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 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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