Experience:

February 2010 – present, European Space Agency (ESA/ESRIN) Rome Italy:
• Planner and Administrative Assistant as Contractor for VEGA program;
• Responsible for SAP SRM (Fund Reservation, Shopping Cart, CCN, Purchase Order, etc.) management and data entry;
• Successfully completed two SAP courses for ESA Project Controllers;
• Participation in SAND BOXES held at ESA;
• ESRIN PGLS staff contact for resolution of SAP SRM related issues;

November 1993 - March 2009, Thales Alenia Space Italia.
April 2008 – March 2009, Process Manager:
• Collaboration with program manager regarding industrial units;
• Process and work flow coordination and cost control activities for project control department, target attainment analysis;
• Coordination and organization of weekly and monthly progress meetings for both internal groups and subcontractors;
• Export Control management and Export Control Plan document issue;
• Customer progress reports;
• Problem/group interface;
• Management of recovery actions.
March 1993 – March 2009, Project controller:
• Program management leader support;
• Estimated costs documentation regarding tenders;
• WBS and OBS definition;
• Product Tree preparation;
• Costs and working hours for Economic Plan split by cost accounts estimation;
• Annual budget and semester revision preparation;
• Monthly costs and associated costs for panning activities;
• Earned value management using both “cost to cost” and “milestone” methods;
• Costs and planning variances analysis and relative recovery actions;
• Progress reports preparation;
• Meetings and reviews with external subcontractors;
• Presentation of programming aspects during progress meetings with prime contractor;
• Planning management during satellite integration and test at French sites Toulouse and Cannes;
• Responsible for daily planning regarding launch campaign at Kourou (French Guyana);

Special programs assignments:
SICRAL 1B (military satellite) 2003 – 2009; Project Control of Space and Ground Segment: supervision of three assigned resources in collaboration with various industrial unit project controllers. From April 2008, Process Manager during the test campaign at Cannes premises (France);
DIANA (Antenna Nulling demonstrator) 2001 - 2003; Atlantic Bird 1 (Civil telecommunication satellite) and AMOS 2 (Payload for Israeli satellite- IAI-MBT client) as Program Project Controller in charge of coordinating support resources to the program office;
SICRAL (Italian military satellite) 1998 – 2001, planning of test campaign at INTERSPACE (Toulouse-France) and the launch campaign (Dec. 2000 - Feb. 2001) at Kourou (French Guyana);
Eutelsat W24, Hot Bird 3/4/5, Eutelsat W1R, Ressat (payload subsystems, antenna and transponder for commercial telecommunication satellite) 1995 - 1997, Senior Project Controller;
Nahuelsat (Payload for Argentine telecommunication satellite for central and south America) 1994 - 1995, junior Project Controller;
Italsat F2 (Italian telecommunication satellite) 1993 - 1994 support to Project Control.

Previous experiences:
• March 1989 - November 1993, E.A.E. S.p.A. Aprilia (Latina) Italy: laboratory team leader for military radio equipment production (RF 2-30 MHz) test driver at customer technical assistance department;
• November 1987 - March 1989, MAIN Srl Rome, IBM and Olivetti PC hardware technician.

Additional information:
• Knowledge of Win-project and Primavera planning tools;
• Knowledge and use of Microsoft Office, SAP-R3/ R3-enterprise and SAP SRM;
• Knowledge of English;

Education:
June 1984, 5 year high school diploma from “ITIS F. Severi” Rome Italy, state certified industrial electronic specialist.