WORK EXPERIENCE
Period : 1 September 2010 – Present
Role of : MMFI Satellite Operator in the EARTH Observation Division
Company: Infoterra Ltd, Farnborough (United Kingdom)
Antenna pointing and AF (Acquisition Facility) monitoring
On request test of acquisition chain equipment (i.e. Short loop, Long loop etc)
Monitoring of Satellite data (HR and LR) acquisition
Contingency responses to Satellite Data Acquisition anomalies
Quality analysis of the Satellite data
XTPS (Envisat X-Band Telemetry Processing System ) monitoring
Monitoring of the levels 0 and High levels generation and archiving
Monitoring of Satellite data dissemination
Manual regeneration of level 0 data by Extps Systems
Monitoring of Satellite plans generation
Restore and backup of data .
Support to the engineering team for anomaly investigation
Monitoring of Earth Observation Data Dissemination System (DDS)
Operator on duty (ODO) for Emergency calls to the Esa International
Charter “Space and Major Disasters”
Generation of DAPs. A ”Data Access Portfolio” defines
the datasets that are made available to the GMES Services in response to their
requirements, for a certain period of time. It is based on agreements with theGMES Contributing Mission Entities.
Monitoring of the robotic tape archive (Store Sentry)
Basic Unix shell scripting
Period : 1 April 2007 – 31 July 2010
Role of : MMFI Satellite Operator in the EARTH Observation Division
Company : Serco S.p.a, Frascati -RM- (Italy)
Antenna pointing and AF (Acquisition Facility) monitoring
On request test of acquisition chain equipment (i.e. Short loop, Long loop etc)
Monitoring of Satellite data (HR and LR) acquisition
Contingency responses to Satellite Data Acquisition anomalies
Quality analysis of the Satellite data
XTPS (Envisat X-Band Telemetry Processing System ) monitoring
Monitoring of the levels 0 and High levels generation and archiving
Monitoring of Satellite data dissemination
Manual regeneration of level 0 data by Extps Systems
Monitoring of Satellite plans generation
Restore and backup of data .
Support to the engineering team for anomaly investigation
Monitoring of Earth Observation Data Dissemination System (DDS)
Operator on duty (ODO) for Emergency calls to the Esa International
Charter “Space and Major Disasters”
Period: 1 September 2004 – 31 March 2007
Role of : Acquisition Satellite Operator in the EARTH Observation Division
Company: Serco S.p.a, Frascati -Rm- (Italy)
Antenna pointing and AF (Acquisition Facility) monitoring
On request test of acquisition chain equipment (i.e. Short loop, Long loop etc)
Monitoring of the Envisat data(HR and LR) acquisition
Contingency responses to Satellite Data Acquisition anomalies
Quality analysis of the Satellite data
XTPS (Envisat X-Band Telemetry Processing System ) monitoring
Monitoring of the levels 0 and High levels generation and archiving
Monitoring of Satellite data dissemination
Manual regeneration of level 0 data by Extps Systems
Monitoring of Satellite plans generation
Restore and production of data (HR-LR)acquired at (Kiruna –Svalbard –Matera) stations.
Restore and backup of Envisat data
Reprocessing of the Envisat data using Gant software
Monitoring of Earth Observation Data Dissemination System (DDS)
Productions and disseminations on media of HR and LR data for all Esa customers
Period: 5 November 2001 – 31 August 2004
Role of : Shift Satellite Operator in EARTH Observation Division
Company: Serco S.p.a, Frascati - Rm- (Italy)
I worked on UNIX and VMS systems on local and remote sessions.
I performed every kind of restore and back-up of ERS SAR data on these machines.
For the ERS2 satellite I monitored the activities at different stations working
night and day shifts.
I scheduled the generation of acquisition data from the satellite.
On a daily basis I archived and retransmitted data to the stations.
I performed high rate and low rate productions for satellite images written to CD media and Exabyte tapes.
I ingested data from HDDT tapes and performed transcriptions to DLT tape format,
“screening” and “quick–look” of satellite images.
Working in the International Charter for Space and Major Disasters project, I performed the role of On Duty Operator, receiving requests for assistance following global disasters.
EDUCATION AND TRAINING
November 2006 – March 2007 English : standard A2 level
Provider: Lingua +, Roma (Italy)
23 November 2006 – 24 November 2006 Unix Shell scripting
Provider: Fata Informatica, Roma (Italy)
16 October 2006 – 20 October 2006 Linux System administration
Provider: Fata Informatica, Roma (Italy)
13 December 2004 – 17 December 2004 Web master basic
Provider: HTML, Roma (Italy)
09 December 2002 – 13 December 2002 Aix fundamentals
Provider: IBM, Roma (Italy)
September 1999 – April 2000 Advanced Programming language Visual Basic
Provider: Regione Lazio, Ciampino -Rm- (Italy)
October 1998 – April 1999 English Secretary and notion of Dos, Windows and Office
Provider: Regione Lazio, Ciampino -Roma- (Italy)
September 1990 – July 1996 High Science School Diploma
Provider: Liceo Scientifico V.Volterra, Ciampino -Rm- (Italy)
PERSONAL SKILLS
Mother tongue(s) Italian
Other language(s) : English
UNDERSTANDING SPEAKING WRITING
Listening: B1 Reading: B2 Spoken interaction: B2 Spoken production:B2 B2
Levels: A1/A2: Basic user - B1/B2: Independent user - C1/C2: Proficient user
Common European Framework of Reference for Languages
COMPUTER SKILLS
Communication Protocols:
TCP/IP, DNS, FTP, HTTP, Telnet, SSH
Programming languages:
Basic experience with C++ , V. Basic 6 and Fundamentals of Unix Shell scripting
Operating Systems:
WINDOWS, LINUX (Red Hat, Ubuntu),OPEN VMS ver. 7.1- 7.2.
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