Andrea Francioni Email and Phone Number

I was born in Rome, Italy in 1979. I received the "laurea" degree in Telecommunications Engineering (summa cum laude) in Remote Sensing from the University of Rome "La Sapienza" in 2004. After the degree I worked for about 7 months for SIPAL (Società di Ingegneria per l'Assistenza Logistica) as Integrated Logistic Support Technician, employed in the preparation of manuals and courses for defence systems.Since January 2005 to June 2014 I had been working in Thales Alenia Space as End to End System Engineer, inserted in the Advanced Studies & Data Processing division, mainly employed in COSMO-SkyMed first and second generation.In June 2014 I became Bid Manager for ESA, EUMETSAT, ASI bids responsible for METOP Second Generation Scatterometer, Sentinel-1 C/D, Sentinel-3 C/D Platform proposals.Since June 2017 I joined the Cosmo Second Generation (CSG) project in the role of CSG System & Ground Segments PMO & Risks Manager and then as Program Manager for CSG Space Segment and Launch Services Procurement leading to the successful launch of FM2 last Jan 2022. I am now the program manager of PLATiNO program.