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Dates |
2001 - present |
Occupation or position held |
Head of Navigation Products Line |
Main activities and responsibilities |
Leads the Navigation Products Line within the Competence Center of Thales Alenia Space Italia In charge of design, development and production of GPS and Galileo receivers in the frame of major European (ESA/ASI/EC) programs, including ground, space and user applications: o Galileo Receiver Chain for the Ground MissionSegment (GRCN) o Galileo Test User Receiver (TUS) o Galileo-GPS/EGNOS Safety-of-life Receivers (GARDA, GIRASOLE, PEGASUS) o SW-Radio Receiver technologies (SWAN, GR-POSTER) o EGNOS RIMS-B receiver and EGNOS V2/V3 evolution studies o Spaceborne Real-Time Orbit Determination and POD Receivers (Lagrange, Proteus, ATV, COSMO, GOCE) o ROSA GNSS-based Radio Occultation receiver (OCS-2, SAC-D, MTmissions) o ENEIDE Soyuz-ISS mission o Railway GNSS-based Navigation Equipment (RUNE, GRAIL, GRAIL2) Manages team resources, project activities and projects cost and schedule Defines strategies and product roadmaps in line with the company Industrial and Business Unit objectives Performs technical supervision on HW/SW architectures, navigation & signal processing, performance analysis, simulation tools, validation and testing Interfaces customers and sub-contractors Defines and supervises R&D activities in close cooperation with universities Prepares technical proposals |
Name of employer |
Thales Alenia Space Italia S.p.A. |
Type of business or sector |
GNSS Navigation Systems, Aerospace Industry |
Dates |
1995 – 2000 |
Occupation or position held |
GPS Systems & Software Senior Engineer |
Main activities and responsibilities |
Management and coordination of GPS receiver system engineering and software engineering activities Specification, design and development of software for the LagrangeTM space-borne L1/L2 GPS/GLONASS receiver used on-board the GOCE, Radarsat-2, SAC-C and COSMO-SkyMed missions Software architecture design, integrity algorithms design, receiver simulation and performance analysis and validation of the RIMS-Rx B receiver in the frame of the EGNOS program SW development and acceptance of the GPS receivers for the Proteus satellite platform (Jason1, Calypso, Corot missions) and ATV mission In charge of an ESA study on GPS-based attitude determination algorithms Development of the SW of the GPS TensorTM receiver, first space-qualified receiver for on-board real-time attitude and orbit determination, installed on the Globalstar satellite constellation and on several LEO missions Implementation of navigation Kalman filter and attitude determination SW algorithms Software development, testing and system analysis work for the ESA Automated Rendezvous Pre-development program (ARP). In 1996-97 supported the successful testing of the ARP receiver on three experimental flights of the NASA Space Shuttle (STS 80-84) In 1996 was co-located in Palo Alto(California) for a period of 6 months working with the GPS development team of Space Systems Loral Definition of real-time object-based SW architecture models and SW development processes, tools and practices used across the GNSS receiver product lines Participation to company internal working groups on SW quality and SW process standards |
Name of employer |
Alcatel Alenia Space Italia S.p.A. |
Type of business or sector |
GPS Navigation Systems, Aerospace Industry |
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Dates |
1991 – 1994 |
Occupation or position held |
R&D Engineer |
Main activities and responsibilities |
In charge of the study, design and development of a demonstration prototype of an Autonomous Spacecraft Data Handling System in the frame of an ESA research program for on-board autonomy. Integrated HW and developed and tested ADA-based SW including: o Hard real-time distributed processing architecture o Autonomous mission planning SW and goal-oriented control techniques o Failure detection, isolation and autonomous system reconfiguration mechanisms |
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LABEN S.p.A. |
Type of business or sector |
Aerospace Industry |
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Dates |
1987 – 1990 |
Occupation or position held |
Software Engineer, Operating Systems Firmware Engineer, Micro-Systems |
Main activities and responsibilities |
Design, development and test of an innovative Multibus-2 Transport Protocol SW package. The project resulted in winning the 1990 "Bull Technical Award" Contribution to the design of the first UNIX-based multi-processor system (Honeywell-Bull DPX/2 workstations family) developing SW in the areas of: o Process scheduling and automatic load-balancing between CPUs o Kernel POSIX 1003.4 real-time standard Study and design of the OSF/MACH Operating System kernel for a MIPS R3000 RISC multiprocessor system. During this period, frequently joined the Open Software Foundation Design Centre in Boston (USA) Design, development and testing of firmware drivers for VME-based peripheral device controllers |
Name of employer |
Honeywell-Bull Information Systems S.p.A. |
Type of business or sector |
Information Technology Industry |
Dates |
1985 – 1986 |
Occupation or position held |
Research Associate, High Energy Physics Dept. |
Main activities and responsibilities |
Design and development of the data acquisition system and processing software of the Forward Detector of the OPAL experiment Contribution to the development and simulation of detector drift chambers Post-graduate work with the Italian Nuclear Physics Institute (INFN) team at the EuropeanCenterfor Nuclear Research (CERN) involved in development and test of detectors and experimental data analysis |
Name of employer |
University College London and INFN |
Type of business or sector |
University, High Energy Physics |
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Education and training |
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Dates |
1980 – 1985 |
Title of qualification awarded |
Physics Laurea (Master) – 110/110 cum laude |
Principal subjects/occupational skills covered |
Physics, Maths, Nuclear & Particle Physics, Electronics, Computer Science Thesis title: “Design and development of a data acquisition system for the OPAL High Energy Physics experiment at LEP (CERN)” |
Name and type of organisation providing education and training |
University of Bologna, Physics Dept. |
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Personal skills and competences |
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Mother tongue(s) |
Italian |
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Other language(s) |
English, French (basic) |
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Social skills and competences |
Intercultural skills andcommunication skills gained by working in European and extra-European project teams, spent periods of work abroad (UK, USA), participates to working groups, conferences and teaches short university courses |
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Organisational skills and competences |
Team Leadership skills gained in managing teams since more than 10 years: experience in team building and staffing, team members selection, tasks assignment, supervision, co-ordination and performance evaluation Management of Product Line industrial revenues and economical parameters Experience in managing, coordinating and working with multiple/complex project assignments and under pressure conditions Experience in project management, cost and schedule, interaction with industrial project partners and international institutions Experience in the defining product line strategies and roadmaps Attended management courses: o IRI-Management course on Leadership (2003); o Course on Conflict management (2001); o Course on Communication skills (1999); o IRI-Management 3-month working group (1998) |
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Technical skills and competences |
GPS & Galileo Systems System Engineering and Project Management GNSS receivers and equipment system engineering, analysis, design, development, manufacturing and related GNSS applications GNSS systems integrity Kalman filter, navigation and signal processing algorithms, SW modeling and simulation tools Real-Time embedded software design and development Software life-cycles and software safety-critical standards (ECSS, DO-178-B, GSWS) Hierarchical Object-Oriented Design (HOOD), Structured Analysis & Design (Yourdon), UML Preparation of industrial technical proposals, reports and technical papers Attended technical courses: o UNIV.of PISA, course on Spread-Spectrum systems (2002) o UNIV.of LEEDS, Global Navigation Satellite Systems course (1995); o UNIV.of MILANO, Attitude & Orbit Control Systems course (1995); o CARNEGIE MELLON UNIV., MACH MicroKernel O.S. course (1990); o UNIV.of MILANO, Microprocessor architectures course (1985); Involved in the "Galilean" Working Group (2003) assessing European capabilities on positioning technology and providing recommendations for development to the European Commission Held short courses on GNSS Augmentation and Integrity at the “Master in Navigation & Related Applications” of Politecnico di Torino |
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Computer skills and competences |
Programming languages: C, Ada, Fortran, Assembly, Matlab Operating Systems: UNIX, Windows, Real-time O.S. (commercial and proprietary kernels), Sun-Solaris, IBM-AIX, VMS Microprocessors: Motorola 680x0, MIPS R3000, SPARC, RISC6000, Analog Devices DSP210x0, SHARK, TexasDSP Windows Office applications |
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Other skills and competences |
Author/co-author of 40+ papers in the areas of GNSS, autonomy, and particle detectors Speaker in several international conferences and workshops "Best Paper Award" at the Institute Of Navigation ION-GNSS in 1999 and 2006 European Satellite Navigation Competition – Winner of LombardyRegion Galileo Prize in 2009 Thales Innovation Awards winner in 2006 and 2007 Bull Technical Award winner in 1990 Supervisor of several university graduation thesis at the Computer Science Dept., Aerospace Eng. Dept., Electronic Eng. Dept. and Physics Dept. of Univ. of Milan |
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Additional information |
Member of the International Advisory Board of the Italian Institute of Navigation (IIN) Affiliations: IEEE Computer Society (2000 – 2006), IEEE Communications Society (2003) Several professional acquaintances in the Satellite Navigation community |
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