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MY EXPERIENCE

Roles & Responsibilities

April 2024 - current date

HEAD of INNOVATION & TECHNOLOGY GOVERNANCE, TELESPAZIO Belgium

Enhancing and managing company innovation and technology portfolio while ensuring revenues and long-term profitability of the innovation projects. Creation of technology roadmap to support company development in agreement with corporate strategic directions. *
Support finance department by drafting financial updates of relevant innovation activities and projects. Monitoring budget and effort in technology intensive activities. Development and maintenance of processes related to technology and innovation projects.
In charge of management interface between technology, project customers and all internal stakeholders.

July 2022 - April 2024

TECHNICAL PROJECT MANAGER, SEPTENTRIO

In charge of hardware and software projects throughout their life cycle, starting from the initial scope definition until delivery.Handling milestones, allocate resources and define project WBS. Aligning schedules and facilitate the interaction among different stakeholders such as business partners, consultants and internal departments.Budget and schedules preparation for each project. Collaboration with product managers and technical leaders to process market requirements and transform them into engineering requirements.Producing and presenting periodic status reports during the whole project life cycle.

November 2011 - October 2012

SENIOR RESEARCH ENGINEER, VON KARMAN INSTITUTE

Preparation of projects proposal and project management of industrial and research contracts. Focus on numerical simulation activity (computational fluid dynamics). Creator and  maintainer of the VESTA toolkit for stability and transition prediction.Development of physical modelling for space applications. Supervision of students (ungrads and PhDs) and teaching activities. Organization of international lectures and  presentation at international conferences

November 2011 - October 2012

RESEARCH ENGINEER, VON KARMAN INSTITUTE

n charge of scientific and industrial projects as researcher.
Expert in hypersonic flow simulations and laminar-to-turbulence transition.
Preparing proposals with international consortia for European grants and ESA projects (as GSTP). Presenting research work at world class conferences such as Eucass and AIAA. Giving lectures
Publish research in scientific journals about technical and algorithmic development in fluid dynamics (heat transfer, hypersonics, subsonic flows, industrial flows, system flows).

April 2006 - September 2006

THERMAL PROTECTION ENGINEER, AVIO

Design and update of thermal protection for ESA launcher Ariane 5 and ARTA program.

Detailed design of Vega (Advanced Generation European Launcher) and interface with production activities. Simulation and coordination of tensile strength tests for internal thermal protections.
Management of outsourced activities.

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