2018 – AEP Ticketing Technologies S.r.l. Signa (FI) – Italy Senior PM and Service Director Responsible of the Software Service business unit (Software segment) and Senior PM for some Italian key projects, for the first company in the public transport ticketing sector in Italy.

2015 – 2018 Swarco Mizar S.r.l. Turin – Italy Service Director Responsible of the Service business unit. Reorganizes the business by introducing automated incident management organizing 24/365 availability management. Responsible of 20 resources, with more than 50 contracts and a turnover exceeding 2.5 MEuro. Help desk and support on Swarco products with autonomous capacity in the configuration and installation of the systems. The business unit performs installations and maintenance of telematic systems on vehicles, infrastructures and recharging electric vehicles with internal resources and integrating external resources Manages offers to customers and orders to suppliers for assistance and maintenance activities. It supports the sales division for the preparation of documentation for tenders, prototypes and inspections. Manage renewal contracts in autonomy.

2015 -2017 Swarco Service Italia Scorzè (VE) – Italy Managing Director Harmonization and integration of the SSI activities in the Service division of Swarco Mizar. Merging of the activities to the controller company with no issues or claims form customer (half people left the company and half were incoroporated).

2008- 2015 Swarco Mizar S.p.A. Turin – Italy Project Management Office Director Head of the PMO (Project Management Office) of Swarco Mizar SpA with coordination of 14 project managers. Planning, control and financial reporting. PM for some key projects: Latvia Riga project. Fleet monitoring and control of 700 vehicles on 7 depots, integration with CCTV, Ticketing form Xerox ACS, alcolock system, Tetra communication system. Bus Rapid Transport in Haifa (Israel): Fleet monitoring and control of a BRT line of 90 vehicles, CCTV, passenger text and audio information, passenger counters, VMS at stop platforms, SMS and internet information, daily reports for the transport authority. Rabat urban tramway. Fleet monitoring and control, integration in the Alstom rolling stock, electronic ticketing (Xerox ACS), Tetra communication system (EADS). Project requested great interaction with transport companies EGIS, ALSTOM, ROIRET of Vinci group) UAE Sharjah Emirate, fleet monitoring and control, public information system for the bus system, integration with the electronic ticketing (Parkeon), Display Hanover. The first SMS information service in Emirates. Urban Traffic control system (full adaptive traffic lights coordination with traffic detectors) for the municipality of Kiev (Ukraine),

2006-2008 digigroup srl Turin – Italy Chief Technical Officer Chief technical officer in a small Italian enterprise that design and produce automotive components and systems for industrial vehicles diagnostics. – Rationalization of the work times with the diminution of the 70% the time of definition of technical offers, the 50% of the develop time of prototypes and of the 30% of the standard product production time. – The rationalization of production costs with the introduction of outsourcing for electronic parts productions (wirings, electronics) with a cost cutting of 25% – The ‘E’ certification (2004/104 and followings) of new products as well the IVECO compliance as well the ISO 9001 certification. – The design, prototyping and engineering of the new generation of electronic devices, company’s key products. Development of the integrated system for remote diagnosis of the vehicles with a synergic integration of the vehicle telematics of on-board passenger information. Diagnostic and integration for IVECO, MAN and VanHool for ATM Milano AVM system for Iveco-Irisbus vehicles for Campania EAV Bid, integration with Thales ticketing system.

2002-2006 FIAT Research Centre Turin – Italy Business development director Business development director for the technologies department reporting to the executive vice president. Managing of the overall process of business in telematics applications in the field of public transport, from the bid application to the project leadership. In 2003 started a 4- year project for the automation of billing and public information system for the Northern Italian Province of Trento (Budget of about 12 M$). The system is still operative in 2017. During the period, thanks to the bids won, Fiat Research Centre gained the references to participate in the main Italian public tenders such as ATAC Rome, ATM Milan, GTT Turin, TT Trento.

1994–2002 FIAT Research Centre Turin – Italy Automatic control department Director Chief of the Automatic control department with responsibility of 30 collaborators, a turnover of 15 MEuro, 90% internal FIAT customers as Fiat Auto and Magneti Marelli) and remaining not FIAT companies. Development of control strategies based on robust control for both chassis for gasoline and diesel engine control, active suspensions, gearbox automation, telematics application. Control unit prototyping for driveability of electric vehicles, hybrid vehicles, and fuel cell. Some results of activity are used in mass production in the field of engine control (Fiat Common rail) as well as gearbox automation (Magneti Marelli Selespeed). The activity involved the interface with the bench activities for rapid control algorithms develop and testing execution of cycles as well in the field of engine control and chassis control. Start-up of the Naples subsidiary of FIAT Research Centre with two units: rapid prototyping of control application for alternative fuel systems (Hydrogen, methane and Hybrid vehicles) and telematics applications for the automotive sector. Project manager for ATENA project, a 12 MEuro project with the integrated management of dynamic navigation, fleet of 80 cars (hybrid, electric, CNG, integration with TVCC and public information through VMS. Leader of the WP8 of the EU financed project Galileo, the European satellite navigation system. Specification for the automotive applications.

1988–1994 FIAT Research Centre Turin – Italy Chassis control systems unit Manager Responsible of the chassis control system unit managing of 10 engineers. Reorganization of the software development criteria and control algorithms with a reduction of lead time by 40% and a limitation of the on-road test times. The responsibility of the application was: design and realisation of HW based on Intel MC96, design, simulation and implementation of control algorithms in X-Math environment and after in Matlab-Simulink and D-Space. Test and assessment on test of test together the Vehicles department. Realisation of a Hardware in the loop (HITL) environment to test algorithms faced to vehicle dynamic simulators Realisation of an adaptive cruise control prototype with longitudinal vehicle dynamic control based on the use of a DSP radar. Realisation of a lateral control prototype with the use of street marks recognition and lateral control trough electric power steering. Realisation of a variable ratio steering system with the use of an epicyclical electric power steering. Realisation of a full controlled gearbox control for an agricultural tractor using dual clutch and a 6×4 gears managed by hydraulic actuators. Realisation of a full controlled gearbox control for IVECO industrial vehicles using a 6×4 gears managed by hydraulic/pneumatic actuators. Realisation of a full controlled gearbox control for Lancia Delta Martini using hydraulic actuator of a 7 gears and clutch.

1984-1987 AIC Engineering Turin Italy Analyst and programmer Programmer and analyst in the field of simulation software with focus on automatic contro applications for computer manufacturing, food and car engineering. – Strategies of optimization of coffee burning cycles for Lavazza (Coffee) in a PLC GE series Six environment. – Design and development of an electric system simulator for vehicles for FIAT Research Centre in Digital VMS/Fortran environment. The simulator called BILELCO was used in Fiat for at least 15 years. – Development of a post processing software for Fiat Motors department in Digital – VMS/Fortran environment. It was realized a specific solution for parsing on line the request of engineers for algebraic application of signal recorded.

Languages – Italian mother tongue, English, French Papers, prizes, associations – Legally member of the Engineers Register (n. 6253 Sect. A – SA province) – Former representative of the FIAT Research Centre for the TTS organization [2005- 2006] – Former member of the directive council of Organization Technomobility, Sardinia area [2005-2006] – Former member of the scientific council of Naples Automobile Club [1999-2006] – Former Teacher for the University Master in Transports and Mobility – (2004-2005, COREP University of Turin) – Awarded with the “Oscar Masi” prize for Industrial innovation from the “Associazione Italiana per la Ricerca Industriale”, AIRI (1998) – Scientific Coordinator and teacher in the training course “FUEL CELL – Introduction to the control systems for the generation of energy and propulsion” (2003, Fiat Research Centre) – Co-Chairman in the Working Group 1: IFAC Symposium AAC04 – “Advances in Automotive Control” – April 19-23, 2004 – Salerno – Author or co-author of 20 technical papers – Co-author of two patents : EP0661188A1 automatic vehicle speed control and clutch control and autonomous – Qualification to the exercise of the engineer profession (Italian State Examination in 1988 at Politecnico di Torino) – Prize from the Technical Association of Automobile (1987) of the Bachelor Thesis titled “Software for the simulation and the execution of transitory to the bench of diesel motors”, that has been carried out under the sponsorship of IVECO Company. Computer skills – Microsoft Office suite, Autocad, Matlab, SQL – Languages: C, Fortran, Pascal, Basic, Assembler Intel. 

Skills – Leading of the Service business unit for a company operating in the field of urban control with thousands of online devices (busses, traffic lights, VMSs). The activity includes also the massive installation of telematic systems on board electric vehicles. – Program management for ITS (Intelligent Transportation System) projects applied to the management of public transport and urban traffic management. – Management control, CEO, chairman of the board. – System design for ITS applications with the definition of architectural solutions for systems integration for control, supervision, information to users and final accounting for control purposes adherence to service contracts. – Design, prototyping and simulation of control algorithms for conventional engines, electric, hybrid and fuel cell vehicles. Control systems of the lateral and longitudinal guide. – Preparation of technical documentation and assessment of costs for participation in public and private tenders. – Leading Work Package in European Projects. – Industrial automatic controls applied to the food industries. – International experience: Latvia, Sweden, Israel, Morocco, United Arab Emirates, Ukraine, Czech Republic, France, Germany, England, Spain, Switzerland, Belgium, Holland, France. – Italian mother tongue, fluent English, good French. Roles – Head of Service division in Swarco Mizar (Turin-Italy) – Managing Director of Swarco Service Italia (Venice-Italy) – Head of Project Management Office in Swarco Mizar (Turin-Italy) – Managing Director of Swarco Mizar Albania (Tirana-Albania) – Managing Director of Swarco of Mizar Automazione Maroc (Tanger-Morocco) – Chief Technology Officer in digigroup srl (Turin-Italy) – Head of Fiat Research Centre subsidiary (Naples-Italy) – Director of Automatic Control Department of Fiat Research Centre (Turin-Italy) – Manager of chassis automation unit in Fiat Research Centre (Turin-Italy) – Analyst in AIC Engineering, after ATOS Origin (Turin-Italy) – Programmer and analyst in AIC engineering (Turin-Italy) Education and training – Graduated on 1987 in Electronic Engineering at “Politecnico di Torino” with specialization in Automatic Controls. – Summer Course in Automatic controls design (MIT – Boston, USA 1990) – Summer Course in Modelling for automatic controls (MIT – Boston, USA 1991) – Complete FIAT group training (from manager to director)