Space propulsion system engineer

• Oct 2013 - Present

Space propulsion System Engineer/Technical responsible

• Jun 2009 - Sep 2013

• Definition and maintenance of technical requirements • Definition and management of the activity plan, including monitoring of time constraints and milestone certification• Coordination of technical activities for design definition, including technical documentation and design justification, taking into account all interfaces with the other vehicle systems and engineering disciplines.• Perform technical trade-offs among alternative architectural solutions and equipment• Technical contact with international customers, subcontractors and suppliers• Technical support to the management of the subcontractors• Supervision and tutoring of junior resourcesAchievements• Properly engaged new subcontractor/supplier, to recover from a “no bid position” by the Industrial Team of the previous program phase• Architectural re-design, needed to align the heritage from the previous prime contractor to the present customer mission requirements• Subsystem and System Critical Design Review milestones successfully performed• Phase D integration follow up

Train core system Product Manager

• Jan 2009 - Jun 2009

Development of the Air Generation and Treatment Unit, the power generator of the pneumatic subsystem of a train:• Technical Specification requirements analysis, with focus on the operational scenario and compliance to applicable standards• Issuing of the technical reference documentation (technical, design and test specifications), including technical optimization study, from the feasibility study throughout the whole lifespan of the project• Supervision of the detailed production drawings, starting from the output of the feasibility study• On site support to the other centres of competence involved in the project (quality control, purchases, production, test, management) during the assembly of the subsystem• Analysis of Test results, reports and waivers Achievements• Emergency redesign and reimplementation under extremely pressing time constraints due to critical flaws in the original project• First Article Inspection successfully performed, presented to both prime contractors and customers• Drastic reduction in the customisation cost of the final product, through standardization of the Electronic Control Unit design and production

technical consultant

• Nov 2008 - Dec 2008

From November 2008 to December 2008 employee as consultant engineer for:o analysis European advertisement and technical proposal elaboration to be submitted to customer;o refurbishment/reengineering design by Computer Assisted Design.

Military aircraft test engineer

• Jun 2005 - Nov 2008

• In charge of developing test procedures during the various production phases of the aircrafts JCA/C-27J, SKY-Y/SKY-X, Eurofighter Typhoon, AM-X Ghibli and Tornado, taking into account requirements analysis, functional study of the subsystems, and step by step definition of the test sequences• Optimisation of the test process and safety analysis• Issuing of test procedures to be followed in case of build, maintenance, update and retrofit• Interface with the other involved company units (from the designers to the production line)• Direct consulting at airport site• Analysis of test results, reports and waivers Achievements• Successful fast prototyping campaign in order to achieve the first flight milestone of a brand new advanced UAV (Unmanned Aircraft Vehicle) in less than a year starting from the program kick off• Standardisation of the test procedures to be applied in heavily customised scenarios• Support to middle-life updates for elder projects by means of reverse/re-engineering process.

course and apprenticeship as technological demonstrator

• Jun 2005 - Jun 2005

firm presentation;product presentation;functionalities presentation and demonstration. firm presentation;product presentation;functionalities presentation and demonstration.