Work experience |
• Dates (from – to) |
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January 2013 – Today |
• Name and address of employer |
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Thales Alenia Space Italy (Rome) |
• Type of business or sector |
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ItalianCompetence Centerfor Software Solutions |
• Occupation or position held |
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Head of “Avionics Software” department of the Thales Alenia Space Italy (TASI) Software Solutions Competence Center & Avionics Software Architectures Expert. |
• Main activities and responsibilities |
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Management of the PRIMA Platform Avionics Software Products and of the mission-specific deployments. Production of on-board software for scientific instruments. R&D activities for the deployment of the CCSDS SOIS and CFDP standards. Specification, design and implementation of the Euclid File Management Service (FMS) and CCSDS File Delivery Protocol (CFDP) Demonstrator (EucliDem). Specification, design and implementation of the On-board Algorithms Execution Environment (obAlex) for the specification, compilation and on-board execution of the OBCPs. |
• Dates (from – to) |
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January 2011 – Today |
• Name and address of employer |
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Thales Alenia Space Italy (Rome) |
• Type of business or sector |
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ECSS PUS Working Group |
• Occupation or position held |
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Observation Systems and Radars Business Unit, Satellite System Engineering Division, Avionics Department – Head Of “Data Handling & On-Board Sofware Engineering” department. |
• Main activities and responsibilities |
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Member of the working group which is updating the ECSS-E-ST-70-41 standard from revision ‘A’ to revision ‘C’. |
• Dates (from – to) |
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March 2009 – June 2013 |
• Name and address of employer |
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Thales Alenia Space Italy (Rome) |
• Type of business or sector |
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GMES Sentinel-1 Avionics Software |
• Occupation or position held |
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Observation Systems and Radars Business Unit, Satellite System Engineering Division, Avionics Department – Head Of “Data Handling & On-Board Software Engineering” department (since 1 January 2011). |
• Main activities and responsibilities |
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· Specification of the overall requirement baseline for both Nominal Mode ASW and Safe Mode ASW. This activity includes the tailoring of the ECSS-E-70-41A PUS standard for the Sentinel-1 mission. · Specification of the Platform Assemblies/Subsystems Management software requirements. · Specification of the Mil-Std-1553B Bus protocols for both Nominal Mode ASW and Safe Mode ASW. · Procurement of the Safe Mode ASW Applications (ESA ITT AO30140). · Sentinel-1 ASW Validation Responsible. · Member of the Sentinel-1A LEOP team at ESOC. |
• Dates (from – to) |
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March 2009 – October 2009 |
• Name and address of employer |
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Thales Alenia Space Italy (Rome) |
• Type of business or sector |
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GMES Sentinel-1/-2/-3 GPSR |
• Occupation or position held |
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Observation Systems and Radars Business Unit, Satellite System Engineering Division, Avionics Department – Avionics Software Engineer |
• Main activities and responsibilities |
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Specification of the Sentinels GPSR Common Mil-Std-1553B Bus Protocols Requirements. |
• Dates (from – to) |
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March 2009 – December 2010 |
• Name and address of employer |
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Thales Alenia Space Italy (Rome) |
• Type of business or sector |
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R&D Activities |
• Occupation or position held |
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Observation Systems and Radars Business Unit, Satellite System Engineering Division, Avionics Department – Avionics Software Engineer |
• Main activities and responsibilities |
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· Definition of the requirements for the Automatic Generation of the On-Board Assemblies Manager (OBAM) Building Blocks. The OBAM concept has been also addressed in the “PRIMA Platform – A Scheme for Managing Equipment-dependent On-Board Functions and Impacts on the Avionics Software Production Process” paper, presented at Eurospace DASIA 2010 (Budapest). The activity consists of: o Defining and modelling the invariant characteristics of an assembly manager. This issue also covers the standardised interactions with the underlying PUS services (with particular reference to: telecommand verification, telemetry, monitoring, events, OBCPs, event-actions). o Defining and modelling the mission-dependent characteristics of an assembly manager. o Defining the basic set of PUS service subtypes associate to the assembly manager (for standardisation of the Ground operations involving the on-board assemblies). o Defining the generation rules to instantiate the assembly manager meta-model for a specific mission. The generation products at least include: software documentation, software architectural model, source code, TM/TC database. |
• Dates (from – to) |
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January 2007 – February 2009 |
• Name and address of employer |
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Space Software Italia SpA (Taranto, Italy) |
• Type of business or sector |
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LEO Satellite On-Board Software |
• Occupation or position held |
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Head of Software Systems Specification Department |
• Main activities and responsibilities |
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As consultant at Thales Alenia Space, he was involved in the specification of the software requirements for the on-board software of the ESA Sentinel-1 satellite. Activities are being performed according to ECSS-E-ST-40 standards (SW development), to ECSS-Q-ST-80 (SW quality), and to ECSS-E-ST-70-41A (PUS standard). |
• Dates (from – to) |
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February 2008 – November 2008 |
• Name and address of employer |
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Space Software Italia SpA (Taranto, Italy) |
• Type of business or sector |
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R&D Activities |
• Occupation or position held |
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Head of Software Systems Specification Department |
• Main activities and responsibilities |
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· Definition of the requirements for the Automatic Generation of the On-Board PUS Services (GASP) Building Block. The activity consisted of: o Defining and modelling the invariant characteristics of the PUS services and of the mission-dependent characteristics of the PUS services. o Defining the basic set of PUS service subtypes. o Defining the generation rules to instantiate the assembly manager meta-model for a specific mission. The generation products at least include: software documentation, software architectural model, source code, TM/TC database. · Participation in the DASIA 2008 with the “PUS Services Software Building Block Automatic Generation For Space Mission” paper. |
• Dates (from – to) |
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March 2005 – December 2006 |
• Name and address of employer |
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Space Software Italia SpA (Taranto, Italy) |
• Type of business or sector |
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Aircraft Navigation Sensor Unit Software - Project Technical Responsible |
• Occupation or position held |
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Head of Software Systems Specification Department |
• Main activities and responsibilities |
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Technical responsible for the specification, design, implementation, verification, validation and in-flight qualification of the application layer of the Navigation Sensor Unit (NSU) produced by Galileo Avionica. During the project, he has coordinated a group of 8 persons. The application has been designed using the Real-time Unified Modelling Language (RT-UML) and has been developed in Ada 95 (20000 lines of code). The Real-time Operating System (RTOS) has been developed by Galileo Avionica for a PowerPC processor. The RTCA DO-178b has been used as applicable standard. The developed application software main characteristics are:
· Management of nominal and degraded NSU operative modes (automatically configured according to either the availability of the data sources or the reception of explicit configuration command sent by the Flight Control Computer). |
• Dates (from – to) |
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March 2004 – March 2005 |
• Name and address of employer |
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Space Software Italia SpA (Taranto, Italy) |
• Type of business or sector |
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LEO Satellite On-Board Software |
• Occupation or position held |
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Project Technical Manager |
• Main activities and responsibilities |
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As consultant at Alenia Spazio, he was involved in the integration activities of the Integrated Control Subsystem (ICS) of the COSMO LEO satellites. The ICS is in charge of managing the satellite and the interfaces with the payload. In this context, he has been responsible for the following activities:
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• Dates (from – to) |
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February 2002 – March 2004 |
• Name and address of employer |
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Space Software Italia SpA (Taranto, Italy) |
• Type of business or sector |
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LEO Satellite On-Board Software |
• Occupation or position held |
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Project Technical Manager |
• Main activities and responsibilities |
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As consultant at Alenia Spazio, he has been involved in the integration activities of the Integrated Control Subsystem (ICS) of the Radarsat-2 LEO satellite. The ICS is in charge of managing the satellite and the interfaces with the payload. In this context, he has been responsible for the following activities:
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• Dates (from – to) |
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October 2001 – February 2002 |
• Name and address of employer |
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Space Software Italia SpA (Taranto, Italy) |
• Type of business or sector |
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COSMO-SkyMed Ground Segment |
• Occupation or position held |
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Project Technical Manager |
• Main activities and responsibilities |
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Participation in the Alenia Spazio system-level activities for the definition of the COSMO-SkyMed (Earth observation, remote sensing) mission requirements, with particular focus on Ground Segment operations related to satellites constellation evolution for the exploitation of the mission. |
• Dates (from – to) |
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March 2001 – September 2001 |
• Name and address of employer |
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Space Software Italia SpA (Taranto, Italy) |
• Type of business or sector |
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COSMO-SkyMed Ground Segment |
• Occupation or position held |
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Project Technical Manager |
• Main activities and responsibilities |
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Participation in the Alenia Spazio system-level activities for the definition of the COSMO-SkyMed (Earth observation, remote sensing) ground segment requirements, with particular focus on the Satellite Control Center (SCC) and on the COSMO-SkyMed Mission Planning for the management of the SAR satellites constellation. |
• Dates (from – to) |
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September 2000 – February 2001 |
• Name and address of employer |
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Space Software Italia SpA (Taranto, Italy) |
• Type of business or sector |
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SICRAL Ground Segment (Vigna di Valle, Rome) |
• Occupation or position held |
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Project Technical Manager |
• Main activities and responsibilities |
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Definition of the test procedures to be executed for the validation of the Centro di Gestione e Controllo of the SICRAL satellite under the Telespazio responsibility. |
• Dates (from – to) |
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January 2000 – December 2000 |
• Name and address of employer |
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Space Software Italia SpA (Taranto, Italy) |
• Type of business or sector |
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SICRAL Ground Segment |
• Occupation or position held |
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Project Technical Manager |
• Main activities and responsibilities |
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Responsible for the development of a software application for controlling and monitoring the SICRAL satellite telecommunication payload, in the frame of the Centro Controllo Reti (CCR). The main functions of this software application are:
For this project, he had project management responsibilities and coordinated a team with a staffing profile with a peak of 8 persons. A total of 30.000 lines of C++ code where developed for the project. |
• Dates (from – to) |
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1998 – 1999 |
• Name and address of employer |
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Space Software Italia SpA (Taranto, Italy) |
• Type of business or sector |
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SICRAL Ground Segment |
• Occupation or position held |
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Project Technical Manager |
• Main activities and responsibilities |
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Responsible for the design and development of the software of the Centro Controllo Reti (CCR) subsystem in the frame of the SICRAL project (developed for the Stato Maggiore della Difesa) and for the definition of the related external interfaces. The main purpose of the CCR is the coordination of the various external subsystems in order to provide the services required by the Stato Maggiore delle Difesa through the Centro Controllo Missione (CCM); moreover, it provides monitoring capabilities of all the SICRAL network resources. The main software applications of the CCR subsystem are the following:
The monitoring & control tasks are accomplished by the above listed integrated software applications which interface the following external subsystems: Satellite Control Center, TDMA DAMA Network Control Center, SCPC DAMA PAMA Network Controller, Communication Spectrum Monitoring. For this project, he had project management responsibilities and coordinated a team with a staffing profile with a peak of 12 persons. A total of 70.000 lines of C++ code where developed for the project. |
• Dates (from – to) |
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1996 – 1997 |
• Name and address of employer |
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Space Software Italia SpA (Taranto, Italy) |
• Type of business or sector |
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SICRAL Satellite On-Board Software |
• Occupation or position held |
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Project Technical Manager |
• Main activities and responsibilities |
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Responsible for the development of the Context component of the Platform Integrated Control Subsystem (PICS) Attitude and Orbit Control (AOC) application on-board software, in charge of interfacing the AOC control laws with their external environment. Currently, this software is flying on the SICRAL satellite launched on Feb 7, 2001. Its main characteristics are:
Specifically, he was involved in the following life cycle phases:
For this project, he had project management responsibilities and coordinated a team with a staffing profile with a peak of 5 persons. A total of 10.000 lines of Ada code where developed for the project. |
• Dates (from – to) |
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1994 – 1995 |
• Name and address of employer |
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Space Software Italia SpA (Taranto, Italy) |
• Type of business or sector |
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Air Traffic Control Application Software |
• Occupation or position held |
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Software Engineer |
• Main activities and responsibilities |
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Software design and testing of the Analyzer component in the frame of the Traffic Conflicts Alert System. The system to be designed is in charge of detecting short-term, minimum safe altitude, and dangerous area infringement conflicts. It is a real-time system initially implemented using Ada and C languages for the VAX/VMS environment and to be ported in the MARA (Multiprocessor Architecture for Real-time Applications) environment at the final system integration. In this context, he was involved in the following:
The Data Flow Diagrams (DFDs) notation and the Ada Structured Graphs (ASGs) were used for the design activity (based on Buhr notation). The above listed activities were performed in compliance with the DoD-STD-2167A standards. |
• Dates (from – to) |
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1993 |
• Name and address of employer |
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Space Software Italia SpA (Taranto, Italy) |
• Type of business or sector |
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EGSE Test Sequence Processes Supervisor |
• Occupation or position held |
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Software Engineer |
• Main activities and responsibilities |
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In the frame of the Advanced Relay and Technology Mission (ARTEMIS) Electrical Ground Support Equipment (EGSE) Overall Check-Out Equipment (OCOE), he developed the Test Sequence Processes (TSP) Supervisor process, in charge of controlling the execution of the Test Language (TESLA) Test Sequences (TSs) used to check the satellite behaviour. The TSs execution in debug mode is also supported. All the software life cycle activities, starting from the user requirements assessment to the system-level test have been performed. The Data Flow Diagrams notation was used for the architectural design phase; the Structured Design was used during the detailed design phase. The TSP Supervisor was developed using the VAX C language and the processes management VMS system services. |
• Dates (from – to) |
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1991 – 1992 |
• Name and address of employer |
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Space Software Italia SpA (Taranto, Italy) |
• Type of business or sector |
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ColumbusAttached Pressurised Module Simulator |
• Occupation or position held |
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Software Engineer |
• Main activities and responsibilities |
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Involved in the Columbus Attached Pressurized Module (APM) Program (phase C/D) with technical responsibility of the APM Simulation Models (SIMM) Assembly, in charge of simulating the behaviour of the APM subsystems to support the Integration, Verification and Qualification activities of the Columbus Flight Application Software (CFAS). In the same context, he has had technical responsibility of the CFAS Level 2 (L2) Assembly, in charge of controlling the APM subsystems during all the operational phases. In particular, he dealt with the software controlling the Thermal Control Subsystem (TCS). Specifically, a CFAS L2 prototype has been developed on a DEC VAX hardware platform using the VAX Ada compiler. In order to support the prototype operations, a TCS simulator has been developed. The two above mentioned activities have been performed in compliance with the European Space Agency (ESA) Software Engineering Standards and with the Columbus Software Development Standards. |
Education and training |
• Dates (from – to) |
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1988 – 1991 |
• Name and type of organisation providing education and training |
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School for Advanced Studies in Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SASIAM). |
• Principal subjects/occupational skills covered |
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During the two-year period he participated in the following projects:
During the same period, he attended the following two-month courses: · Advanced Mathematical Modelling · Non-Linear Partial Differential Equations · Scientific Computing · Applied Probability and Statistics · Systems and Control Moreover, he attended the following two-week courses: · Computer Vision - Pattern Recognition and Image Processing · Inverse Problems · Similarity Methods for Partial Differential Equations · Spatial Statistics · Computational Fluid Mechanics · Discrete Mathematics · Entropic Methods in Image Processing. |
• Title of qualification awarded |
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Post-Degree Master |
• Level in national classification (if appropriate) |
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• Dates (from – to) |
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1987 – 1988 |
• Name and type of organisation providing education and training |
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Italian Army |
• Principal subjects/occupational skills covered |
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Militaty service |
• Title of qualification awarded |
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Officer |
• Dates (from – to) |
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1981 – 1986 |
• Name and type of organisation providing education and training |
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Universityof Pisa |
• Principal subjects/occupational skills covered |
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Computer Science |
• Title of qualification awarded |
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Degree. Thesis: “The Safety in the Design of High Risk Systems. |
• Level in national classification (if appropriate) |
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Dottore |
• Dates (from – to) |
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1976 – 1981 |
• Name and type of organisation providing education and training |
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Liceo Scientfico “Galileo Galilei” (secondary school). |
• Title of qualification awarded |
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Diploma di Maturità |
Mother tongue |
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Italian |
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English |
• Reading skills |
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Excellent |
• Writing skills |
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Excellent |
• Verbal skills |
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Excellent |
Organisational skills and competences Coordination and administration of people, projects and budgets; at work, in voluntary work (for example culture and sports) and at home, etc. |
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Currently, he is responsible of the “Avionics Software Department of the Italian Software Solutions Competence Center” in Thales Alenia Space Italy and coordinates an average number of 20 people working in L’Aquila, Turin and Rome.
Specific interest in Specifying and Designing Modular Spacecraft On-Board Software to Promote the Optimisation of the Production and Qualification Process. With specific reference to this topic, during the last years he has published the following papers: - S. Candia, F. Sgaramella, G. Mele “PUS Services Software Building Block Automatic Generation for Space Missions”, presented at DASIA 2008 (Palma De Majorca). - S. Candia, G. Lisio, G. Campolo, D. Pascucci “PRIMA Platform: A Scheme for Managing Equipment-dependent On-Board Functions and Impacts on the Avionics Software Production Process”, presented at DASIA 2010 (Budapest). - S. Candia, G. Lisio, G. Campolo, D. Pascucci “An Approach for On-Board Software Building Blocks Cooperation and Interfaces Definition”, presented at DASIA 2010 (Budapest). - S. Candia, G. Lisio, G. Campolo, D. Pascucci – “SSMNG Software Service Manager – A Scalable Building Blocks Architecture for PUS Services and FDIR Management”, presented at DASIA 2011 (Malta) - S. Candia, D. Pascucci – “Remarks on GMES Sentinel-1 Avionics Software Qualification”, presented at DASIA 2013 (Porto, Portugal) - S.Candia, P. Serri – “EucliDem – Demonstrator of the Euclid Mission File Management Service (FMS) & CCSDS File Delivery Protocol (CFDP)”, ESA ESTEC Mass Memory Day (The Netherlands, Noordwijk).
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Technical skills and competences With computers, specific kinds of equipment, machinery, etc. |
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Standards: Consultative Committee for Space Data Systems (CCSDS), European Cooperation for Space Standardization (ECSS), ESA-PSS-05, RTCA DO-178b, MISRA C.
Programming Languages: C, C++, Ada 95, Fortran.
Software Development Methodologies/Languages: Model-Driven Architecture (MDA), Unified Modeling Language (UML), Hierarchical Object-Oriented Design (HOOD).
Software Specification, Design and Development Environments: Artisan Studio, Rational Rose. |
Artistic skills and competences Music, writing, design, etc. |
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Modelling of Architectural Models and Historical Models (with specific interest for railway subjects). Table Tennis. |
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