Personal information

Nationality

Italian

Date of birth

9/12/1979

Work experience

• Dates (from – to)

from 1/10/2006 until now

• Name and address of employer

Sofiter System Engineerings.p.a. 8, Viale Battista Bardanzellu  - 00155 Roma

• Type of business or sector

Engineering - TLC

• Occupation or position held

Satellite and Antenna Systems RF engineer at Thales Alenia Space s.p.a., 21, Via Saccomuro, 00131, Rome

  • Main responsibilities and experiences

GALILEO FOC NAVANT AIT manager :

-          responsible of the schedule of the integration and test activities of the antennas;

-          team coordinator for the integration and electrical, mechanical and environmental test activities of the antennas;

-          log book responsible;

-          RF conducted, radiated and PIM tests responsible;

-          NCR and NRB management;

-          Technical interface towards the customer;

Payload and TT&C RF test activities on GALILEO IOV satellites during all the test phases (TVAC, IST, PFT) :

-          EGSE paths calibration measurements (VNA, powermeter);

-          Payload and TT&C configuration and test execution and implementation through CCS software test sequences;

-          TT&C RF requirements verification;

-          PIM tests;

-          RF AIT/AIV  test procedures and test reports documentation writing;

-          NCR management;

Satellite Reflector and Array Antennas RF test and design activities responsible of:

- antenna RF radiated near-field test design and implementation by following quality and ECSS standards and antenna test results verification;

- antenna RF AIT/AIV documentation writing;

- knowledge and implementation of antenna CW and modulated PIM test bench (SSPA, TWTA, VNA, LNA, filters,MUX);

- antenna RF conducted test design and implementation using HP and Agilent VNA, PNA;

- tests and documentation for antenna customer assessment on near-field test range suitability   for RF radiated tests based on standard NIST;

- software specification writing for antenna performances calculation;

- implementation of software tools for antenna radiated performances calculation;

- design and job coordination of a software system for antenna measurements data organization, elaboration and documents creation;

- participation and presentation of documents and results during test readiness reviews and test review boards with antenna customers;

-assessment of antenna performances by

1.      measurements correspondence to theoretical antenna model, predicting and interpreting effects generated by intrinsic uncertainties affecting measurements either from a mechanical or an electrical point of view;

2.      electrical performances calculation by software analysis and elaboration of measured radiated patterns and service areas on the Earth;

- design of near-field test range antenna probes and feeds for radiated measurements using FEM and FDTD softwares, full-wave methods softwares (GRASP);

- abroad experiences:

1.       Participation to Amos3 satellite RF radiated antenna and payload measurement campaign in Astrium Ottobrunn as external support and supervisor of test campaign results; 

2.       Participation to W7 satellite RF radiated antenna measurement campaign in Cannes as external support and supervisor of test campaign results;

3.       Participation to Amos4 satellite RF radiated antenna and payload measurement campaign in Astrium Ottobrunn as external support and supervisor of test campaign results; 

       • Principal subjects/occupational

         skills covered

Planar and spherical near field measurement theory knowledge and use;

FEM, FFT, spherical wave, PO theory and software tools knowledge and use for antenna measurements, reflector antennas and antenna probes for measurement design;

Free and guided propagation;

Microwave components;

• Name and address of employer

LG Electronics Italia S.p.A., 73, via Achille Campanile, 00144, Rome

• Type of business or sector

TLC

• Occupation or position held

UMTS and GPRS mobile phones validation engineer

  • Main responsibilities and experiences

International team work for local management of field and laboratory testing projects of UMTS, GSM, i-MODE QUALCOMM, ADI, TEXAS INSTRUMENTS  software platforms mobile phones.

Main activities performed:

-Italian interface towards the European responsible of the project, for test results communication, and to software development team, for debugging work;

-Test planning, phone samples and its specifications, and check lists reception in order to verify mobile phones compliance to 3gpp specifications of messaging, browsing and  calls features; ----Verifications of Bluetooth, photo and video camera, audio, phonebook, organizer, Java applications features functioning;

-RF tests performance in order to extract layer 3 protocol messages regarding PDP context, calls activation and deactivation;

-Use of  AGILENT and Will’tek TLC network simulators to perform sensitivity tests on mobile phones;

-Use of FLUKEandAGILENTcurrent and voltage measurements instruments to perform battery life tests.

• Dates (from – to)

from 1/9/2005 to 14/11/2005

• Name and address of employer

Capgemini Italia S.p.A. , 140, via di Torre Spaccata, 00100, Rome

• Type of business or sector

Business consulting and information technology

• Occupation or position held

Customer relationship management consultant

• Main responsibilities and experiences

Integration of demand and requirements in informative systems development for energetic market transactions, at ENEL S.p.A.

Education and training

• Title of qualifications awarded

27/9/2004, degree in Electronic Engineering at “Università degli studi Roma Tre”with full marks (110/110 points and lode).

Degree thesis on “electromagnetic impulses scattering from cylindrical buried objects”.

My thesis work consisted in the solution of a time-domain pulse scattering problem from buried cylindrical objects. Main application for this work could regard GPR-UWB systems in order to detect buried objects.

7/1998, “Liceo” specializing in scientific studies diploma with 59/60 points mark.

• Principal subjects/occupational

skills covered

Electromagnetics theory

Antenna theory and applications of wired, reflector, microstrip antennas

Free and guided propagation

Microwave components

Electronics Theory

GSM, GPRS, UMTS cellular radiomobile systems

Internet and its applications: IP and transport protocols

• Other courses attended

Scuola Superiore di Specializzazione in Telecomunicazioni, at Communications Ministry.

Course offered a theoretical and practical specialization in Telecommunications matter. 

INFORMATIC COMPETENCES

Good knowledge of C, Fortran, Pascal, Visual Basic programming languages

Good knowledge of Mercury Test Director tool, used to check list execution and bugs management

Good knowledge of dumping, flashing, logs tracing tools for, QUALCOMM, ADI, TEXAS INSTRUMENTS sw platoforms mobile phones.

Languages

Mother tongue

Italian

Other languages

English

• Reading skills

very good

• Writing skills

very good

• Verbal skills

very good

Spanish

• Reading skills

good

• Writing skills

sufficient

• Verbal skills

sufficient

Interests

SPORT

I play volleyball at agonistic level and I also played football and basketball. I prefer team sports to individual ones because I am a sociable and lively person.

MUSIC

I like listening to every kind of music and I am always inclined to enrich my musical knowledge.

TRAVELS

I like travelling either in Italy or abroad and during my travels I always try to experience of local habits and culture.

MATHEMATICAL GAMES

I enjoy myself solving mathematical riddles. In the past I also took part in many school competitions.