WORKING EXPERIENCE

May 2009 - Present
TECHITRA (various locations)
International Technology Transfer
Technology Manager (external consultant)

• international technology scouting and brokering: scouting technologies to be transferred to Italian market;
• technology transfer and support for Italian enterprises: supporting companies in transferring, implementing and developing technologies;
• technology marketing.

Sep. 2007 - Present
Liquidmetal SAGA Italy s.r.l. (via T. Edison 9 – 35010 Cadoneghe (PD) Italy)
Nanotechnology of amorphous metals
Innovation and Production Manager (external consultant)

• production management: planning, costing, pricing, people management;
• project management;           
• technical support: feasibility studies on new products and devices for exploitation of technology; pilot-projects; pre- and mass-production projects;
• design team management;
• technology market analysis;
• strategic business development;
• technology marketing;
• material innovation management: research activities for scouting and purchasing new materials to be used in production lines (nanotech oriented products).

       
Sep. 2005 – Jun. 2007
MaTech - Parco Scientifico Galileo (c.so Stati Uniti 14 – 35127 Padova Italy)
Business Consulting on innovative materials and technology transfer
Project Leader

• materials and technologies scouting and brokering;
• project management and leading: different industrial sectors (aerospace, electronics, energy, nanotechnologies, thin film coatings, amorphous metals, etc.);
• business consulting;
• business development: new businesses development within southern as northern-east regions of Italy;
• innovation marketing: promotion and spreading of innovation processes, holding of seminars, workshops and training courses for professionals.
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Sep. 2002 – Jan. 2005
CNR – ISSIA (via Amendola 122 D-O – 70126 Bari Italy)
National Research Council
Research fellow and Contract Researcher

• SAR (Synthetic Aperture Radar) data processing and handling;
• GIS data processing and handling;
• Algorithm implementation for Earth Observation purposes.

EDUCATION AND TRAINING

Oct. 2006
Promostudio (Private training company)
Lateral Thinking and Creativity
Expert on Lateral Thinking, creativity and problem solving
       
Jan 2005 – Dec 2005
CIVEN (consortium belonging to Università Cà Foscari of Venice)
Nanotechnology (65%) and Business Administration (35%)
Master degree on Nanotechnology (one year MBA equivalent)
       
Years 1995 – 2003
Università degli Studi di Bari
Specialization on Electronics, Technical Instrumentation, Electromagnetic waves, Remote Sensing and data                                                         processing.
Degree on Physics (MSc equivalent)


PERSONAL SKILLS AND COMPETENCES

MOTHER TONGUE:                        ITALIAN

OTHER LANGUAGES:
        ENGLISH
                          Reading skills        FLUENT
                          Writing skills           FLUENT
                          Verbal skills            FLUENT
        FRENCH
                          Reading skills        FAIR
                          Writing skills           POOR
                          Verbal skills            POOR

SOCIAL SKILLS AND COMPETENCES

Excellent interpersonal skills. Entrepreneurial mind with ability on negotiating and persuading audience. Team work oriented, self-starter when needed. Very dynamic, highly adaptable, quite, diplomatic, and enthusiastic by nature. Highly creative. Very good problem solver and lateral thinker.

ORGANISATIONAL SKILLS AND COMPETENCES

Able in coordinating and organising working teams. Leadership aptitude, with good analytical, decisional and practical skills. Result oriented with maximum care and diligence in optimising times, methods and resources. Able to work in stressful and strictly scheduling situations. Strongly open-minded and continuously interested in exchanging of opinions.

TECHNICAL SKILLS AND COMPETENCES

Common Software and OS: Windows Office (very good), Corel Draw (good), Macromedia Flash (basic), CATIA V5 (basic), Linux (good), MS-Dos and UNIX (basic commands), HTML language (basic), MS Project (good).
Remote Sensing Software: ENVI (very good), ArcGIS (good), ArcView (good), ERMapper (good), DORIS (very good), ERDAS (basic); Matlab (good), C (basic).



ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

REFERENCES            

On request

CHALLENGES AND AWARDS        

- I won a scholarship for attending IMN master course
- I won a scholarship for attending my internship at MaTech
- I participated at Nanochallenge in 2005 indeed by Veneto Nanotech (business plan competitions for                                                                                 starting-up of nano-tech companies)
- I applied for ESA’s astronauts selection on June 2008

THESIS AND PUBLICATIONS       

- Thesis: Differential SAR Interferometry application for studying glacier displacement
- IGARSS 2005: Radar Interferometry and GIS Data Integration To Measure Glacier’s Displacement Velocity (N. Veneziani, V. Martino Giacovazzo, A. La Vopa, G. Lopez and V. Ortolano)
- Italian Technical Design magazine: seven technical columns on innovative materials and technologies for industrial designing purposes (magazine name: “Il progettista industriale”)
- 12th International Conference on Technology Policy and Innovation (ICTPI): Easy to use methods for Valuation of Intellectual Property should facilitate open innovation, knowledge diffusion and have implications for private and public sectors (A. Ranaulo, D. Napolitano, B. Garavelli, A. La Vopa, F. D’Ambrosio, L. Iavarone, M. Iacobelli)