CV: Lead Project Engineer

DESIRED EMPLOYMENT / PROFESSIONAL AIMS

Improving my technical skills and professional experiences for a world-leader company on the aerospace field of technology, gaining a managerial role for Engineering Areas, Product Development, or Projects and Programs Management.

WORK EXPERIENCE

AgustaWestland, Civil and Military Helicopters Design and Production, Somma Lombardo, VA (ITALY)

Head of Heavy Helicopters License Engineering and Service Engineering Dept., from July 2007

Responsible and Lead Project Eng., of Project Engineers involved on CH47, HH3F e SH3D helicopters design programs.

Responsible of Service Engineers involved on CH47, HH3F e SH3D helicopters maintenance programs.

The department includes 7 resources.

AgustaWestland, Civil and Military Helicopters Design and Production, Somma Lombardo, VA (ITALY)

Project Engineer, from February 2004 to July 2007

-         Helicopter delivery after reconfiguration completion in accordance to contractual requirement. Technical supervision of acceptance and aircraft No.1 delivery. Management of technical additional requirements raised during the final phase from customer commission (from United Arab Emirates).

-         Qualification path completion for the first helicopter (prototype) of fleet. Management of the final-balance-reports issue. Coordination and management of the engineering department resources tasked for:

o        Technical information transferring to technical manuals and editorial staff department

o        Validation of the helicopter technical manuals

o        Technical information transferring to the training Academy Department

Management for technical meetings held with factory flight team composed by Pilots and Flight Test Engineers. Build up of technical requirement for the execution of flight-tests. Pre-flight briefing management. Participation for some of the early flight test trials in order to instruct pilots and provide all required technical information. Post-flight de-briefing management. Technical and operative responsibility for the whole design modifications set raising from flights results and pilots’ evaluations. Management of engineering and designing department, coordination of the whole project itself. Technical focal point for the workshop team tasked for first-time-installations, prototypical trials of those modifications and for the design optimization by an empirical approach.

-         Technical resources management. Management of ground-testing phase scheduling, as technical team leader, during the qualification of the project on first aircraft. Cooperation with Quality Department Responsible and Workshop Production Heads. Empirical validation of ground testing procedures.

-         Management of Technical Meetings held with customer in order to accomplish contractual milestones as Qualification Meeting Reviews (QMR). Technical documentation preparation for the bid of qualification requirements proposal and annexed scheduling to be agreed with customer. On qualification environment background for the upgrading-project, management of: laying-out, editing and issuing for Preventative Ground Testing Reports on the prototype-machine.

-         Team leader for design activities, structural calculation, experimental tests. Technical and performance evaluations of helicopter subsystems engineering. Project Management for the development of structural components, electrical wirings and hydraulics routing. Customer Reference focal point for all kind of engineering/configuration issues. Coordination of Product Engineering contents to be submitted and analyzed by Project Technical Analysis, during the sourcing phase. Management for the editing and revising activities concerning technical reports. Reference focal point for technicians and engineering team for structural reinforcement implementation/modifications, analysis and product development.

-         Coordination of technical information flow with Licensing OEM: BOEING. Technical Representative and Focal Point for the management of internal factory queries to BOEING and vice-versa, technical liaison with partner-companies.

-         Management of designing and engineering phase for the upgrade-project. Coordination of meetings with the heads of each designing area in order to achieve customer-focused-requirements and produce related technical evaluations and choices. Technical meetings with design-engineers involved on the project. Coordination of: evaluation, checking and issuing of drawings and analysis reports (structural, electrical load analysis, vibration levels, thermal loads, aerodynamics loads, water-landing loads).

Management of workshop technical documentation as: Fault Signals/Remarks, Malfunction Reports, Engineering Orders Modifications, P/N Superseded, Production Permits, Non Conformity Notes, Quality Acceptance Reports for Buyer Furnished Equipments and configuration management.

-         Management of Technical Meetings held with customer in order to accomplish contractual milestones as Critical Design Reviews (CDR). Requirement locking and aircraft configuration freezing. Accomplishment of technical presentations, impact studies, plans and scheduling for the configuration modifications merging into the industrial flow, planning for prototypical installations.

-         Technical meetings with the customer engineering pool for: requirement refining, technical choices presentation/explanation. Time and cost impact evaluation upon each technical option available or work hypothesis. PRELIMINARY DESIGN REVIEWS – preparation of technical presentations, feasibility studies, management of meetings held with the end-user for configuration refining.

-         Early contacts and preliminary meetings with European and American vendors and furnishers (as Collins, Piaggio, Avitronics, FlirSystems, 3M, AarCargo, Alturdyne, Breeze, Chelton, Cmc, FNHerstal, Freeflight, Kannad, Howell, Moog, Magnaghi, Onboard, Honeywell, Selex, Simula, Robertson, Smiths, Spectrolab, Tactronics, Textron, Thales, etc.). Identification of the essential set of technical documentation necessary to the engineering. Meetings management and their coordination with Procurement Departments, Logistics and Materials Planning Department. Certification of conformity to technical specification of each product purchased.

-         Technical Information Server Database maintenance. Technical Information sharing for the whole team spread over Italian territory and linked to AgW intranet network.

-         Coordination of the international design-engineering team involving the partner-company Westland.

-         Engineering Team Leadership. Coordination of the whole set of activities of a dedicated-designing-group that was outsourced (almost 25 persons from a consultancy-engineering-firm). Design concepts development. Structural calculations. Proposal analysis and evaluation of customer specifications/requirements. Feasibility determination of each project. Evaluation of all designing-options for each of customer-requested-installation.

-         Planning and coordination of scheduling and deadlines for the entire design activity. Planning and coordination of scheduling and deadlines in terms of results and drawings delivery towards Production Engineering and Workshop. Coordination with the Production Responsible and the Program Management.

OLM, Design and Manufacturing of aluminum leverages, Crocetta del Montello, TV (ITALY)

Design Engineer, from October 2003 to January 2004

-         Research and Development for design and manufacturing-processes-improvement of aluminum-made products. Design concepts development. AUTOCAD drawing. Structural Calculation.

IFP, Institute of Planethology, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität  – payloads and space-missions subsystems design and engineering, Münster, NorthRein Westfallen (GERMANY)

Thermal Design Engineer, from April 2003 to July 2003

-         Cooperation with the Institute of Space Simulation of Deutschen Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt DLR of Köln and OHB Systems company from Bremen. Design, planning, integration, development and experimental data acquisition, for the Official Thermal Tests of NetLander International Space Mission to Mars. Joining the engineering group addicted to experimental tests for the first thermal mock-up module. Data collection and their representation. Results and graphics interpretation/analysis.

-         Thermal Mock-up integration of the prototypical module, cooperation to thermal tests coordination, coordination of technicians’ team addicted to the vacuum room, download and experimental data analysis, graphical representation of experimental data. Early engineering/physical extrapolations of results.

IFP, Institute of Planethology, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität  – payloads and space-missions subsystems design and engineering, Münster, NorthRein Westfallen (GERMANY)

Thermal Design Stagist /Researcher, from August 2002 to March 2003

-         Completion of the conclusive academic thesis-work entitled “Investigation on Convective Thermal Exchange into the Martian Environment for NetLander Project” concerning with thermal design optimization of NetLander main module.

-         Validation of numerical models implemented into NetLander thermally simulative Master File. Comparative tests between experimental results and numerical predictions extrapolated from calculation. Correction and refining of numerical models.

-         Experimental results interpretation. Conjectures and explanations of physical phenomena observed. Final reports editing.

-         Thermal tests execution at DLR of Köln. Sensors installation, wiring looming and cabling of electrical connections. Vacuum-room technicians’ team briefing. Source data download and data graphing. Sensors’ temperatures trends laying-out.

-         Experimental phase design. Tools and sensors selection and dimensioning (thermocouples, resistors, heaters, etc.). PROENGINEER design of 3D models for mock-ups simulating NetLander’s electronic racks, electronic equipments and looms.

-         Analytical phase for the research among literature databases (internet, physics manuals and scientific publications) of existing predictive numerical models describing convective thermal exchanges phenomena. Functions depending on geometrical configuration of bodies involved. Simplified geometries and similarities with real environments, engineering simplifications and schematizations. ESATAN, ESARAD and MORTRAN numerical description of thermal-exchange-physical laws (flat horizontal plate vs vertical cylinder; flat vertical plate vs vertical cylinder, gap between vertical flat plates; etc.). ESATAN, ESARAD and MORTRAN numerical description of thermal finite elements and module meshing. Numerical description for:

o        Electronic equipments racks

o        Cables and looms of Electronic equipments

o        Module internal / external environment

o        Gas in-between rack gaps

o        Passive internal heating system

o        Active internal cooling system

o        Electronic Motherboards

-         Familiarization and study of NETLANDER project. Basic programming skills and fundamental principles knowledge acquisition. FORTRAN, MORTRAN and ESATAN main commands and libraries. Familiarization with thermal finite element numerical modeling. Upgrade and improvement of numerical Master File describing NETLANDER main module.

RESEARCH and DEVELOPMENT

Cutting systems and reworking processes for aluminum manufactured components. Numerical modeling of thermal convective fluxes. Improving systems for numerical thermal finite elements description of huge assemblies.

COMPUTER SKILLS and COMPETENCES

-         Thermal Calculation Software (ESATAN, MORTRAN, FORTRAN, ESARAD);

-         Structural Calculation Software (NASTRAN, MATLAB; ANSYS);

-         2-3D Design Software (PRO-ENGINEER; AUTOCAD; MATHCAD; MATLAB; SOLIDWORKS; CATIA (V5))

-         Office Software - Microsoft Office (e.g., MS-Word, MS-Excel, MS-PowerPoint, MS-Project; MS-Access; MS Outlook; Outlook Express; MS Paint; Adobe Photoshop; Adobe Acrobat; Paintshop);

-         Internet Software (Internet Explorer; Opera; Mozilla)

-         Programming (PASCAL, FORTRAN, MORTRAN, ESATAN. DOS, Windows, UNIX, Linux Visual-Basic)

ACCADEMICAL EXPERIENCE

-         IFP, Institute of Planethology, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität, Münster, NorthRein Westfallen (GER) August 2002 July 2003

Researcher at the Planethology Department..

MEMBERSHIPS

-         Italian National Job Board for Engineers of VARESE area. Membership from October 2006

-         Holder of Italian driving license for A & B categories (vehicle and motorcycles)

EDUCATION and TRAINING

-         Italian State qualification for Italian Notice Board Engineers enrolment, September 2003 – January 2004

The University of Pisa, Aerospace Engineering Faculty, Pisa

-         Aerospace Engineering Master Degree with a concentration in Space Engineering, September 1997 - April 2003

The University of Pisa, Aerospace Engineering Faculty, Pisa

Graduation Awarded with a score of 101/110, within the scheduled course duration of 5 years.

Final thesis-work title: “Investigation on Convective Thermal Exchange into the Martian Environment for NetLander Project”. Professor: Mr. Andrenucci Mariano.

FOREIGN LANGUAGES

-         English: skilled and professional proficiency. Improved during 1-year-lasting-period at the international space project group in Germany. Nowadays fluent use due to frequent meetings with customers and suppliers.

-         French: Good proficiency in oral and written language.

-         German: Basic level accrued during 1-year-lasting-period in Germany.

LICENSES and PATENTS

Conservatory “Diploma di Teoria e Solfeggio” (third year), ”Primo Esame di Chitarra Classica – Classical Guitar First Examination” (fifth year); NAUI diving first level (18 meters).

INTERESTS, HOBBIES & MORE

-         Sports: Water-polo (7 years D series of Italian championship); Swimming; Skiing; Diving; Tennis; Windsurfing (lake & seaside); Motorcycling

-         Hobbies: Classical guitar (fifth year conservatory equivalent level); reading; writing; painting; music composition; motorcycles

-         Military obligation: Exempt

-         Mobility: Worldwide

REFERENCES

Available upon request.