Head of the MetOp BU with ~25 people.Responsible for Company projects for contracts value over 350M€

Project Manager of MicroWave Imager (MWI) Instrument on board of the MetOp-SG Satellite. Responsibility of the overall Instrument, management of numerous sub-contractors (Thales, Airbus, ...) selected by ITTs release.Customer: ESA/EUMETSAT. Prime Contractor: Airbus.Project Manager of external and internal payloads of the International Space Station - experiments developed by industries, international Universities and organizations. Phase A to E.Customer: ESA. Prime Contractors: CGS, Airbus, Thales.Extended stays at Kennedy Space Center and at Johnson Space Center (NASA) for pre-launch, commissioning and re-entry operations for Space Shuttle missions.Project Manager of SERENA, suite of instruments developed by european partners for BepiColombo mission to Mercury.Customer: ASI. Prime Contractor: Airbus.

Activities of study, planning, realization, integration, layout and execution of procedures for qualification test campaigns and pre-mission operations.

study with Finite Elements Analysis of panels in composite material for the “COLUMBUS” program for the transportation of elements to the International Space Station

Structural verification of subsystems for a facility for fluids physics experiments and analysis of dumping systems to isolate electronic equipment from the vibration launch loads.Preliminary thermal analysis of ejecting system for small satellites.