11/ 2017 – Current: European Commission, Mobility and Transport, Rue J.-A. Demot, 24-28 B – 1040 Brussels (Belgium)

Policy Officer in the Rail Safety and Interoperability Unit. The Unit is in charge of ensuring interoperability of the European Rail network while maintaining a high level of safety, International Relations and Research and Innovation. The European Union Agency for Railway and the Shift to Rail Joint Undertaking are supervised by the Unit.

Main tasks: delivery of secondary legislation linked to the Railway Interoperability Directive, such as Technical Specification for Interoperability (Energy, Rolling Stock, etc.), implementing and delegated acts and decision on European Registers. Interface with the Shift to Rail joint undertaking and the European Union Agency for Railway and other international organization such as OTIF (Intergovernmental Organisation for International Carriage by Rail). Analysis of derogations requests. Standardisation activities and relation with DG Grow. International relations and interface with DG Trade. Briefing for management.

Lecturer at Valenciennes University for the “Railway Engineering and Urban Transport Systems” Master on European regulation and standardization.

10/ 2008 – 11/2017: UNIFE, avenue Louise 221, B-1050 Bruxelles (Belgium)

Senior manager in charge of standardization and regulation activities for rail transport, European railway directives and other directives such as NRMM (Non Road Mobile Machinery), REACH (Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and Restriction of Chemicals), etc. Certification, authorisation/homologation and digitalisation issues for the European railway industry.

Public affair advisors: briefing to CEOs, strategic committee advisor, delivery of position papers, official presentations to National and European institutions and policy makers in general on supply industry position. Monitoring and analysis of EU legislative initiatives in the fields of transport and environment.

Permanent member as transport expert in several Expert Groups of the European Commission Directorate for Mobility and Transport: the Implementation of the Fourth Railway Package Technical Pillar group, the Digital Transport and logistic forum (DTLF) and the Land Transport Security group (LANDSEC).

UNIFE’s interface with European Institutions for regulatory affairs (including the European Commission, the European Parliament and the European Union Agency for Railway) and with the European Standardisation Organisation (CEN/CENELEC/ETSI) for standardisation activities.

Manager of UNIFE's highest technical committee and several international UNIFE working groups supporting the European Union Agency for Railway (ERA) in drafting regulations and recommendations (such as Technical Specifications for Interoperability -TSIs, Common Safety Methods – CSMs, or Implementing and Delegated acts).

Experienced in Standardisation and in the new approach directives, involvement in CEN/CENELEC (also as expert), IEC and ISO and in the Join Sector Initiative for standardization (DG-GROW initiative) and RASCOP (DG-MOVE initiative).

Manager of the UNIFE Digitalisation Platform, defining strategies and developing the industry position on the digital agenda including e-transport initiative under the Digital Single Market; Digital Single European Railway Area; Industry 4.0.

Coordinator/secretary of the group of all supporting bodies of the European Commission for Railways.

Sector representative in the ERTMS Authorisation corridor RFC1 National Safety Authority working group and in the EU-Russia industrialist roundtable.

Preparation of Shift2Rail Joint Undertaking and ERRAC roadmaps.

Project manager and coordinator of FP7 European funded research project (Acoutrain, EUR 2M budget, 15 members’ consortium).

Lecturer at Valenciennes University for the “Railway Engineering and Urban Transport Systems” Master on European regulation and standardization.

Team management (3 people)

07/ 2002 – 09/2008: ALSTOM Transport (Belgium and Italy)

Project Safety Assurance Manager, Responsible of authorization/homologation and safety assurance project management activities for signalling equipment in various projects, including ETCS/ERTMS and STM (Specific Transmission Module) for national class B systems (e.g. SCMT, ATBL, PZB, …).

Delivery of safety activities: Safety Case, Safety Plan, Hazard Log Management, Interface Hazard Analysis, Failure Mode Effect Analysis (FMEA), RAM (Reliability, Availability and Maintainability) assessment, Safety Reviews, Safety Validation of system specifications, architecture and design solutions (Hardware and Software), Independent Safety Assessor (ISA) management.

Delivery of Conformity Assessment activities: Validation and Verification activities and reports, testing activities in laboratory and on field, Integration Reports (subsystem integration at train/vehicle level and system integration (vehicle/network) activities), Exported Constraints Identification and management.

Notified Bodies and Designated Bodies management: conformity assessment procedures, establishment of EC verification procedures, Notified Bodies Certificates of Verification and EU declaration of Verification.

ERTMS interoperability: control-command and signalling on-board and trackside subsystems integration of ERTMS equipments from different suppliers (Safety and Hazard Analysis, testing activities in laboratory and on field).

System Integration: Interoperability testing and System Safety Cases, subsystems integration at train/vehicle level and vehicle/network compatibility on different projects, with different suppliers of sub-systems and different customers and operating rules.

Management and interface with railway authorities and final authorisation/homologation in various Member States, e.g. corridor 1 (IT, NL, DE, CH, SL, HR, AT).

Placing in service of first ERTMS Level 2 high speed operational line (Roma-Napoli) and several other international projects.

Costumer management, interface with various railway operators and infrastructure managers. Working groups with customers and other suppliers for system specification validation and hazard analysis at system level.

Application of CENELEC standards and process for SIL4 Software and Hardware validation. Trainer for CENELEC standards (EN50126, EN50128, EN50129) and Safety Requirements for ERTMS system, internal and external trainings.

Team management (6 people)

09/2001 – 03/2002 
• Name and address of employer        VALEO Sistemas de seguridad – Olesa de Montserrat – Barcelona – Spain
• Type of business or sector        Automotive supplier, technical centre of Olesa (Spain)
• Occupation or position held        Quality and Safety Engineer in the Ignition Projects and Production Team (Leonardo Program)
• Main activities and responsibilities        Quality conception in the Ignition Projects Team.
FMECA, Fault Tree Analysis, 6 sigma and Quality Action Plan.
Implementation of IT program for the analysis of production and quality data for ignition production lines.
Production of Valeo “Best Practices” documents, applying Valeo guidelines for workstation instructions, Vigilance Plan.

 08/2000 – 02/2001
• Name and address of employer        PSA PEUGEOT CITROEN, Poissy – France
• Type of business or sector        Automobile producer
• Occupation or position held        Professional Internship – Methods Engineer in Department of Paint Methods (Poissy production centre), the first European water-based paint production unit.
• Main activities and responsibilities        Quality and production control of the Peugeot 206 and 306 automobiles.
Group leader of 15 people dealing with “spot” problem (specific problem of water-based paint) – improvement of the range of polish and resolution of the problem.
Relations with suppliers of paint and polish, and with Peugeot’s central Paint Methods department.
Improvement of Paint Quality indicator.

EDUCATION AND TRAINING
 

09/1999- 06/2001
• Name and type of organisation providing education and training        Université de Technologie de Compiègne UTC – France
• Principal subjects/occupational 
skills covered        Mechanical Systems Engineering
• Title of qualification awarded        Master’s Degree in Mechanical Systems Engineering
• Level in national classification 
(if appropriate)        Bac +5 / Grade de Mastaire 
 

   09/1996- 08/1999
• Name and type of organisation providing education and training        Facoltà di Ingenieria, Università degli studi di Genova – Italy
• Principal subjects/occupational 
skills covered        Management Engineering
• Title of qualification awarded        See above
• Level in national classification 
(if appropriate)        See above

PERSONAL SKILLS AND COMPETENCES
Acquired in the course of life and career but not necessarily covered by formal certificates and diplomas.
 

MOTHER TONGUE        ITALIAN
OTHER LANGUAGES
        FRENCH
• Reading skills        EXCELLENT
• Writing skills        EXCELLENT
• Verbal skills        EXCELLENT
        ENGLISH
• Reading skills        EXCELLENT
• Writing skills        EXCELLENT
• Verbal skills        EXCELLENT
SPANISH
• Reading skills        EXCELLENT
• Writing skills        GOOD
• Verbal skills        GOOD
 

SOCIAL SKILLS AND COMPETENCES
Living and working with other people, in multicultural environments, in positions where communication is important and situations where teamwork is essential (for example culture and sports), etc.        Flexibility and adaptability to work in different countries and working environments. 
Ability to work in multicultural environment and teams.
Motivation and readiness to learn new skills and co-operate with others: involvement in a range of cultural activities with multicultural character (e.g. development cooperation in Africa, scout group).
Good communication skills.
Servas member (organization for cultural exchange between travelers from all around the world).
 

ORGANISATIONAL SKILLS  AND COMPETENCES 
Coordination and administration of people, projects and budgets; at work, in voluntary work (for example culture and sports) and at home, etc.        Fitness and running instructor as volunteer in a sport association named Friskis and Svetties
Coordination and management of people from different countries at university in the ERASMUS association (event and trip organization), in voluntary work (organization of “young’ forum” in Burundi involving youth from different countries that cooperate with local people on development projects – e.g. school restoration, cooperation with a medical center in Senegal).
Commitment and ability to deliver results within tight deadlines (as demonstrated in various professional activities).
Good organizer in private life, e.g. travel abroad.
 

TECHNICAL SKILLS  AND COMPETENCES
With computers, specific kinds of equipment, machinery, etc.        Windows and OS Mac environments
Microsoft Office, Project, Simulations programs
Simulator of Automatic Train Protection (ETCS/ERTMS and SCMT)
 

ARTISTIC SKILLS AND COMPETENCES
Music, writing, design, etc.        Fitness instructor
Dance (various styles)
Yoga
Piano
Singing
 

OTHER SKILLS  AND COMPETENCES
Competences not mentioned above.        Fast learner able to take early responsibility in key projects.
Open water diver.
DRIVING LICENCE(S)        B