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    Personal information
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    Candidate Profile
     Date Submitted:21-04-2008
     Last Modified:21-04-2008 (02:57)
    Job information
     Current job:Operations engineer
     Employment Term:Permanent
     Relocation:Anywhere
     Date available:immediately
     Industry:Civil Agencies/International Organizations, Satellite Operators, ,
     KeywordsTelecommunication Engineer, Radar, Remote Sensing,Ground Segment, Satellite, Processing, Simulation, Ground System,
    CV
    Work experience
     
    Dates   
    Since May 2006
    Name of employer   
    Dipartimento di Scienza e Tecnica dell’Informazione e della Comunicazione dell’Università di Roma “Sapienza”
    Address of employer   
    Via Eudossiana, 18 – 00184 – Rome – Italy
    Sector of business   
    Aerospace mission operations and planetary science research
    Position held   
    Operations engineer for the Italian Space Agency’s experiment SHAllow RADar
    Main activities and     responsibilities   
    ·        Responsible for data processing
    ·        Responsible for Martian surface simulator design and developing in order to avoid clutter contribution
    ·        Responsible for science data analysis
    ·        Operations associated to instrument planning, command generation, telemetries monitoring and data processing, by means of dedicated software
    ·        Design, development and implementation in Matlab language of prototype tools for scientific data analysis (i.e. Simulator, Automatic interface detector)
    ·        Mission operation management activities
    ·        Writing and evaluation of instrument ground segment requirements
    ·        Technical support to the Italian Space Agency for the contractual milestones with the industrial partner
    ·        Writing and evaluation of documents associated to mission operations and the instrument ground segment
    ·        Organization of and participation to science team meetings and teleconferences with both the Italian and US science team
    ·        Organization of and participation to mission operation meetings with NASA/JPL
     
    Cognitions acquired   
    ·        Structure and organization of Ground Segments
    ·        Structure and organization of mission payload projects
    ·        ITL test and on flight calibration
    ·        Integration and validation of software tools developed for SHARAD Ground Segment (i.e. L1A, L1B, L2)
    ·        E Phase Acquisition Request and Offer
    ·        ScanSAR, Spotlight, Stripmap operative modes
    ·        Algorithms for digital processing of SAR data
    ·        Surface backscattering models
    Education and training
     
    Dates   
    June 2007
    Name of organization   
    Associazione “Ingegneri Romani”
    Skills acquired   
    Laws, technologies, sizing and planning criteria, economic analysis, management and maintenance of photovoltaic installations
    Certification awarded   
    Certification of attendance to photovoltaic installations course
    Dates   
    May 2007
    Name of organization   
    Università degli Studi di Roma “La Sapienza”
    Title of qualification awarded   
    Chartered Engineer Qualification. Member of Viterbo’s Association of Engineers and Architects
    Dates   
    From September 1998 to March 2006
    Name of university   
    Università degli Studi di Roma “La Sapienza”
    Skills acquired   
    Radar sounding, Air Traffic Control, Phased Array, Radar Tracking, Image formation and processing
    Degree obtained   
    Laurea Specialistica in Ingegneria delle telecomunicazioni – Major: Remote sensing. GPA 98 out of 110
    Dates   
    From July 2005 to March 2006
    Name of organization   
    Dipartimento di Scienza e Tecnica dell’Informazione e della Comunicazione dell’Università di Roma “La Sapienza”
    Thesis title   
    “Mission Mars Express: Ionosphere model, inversion and characteristic parameters estimation”. Supervisor: full professor Giovanni Picardi.
    Dates   
    From September 1993 to July 1998
    Name of school   
    Liceo scientifico “Paolo Ruffini”, Viterbo
    Degree obtained   
    Secondary school degree. GPA 52 out of 60

    Personal skills and competences
     
    Mother tongue   
    Italian
     
     
    Other languages   
     
     
    English
    Reading   
    Good
    Writing   
    Good
    Verbal skills   
    Basic
     
     
    Operating Systems   
     
    Windows   
    Excellent
    Linux   
    Basic
     
     
    Software Applications
     
    Matlab   
    Excellent
    Mathematica   
    Good
    MS Office Word, Excel, Power     Point   
    Excellent
    Photoshop   
    Good
    ESA Costing Software   
    Good
       
    Program Languages
     
    Pascal   
    Good
    C, C++   
    Good
     
     
    Internet Browsers
     
    MS Explorer   
    Excellent
    Mozilla Firefox   
    Excellent
    Social skills and competences
     
     
    Attention and concern for my daily activities gave me the possibility to gain always new knowledge and skills and a high attitude in fast problem solving, even under pressure.
    My current job, a daily interaction with my colleagues and with Italian and US science team of the SHARAD mission, gave me the chance of developinga good team spirit. Moreover, I’ve been playing football for eighteen years and learnt the meaning of constantly pursuing team goals.
    Organizational skills and competences
     
     
    The capacity of organizing both individual and team work, together with a leadership capability, have been developed in order to improve the available resources and the entire team productivity and have been worked out both for daily tasks and the activity of developing student’s graduation thesis.
    Other skills and competences
     
    Sports   
    Soccer, Skiing
    Hobbies   
    Traveling, Reading, Bonsai
    Driving licence   
     
     
    Category A and B
    Additional information
     
    Publications and research
     
     
    ·        Roberto Seu, Roger J. Philips, Giovanni Picardi, Marco Cutigni et alt., “Accumulation and erosion of Mars south polar layered deposits from subsurface radar sounding”, Science publication, 2007.
     
     
    ·        Roberto Seu, Roger J. Philips, Flamini Enrico, Marco Cutigni et alt., “Understanding the three-dimensional stratification of Mars Polar Layered Terrains seen by SHARAD using terrestrial analogies”, 2° ASI International Workshop, June 2007
     
     
    ·        Marco Cutigni , Federica Russo, Roberto Orosei, Roberto Seu et alt.,” Incoherent Simulator for Mars Surface Applied to the Analysis of Sharad Radar Data”, Poster American Geophysical Union 2007.
     
     
    ·        Federica Russo, Marco Cutigni , Roberto Orosei, Roberto Seu et alt., “An inchoerence simulator for the SHARAD experiment”,  Radar conference 2008, abstract paper.conference
     
     
    ·        Emanuele Giacomoni, Cutigni Marco, Enrico Flamini et alt.; “A Study of the Subsurface Structure of a Region of the Martian South Polar Layered Deposits by Means of Sharad High Resolution Radar Data”; Oral presentation American Geophysical Union 2007
     
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