Francesco Capasso Email & Phone Number

Milan, It

Milano, Italia

Gallarate

• Manage R&D projects belonging to several industrial sectors: car devices, smart home sensors, IoT wearables, smart flowmeters (third party brands).• Lead projects from early business idea till product complete development.• Create aggressive but sustainable plans, through proper risk assessments.• Lead distributed teams granting effective teamwork, conflicts resolution and suppliers’ control.• Project P&L and flow-cash accountable, granting on-budget delivery.• Manage customer programs being the key reference and key account for customer program objectives.• Reports with structured PMO methods to General Manager.

Milano, Italia

• Manage projects ranging from pure SW platforms development to high volumes devices: IoT platforms, smart home, broadband gateways, troubleshooting suite (ODM, OEM, CM business models).• Lead projects from business proposal (RFQ, RFP, bid and tender) till field deployment.• Lead international, distributed teams granting effective teamwork, conflicts resolution and suppliers’ control, also from Far East.• Budget accountable, preventing performance deviations from baselines, ensuring on-time and on-budget delivery (max $ 1,5m).• Manage customer programs being the key reference and key account for customer program objectives.• Reports with structured PMO methods, escalating to main stakeholders, also at C-level.

Milan Area, Italy

“Quality Assurance” department supervises System integration and Hardware validation of home networking products and services; for many of them it is the technical focal point for other company departments.• Work team organization and management;• ODM suppliers control (also far east partners);• Activities planning and optimization according to projects needs and priorities;• Test strategies analysis and planning for products validation and certifications CE, FCC, Anatel, CNC, WiFi Alliance, CAT-iq, 3GPP, HGI, ETSI Conformance Tests/IEEE, Broadband Forum;• Management and maintenance of laboratory instrumentation;• Investments evaluation for test quality enhancement and new technology coverage;• “Professional testing services” management for third party customers;• Feasibility analysis, customer requirements collection and functional specs definition;• Customer technical support (pre/post sales).

Milan Area, Italy

New technology scouting, development and integration of home networking technologies in Pirelli Broadband Solutions “Quality Assurance” department; • Requirement Analysis of RF technologies Wi-Fi IEEE 802.11a/b/g/n/ac, DECT, IR, ZigBee, HSDPA, UMTS, GSM;• Test plan analisys and definition for internal validation, CE certification (EN300328, EN301893) and interoperability testing (Wi-Fi Alliance, CAT-iq and 3GPP) and manufacturing;• Team management and activity planning;• Customer and supplier technical support.

Milan Area, Italy

Development and Integration of RF technologies on residential and business gateway (Wi-Fi IEEE 802.11a/b/g/n, DECT, ZigBee, HSDPA, UMTS, GSM) in Pirelli Broadband Solutions Design Validation & Testing group as a Contractor.

Cassina De Pecchi (Milan)

Development and integration of WiMAX technology (standard IEEE 802. 16d/e) in Siemens Microwave Systems group.

Master In Project Management

Msc, Telecommunication Engineering, 110/110

Activities and Societies: 1999 - 2003: Active member in Board of European Students of Technology, international Fund Raising Group.