Scholarship:

Academic year1984 - 1985 University of Bologna "Italy" Master in Electronic engineering "five years course" microwave and telecommunications section.

Qualifications:

Technical

Deep experience and knowledge in:

• RF/Microwave circuit and system design and specification, MMIC/RFIC and discrete technology design.
• In field systems integration and troubleshooting.
• Defence and aerospace communication, navigation and identification systems, consumer wireless systems" Bluetooth, Zig-Bee", GSM-R.
• Test Equipment and ATE specifications and design.
• Technical documentation writing: RAMS analysis , safety case, design and justification project description, .WPD and WBS documents, feasibility documents.
• Technical proposals writing.
• ETSI - MIL Standards.

Management

• Leading design teams
• Growing collaborative, long term relationships with partners
• Customer facing skills
• Ability to solve customer relationship conflicts.

Personal

• Self driving
• Ability to work in hard environment

Working experiences:

2004- R&D Responsible , RF and Microwave Business Unit

Company: EWINGS SRL Bologna, Italy

Job Responsibilities:

Design, test and qualification of RF equipment and systems. Specification and RAMS analysis for RF equipment and systems.

Drafting of design review documents and technical proposals, RAMS analysis , design and justification description, WPD, WBS, documents, feasibility documents, .manpower evaluation for systems development and production.

Equipment and systems developed and specified 2004-on

• IFF preselectors for MIDS LVT system
• Digitally tuneable VHF-UHF Filters for EFA Typhoon fighter radio equipment.
• C-Band Data link for naval missile system.
• Formula 1 car racing VHF telemetry receiver.
• HF- VHF-UHF switch filters bancs for avionic and naval transmitters
• HF to UHF broadband dual directional coupler and power monitor for avionic and naval transmitters
• Galileo navigation system :

Advanced Concept for Galileo phase II RF payload architecture proposal.

• JTRS " Joint Tactical Radio System"

Specification of the IPF "Interference Protection Feature" module for the LINK 16 radio frequency amplifier.

• Bluetooth modules for custom applications
• Eurobalise system railways RF transponder.
• Eurobalise system On Board BTM and Antenna Unit Module ( Under Development)

1992-2003-R&D Technical Director, RF and Microwave Business Unit

Company: Laboratori Marconi SPA Pontecchio Marconi , Italy

Job Responsibilities:

Design, test and qualification of RF equipment and systems.

Specification and RAMS analysis for RF equipment and systems.

Reference manager to customers for solving problems related to work package issues.

Support engineer to the general manager during company profile presentations, drafting of work package documents, design review documents, manpower evaluation for systems development and production.

Main equipment and systems developed and specified 1991-2004

• IFF filters for MIDS LVT system.
• IFF dual receiver for AWACS aircrafts
• IFF dual receiver Automatic Test Equipment
• GPS-GLONASS RF front-end receivers for space and ground applications.
• L band MMIC's for MIDS LVT exciter.
• X band Low Noise Amplifier MMIC for synthetic aperture RADAR scanning antenna array.
• UHF software radio for environment monitoring.
• UHF transmitter for Meteosat Data Collector Platform.
• RF modules for FORMULA 1 racing telemetry systems.
• Wireless gas meter reader.
• Specification for a 6-18 GHz ship borne Electronic Warfare simulator
• Specification of UHF software radio for environmental monitoring.
• Specification for IFF dual receiver ATE.

1991- Consultant for FIAT automobiles SA in Belo Horizonte and Sao Paulo, Brazil for the design and test of mobile telephone and GPS antennas.

1988-1993- Consultant at ZENDAR SPA in Reggio Emilia, Italy for the design of GPS, GSM and PMR mobile antennas.

1987-1988- Junior Engineer at "Superior Institute of Post and Telecommunications" Italy, for the planning of the GSM 900 fixed network.

1986-1987- Junior Design engineer at ENEL,"national administration for power lines " for power lines spread spectrum communication systems design.

Professional Upgrading Courses and certificates:

1990 - Digital Signal Processing design techniques at Leicester University, UK

1992 - Modern Receivers Design at Imperial College London, UK

1996 - Ga-As MMIC's design techniques at King's College London, UK

1997 - Ga-As circuit design course at GIGA S.A. Copenhagen "DK"

2000 - Custom training course CADENCE Analog Design with Analog Artist and Spectre RF.

2007 - Course on Safety Integrity for Railways communication equipments at the Italian Naval Register "Genova" Italy. .

Qualified to security clearance "from Italian MOD"

Main partners served during the professional career:

Accent, Alcatel Aerospace, Alenia Aerospace, Boeing Aircrafts, Elettronica SPA, FINISAR Corporation, FIAT Auto, General Electric Transportation systems, Infineon Technologies, Marconi Communications, Magneti Marelli Motorsport, SELEX Communications, STMicroelectronics,.

Technical Papers:

Published five papers on IEEE MTT transactions and IEEE conference proceedings on microwave and RF microelectronics issues.

Membership:

IEEE member since 1996

Spoken Languages:

Italian as mother tongue, fluent English.