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Zurich, Switzerland

Zürich Area, Switzerland

Baden - Switzerland

• Ensure, together with the design team and through simulations and optimization loops, the fulfillment of new products lifetime specifications and support the product lifetime management activities and customers’.
• Lifetime analysis and design optimization of GE and non-GE gas turbine rotors and components, including reverse engineering activities;
• Feasibility studies for the introduction of ALSTOM rotor technologies into GE Gas Turbine portfolio;
• Comparison and integration of Alstom and General Electric methods for gas turbine rotors lifetime assessment.

Baden - Switzerland

• Technical leader for the rotor mechanical integrity in major company technology programs;
• Development of new methodologies, design criteria and design directives;
• Reviewer in technical product reviews.

Baden - Switzerland

• H-class gas turbine development (GT36): responsible for the rotor mechanical integrity and design optimization;
• F-class gas turbine development (GT24): responsible for the rotor mechanical integrity and design optimization;
• Coordination of work packages assigned to different engineering centers;
• Green belt project related to the rotor creep lifetime generating savings of 1 MEUR / year;
• Green belt project related to rotor lifetime optimization in the concept design phase;
• As an additional role (from 2010 till end 2012), validation engineer for gas turbine engines, coordinating the validation activities within Gas Turbine Integration department including Validation plans, Request of.

Baden - Switzerland

• Full Rotordynamic investigation of complete shaft trains including:- lateral and torsional eigenfrequencies analysis with deformable supporting structures and flexible blades;- unbalance response analysis;- electrical.
• Development of new methodologies and design criteria;
• Coordination of work packages assigned to different engineering centers;
• Vibration protection definition for complete shaft trains;
• Compliance of shaft trains to grid codes;
• Product Support and Field issues activities, including complex Root Cause Analyses;

Cascina Costa Di Samarate - Italy

• Collaboration with the aero-mechanics department to support many activities concerning the dynamic, vibratory and acoustic behavior of the helicopter;
• Finite Element modelling and analysis of different components (for instance main gear box of helicopter AB139);
• Experimental tests concerning vibratory behavior of the helicopter (impact test, ground resonance, operating deflection shapes…);
• Experimental modal analysis of complete helicopters and components;
• Correlation between FEM models and experimental models;
• Finite Element Models updating and optimization;

Milano, Italia

• Design, drawing and analysis of steel construction.
• Software development for designing;
• Machines and plants conformity analysis to the European Community directives (Machines Directive, electromagnetic compatibility Directive, etc.);
• LAN administrator.

Master'S Degree, Aerospace Engineering

Graduation thesis: Performance estimate of an inertial sphere attitude control system for small satellites.

A-Level Certificate (Maturità Scientifica)