Personal:

Nationality: Italian

Birthday: 1st march 1965

Place of birth: Bologna, ITALY

Email: iw4blg@gmail.com

Work experience:

11 years with the renowned firm Magneti Marelli of Bologna (1989-1999) being engaged in:

• For three years in charge of the optimisation of engine control systems

• For three years with the team developing new system conception and algorithms, in co-operation with our French site in Paris.

• For one years in a co-design group with our customer Mercedes

• For two years as technical support on site and interface, with our customer Volvo Car Corporation in Gothenburg, developing an innovative system

• Two years as resident engineer within Volvo Car Corporation in Gothenburg, taking care of further developing and production’s quality problems

5 Years (2000-2005), with the renowned firm RIELLO SpA of Legnago, being engaged in:

• First year: responsible of the design process quality

• Then: responsible of the reliability engineering group

3 Months as tecnical manager of a trade company of “preowned electronics intruments”

Freelance tecnical writer of books and articles for several italian magazin

Since Jan 2006, with the Eurotec div. MBM (ITW group) being engaded in:

• RF designer of industrial microvawe combi ovens

• Reliability and quality manager

Education:

• Final state exams at the high school of electronic engineering (5 years) in Bologna with excellent marks (58/60)

• Passed nine exams as undergraduate at the Bologna’s University, faculty of electronic engineering

• Attendance at several internal courses of applied thermodynamics and system’s modelling

• Attended a course at the University of Oxford (UK) in 1995, to become an effective technical writer

• Followed a course at the University of Oxford (UK) in 1998 on designing mixed integrated circuitry

• Second Summer School for Spectrum Management (INAF-CRAF-ESF) june 2005

• Course for Winter over Antartide operation, aug 2005

• Course for accelerated test methods for predicting life of systems/components
  

Patents:

Five industrial patents deposited in Europe. Two of these, referring to system controls, are also deposited in U.S. and Brazil

Interests and hobbies

• I do radio-hamming specialising in fancy radiocommunications e.g. reflecting radio signal from the Moon. I design and build my own radio gear: See my home page: www.qsl.net/iw4blg

• I am also interested in landscape photography and reportage.

• I do not miss helping occasionally firms developing new circuitry or gadget, like the Swiss one with an electronic interface for high-end audio sensor (1997), an informative system for blind people (Mantova, Italy 1998), or simply technical assistance in service amplification.

• As a hobby I enjoy listening to modern and jazz music and travelling.

Publications:

• More than 25 articles on radio magazines about my home-brew radio and electronics gears

• Book about mineral fuels and biofuels

• Book about theory and practice of FMEA

Languages:

• Italian as mother language

• School knowledge of written and spoken French

• Good knowledge of written and spoken English

• Basis of Swedish

Personal presentation

For eleven years, I have been working in a big company of components/systems for cars, with many contacts with foreigners suppliers/customers.

Starting from some electronics basis, I have grown up my knowledge and expanded it to several different matters, being engaged in different position within my company.

For instance, I would remember my activity as system architect as well as technical link among our offices in Paris and Bologna

As a last experience, I’ve been working as Resident Engineer within Volvo Car Corporation, Gothenburg, taking care of our “drive by wire” system, made of precision mechanic, hybrid electronic, software and safety/control functions.

Core of that activity was the continuos technical interfacing with the customer, the understanding of the problems, the fast problem’s fixing on site.

Beside that, I took care also about quality matter, troubleshooting, and of the continuos upgrading of the product.

So, I became good in self-management of my activity, multi-task oriented, with wide visions of the problems, computers and field analyses skills, in the meanwhile I enjoyed to work with different culture.

After such experience, I moved to RIELLO SpA (Burners division), world leader for domestic and industrial burners as responsible of the design process quality, working in staff with the R&D director.

Since the summer 2001, I took the responsibility to build up the new group of Reliability Engineering, doing the same also on the Wall-hung division and Floor Standing Boiler division.

I led a team of testing expert with the final goal of seek out any week point into the designs, by means of FMEA as well as lab or field tests.

For two years, I led also internal courses about FMEA, basics of electronics and laboratory instruments.

I was also member for Riello within international workgroups like EHI and Eurofuel. In 2004, I took part in a joint group from CTI and Government for the definition of standards for new fuels.

Since 2006, I'm engaged as a quality and relibilty engineer in a company that desing and produce industrial cooking equipment. Special task as designer of a industrial microwave-combi oven.