Francesco Picardi

SENIOR CONSULTANT - AIRWORTHINESS at Murzilli Consulting
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Wetzikon, Zurich, Switzerland, CH

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Experience

    • Switzerland
    • Airlines and Aviation
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • SENIOR CONSULTANT - AIRWORTHINESS
      • Jul 2022 - Present

      Establishing the customer's roadmap to Design Verification or Certification, constantly optimising the need for speed with the rigour of aviation safety. Being the company's Single Point of Contact to customers and: ● Manage Design Verification and Certification Projects for clients ● Support customers in the development of certification plans and compliance matrixes ● Review customer's documentation and provide recommendations for improvement and professional compliance with requirements ● Participate in customer's Design Reviews and advice on airworthiness matters ● Align with civil aviation authorities during development, submission and approval of any document related to design verification or certification ● Coordinate very closely with the company CEO on all matters related to regulatory compliance Show less

    • Switzerland
    • Aviation and Aerospace Component Manufacturing
    • 200 - 300 Employee
    • Certification Coordinator
      • Nov 2017 - Jun 2022

      The Certification Coordinator (CC) is the Office of Airworthiness representative for a given Product or Prototype Development Project, in charge of the associated certification projects (approval of flight conditions, type certification, certification of major / minor changes or repairs). Upon delegation from the Chief of Office of Airworthiness, the Certification Coordinator coordinates certification tasks and is responsible of the documentation recording the Product Compliance to Certification requirements. Objectives of Position: - Ensuring that the project schedule for TC / STC could be fullfilled and if not actively inform the project manager with solution proposals - Coordincates the preparation of the TCPP between CVE and project manager - Establishing the compliance checklist and updating for changes, including updating when evidence documents exist as well as acceptance by Agency, e.g. EASA - Ensuring that the manuals approved by EASA (Aircraft Flight Manual, MMEL, Airworthiness Limitation Section of the Instructions for Continued Airworthiness) are checked to determine that they meet the respective requirements, and that they are provided to EASA for approval - Ensuring co-operation in preparing inspection and test programmes needed for demonstration of compliance Show less

    • United States
    • Aviation & Aerospace
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Lead Certification Engineer - CVE - Certification Manager Deputy
      • Nov 2016 - Oct 2017
    • Switzerland
    • Airlines and Aviation
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Compliance Verification Engineer (CVE)
      • May 2015 - Oct 2016
    • France
    • Aviation and Aerospace Component Manufacturing
    • 700 & Above Employee
    • Airworthiness Engineer
      • Oct 2013 - May 2015
    • Netherlands
    • Non-profit Organization Management
      • Jan 2012 - Sep 2013

      The undersigned was the ATR focal point and totally managed the ATR programs from the ATR Purchase Order to the shipset outgoing. Immediately after the Order, ATR sent us a Technical Specification with all the info (for example the type of the leather (cushion covers), of the polycarbonate (fairings), of the polyurethane (armcaps), of the seat belts and so on). Then he drew up a Critical Material Datasheet that was sent to Quality, Production, Purchasing and Design Department. Then he managed the drawing up of the Drawings and needed Documents. After he managed also the seats and interiors manufacturing until shipset outgoing. Show less

      • Oct 2008 - Feb 2012

      The undersigned was the manager of the Technical Assistance Department and managed a team of 4 persons. The work can be divided into two main areas that are: Technical Assistance to the customer after the seats delivering and technical support to Airbus and customer at Incoming Inspection and FAL respectively in Hamburg and Toulouse. Regarding the work of the first macro-area, after the reception of the customer claims the undersigned manager decides the claim responsible(Production, Quality or Engineering) and if the responsible of the claim is the Engineering proceed with the Root Cause Analysis and with any changes to the project with or without tests, but if the responsible of the claim is or Production or Quality requires the RCA to them. Then he responds to the customer and if necessary draw up a Service Bulletin for the implementation of changes on seats and manages also changes to the project with the appropriate internal documentation. The above mentioned process is valid also for the interiors but they are qualification items and not certification items. Regarding the work of the second macro-area, the undersigned, with the support of technicians in Hamburg and Toulouse, solves the immediate NC (non-conformities) found on seats after the check of the customer and of AIRBUS sending them parts and / or giving them technical support for rework / replacement and responds with quality reports (8D) to Airbus itself. Show less

    • Stress Engineer
      • Sep 2007 - Oct 2008

      The undersigned managed the stress department and belonged to a group of 7 people who had the target of changing the F22 Penguin Stelio Frati transferring the tank in the wings and adding another seat in the cockpit. To do this, the undersigned has personally modeled (based on paper drawings in our possession and the aircraft - reverse engineering) the wing and carried out FEM simulations of wing static load. I was able to demonstrate that the simulator had been very close to those of real evidence that had been made in the past on the wing tank and the wing would bear the installation of the tank. Show less

    • Certification Engineer
      • May 2006 - Aug 2007

      The undersigned belonged to a group of 8 people who took care of the achievement of a TSO aircraft seat and then to certify it or to qualify an item for specific customer. For certification process, each member was aimed at reaching an ETSO and then drafted a DDP which contained all the basic certification requirements for the compliance with the ETSO C39/C127 (eg for static seat) of the same seat (static tests, fire etc. . - their Plan and Report). On ETSO C39 there were references to the CS. Of course there was also the customer's specification to be met. Specification that was the only basis for qualification items as the Galley, Lavatory etc.. Drafting of Service Bulletin for the implementation of minor changes on the seat and managing of changes to the project documentation by means of appropriate internal documentation. Show less

Education

  • Seconda Università degli Studi di Napoli (SUN), Real Casa dell’Annunziata – Aversa (CE) –Italy
    Master’s Degree in Aerospace Engineering, Ingegneria
    1999 - 2006
  • Liceo Scientifico “Carlo Miranda” - Frattamaggiore (NA) – Italy
    High school leaving certificate (‘Liceo’ specializing in scientific studies), 84/100
    1994 - 1999

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