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Althofen, Austria

• Program Manager on sketch to scale programs, managing the complete product development from Opportunity phase to Factory approval: opportunity, concept, development and characterization, design verification, transfer in production in industrial, automotive, and medical segments.• Lead and manage the leaders of multidisciplinary teams (mechanical, electrical, software, system, industrial design, NPI), resources (design, purchasing, NPI, operation, etc.), internal and external entities (contractors, suppliers, etc.), while always keeping the overview of the technical status of the entire program.• Strategic decision maker and ultimate responsible for the program: scope, schedule, costs, risks, change requests, communication strategies. • Managing any deviation with customer in a timely fashion and negotiate the best strategy to address it.• Customer main contact and relationship owner at program level.• Drive the communications by interacting with different stakeholders at all levels, internal and external (team, business, marketing, customer) and interface directly with upper management. Act as negotiator in order to find and persuade the stakeholders to accept the best compromises for the program. • Perform issue and risk management and keep them under control, supporting the team with the most important issues to solve, pushing for new out-of-the-box solutions and engaging SMEs when needed. Working with stakeholders on risk mitigations, contingency solutions and fallback scenarios. • Responsible to manage build runs and ensure their proper execution (material procurement, equipment availability, test stations, etc.) by leading operations project managers.• Member of the PMO group working on different initiatives to suggest, implement and sponsor new or improved methodologies and processes and support their introduction in the company and in quality management system.

Gratkorn, Graz, Austria.

• Project Manager for Secure Elements certifications, mobile and banking. Managing all the aspects of a Certification Project, driving company’s engineers for deliverables production, and interfacing and negotiating with international Evaluation Laboratories (TuevIT, Brightsight, Riscure, Serma, BCTC, CFCC, …) and Certification Bodies (EMVCo, CC/BSI, CC/NSCIB, CUP, CFNR and OSCCA certification).• Previous project: Project Manager in secure software department, the trust provisioning group. The group focuses on providing software for secure creation, insertion and delivery of confidential data in the chip manufacturing process, driving new solutions across the organization• Planning, execution and delivery of solutions for NXP key customer products.• Planning and managing scope, budget, resources, milestones, workshops and audits.• Negotiating and monitoring costs, schedules and resource workloads.• Coordination of internal team members for high performance delivery.• Driving the development and operations towards industrialization within the project scope.• Coordination of external partners across the world to optimize schedules, change requests and communication.• Translating of business requirements into project tasks in close cooperation with NXP Engineers and Product Management.• Defining and allocating of proper project staffing across projects in alignment with Resource Managers.• Executing of product development projects according to defined methodologies and milestones.• Coordination of system and release testing for service deployment.• Effective preparation and presentation of information to all stakeholders.• Leading multi-site and multi-discipline teams to successful project completion.

Verona Area, Italy

• Project Leader and Department Head coordination in software, hardware and mechatronic environments.• Coaching and support to Project Leaders growth and development.• Human resource coordination, priorities implementation requested by the Board and liaising between different company departments.• Planning and summary analysis for projects and resources.• Application of methodologies and standards related to Agile and Lean Thinking. Cooperation with QAs to define and introduce new instructions and procedures.• Strong leadership acknowledged and appreciated by collaborators.• Experienced in standards (i.e. MISRA) and procedures for products certification in critical environments (i.e. EN50128, IEC60730).

Verona, Italy

• Project Leader for STM-CASE software department: my team designed and developed radCASE-UX, an IDE that automatically generates C-code starting from UML diagrams and radCHECK, an application that performs automatic functional verification by using formal languages like PSL. • Oversaw and coordination as Project Leader of the team displaced on different sites (Verona and Udine), the technology and commercial partner in Germany (IMACS) and the research centers collaborating to the project (EDALab and Mobile3D).• Development of technology partnerships with international players like National Instruments, Lauterbach and IAR Systems, by defining technical solutions for cross-integration between our tools and their tools, coordinating and overseeing these works from a technical point of view.• System Architect for radCASE-UX application: I designed the application, by creating the architecture (Multi-tier) and defining the main Standard Design Patterns used in the project. The application has been developed in C# and XAML (.NET 4.0 / WPF / Linq).• Introduction of modern and efficient methodologies as Agile (SCRUM) and organized test procedures (Unit, IT, UAT).

Verona Area, Italy

• Research Contract for the Department of Computer Science, University of Verona, with focus on signal analysis and fast algorithms implementation.• Coordination, design and development, setup and maintenance of the web infrastructures required for the European Project “NIW” (LAMP, CMS, Mailing List, SVN). • Following the guidelines of the European Project “NIW”, I developed an application using the Symbian OS platform (for Nokia Handset). The application was written in C++ using the Carbide C++ (Eclipse like) IDE and able to access data from internal accelerometers of a Nokia N95. These data have been used to synthesize sounds by exploiting the N95 internal DSP and loudspeaker playing sound effects to simulate different trampled surfaces for an augmented reality application.• Moreover, different applications has been designed and developed with .NET platform (VB and C#) and MATLAB.• Development, support and upgrade of the office/laboratory network (SOHO-type and NAS-type), that was by an OS X server with the following services: (HTTPS, SCP/SFTP, SFTP, FTP over TLS/SSL, Proxy Server Privoxy and SOCKS server DeleGate, Web Server based on MAMP, with CMS , Mailing List.) and file sharing (CIFS/Samba/SWAT).

Verona Area, Italy

• Development and support for GlaxoSmithKline on mission critical application (Comet): a validated application used to keep track of all the drugs lifecycle process: formulation, production, storage and distribution• The application was based on 5 modules/apps with different kind of architectures (2 Tier and 3 Tier, MVC Design Patterns). One module was written in VB6, two in C# using .NET 1.1, one was a SAP Business Objects XI 3.1 module, the main one was in C# using .NET 2.0. All modules was based on Oracle 9i and 10g Database. Servers were Virtual Machines with Windows 2003 with IIS.• The work aimed to support and enhance the application, handling requests (mainly from Business Leader in UK and US), upgrading and modifying the C# applications, BO modules and Oracle database.• The validated environment requires organization efforts in international coordination and was eligible for inspections from local government.• I completed more than 50 online courses and examinations and practiced to work with standard methodologies and procedures: i.e. I experienced working with Configuration Management documents, GxP procedures, I attended 2 Waves Transition Meeting via Teleconference. I created and updated documents such as Standards, Policies, Guidelines, Standard Operating Procedures (SOP), Local Instructions (LIN), Technical Installation Plan (TIP), Technical Installation Report (TIR), Quality Procedures (QP), Business Requirements (BR), System Requirements (SR), Design Specification (DS).

Verona Area, Italy

Ph.D. abstract: “The Ph.D. aims at exploring a new research path in the signal processing, especially using the scale domain representation. The scale transform, the scale domain and all the related concepts will be analyzed and studied. Application and implementation of the scale transform will be investigated and various ideas of possible works will be suggested. In particular feature extraction using the scale, vowel recognition using scale, human perception from a scale point of view digital audio effects in scale domain will be studied”.The Ph.D. has been terminated and the defence has been successfully held in April, 2008 with an international commission of reviewers. The research area of the Ph.D activities was the signal and audio analysis and the main objective the exploration and the study of the scale and Mellin domains. A very important part of this work was the developing of a fast algorithm (a Matlab toolbox). This was the first algorithm able to compute the whole family of Beta-Mellin transforms with a sub-quadratic asymptotic complexity.At the same time other activities has been performed: coordination, design and development, setup and maintenance of the web infrastructure requested for the European Project (3 years long) S2S^2. The main server was a UML Debian (Linux) based pc located in UK. The most important components were: LAMP, Postfix, PostgreSQL, CVS, GForge, Mailman, phpMyAdmin, phpPGAdmin, Mambo CMS. Other components providing security and backup services were: IPTables, SNORT, ACID, automatic backup based on server scripts for synchronization via SSH with RSync on other servers. Further services and improvements have been achieved by modifying the code of some system’s components (i.e. CMS Mambo, GForge (PHP written) and Mailman (Python) to meet the requirements of the European partners.

Verona Area, Italy

• Worked with a Research Contract for the Department of Computer Science, University of Verona, continuing the work done for the master thesis on Sound Processing, Sound Analysis, Mellin and scale Transform, Matlab Programming.• Designed, developed, setup and maintained the web infrastructure required for the European Project S2S^2 , a VM with Linux Debian distribution. The main components of the system were LAMP, Postfix, PostgreSQL, CVS, GForge, Mailman, phpMyAdmin, phpPGAdmin, Mambo CMS, with security services and backups: IPTables, SNORT, ACID, synchronization via SSH with RSync

Greater New York City Area

• Worked as Ph.D. student at the Department of Physics & Astronomy, Hunter College, City University of New York, under the supervision of Prof. Leon Cohen who is the developer of the scale transform. This collaboration has led to the development of an automatic system for the evaluation of the efficiency of the main mathematic transforms (in MATLAB language).

Verona Area, Italy

• Worked as analyst and developer for the project “Downsize”, C.I.C.A. department, University of Verona. The previous management system used for accessing the whole university databases has been redesigned and a new application in Microsoft Visual Basic 6 has been implemented. The old system (built in COBOL) has been redesigned with Multi-Tier architecture, with new technologies like Remote Data Object and Microsoft SQL Server.

Verona Area, Italy

• Developed a Multimedia Book/Encyclopedia with an integrated search engine. It was designed in Microsoft Visual Basic 3 using external files written in SGML with fast indexing information generated by a C++ fast indexer. The application was able to research on different type of tags.

Doctor Of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science

Master’S Degree, Computer Science

Perito Informatico Capotecnico, It