Personal information

Nationality

Italian

Gender

Male

Work experience

• Dates (from – to)

07/2008 – ONGOING

• Name and address of employer

European Space Agency (ESA) - Esrin

Casella postale 64, Via Galileo Galilei, 00044, Frascati (RM), ITALY

• Type of business or sector

Earth Observation Payload Data Ground Segment System Engineering

• Occupation or position held

System Engineer in Facilities Management Office of Earth Observation Programme

• Main activities and responsibilities

1.        Harmonization and standardization activities of Earth Observation data. SAFE (Standard Archive Format for Europe, http://earth.esa.int/SAFE) has been developed in order to ensure long-term archiving and preservation. It acts as a standard format for archiving and conveying data. SAFE conforms to the ISO 14721:2003 OAIS (Open Archival Information System) reference model and related standards such as the emerging CCSDS/ISO XFDU (XML Formatted Data Units) packaging format. The main responsibilities in this framework are: project management and development of SAFE specification and related software (SAFE Toolbox, SAFE I/O Library, SAFE Converters, SAFE Publisher), collecting Users needs and preparing evolution plan, supporting SAFE Users community.

2.        Development and maintenance of ESA SAFE website (http://earth.esa.int/SAFE).

3.        Historical Archive Rationalization and Management (HARM). This system allows the conversion of current Earth observation satellite products from their original format to the specific SAFE format. It performs also an overlap compression by combining a set of overlapping products into a single non-overlapping product. It coordinates and monitors the various HARM activities, launching and stopping the processes that control the execution of these activities, monitoring their progress statuses, handling the flow of messages generated during the HARM system operation, and managing the activities interruptions. The main responsibilities in this framework are: responsible for setting up of the validation campaign, assembly integration and verification, deployment of the system in various ESA facilities, upgrade of the SAFE formats.

4.        MMFI Automatic Configuration System (MACS) framed within Multi-Mission Facility Infrastructure (MMFI) context. MACS is a configuration control system and provides an integrated environment to configure MMFI Elements, validate MMFI configuration files and propagate parameters changes automatically. The main responsibilities in this framework are: project management, monitoring the system development, system test, system deployment and training.

5.        MEOS (Multimission Earth Observation System) Polar system: acquisition and processing system for Earth observation satellites data (MODIS, AVHRR, SeaWiFS). The main responsibilities are: project development, quality control of output products during the development phase and check of products definition and specification, assembly integration and verification, deployment of the system in various ESA facilities, responsible for data acquisition and processing phase.

• Dates (from – to)

09/2007 – 06/2008

• Name and address of employer

Sapient  spa

6, Via A. Campanini, Milan, ITALY

• Type of business or sector

Information and Communication Technologies

• Occupation or position held

ICT consultant at Carige bank, Genoa, ITALY

ICT consultant at Finantix, Mestre (Venice), ITALY

• Main activities and responsibilities

Design and development of 3-tier web applications, concerning business activities of the client, in particular the on-line visualization of customers financial and non-financial status. Web Services development. Technologies and tools used:

·         Use of J2EE technologies: jsp, servlet, portlet.

·         Web Services development

·         MVC pattern implementation

·         Use of Javascript, Ajax, HTML, XML

·         DB2 database, SQL queries

·         IBM WebSphere Portal Server 5.1/6.0

·         IBM Rational Application Developer (RAD)

·         Eclipse

·         Finantix Studio                                        

• Dates (from – to)

11/2006 – 09/2007

• Name and address of employer

Eustema spa

7, Via Carlo Mirabello, Rome, ITALY

• Type of business or sector

Information and Communication Technologies

• Occupation or position held

ICT consultant at Telecom Italia spa

• Main activities and responsibilities

Support to production environment, resolve trouble tickets of production environment, development of web applications for on-line electronic bill visualization, development of shell scripts under Unix HP-UX environment.

·         Development of C language applications to transform large amount of data from one format to another

·         Update and development of applications for on-line electronic bill visualization of Telecom Italia customers

·         Development of shell scripts under Unix HP-UX environment

·         Use of Weblogic 8.1 to create new domains, managed servers and deploy applications

·         Use of eaDirect 3.4 to load post-billing data files into Oracle DB

·         Development SQL queries on Oracle 9i DB