From December 2000 to March 2001:Grant development at Alenia Aeronautica about study of Synthetic Vision System (SVS) using head up displays (HUDs) in civil aeronautical transports. The feasibility impact was done evaluating different visibility condition in critical phase of flight (Approach and Landing). In doing that two similar projects have been used which are NASA SVS project and AWARD SVS project (European). Apart from Alenia Aeronautica, the grant has been proposed by two other companies:

• CRF (Centro Ricerche FIAT), headquarter in Orbassano (Torino);
• CNR (Centro Nazionale delle Ricerche) headquarter in Rome.

From May 2002 to January 2003 (Alenia Corso Marche - Torino):

Employee of consultancy company, I have been working at Alenia Aeronautica, Flight Simulators Development Department (EFA 2000 and C27J). Later on, employed at EFA 2000 Avionics Navigation System Department at Alenia Aeronautica (SIMT) as system engineer.

From January 2003 to December 2006 (EADS Deutschland GmbH – ASTA IPT – Ottobrun - Manching)

As Alenia consultant, I have been working in Germany at EADS-D (European Aeronautics Defence & Space) for EF 2000 simulator (Aircrew Synthetic Training Aids). Employed at Ottobrunn (Munich) firstly and later on at Manching Air Force Base place. During that period of time, I have been covering the EF 2000 Navigation and Communication Subsystems responsibility (from technical point of view) as System Engineer. Besides this, I was responsible for aircraft Crew Escape subsystem as well.

This was for ASTA (Aircrew Synthetic Training Aids) simulator development (common EF 2000 simulator for all Eurofighter Partner Companies, EPCs).

In the System Engineering structure, I have been involved in producing and managing the relevant technical documentation (using DOORS tool), system requirements, simulator evaluation test procedures, major point of contact for all the involved nations, etc.

To do that, I am used to travel for attending to several meetings at the different EPCs.

During the ongoing program, revision and preparation of Technical Manuals (Acceptance Test Manuals – Manuals to be used for the acceptance of the end-to-end specific subsystem functional chains) for the aforementioned EFA SubSystems (NAV, COMMS, Spoken COMMS, Direct Voice Input and Crew Escape).

International meetings attendance as technical responsible for several aircraft subsystems (review, technical comments discussion with suppliers, document finalisation for ASTA simulator acceptance).

Meeting attendance with customers (NETMA – Nations) to discuss ATMs review and relevant comments.

Eurofighter pilot techniques acquisition (several flight hours on different Eurofighter ASTA Simulators) executing tests during integration and acceptance phases for different subsystems belonging to the aircraft and providing first goodness of the EF 2000 simulator behaviour to the operational factors (pilots)

Due to project ongoing integration activities (avionics subsystems), position of “System Owner” / “Tasks Leader” (integration tasks and acceptance responsibility) for the Engineering test and Factory Acceptance Test about NAV and ACS (Armament Control System). Getting in close touch with the most of project teams (required people for problem solving, organising the relevant activities at system level).

Defining EPCs support and man-hours needs for the relevant activities, when required.

Priority management of the relevant snags / issues / SPRs (System Problem Report) on the relevant subsystems functional chain.

Attending to SPRs investigations / analysis priorities and flight profiles (for solutions testing) to get properly to required milestones for delivering to the Customer - Nations.

Very good level of integration and relationship in International Team and personally motivated.

December 2006 – Present (EADS Deutschland GmbH – ASTA IPT - Manching)

Covering Avionics Functional Chain Integration Team Leader position on ASTA Simulator project for further Aircraft standard baseline development from EF2000 side with the following main responsibilities:

·      Technically supporting other IPT management activities, such as milestone achievement, audits, reviews, etc;

·      Support co-ordinating APCs (ASTA Partner Companies) integration activities at EPCs site and support planning and control at the JIF (Joint Integration Facility), such as (man power request, support PEM activity in identification of integration planning, evaluation of new candidates)

·      Brief on a daily basis to the ASTA Integration Supervisor for any Air Vehicle (AV) integration on-going activities interacting with all Environmental Simulation (ES) systems;

·      Support planning, co-ordinating and controlling the snags clearance activities resulting from testing at Engineering level, FAT, CAT, and in-service operation;

·      Supporting customer's technical problems;

·      Performing risk identification and analysis, and definition and performance of AV level mitigation tasks and activities;

·      Supporting other disciplines (Op-factors);

·      Ensure proper staff sharing to the ASTA Integration Supervisor for ASTA high level Integration activities;

·      Reporting on the integration activities status to Air Vehicle Manager, Senior Technical Manager and ASTA Integration Supervisor;

·      Investigation and reporting of any ASTA Air Vehicle test results discrepancy vs. A/C documentation (Flight Manuals, Flight Crew Checklist, etc.) leading to A/C documentation changes during testing (right ASTA behaviour vs. EFA docs.);

·      Support to maturity testing by performing initial end-to-end integration checks out activities resulting from SubSystem level integration;

·      Performing of the integration and testing of the AV sub-systems with one another with APC support if required;

·      Reporting to the relevant APCs the encountered major problems during integration (such as SW discrepancies, SPRs, etc.);

·      Modify the AV Simulation SW codes (minor changes) when necessary and inform the relevant APC of these changes (configuration control between APC configured SW and ASTA configured);

·      Supporting to ES Functional integration at the ASTA level;

·      Ensure active support to ASTA Integration Supervisor;

·      Provision of adequate staff to function as Shift Leader, coordinated by the ASTA Integration Supervisor and Program Manager.

·      Responsible of performing the complete integration (as a minimum) of the following Subsystems/Functional Chains:

o        General Systems – aircraft Proof of Match (as a deputy)

o        Navigation

o        Armament Control/ Weapon Aiming/Delivery/Scoring

o        Radio Communication

o        Integrated, Monitoring, Recording and Test / Mission Data Loading

o        Displays and Control

SCHOOL FORMATION1988-1993  Agricultural technical Institute of Voghera (Pv) Italy. Secondary high school qualified agricultural with vote of 57/60. 

1993-2000  Politecnico di Torino (Torino) (Italy) Degree in Aerospace Engineering (Flight Mechanical specialisation) with vote of 106/110 with the following degree thesis: “Performance optimisation of electrical sailplane with electrical power re-generation during cruise phase of flight”. I made the Fortran program for computer simulation and performance evaluation. 

Qualified to practise the Engineer profession Member of Professional register since 2003 (in Italy).

PERSONAL INTERESTS: Football player (goalkeeper), passionate of Astronomy, scientist books reader (cosmology, etc.) and American books (detective stories, etc.). Passionate of Air Forces and Air Shows.Good food and wine. 

Glider pilot.

INFORMATIC KNOWLEDGEMENT:

• Good Microsoft Office programs knowledge (Excel, Word, Power Point) and operative systems (Windows 98 & 2000 and similar, Windows NT, MS DOS, Unix)
• Good knowledge about FORTRAN programming language, which I did a simulating program for a glider with (degree thesis to analyse the glider performance in different phase of flight) 
• Basic level knowledge about ADA programming language (aircraft avionics systems)
• Requirements management software for system engineering (DOORS for databases)Unix basic knowledge.

LANGUAGE KNOWLEDGEMENT:

• School French language knowledge, studied for eight years during the inferior and high school;
• Good English language knowledge with attendance of course at “The International Language Centre”, with particular reference to technical English. Due to the job environment, language updating from written and spoken point of view (English colleagues);

School German language knowledge.