Experience

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  PowerSiesta

  • Founding Partner

    • Mar 2015 - Present

    Inventors of a compact pop-up sleep device for planes, trains, buses or anywhere. We want to help people around the world have a better, more comfortable travel experience, whether they are power napping on their commute or trying to sleep on a long trip.Don't just power nap, take a PowerSiesta.

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  ACEnt Laboratories LLC

  • Senior Scientific Consultant

    • 2007 - 2016

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  General Applied Science Laboratories, Inc

  • Ronkonkoma, NY

  • Vice President and Principal Scientist

    • 1968 - 1994
    • Ronkonkoma, NY

    He headed both the design and fabrication departments. His activities have involved projects related to analytical and experimental research in advanced propulsion systems and components, low and high speed combustion, air pollution and energy conservation. Mr. Trucco was responsible for design and fabrication of wind tunnel components such as air heaters, water-cooled nozzles, vacuum-producing air ejectors and scramjet engine models for both the NASA Langley Research Center and NASP related programs. In particular, Mr. Trucco has been involved in planning and designing a low speed premixed combustion test apparatus for NASA Lewis and premixed and diffusion type supersonic combustion tests for NASA Langley, the design and manufacture of a laser diffuser model for NASA Ames and an x-ray scanner for computerized tomography for an industrial client, the design of a transonic wind tunnel for NASA Langley and the development of industrial burner concepts to improve combustion efficiency and reduce emission levels. He has also been responsible for an analytical study of bypass turbojet engines with supersonic fans for NASA Lewis, for design of a turbofan engine simulator for wind tunnel testing for General Dynamics, for the analysis of an advanced helicopter propulsion concept for the Allison Division of General Motors, and for an experimental research in coal-water slurry fueled diesel engine.

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  The Marquardt Corporation

  • Research Scientist

    • 1966 - 1967

    Responsible for operation of their Hypersonic Hot-Shot Tunnel.

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  Argentine Air Force

  • Cordoba, Argentina

  • Research Scientist

    • 1965 - 1966
    • Cordoba, Argentina

    Studied servo-controlled stagnation temperature probes that eliminate radiation error

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  General Applied Science Laboratories, Inc

  • Ronkonkoma, NY

  • Research Scientist

    • 1963 - 1965
    • Ronkonkoma, NY

    Experimental hypersonic wake research, shock tunnel testing, engine performance prediction and scramjet inlet design

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  Aeronautical Institute of the Argentine Airforce

  • Research Scientist

    • 1955 - 1963

    Initially responsible for research and testing on reciprocating aviation and automobile engines and later for operation of a subsonic and a supersonic wind tunnel