Experience

MIPI Alliance

• United States
• Appliances, Electrical, and Electronics Manufacturing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• IoT Technical Consultant

  • Sep 2021 - Present



STMicroelectronics

• Switzerland
• Semiconductor Manufacturing
• 700 & Above Employee

• Strategic Planning

  • Mar 2015 - Sep 2021

  Contribute to Strategy evolution in the area of IoT, embedded security, NFC and Internet of Everything. Started a special program on Artificial Intelligence, that is now one of the Key strategic program of the Corporation. (st.com/stm32cubeai)

• GSMA IoT-SAFE - Distinguished Member of work group

  • Dec 2019 - Jul 2021

  Participation to the industry wide cooperation for the next generation IoT Secure connectivity.

• Board of Directors at Trusted Connectivity Alliance

  • Apr 2008 - Jul 2021

  Member of the Board, the industry consortium of Mobile Secure Element ecosystem. I am currently coordinating the implementation of the I3C into the secure mobile space and defintion of IoT Security Services, based on SIM/Secure Element, an initiative lead by the GSMA. Other major achievements there are components of NFC ecosystem for mobile, such as the Open Mobile API (present in all Android phones), SIM card based DRM and web-services.

• Central Marketing Director Secure Micro-controller Division

  • Jan 2011 - Dec 2014

  Central Marketing Director for the Secure Micro-controller Division. Market analysis and trend. Identification of key market opportunity. During this role, developed one of the first IoT secure element in the market targeting the Smart Grid industry. The product later evolved in the successful STSAFE brand (st.com/stsafe).

• Marketing Director for Secure products

  • Jan 2006 - Dec 2010

  Marketing Director for Smart Cards product: - product road-map, specifications, promotion and pricing. - market analysis, such as TAM/SAM, market share, sales forecasts- strategic partnerships- contract management- Procurement for Strategic TechnologiesKey success were the development of a full offer for Banking Cards, eID for Health and Citizen cards, and participation to one of first worldwide NFC-payment deployment in the Australia-New Zealand region



STMicroelectronics

• Switzerland
• Semiconductor Manufacturing
• 700 & Above Employee

• Product & Application Director for Smart Cards Products

  • 2003 - 2005

  A business unit of STMicroelectronics (NYSE:STM) specialized in design and manufacturing of Smart Card and RFID for high security applications. Products are used worldwide by all major Mobile operators, Banks, government Identity Cards, corporate and PKI cards. I lead the marketing team for Applications and Product Marketing responsible for product road-map, specifications, promotion and pricing. A business unit of STMicroelectronics (NYSE:STM) specialized in design and manufacturing of Smart Card and RFID for high security applications. Products are used worldwide by all major Mobile operators, Banks, government Identity Cards, corporate and PKI cards. I lead the marketing team for Applications and Product Marketing responsible for product road-map, specifications, promotion and pricing.



Emaze S.p.A.

• Italy
• Computer and Network Security
• 1 - 100 Employee

• CTO & Co-founder

  • 2001 - 2002

  CTO and co-founder of emaze, a network security start-up. We Developed Network Security Product of automated vulnerability tests and security monitoring using neural network and AI. As one of initial executives, I helped to build the company from ground-up and serving as CTO and Product Marketing Manager, bringing to profitability after one year. The Company was one of first to successfully offer a SaaS business model, many years ahead of the industry. CTO and co-founder of emaze, a network security start-up. We Developed Network Security Product of automated vulnerability tests and security monitoring using neural network and AI. As one of initial executives, I helped to build the company from ground-up and serving as CTO and Product Marketing Manager, bringing to profitability after one year. The Company was one of first to successfully offer a SaaS business model, many years ahead of the industry.



IPM Group

• Telecommunications
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Product Marketing

  • 1995 - 2000

  Product Marketing Manager for Payment Terminals and Systems, performing full life-cycle and operation management in IoT style implementaion, Responsible from initial architecture, development, commercial promotion, and field deployment and commissioning. During this period, the products went from a single customer/single country market to truly World-wide sales, totaling more than 100M$ revenues. Received in 1996 a recognition from Santa Cruz Operation (now Tarantella Inc.) as the largest European project ever, based on Unix on PC. Show less



IPM Group

• Telecommunications
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Product Development

  • 1989 - 1994

  Product Development for Telecom and Payment Terminals. Product design and development, embedded HW & FW, analog and RF. Several micro-controller families (Hitachi H8, Zilog Z80, Motorola 68K, ADI 21xx DSP). Developed and certified RF terminals using CAI-CT2 and DECT standards. Product designed and put into production boards for a range of applications: Telecom Line cards, Telecom Acces points, Coin recognition units, Magnetic/Chip Card Readers, outdoor payment terminals, embedded PC, and others. Some of Product were designed for extreme harsh conditions (for outdoor, bad weather vandal proof usage). Performed Product qualification internally and at Customer sites (Network Operators, Payment Institutions). Provided field technical support and training. Show less



SGI

• United States
• Computer Hardware
• 500 - 600 Employee

• Developer

  • Jul 1987 - Jul 1988

  Developed Graphic Array Processing libraries using micro-coded processors, based on bit-slice processors. Design and coded low level drivers for Graphics Workstations. Developed Graphic Array Processing libraries using micro-coded processors, based on bit-slice processors. Design and coded low level drivers for Graphics Workstations.



SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

• United States
• Research Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Post-doctorate Research Associate

  • Dec 1985 - Jun 1987

  As research Post-doc, I worked at SLD Particle Physics Experiment, consisting of a cooperation of 27 Universities work-wide, involving over 270 scientist. My main activity was to develop a large (>100K channels) data acquisition system for the experiment. I developed HW and SW system made with fast flash A/D converters, data processing using TI DSP', Motorola 68020 CPU's, Xilix FPGAs to build dedicated Fastbus controller cards. The Real-time data acquisition SW was based on (then) innovative Hunter & Ready Real-Time Executive Kernel. I developed the system architecture, board support package, and application SW. I developed data analysis and reduction packages on IBM mainframe System/370 to extract Physics data from the large data set of the above system. Several scientific publications were made at the time. Show less



University of California, Santa Cruz

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Physics Graduate Student

  • Jan 1981 - Nov 1985

  As graduate student and research assistant, I have done: - developed fast data acquisition (sub-ns timing) and processing boards for physics experiment, using AD monolitic devices, AMD 2900 series microcoded processors. Designed analog front end, and bit-slice porocessors. - developed data acquisition and control for gas/temperature/alarms for a LSI-11 based computer, using assembly and Forth language - Developed data analysis and simulation packages on IBM Series 360 Mainframe, including interactive data manipulation and plotting programs. Large data-analytics procedures (ten of millions of complex events) - Developed signal processing programs using T.I. TMS320 DSP for real time filtering and compression of data - Developed fast front-end amplifiers (sub ns) - electronics under-graduate level teaching classes on basic physics and electronics Show less



IBM

• United States
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 700 & Above Employee

• Programmer

  • Jan 1980 - Dec 1980

  Programmer for IBM 360 Series computers for Financial and Banking Applications, using COBOL and Assembler languages. Programmer for IBM 360 Series computers for Financial and Banking Applications, using COBOL and Assembler languages.