Mechanical Engineer

Master in General Management (Finmeccanica BEST)

University Degree (Laurea – Mechanical Engineering, Politecnico of Torino)

January  2007                 Altair Engineering training on Radioss transient analysis & related HyperMesh interfaces

December 2006             Altair Engineering training on HyperMesh & LS-DYNA

November 2006              Alcatel Alenia Space corporate course on “Space Systems – Infrastructures and Transportation”.

November 2005              Attended MSC seminar on non-linear analysis (SOL106, SOL129 and SOL600)

April 2005                      Completed Finmeccanica BEST (Master in General Management) – ranked 2^nd out of 16 participants, coming from various Finmeccanica Group companies

January 2005                 Short course (two days) on “Introduction to Random Vibro-Acoustics”, held by Prof. J.P. Coyette at Free Field Technologies premises (Louvain-La-Neuve, Belgium)

September 2004            Attended corporate course on “Spacecrafts mechanical environment and design loads definition”.

June 2004                     Short course (one day) on Digital Signal Processing using SIMULINK, held by The Mathworks Corporation engineers

November 2003              Selected for Alenia Spazio PLUS project (development of information sharing across corporate sites and internal communications). Kickoff meeting held in Tivoli (Rome) on November the 19^th.

November 2003              Attended corporate course (at IDEA Informatica premises) about MS Access base / intermediate use

October 2003                 Selected for Finmeccanica BEST project (Master in general management). Master kickoff held in Rome October the 15^th, expected duration 18 months

October 2003                 Attended corporate course (at IDEA Informatica premises) about MS Word and Excel advanced use

December 2002             Attended Alenia Spazio corporate course on MSC NASTRAN matrixes reduction techniques (GUYAN, Craig-Bampton)

November 2002              Attended Alenia Spazio corporate course on Structural Dynamics (Structural and acoustics random vibrations, coupled loads analysis, shock analysis, test campaign development)

February 2002               Attended Alenia Spazio corporate course on MSC NASTRAN basics

July 2001                      Attended Alenia Spazio corporate course on "Business and Economics" (corporate accounting, project financing, costs control)

November 1995             "Esame di stato", (needed to join Engineers' Order) passed at Politecnico of Torino

February 1995               Mechanical Engineering degree, score 95/110

1994 - 1995                   Thesis development: "Actuators for mobile robots: electromechanical and non conventional solutions" (tutor: Prof. Giancarlo Genta). Thesis was about studying the possible employment of elastomeric materials as part of robotic actuators, as opposed to conventional devices like pneumatic cylinders, wires, oil cylinders. To perform the necessary tests, a small test bench was built, featuring a hand-made encoder, a couple of elastomeric cylinders, a load cell, a hand-made card to process signals coming from the encoder, and of course the software necessary to display the results (written originally in Pascal and then converted to C).

1988 - 1993                   Mechanical Engineering university course at Politecnico of Torino, specialization in business economics and management. Apart from classical engineering disciplines like structures, fluid dynamics, motors, etc., economic disciplines were included, like marketing, micro and macro economy, etc.

1988                             High school degree, score 58/60 at Liceo Scientifico Statale "Carlo Cattaneo" - Torino

English                                    excellent

French                         basic knowledge

February 2002               Moved to Alenia Vibro-Acoustics team as Vibro-Acoustics specialist. New duties include Audible Noise analysis, Micro-G assessment, Shock and Random Vibration analysis, in the frame of International Space Station Nodes program, and other Alenia programs (mainly satellites). The job is carried out by means of Finite Elements code (NASTRAN), Statistical Energy Analysis code (AutoSEA), pre and post processing of data in Excel, internally developed software (written in VBA and Matlab mainly).

January 1998                 Joined ALENIA - Space Division in Torino, assigned to Nodes 2 and 3 (International Space Station) program as Technical manager of all external interfaces of MPLM, Node 2 and Node 3, developed and built by Alenia Spazio for the International  Space Station. Also responsible for the requirements of both Nodes, at element level. The work encompasses technical evaluation of all interface aspects, including mechanical, thermal and avionic performances, aiming at integrity and consistency of the external interfaces. The work is carried out with coordinated involvement of all engineering disciplines in Alenia, as well as involvement of international agencies and industries participating in the Space Station program, including NASA, Boeing, NASDA (today JAXA), ESA, Astrium and MD Robotics. To allow efficiently achieving the work goals with minimum human resources, I developed a comprehensive web site (visible only from Alenia intranet) to collect and make visible all data related to both Nodes.

December 1996             Worked in Italy as Customer Service Engineer (Installation, technical support and personnel training on ANCA machines)

Sept 1996 - Dec 1996     Training at ANCA Pty Ltd - Melbourne (Australia) on CNC (Computer Numerically Controlled) grinding machines (cylindrical and punch grinders, resharpening machines). Training was aimed at building a general knowledge of the machines, ranging from mechanical parts installation and replacement, to diagnostics on servo drives and power distribution units, to commissioning the machine (hence setting up all the required parameters), to procedures of software update (being the whole CNC software developed on a QNX platform).

November 2005              Participation to Finmeccanica Study Tour, awarded following Finmeccanica BEST successful completion. Companies visited: European Space Agency Headquarters (Paris, F), Alcatel Headquarters (Paris, F), Centre de Recherche en Gestion (CRG – Ecole Polytechnique – Paris, F), BAE systems SEIC (Systems engineering and innovation center – Loughborough, UK), Agusta Westland (Yeovil, UK), Airbus (Filton, UK), Rolls-Royce (Derby, UK).

October 2005                 Participation as speaker to EuroPAM 2005, Potsdam – Germany (conference organized by ESI group). Presentation title: “Alcatel Alenia Space Vibro-Acoustic Optimization Design of Space Systems With Advanced SEA Approach – Industrial Applications”.

October 2003                 Awarded by NASA for “Recognition of NASA/ESA/ASI/Alenia/Boeing team’s outstanding performance in integrating/testing and closing of the design verification requirements of Node 2 prior to NASA’s acceptance of the flight unit”. Award presented by Steve McClard, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center Nodes assistant program manager.

October 2003                 Awarded by NASA for “Recognition of NASA/ASI/Alenia/Boeing team’s outstanding performance in successfully completing the Node 3 Design Review 2 critical to continued development of the Node 3”. Award presented by Alan Adams, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center Node 3 program manager.

May 2003                      Awarded by NASA for “Resounding success of Node#2 audible noise, microgravity and human vibration test”. Award presented by Kenneth Mitchell, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center Nodes program manager.

October 2001                 Awarded with the "Group Achievement Award" as outstanding contributor to the successful completion of Node#2 Design Review #2. Award presented by Kenneth Mitchell, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center Nodes program manager.

Mar 1995 – Jun 1996     A.U.C. course (Army Officers) at "Scuola di Artiglieria Contro Aerei di Sabaudia (LT)" (Anti-Aircraft Artillery School): ranked 8th out of 111 participants. Service as Second Leutenant at 1st Regiment, Mountain Artillery, Brigata Alpina "Taurinense" (Alpine Brigade "Taurinense") based in Fossano (CN), "Stinger" Battery (NATO AMF force), Stinger platoon commander.

Experiences:                1988 - MEMOTEC course on mnemonic techniques and rapid reading

Computer Skills:            Experience as user of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, MS Internet Explorer, AutoCad (2D), Turbo C, Turbo Pascal, Visual Basic for applications, Netscape Navigator, Solid Works, Star Office/Open Office, Matlab, HTML editors like 1st Page 2000, Visual Basic, InterLeaf, CATIA V4 (basic user), LINUX (Red Hat and Fedora Core), Femap 8.0, 8.1 and 8.3, FTP software, NASTRAN, AutoSEA2

Travels:                         France, Germany, USA, Australia, Canada, South Africa, French West Indies, French Polinesia, Belgium, Russia, Mexico, Scotland, The Netherlands

Sport:                           indoor volleyball (regional level, "serie C"), tennis, downhill ski, basketball (amateur level)