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Nov 2008 to present |
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Change Manager within the ESA Frame Contract “Operations and Maintenance of the Earth Observation Payload Data Ground Segment (EO PDGS)”. Service Evolution Manager within the ESA Frame Contract “Operations and Maintenance of the Earth Observation Payload Data Segment”.
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· Management of the System Design and Sw Engineering teams (11 staff) · Management of 30 SW maintenance sub-contractors · Management of the Maintenance of 140 applications of the ESA EO PDGS · Responsible to meet Application Maintenance KPIs · Define and implement Change Management and Transfer To Operations processes · Spokesperson at the customer Joint Change Control Board (CCB) · Chairman of Operations CCB · Ensure smooth transition of new systems into operations · Maintain a Master Schedule of on-going and planned activities on all operational systems · Responsible for analyzing the Service Processes, Service Performance Indicators and identify improvements, both in terms of processes and in terms of HW/SW architecture, design and functionality · Coordination and Project Management of the Serco SW development projects · Definition of requirements for a corporate Document Management System · Contribution to the definition of the Technical Solution for the EOFC re-bid · Contribution to the “System AIV” technical proposal for the GALILEO FOC WP1 bid: definition of System AIV scope, approach, methods, team and definition of the WBS and detailed WPDs As a part-time member of the Business Development Team, act as a Technical Solution Architect for several bids |
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Serco Ltd, via Sciadonna 24/26 – 00044 Frascati (Italy) |
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Space
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Feb 2007 - Oct 2008 |
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Galileo System AIV Engineer Galileo System Design Engineer |
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Thales-Alenia Space, via Saccomuro 24, 00131 Roma (Italy) |
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Space
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Dec 2000 - Jan 2007 |
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Ground Control System Engineer Spacecraft Operations Engineer System Operations Engineer |
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· As Deputy Team Leader of the System Operations Team, responsible for selected system operations issues: development of system procedures, co-ordination of activities between the various facilities, planning, co-ordination and execution of the Meteosat Second Generation (MSG) Operational System Validation · Analysis of the entire MSG System (Spacecraft, Central Facility, Ground Stations, Image Processing, Meteorological Products Production, Dissemination, Archiving, Data Collection Platforms). · Review of all high-level documentation (original system requirements, Operational Services Specifications, Reference Operations Plan) versus the actual implementation: identification of weaknesses, bottlenecks, unnecessary complications and proposals for improvements of several interfaces. · Coordination of all activities related to automated and manual system procedures: a system-level perspective was used to improve and harmonise the various system-level procedures and to train the operations personnel on the various levels of responsibility they are supposed to assume, in order to guarantee a common understanding of the way the system has to be operated. Experts of the various facilities were guided in the writing of the facility-level and system-level manual procedures. · Transmission of new operations management policies to all members of the operations team, from engineers through analysts to controllers. · Planning, coordination and execution of the MSG-2 Operational Scenarios, including rehearsals of all nominal and contingency system operations with 2 MSG spacecraft. · Act as central point of contact for all facility experts for all system-level issues. · Training to MSG and MTP controllers in the area of CF operations. · Responsible for the Service Chains tests for the MSG-2 Commissioning (mainly data dissemination tests). Test Plan and Test Specification prepared, with special attention to the design of effective measurement methods for Availability and Timeliness of the various products. · Data-Handling Subsystem and O-Board Software (OBSW) Spacecraft Operations Engineer for the MSG-1 spacecraft, from the OpsPrep phase through the Commissioning Phase to the Routine Ops phase (including on-call support). · MSG-1 Spacecraft Operations Team Leader. · Analysis of the spacecraft Flight Operations Manual, development and validation of nominal and contingency flight procedures, for Data-Handling H/W, OBSW and spacecraft-system-level. Development and validation of System Validation Test (SVT) specific procedures. Execution of SVTs. · Test Conductor for the MSG-1 spacecraft commissioning tests (platform and payload functionality): development of a Test Plan and Test Specifications, coordination of the execution of the tests: · Results and off-line analyses collected in the “MSG System Commissioning Platform Report”, · On-call Spacecraft Operations Engineer for the first phase of MSG-1 Routine Operations · Requirements definition for the MSG Central Facility (CF), with focus on “Special Spacecraft Support Functions” (s/w applications within the Control System that would help the creation of telecommands to and processing of telemetry from the various applications of the OBSW, like monitoring and reconfiguration, thermal control, satellite synchronisation, memory management, oversampling, on-board time-tag queue). Requirements analysis and descoping proposals. · Development of a stand-alone s/w tool to import OBSW patches (delivered by the spacecraft manufacturer) and create a sequence of commands for uploading to the spacecraft: the tool was used during MSG-1 SVT. · Support was provided throughout the entire procurement process, actively participating in technical discussions with the CF contractor to clarify operational needs and explain the spacecraft documentation to the team of s/w developers. · Development and execution of Acceptance Test Procedures, test of new s/w releases and NCR fixes. · Training of the operations team on the various functionality of the CF. · Support to Operational Scenarios (simulations): set-up of the spacecraft simulator for the different required scenarios (e.g. eclipses, manoeuvres, contingencies ,etc..) · Development of off-line tools for the Spacecraft Operations Team, e.g. a TC-List-Tool that imports Command History files from the CF and outputs TC-List files for import by the Spacecraft Manufacturer into the EGSE, for SVT execution: the tool was used to prepare all TC lists used for the MSG-2 SVT |
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EUMETSAT, Eumetsat-Allee 1, D-64295 Darmstadt (Germany) |
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Apr 1997 – Dec 2000 Duty Scientist Ground Segment AIV Engineer Spacecraft Control System Project Manager
· Team Leader of the Ground Segment Support Team for the launches of the ARTEMIS and SICRAL satellites, responsible for o Design and development of the ARTEMIS InControl Raw Telemetry Playback functionality. o Design and development of the ARTEMIS Telemetry Storage and Retrieval tool. o Ground-Segment-Support during the ARTEMIS SSVT and simulation campaign (ARTEMIS LEOP simulations). · SW Configuration Manager of the ARTEMIS development environment · Co-ordination of SW engineers to meet the Satellite Control System SW requirements, building and installing new SW releases; configuration control by means of the CVS tool. · Writing and testing Software Validation Test procedures, strong debugging and troubleshooting skills. · Spacecraft Control System Manager of the SATELCOM program (LEOP and commissioning services of EUTELSAT’ s Atlantic Bird – 1, digital TV broadcasting satellite) · Design and implementation of a gateway between Telespazio SCS for A-Bird LEOP and Eutelsat SCS for A-Bird GEO: TCP/IP – X.25 conversion and reprocessing of Ground Station Data Units. · Design and implementation of Telespazio SCS upgrade for Multi-Mission support. · Writing the Atlantic Bird-1 Spacecraft Control System User Requirements Document · Preparation of the Critical Design Review (CDR) · Spacecraft Control System Manager of the SICRAL satellite during the pre-operational phase (Launch – 3 months) · Project Manager of the SATELCOM Program (LEOP and commissioning services of EUTELSAT’ s Atlantic Bird – 1, digital TV broadcasting satellite · Near-real-time analysis of scientific payload data at the Beppo-SAX (low-earth-orbit Satellite for X-ray Astronomy) Scientific Operation Centre, Rome. · Detection of Gamma Ray Bursts (GRB) events, correlation with known sources, alerting optical ground-based telescopes for fast follow-up observations. · Satellite subsystems and payload monitoring. Image quality analysis, preliminary rectification and data manipulation. Customisation and Upgrading of the data-analysis software of the Scientific Operation Centre. · Work Element (WE) Manager for the EUCLID (European Collaboration for the Long-term in Defence) Research and Technology Project 9.8: “Satellite Surveillance” o WE#1: Evaluation of a Compact System for a Satellite Control Centre: new HW and SW technologies for the monitoring & control activities of a compact satellite control centre, possibly transportable. · WE:#2: New Technology for Integrated Fault Management in a Satellite Ground Segment Environment: Maximising the Availability and Reliability of critical subsystems in satellite control centre, Design of an Integrated Fault Management Subsystem in a Satellite Ground Segment.
Telespazio SpA, via Tiburtina 965, 00156 Roma (Italy) Space
Apr 1996 – Feb 1997 Sub-lieutenant of the Italian Army
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Electronic Warfare Center Military
Nov 1995 – Apr 1996 Researcher
Development of numerical simulation codes on VMS and UNIX platforms for N-body simulations and hydrodynamic simulations and their comparison with analytical stability criteria
International Centre for Relativistic Astrophysics, Piazzale Aldo Moro 5, 00185 Roma (Italy) Research |
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1995 |
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Laurea Degree in Physics (110/110) |
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Gravitational Stability and Instability of Classical and Relativistic Self-gravitating Systems |
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University of Rome “La Sapienza”
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1998 |
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Course of Satellite Communication |
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Satellite Communications |
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Telespazio SpA
1999 Introduction to G2 Course on Gensym’s G2 real-time expert system
Telespazio SpA
2010 ISO14000 Internal Auditor ISO14000 Internal Auditor certification course
Serco SpA
2010 ITIL V3 Service Management- Foundation
ITIL V3 Service Management- Foundation Certification course
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Italian |
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English |
Self-assessment |
Fluent |
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German |
Self-assessment |
Fair |
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French |
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Basic understanding |
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· Experience in international, multi-cultural environment, gained though my work experience abroad · Team player · Sense of humour |
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· Team management · Time management · Set-up of new projects and teams · Budget Control · Project Management · Technical Solution Architect for bids
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· Satellite Control Center SW procurement, specification, design, development, validation, operation and Maintenance · Satellite Operations preparation and execution · Ground Segment SW procurement, specification, design, development, validation, operation and maintenance · System Operations · System Engineering · Configuration Management · Quality Assurance · Knowledge of ECSS standards and System Engineering standards · ITIL Service Management
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VBA, SQL, Microsoft Office suite |
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Artistic skills and competences |
· Piano and keyboards (studied 10 years, set-up own band, played on TV, turned down recording contract) · Writing (hobby) |
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Table tennis, swimming, hiking and trekking |
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Driving licence |
Italian driving licence (car)
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Additional information |
Awards: · Awarded in 1998 with the “Bruno Rossi Prize” from the High Energy Astrophysics Division of the American Astronomical Society. · Awarded in 2001 an appreciation certificate from ESA Earth Observation Division and Director General for the contribution to the launch of the MSG-1 satellite Publications: · “X-Ray Spectral Evolution of MKN421 in a very high state”, V. Torroni et al., Astrophysical Letters & Communications, Vol.39, Proceedings of the Third Integral Work shop: The Extreme Universe. 1999 · “The Gamma Ray Burst X-Ray Counterpart Detection and Positioning at the BeppoSax Scien-tific Operations Center with the Extended Science Mode”, V. Torroni et al., Astrophysical Let-ters & Communications, Vol.39, Proceedings of the Third Integral Workshop: The Extreme Universe. 1999 · “The Ground Segment Facilities of the BeppoSAX mission”, V. Torroni et al., Astrophysical Letters & Communications, Vol.39, Proceedings of the Third Integral Workshop: The Extreme Universe. 1999 · “The BeppoSAX Mission Planning Component”, V. Torroni et al., Astrophysical Letters & Communications, Vol.39, Proceedings of the Third Integral Workshop: The Extreme Universe. 1999 · “The BeppoSAX Scientific Operations Center”, V. Torroni et al., Astrophysical Letters & Communications, Vol.39, Proceedings of the Third Integral Workshop: The Extreme Universe. 1999 · “On Atomic Ionization by Compression” V. Torroni, R. Ruffini, G. Spoliti, Il Nuovo Cimento B, 1997, Vol. 112 B, N.2-3 · “A relativistic extended Fermi-Thomas-Like equation for a self-gravitating system of fermions”, A.Merloni, R.Ruffini, V.Torroni, Il Nuovo Cimento Vol.113 B, N.2., 255-263, Feb 1998. · ‘Jeans Mass and White Dwarf Theory”: V. Torroni, proceedings of the 4th Italian-Korean meeting of Relativistic Astrophysics, held at the laboratories of the National Institute of Nuclear Physics, Gran Sasso, July 9th 7-13 1996 |
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