Gianluca Sabella Email & Phone Number

I’m currently working at EUMETSAT as System AIV Manager for the MTG Program.In the past I worked for some years at the European Space Agency as System Architect of the Sentinel 1 Payload Data Ground Segment (PDGS) in the frame of the Copernicus Engineering support contract with Serco.Previously I was in the VEGA Launcher project at ELV on the system engineering, system design, testing and validation, tailoring most common system engineering standards (e.g. the ECSS standard).I had experience in the End-to-End monitoring of external procurement with company like EADS Astrium, Telespazio, Werum, Vitrociset, Thales Alenia Space, Indra Espacio, GTD.In the VEGA System activities fields, I designed the end-to-end data handling processes and conducted the design, the development and the validation of System tools like the Vega Operational Database, the Vega Configuration Database, the System Engineering Database.Activities performed in these years has requested the production and verification of the technical documentation according to the ECSS standards, sweeping from the technical specification to validation plan, validation reports, NCR and SW Problem Report, Waiver and Deviation management, metrics reports, Definition Dossier and CIDL.The attitude to the innovation and creativity has driven the experience in the most modern design patterns and techniques, applying standards like UML, SysML, ECSS and DoD.Expertise in the Ground System (PDGS, DIMS, DFEP, SCOS 2000, EGSE, Ariane telemetry Ground Network, SCET, LETNA), On Board Telemetry and in the management of system testing campaign of the VEGA project like HWIL and UC-EMC.Languages/Tools:Microsoft Office, Microsoft Project, Rational Rose, I–Logix Statemate, Oracle, MySQL, SQL Server, Visio Modeler, ORM, C/C++, Fortran, UML, Visual Basic, Labview RT, Mathematica, Matlab (Simulink, Stateflow, Femlab, RTW), ASE (Pluto), SCOS 2000Standards: ECSS, Mil-Std-498, DoD-Std-2167A

Listed skills include Testing, Systems Engineering, Space Systems, System Design, and 42 others.