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CV: Senior Spacecraft Operation Engineer
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Personal information |
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Nationality |
Italian |
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Date of birth |
2 Jul 1971 |
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Gender |
Male |
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Work experience |
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Dates |
1 Sep 1999 - 1 Feb 2001 |
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Occupation or position held |
Technical Adviser |
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Main activities and responsibilities |
I.T. consulting company Technical Adviser. Experience on Industrial Automation responsible for project management, system design and requirements, software development and maintenance contracts once system delivered to final customer. Specialization in Production Line on-field data acquisition via PLCs controllers and implementation of Artificial Intelligence Visions Systems for quality control tasks. |
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Name and address of employer |
T.I.M. Informatica Milano (Italy) |
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Type of business or sector |
Industrial Automation |
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Dates |
1 Feb 2001 - 1 Sep 2002 |
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Occupation or position held |
Software Engineer |
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Main activities and responsibilities |
Junior software engineer developer for RadarSat 2 ground segment and EGSE test equipments. Software requirement specification, Software design and development with particular reference to technical applications, databases and operating systems for the RadarSat 2 CDMU and SSMM On Board Software.
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Name and address of employer |
ALENIA SPAZIO MILANO (LABEN) Vimodrone - MILANO (Italy) |
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Type of business or sector |
Aerospace |
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Dates |
01/09/2002 - 20/09/2004 |
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Occupation or position held |
Project Leader for RadarSat2 ground segment. |
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Main activities and responsibilities |
RS2 Ground Segment project management responsible for architectural design phase, procurement process, development cycle and system integration and testing. Responsible for customer in-site training and hand-over maintenance support of the RS2 EGSE equipment to ALENIA SPAZIO ROME. LABEN in-site responsible for AIT and system level integration, verification and validation of the RS2 ground segment. Participation to the RS2 - AIV campaign in ALENIA SPAZIO ROME.
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Name and address of employer |
ALENIA SPAZIO MILANO (LABEN) Vimodrone - MILANO (Italy) |
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Type of business or sector |
Aerospace |
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Dates |
20 Sep 2004 - 1 Jan 2008 |
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Occupation or position held |
Mars Express - DMS and OBSM Engineer (ESOC) |
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Main activities and responsibilities |
MEX Flight Control Team member prime responsible for Data Handling and On Board Software Maintenance activities. Mission Planning engineer and member of an internal task force aimed to review the Short Term Planning process with the scope to shorten, automate and simplify the whole mission planning concepts. Spacecraft Operations Coordinator, responsible for the on-board spacecraft activities planning and on-call engineer. In charge for MARSIS instrument commissioning campaign. |
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Name and address of employer |
VEGA Deutschland GmbH & Co. KG Europaplatz 5, 64293 Darmstadt (Germany) |
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Type of business or sector |
Aerospace |
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Dates |
01/01/2008 → Today |
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Occupation or position held |
ROSETTA - Flight Control System Engineer (ESOC) |
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Main activities and responsibilities |
Spacecraft Operations Engineer member of the ROSETTA Fight Control Team. · Extensive experience in all SC avionic subsystems. · In charge of preparation for mission flight operations. · Provide operations support to the Spacecraft Operations Manager in defining and executing nominal and contingency mission operations (Earth SwingBy, Asteroid FlyBy, Payload checkouts, Deep Space Hibernation phase, Comet approach and Science phase, Lander Delivery), both at system and subsystems level involving ground and space segments. · Maintain and validate Flight Control and Contingency Recovery Procedures for ground and spacecraft based operations. · Develop and operate OBSM facilities, tools, processes, and procedures as required by the mission and its evolution. · Provide support to the maintenance team of the ground segment, following up developments, evolution and validation of the various subsystems. · Leading and participating in relevant technical meetings with Project, ESOC support teams, Science Operations Centre, Industry and Principal Investigators. · Daily Monitoring and Analysis of spacecraft data as well as payload operations. · Solid knowledge of spacecraft avionic and Ground Segment subsystems including Mission Control System (SCOS2K), Mission Planning System, Spacecraft Simulator (SIMSAT), Network Interface System, Ground Station. · Coordinator for SCOS2K virtualisation and SUN Solaris10 porting project. · Member of a task force involving ESOC Flight Dynamics and AST France aimed to define a new AOCMS Hybrid Mode that would insure 3-axis attitude control also in case of loss of multiple reaction wheels. My roles within the task force encompassed requirements specification, document design review, SW code review, unit / functional / system level testing. · Requirement specification, Planning and Test engineer for Rosetta Lander Delivery in-flight operations.
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Name and address of employer |
VEGA Deutschland GmbH & Co. KG Europaplatz 5, 64293 Darmstadt (Germany) |
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Type of business or sector |
Aerospace |
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Dates |
01 January 2009 → 31 December 2009 |
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Occupation or position held |
SEISOP - Testing and Validation engineer |
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Main activities and responsibilities |
Involvement in the specification and design phase of the Space Environment Information System for Operations as part of the overall project Space Situational Awareness. Responsible for implementation, integration and system validation of the system.
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Name and address of employer |
VEGA Deutschland GmbH & Co. KG Europaplatz 5, 64293 Darmstadt (Germany) |
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Type of business or sector |
Aerospace |
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Education and training |
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Dates |
01/07/1990 |
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Title of qualification awarded |
Engineering Diploma in Electronic and Informatics |
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Name and type of organisation providing education and training |
Leonardo Da Vinci (Technical School) Carate Brianza - MILANO (Italy) |
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Level in national or international classification |
Engineering Diploma |
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Dates |
01/09/1991 - 01/04/1998 |
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Title of qualification awarded |
Master Degree in Computer Science Engineer and Process Control |
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Name and type of organisation providing education and training |
Politecnico di Milano (University)
Piazza Leonardo da Vinci, MILANO (Italy) |
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Level in national or international classification |
Engineering Master Degree |
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Dates |
1997 |
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Title of qualification awarded |
MatLab and SimuLink Intermediate course level |
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Name and type of organisation providing education and training |
Politecnico di Milano |
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Dates |
2001 |
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Title of qualification awarded |
UML and OMG software architecture design |
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Name and type of organisation providing education and training |
ALENIA SPAZIO MILANO |
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Dates |
2002 |
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Title of qualification awarded |
Space Project Management Course |
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Name and type of organisation providing education and training |
ALENIA SPAZIO MILANO |
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Dates |
2004 |
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Title of qualification awarded |
TeamBuilding: High Performance team and efficient communication skills |
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Name and type of organisation providing education and training |
ESOC Seminar |
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Dates |
06 June 2008 |
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Title of qualification awarded |
Project Management Course – MS Office application |
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Name and type of organisation providing education and training |
VEGA Deutschland GmbH & Co. KG |
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Dates |
23 September 2009 |
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Principal subjects / occupational skills covered |
RAMS and FMECA workshop. |
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Name and type of organisation providing education and training |
ESOC seminar |
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Dates |
February 2011 |
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Principal subjects / occupational skills covered |
Project Management course – PRINCE 2 methodology. |
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Name and type of organisation providing education and training |
APMG International – PRINCE2 Foundation and Practitioner certification |
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Personal skills and competences |
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Mother tongue(s) |
Italian |
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Other language(s) |
English, Spanish, German |
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Social skills and competences |
Town Assessor in Sport and Culture from1990 till 1995 in Triuggio – MILANO. President of the “Gruppo Alpini Triuggio”. 1998-2002 Vice coordinator of the district political party. 2000-2004 Deliver lectures about the space business, for motivating the enthusiasm of the children at primary and secondary schools. |
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Organisational skills and competences |
I am a highly motivated and proactive team player who can manage high levels of pressure and stress being able to always perform at my best and provide the topmost solutions to colleagues, customers and users. Throughout my career I acquired team leading and managing skills and my goal is to help and support the environment I work on by delivering always the best performance and top level service aiming to see my role and responsibilities grow together with my proven results. I am an enthusiastic, open, analytic and persevering person. I put a great care in the details and never give up until problem are really solved. I am regularly attending training activities about ground segment and spacecraft avionics. I am currently following MBA on-line courses aimed to gain understanding of business strategy, finance, operational management and organisational methods to manage projects in a competitive and profitable way. With these tools and my natural entrepreneurial attitude, I will be keen and open to new opportunities and challenges within project and business managerial role. |
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Technical skills and competences |
Systems engineering, interfaces management and systems integration, hardware/software integration, with particular reference to space applications. For what pertains space systems: architectures, mission and payload management systems, electronic ground support equipments (EGSE) and on-board avionics (platform and payload).
Experience with: - CCSDS Packet Telecommand/Telemetry standards. - ECSS standards including PUS and SLE protocol. - SCOS 2000 MCS. - ESA’s DDS, POS and other mission related interfaces. - SIMSAT environment. - MOIS environment and automation tools. - MIL-STD-1553B applications (Avionics, S/C systems) - Validation of mission critical software and hardware. - Project documentation (for the entire project cycle)
Member of ESA working group “OBSM Whitebox” as OPS-OP division delegate. The project is a feasibility study aimed to define requirements and standards for a new OBSM strategy within ESOC meant to gain new OBSM know-how thereby reducing industry dependence for future missions.
Founding member of the internal “VEGA OBSM task force”, personally involved in promoting and defining a proper marketing and management strategy to kick off potential activities in the OBSM market.
Member of an internal VEGA task force aimed to review and define a corporate Risk Management Process.
Vast experience on Deep Space Spacecraft Operations and Flight Dynamics as well as a wealth of experience to support the early design phases of a project. |
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Computer skills and competences |
Operating Systems: Windows O.S. (2000, XP, NT), UNIX, Linux, LynxOS, VxWorks. Programming Languages: Assembler, ADA95, Visual C++, Ansi C, Visual Basic, Java. Software Applications: UML standard, MSOffice, HOOD, MatLab, SimuLink, Visual Studio, SQL Server, POSIX. Processors: MIL1750, ERC32, DSP21020. |
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Driving licence(s) |
A1, A, B |
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Additional information |
Pubblications: MEX Science data – from the instruments to the PIs - SPACE OPS 2006) File Transfer, Mass Memory and Mission Time Line – providing spacecraft remote commanding at Mars - SPACE OPS 2006 Human Centered Operations - Reduced Cost and Improved Performance by Exploiting Human Capabilities - SPACE OPS 2008 Science Data management via flight hardware, ground software and human processes - Comparing Mars Express with other missions - SPACE OPS 2008) Surviving power limited seasons – Operations management and long term power predicts on Mars Express - SPACE OPS 2008 Preparing the ROSETTA Deep Space Operations - IAC 09 Rosetta visits asteroid Lutetia – IAC 2010 |
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