor       Dr. Eng. Nicola de Divitiis

Classical Lyceum Secondary School Degree

L.A.Seneca High School

Publications:

1.      Space technologies for the benefit of human society and planet Earth  to be published by SPRINGER as a Space Book Chapter Contribution; http://ww2.madonna.edu/polla/space.htm

2.      Integrazione di dati multisorgente in un GIS per interventi di post-emergenza a  Banda Aceh : il caso dello Tsunami del 26.12.2004, ASITA Conference (Associazioni Scientifiche per le Informazioni Territoriali ed Ambientali) Bolzano, Novembre 2006;

3.      Surface Change Detection based on Multi Sensor data Integration, IAF (International Astronautical Federation Conference) Valencia, October 2006;

Certfied training courses:

–        Course on UML Analisys and Design, Solving Team (Rome, Italy), October 2008

–        Course on PMP_IngegneriRomani (Via Gabriello Chiabrera, 60 -  Rome, Italy), May  2008

–        Course on GPS Fundamentals & Enhancements_GPS solutions (Rome, Italy), February 2008

–        Course on Java, Struts (J2SE- J2EE I – II)_Solving Team (Rome, Italy), June 2007

–        Course on ArcGIS 9.1_ESRI (Rome, Italy), April 2006

–        Course on SAR (Synthetic Aperture Radar)_ESA-ESRIN (Frascati, Italy),October 2005

Employment history and professional experiences:

I- February2008-ongoing_SolvingTeam_Rome, Italy.

Role Description: Project Management, Quality, IT security, Training

II-October-December 2007_ITS_ Naples, Italy.

Role Description: ArcIMS specialist; delivering dynamic maps, satellite data and GIS data and services via the Web.

III-May-October 2007_SolvingTeam_Rome, Italy.

Role Description: Recruitment and training of the J2SE-J2EE technology

IV-June 2007_Department of Astronautic_University of Rome La Sapienza_Rome, Italy.

Role Description: Analysis of the accesses of the satellites SWIFT and AGILE for the telemetry station of Malindi (San Marco);

V-March 2006_ San Marco Project Research Centre (CRPSM)_Rome, Italy.

Role Description: Scientific collaboration. Master Lesson speech on: Banda Aceh Surface Change Detection based on Multi Sensor data Integration; Tsunami wave dynamic.

VI-May 2005-February 2006_European Space Agency_Frascati, Italy.

Role Description: Earth Observation engineer supporting the Agency to promptly initiate, rapidly execute and document short term applications projects most commonly conducted for satellite mapping responses to emergencies (such as the natural disaster event of 26/12/2004,. within the frame of the International Charter Space and Major Disasters).

VII-December 2005_Department of Geography_University of Rome “la Sapienza”.

Role Description: Lesson on remote sensing monitoring of the post tsunami affected areas.

On going:

Astronautical Engineering Schoo

Seminars, Specialization and Refresher:

2008

§         Nonlinear aeroelastic simulation of very flexible aircraft, Carlos E. S. CESNIK, 08/07/2008, Astronautical Engineering School, La Sapienza, Rome

2007   

§         Control centers for spacial missions- Prof Carlo Ulivieri – Rome 29th May, 1st June 2007- Astronautical Engineering School, La Sapienza.

§         10th Italian Conference Esri Foreign Users ROMA, 18th-19th APRIL 2007

Auditorium del Massimo.

§         Interplanetary Navigation Examples from the Cassini-Huygens Mission- Dr. Jeremy B. Jones, Cassini-Huygens Navigation Team Chief JPL, Pasadena; California, 12-14 March, Astronautical Engineering School, La Sapienza., Rome

§         MORE (Mercury Orbiter Radioscience Experiment) Meeting-ALCATEL Alenia Space Italia – 19-20 Febbraio

§         Spacial Tehcnologies: X rays control - teacher: Prof. Paolozzi, Scuola di Ingegneria Astronautica, La Sapienza,Roma.

2006   

§         10^a National Conference of the Scientific Associations for Territorial and Environemental Information, 14th-17th november, Bolzano

§         SeaSAR Workshope: Advances in SAR oceanography ESA (Frascati)

§         9th Italian Conference Esri Foreign Users (5-6Aprile) Auditorium del Massimo (Rome)

§         57th International Astronautical Congress , Earth observation data management systems, ottobre , Valencia (Spagna).

2005   

§         Workshop Fringe : Interferometric SAR applications ESA (Frascati)

§         SAFE : Conference on Safety and Security Engineering (La Sapienza)

Knowledge of computer equipment:

I-Platform type: Mac (fair), Windows  (excellent) , Linux (fair), Solaris (poor);

II-Technical Software Programs:

§         GIS: Arc-Gis 9.1(excellent), ArcIMS-ArcSDE(excellent), ArcPad(excellent), Map-Info Professional (excellent);

§         Mapping GIS: OziExplorer  (good);

§         Remote Sensing: Best (good), Erdas (excellent), Eoli (good), ENVI(excellent);

§         Finite Element Analysis: NASTRAN (fair);

§         Orbital dynamic and telemetry: Satellite Tool Kit (good), Java Astrodynamic Tool Kit (good);

III-Basic Software: Word (excellent), Office (excellent), Excell (excellent), Access (excellent);

IV-Programming languages : J2SE 1.6 (excellent), JEE 5 (excellent), IDL (fair), FORTRAN(poor),

MatLab (fair)

V-Markup languages: HTML 4.0 (excellent), XML (good) ;

VI-Frameworks: JAKARTA STRUTS (good), SPRING (good), HIBERNATE (good), SEAM (fair)

VII-Modelling languages: UML 2.0 (good);

§         Agile Project Management Methodologies: SCRUM (good);

VIII-Database: ORACLE 9i, 10g (good), MySQL (excellent);

IX- Development areas: MyEclipse 5.5 (excellent), NetBeans 5.x (sufficient);

X-Server Web Applications: WebSphere  (fair), Tomcat (excellent), Oc4j  (fair);

XI- Pattern: Singleton (good), DAO, DTO (good), Buisness Delegate (fair), MVC (excellent);

Languages:

§         Mother Tongue:  Italian

§         French: Writing (fair)-Reading (fair)-Speaking (fair)

§         English: Writing (excellent)-Reading (excellent)-Speaking (good)

§         Other Languages                                   

o       Spanish: Writing (sufficient)-Reading (good)-Speaking (fair)

Short essay about me  including extracurricular activities and my overall interest in science

I love science!! My passion for outer space was born when I first saw the images of the landing on the Moon of the Apollo 11.During high school days my “love” for science was strengthened as I studied and read a lot about the approach of the great minds of our past to the scientific discovery. Archimede, Pitagora and especially Plinio, writer, man of science, naturalist and historian, was my model. I always wondered what those men would feel looking up at the vault of the starry heaven. So I felt close and made mine the phrase of Seneca. "per aspera sic itur ad astra". That is why my knowledge and my interests in the scientific world have broadened out on a wide range of subjects apparently not related: geophysics, astronomy and so on. This last one is my great passion. To tell the truth my first old interest was the cosmology and from this I’m arrived to “watch” the sky with my telescope. In my personal library I have several titles directly related with cosmology and with astrophysic.

Since I have a good understanding of the Earth Observation domain, systems, data, applications and services; I would like to extend these experiences to my interest in the solar systems physics aspects, in particular the planetary imaging. The extensive collection of images of planets (and their satellites) and minor bodies (ex. asteroids and comets) represent the major drive in the exploration of the solar system. As an example NASA radars have measured size and shape of Asteroid 2007 TU24 but  understanding the orbital dynamics in the asteroid belt is not straightforward, because Jupiter and Saturn cause significant variations in most orbital elements.

Other interesting developments include:

I-                   The atmospheric dynamics studies (for the outer planets an example could be represented by Jupiter’s Red Spot).

II-                The investigation of the extreme diversity of the planetary surfaces and the discovery of active volcanic acitivity, the cratering statistics as key to understand the past flux of impactors.

III-              The discovery and the dynamics of planetary rings

In the future, I would like to focus my efforts as researcher in the laser and radar mapping of the planetary surfaces (I can remember the NEAR/Shoemaker for the asteroid Eros, the Mars Global Surveyor and the SAR on Magellan to investigate the geological features on Venus or CCD Galileo’s imaging systems) together with the observation in different spectral bands allowing the determination of the mineral (in infrared) and elemental (in X-ray) composition. I am also fascinated by the laser tracking as done for the Moon since 1969.

On the other hand I am interested in Radio astronomy and in the space astrometry (I remember The Hipparcos Space Astrometry Mission which pinpointed the positions of more than one hundred thousand stars with high precision, and more than one million stars with lesser precision). I would like to search for the Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation (CMBR), relic of the Big Bang. An other exciting field of research at the forefront of modern astrophysics could be represented by how the active galactic nuclei are quickly evolving. I love sport. During my breaks, I love to go in the park and run. It was my mother to give me this passion for the race. However, I love all kinds of  activities that make me feel good (I did karate for 15 years). If I can’t go running, I like to read. My favourite readings cover the classic Italian, Latin and Greek literature. I am a curious person and I am fascinated by the “discoveries”…not only the scientific ones! So I believe to be a good tourist able to explore new landscapes after a long walk. I think to be a dynamic person with good achievement abilities and above all I’m able to compare me with new work/research experiences, although I’ll be involved in different application fields. Who tells me that I am measuring in a new reality, I answer once again with a Latin motto: “nihil difficile volenti”.

Additional Informations:

Conscription: Civil Service during 2002/2003 at XVIII° Rome.Town Council

Driving licenses: A, B

Work typology:Full Time

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