Nationality

Italian

Desired employment / Occupational field

System Engineer

Work experience

From September 2010 to today
Payload System Engineer at OHB-System AG, Bremen, Germany

Galileo FOC Satellites:
In charge of onboard Navigation Signal chain (MISREC - PLSU - NSGU) and NAVSEC-PRS layer engineering.
Payload procurement oversee, I/F control, procedure and functionality engineering, AIT.
Ground Segment (GMS / GCS) to Space Segment Interface and requirements engineering.

From September 2008 to January 2009  
PhD intern, detached at a system and software house (Space & Defence sector)
c/o Selex-SI factory – Via G. Cesare 267, Bacoli (NA), Italy

Team working with company space unit. Development of RAIM algorithm using an innovative concept to improve GNSS RAIM availability in precision approach operation for civil aviation application. Activity within SENECA project for the customer SELEX-SI:
- Theoretical analysis of a novel RAIM theory, algorithm development, Matlab implementation and testing.
- Performance assessment respect to the standard RAIM algorithms.

From January 2006 to December 2006
Consultant - Assistant Researcher at Department of Applied Sciences (DSA) and Department of Information Technology (DiT), Università degli studi di Napoli, Naples, Italy

Within Servizi di posizionamento satellitare per l'e-government project, co-funded national project by Ministry of Research. This project was under the responsibility of Polytechnic of Milan.
- Part of activity was the setting up of an EGNOS monitoring station with remote functionality, responsible for receivers and HW management, data elaboration, analysis, results dissemination.
- Research on augmentation systems (particularly EGNOS), supporting the DiT of same University, development of a Matlab tool (named Markab) for EGNOS SIS performance monitoring (especially integrity and continuity of the service) for civil aviation applications, identification of Integrity/Availability of service anomalies and investigating them.
Sharing in projects launched by DSA in collaboration with external agency, such as:
- Survey EGNOS / Virtual GBAS within airport environment at Sicta (R&D consortium) factory, Naples airport.
- EGNOS-RTK dynamic experimentation, aboard of the oceanographic ship “Universitatis” of the Consorzio Nazionale Interuniversitario Scienze del Mare (CONISMA).

Education and training

From January 2007 – April 2010

PhD in Geodesy and Navigation at Università degli Studi di Napoli, Naples, Italy

- Research on Novel RAIM algorithm to improve the integrity availability in precision approach operation for civil aviation. Part of the activity is to exploit this RAIM algorithm in a GNSS multisystem integrity concept (Galileo + EGNOS + RAIM) to combine integrity information coming from GNSS systems with those computed at the user location.
- Attended the ESA International Summer School on Global Navigation Satellite Systems, organized by University FAF Munich and ISAE, 20 - 30 July 2009, Berchtesgaden, Germany.
- Matlab simulations on the achievable performances by GPS Augmentation systems, coverage and integrity availability analysis combining GPS, Galileo, Glonass, Geostationary and Geosynchronous constellations.
- Collaboration with Navigation & Integrated Communications Business Unit at Thales Alenia Space Italia, Rome, dealing with a first approach to the definition of GALILEO KPIs (Key Performance Indicators) and definition of monitoring methodologies.
- Dynamic survey planning RTK - EGNOS, in order to verify EGNOS capability for Full-Scale dynamic trials of HSC (High Speed Craft) ship units, collaboration with University Federico II, Naples.
- Support to the didactics on satellite navigation subjects.
Moreover I have a good system knowledge of all Navigation Systems used in air and maritime navigation, particularly towards satellites navigation systems such as GPS, GLONASS, augmentation systems, and their data elaboration / analysis for performance assessment. I have acquired familiarity with technical documents such as GPS ICD 200, RTCA MOPS Do229C/D, ICAO Annex 10.

From November 1997 to December 2005

MSc degree in Navigation Science with specialization in radio-navigation aspects
Faculty of Sciences and Technologies, Università degli Studi di Napoli, Naples

From the very beginning, my academic formation was focused in Radio Navigation for Air Navigation domain.
Navigation: Satellite Position Systems: GPS, Glonass; Radio-Navigation Systems: NDB/VOR/DME, ILS, MLS, TACAN, LORAN; Inertial Navigation Systems (INS); Flight Mechanics; Avionic Systems (capsule and gyroscopic instruments, synthesis instruments); Air Navigation (ATM, ATC, safety); Cartography and GIS.
Information Technologies: Signal theory, Antennas and waves propagation, Telecommunication systems, Radar systems, Satellite Remote Sensing.
Thesis degree, title: “GNSS Operational Validation – Monitoring and Validation of EGNOS Signal”. The thesis has been developed at Italian Air Navigation Service Provider, ENAV spa, Rome.

Award: I was classified 2th for the assignment of 3 degree awards conferred by Faculty of Sciences and Technologies to the best thesis in the Navigation field, among graduates in the three years 2003/04/05.

Personal skills

Mother tongue(s): Italian

Other language(s): English
Understanding  ->     Listening C1;                       Reading C1
Speaking ->                Spoken interaction C1;     Spoken production C1
Writing ->                  C1

 (*) Common European Framework of Reference for Languages

Social skills and competences:
- Member and contributor of the Italian Institute of Navigation.
- Member of Italian Aeroclub, RC airplanes division.
- Sail pupils instructor at Lega Navale (no profit Italian sailing association).
- Occasional contributor to the local news-papers.
I am a tenacious and creative person. Flexibility, adaptation and team spirit are my main qualities acquired in work environment and sport activities, such as: sailing practised also as instructor and at challenging level; diving in witch I have obtained PADI international licence, swimming.
I have good communicative skills and I would like to be introduced in an intellectually dynamic group. I’m fascinated by the matter of my studies for its continuous evolution and because it favours trips and international collaborations.
I am broadly available for job missions and to move where my skills are required.

Organisational skills and competences:
- I have supported the ENC GNSS 2009 European Navigation Conference Organizing and Technical Committee.
- In 2007 elected as PhD students delegate at Department Council (2 year position), Naples University.
- Teamworking
- Self motivation
- Punctuality

Technical skills and competences:
- Good expertise in Navigation Issues, includes space, air, maritime and terrestrial navigation. For their nature, these contents find application also in other sectors, with which there is a study interaction.
- GNSS systems, integrity concepts and Key Performance Indicators;
- Position and Integrity monitoring algorithms (RAIM);
- GNSS data manipulation and elaboration with Matlab.
- Space and Air Navigation;
- Flight and Orbital mechanics;
- Short and medium range radio navigation systems for civil aviation;
- ATC / ATM systems;
- GNSS applications;
- Surveys and mapping, georeferencing, surveying  and control (topography);
- Added-value navigation-related services and applications;

Computer skills and competences
Operating Systems:
- MS Windows 95/98/ME/2000/NT/XP/2003 – good knowledge;
- Linux/Unix based – basic knowledge;
Programming Languages:
- C/C++, Fortran – basic knowledge;
- Mathworks Matlab – good knowledge;
Software Applications:
- Eurocontrol Pegasus GNSS Tool - good knowledge;
- Adobe Acrobat, Photoshop – good knowledge;
- MS Office package (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook), MathType – good knowledge;
- MS Visio modelling;
- MS Project and GANTT open source software;
- LaTeX;
- Trimble Geomatics Office - good knowledge;
- Spectra Precision GeoGenius - good knowledge;

Artistic skills and competences:
Mediterranean colours and non verbal communication, through PowerPoint slides.
Amateur construction of Radio Controlled airplanes.

Driving licence: Driving licence A3 / B