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Turin, Piedmont, Italy

Turin, Piedmont, Italy

Turin, Piedmont, Italy

Turin, Piedmont, Italy

As Principal Product Manager, I am currently responsible for strategy and roadmap of Cerence Output AI Product Line (Text-To-Speech Products, Cloud and Embedded), indirectly managing a team of 100+ resources (AI researchers, software engineers, data scientists, linguists...) across Europe, China, India.Supporting Cerence Sales across the globe in successfully positioning TTS products into Automotive market, as well as other segments such as consumer electronics, smart mobility, fitness...Cerence technology is deployed in 400M+ cars on the road (1 in 2 cars shipped).

Turin, Piedmont, Italy

Turin, Piedmont, Italy

Leinì, Piedmont, Italy

Acting as Project Manager/Scrum Product Owner for a Telematics/IOT application project for a big off-road (agriculture and construction vehicles) OEM. Scope of the project is the end-to-end Telematics application, from firmware running on the device installed in-vehicle to the web portal for vehicle data visualization and analysis. Main topic is fleet management in the Agriculture domain. I am the key contact person towards the customer, and I internally manage a team of 15+ people. I am responsible for the final delivery to customer.

Turin, Piedmont, Italy

Pre-sales technical activities in the area of Mentor Graphics Embedded Software Portfolio, with a special focus on AUTOSAR toolchain (Mentor Graphics Volcano tool suite) and AUTOSAR 4.x compliant OS and stack.As part of a European Technical Sales Team, my main focus is towards the Italian Automotive Market.I am responsible for driving technical evaluations of Mentor Graphics products within customers, to prepare technical proposals in response to Requests for Quotations, and to support customers in building up their toolchain in the context of E/E architecture and development.

Venaria Reale, Piedmont, Italy

Working as part of the software team responsible to deliver the next generation BMW infotainment head units; I am working in a C embedded development environment, on a two microcontrollers system:nVidia Tegra2 (ARM Cortex-A9 dual-core) running Linux based OS;Freescale FADO MPC5668x (PowerPC Architecture Technology) running AUTOSAR based OS.As part of the so called "Software Stability Team", I am responsible for driving all stability tickets reported on AUTOSAR OS based microcontroller from root-cause analysis to integration of the final software fix. I’ve been involved in a task force, lasted two months, driving all the needed activities to ensure final product stability (in terms of resets per 10000 Km) to have start of production granted by the customer. In this emergency based scenario, I was able to successfully drive to positive results a team of 5 developers.Responsible for driving the deployment of System Watchdog functionality, from design to development/testing and then to integration into final software baseline. Goal of the activity is to ensure mass production with zero unrecovered hangs of the system.

Munich, Bavaria, Germany

Working as part of the software team responsible to deliver the next generation BMW infotainment head units; I am working in a C embedded development environment, on a two microcontrollers system:nVidia Tegra2 (ARM Cortex-A9 dual-core) running Linux based OS;Freescale FADO MPC5668x (PowerPC Architecture Technology) running AUTOSAR based OS.As Domain Leader for low level system functions (System Lifecycle/Power Management), I am responsible for managing all the activities and the engineers belonging to a specific functional area (driving a team of up to 10 people). In particular, I am responsible to interact with the suppliers, to lead the internal development activities and to manage the relation with the customer. I am responsible for features planning and I have to guarantee their convergence in terms of time and quality. Defects reduction and bugs tracking are in my responsibility as well.As part of this experience, I spent one year driving a team jointly composed by supplier and customer employees, working directly at BMW customer premises in Munich (Germany). In the context of this very challenging activity, I worked with Agile/SCRUM project management methodologies in order to deliver the expected results within though deadlines.Main technologies:Linux OS, AUTOSAR OS (Elektrobit BMW AUTOSAR Core 3.1), Microsoft Office/Project, Telelogic DOORS, UML, Enterprise Architect, C embedded programming, Git CM.

Venaria Reale, Piedmont, Italy

Working as part of the team responsible to develop new Linux based infotainment head unit base platform.As Software Supplier Manager I am responsible for reviewing software requirements and architectural models, in order to identify errors in specifications. Involved in the drafting of Statements of Work towards different software suppliers. I am responsible for planning and tracking the development activities of the suppliers in order to ensure on time deliveries.

Bologna, Italia

Technical support and supervision activities for railway signaling systems (wayside field). Application maintenance of the proprietary software system named ICSC (Integrated Control Security Centre), based on Windows technologies. Configuration, test and integration of a monitoring system aimed at generating automated alerts through mail/sms in case of system misbehaviors, malfunctions, etc. (monitoring of servers’ variables, network status, etc.).Troubleshooting activities (SW and networking). Support applications development in VB6/VB .NET. Customers/suppliers relationships management

Turin, Piedmont, Italy

Web oriented applications (SOA infrastructure – Service Oriented Architecture) development in J2EE for EAI (Enterprise Applications Integration) projects. IBM environments. Database Administration activities (Oracle/DB2 technologies)

Stockholm, Stockholm County, Sweden

Turin, Piedmont, Italy

Master, Ingegneria Telematica

Bachelor, Ingegneria Delle Telecomunicazioni

Maturità Classica