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Consultant & Managing Director

Work Experience

TECHNOLOGY TO BUSINESS ADVISOR
- Advising a client company from the aerospace sector concerning the industrialization process of an novel product for space applications:
--Revision of specifications
-- Translation of production process from laboratory to industrial scale
-- Market analysis and strategy advice
-- Outsourcing: option analysis, strategy advice, contacting and screening of potential suppliers
-- Advice over technology and product development in TRL 6-9 range

- Advising a client company from the aerospace sector concerning the delocalization of chemical treatments activities of parts for aeronautic applications
-- Relationship with client
-- Project management
- Advising a client company from the aerospace sector in concerning its production processes and the related materials, due to emerging environmental constraints (REACH)
--Translation of technical issues into financial advices and policy lines, providing decision tools for the management
--Bridging between engineering and management

-Assessment of the Life-Cycle Cost impact of replacing metals with composite materials, in the manufacturing of naval superstructures

R&D STRATEGY CONSULTANT
-Advising a client company from the energy sector concerning the use of embedded sensors for structural health monitoring of pipelines in composite materials
--Analysis of relevant scientific landscape
--Screening and indication of relevant technologies
--Advice about optimal combination of technologies
--Advice of further R&D strategy
--Relationship with client
--Management of content providers

-In charge of the R&D strategy and technology roadmap for a Dutch Consortium of SMEs involved in the development and implementation of novel technologies and methods for the sustainability of composite materials
--Technology and scientific landscape
--Connection between emerging technologies and market demand
--Definition of R&D projects filed under SRP programme
--Management of relationship with involved research institutions (TUDelft, NLR)

-Advising for Dutch governmental agency about the overall potential economic impact on the Dutch aerospace industry of introducing thermoplastics in primary aircraft structures
--Assessing potential economic impact
--Trade off analysis: R&D vs. market potential
--Assessing of market potential of new relevant scientific developments

-Advising a client company, whose core business is R&D, in redefining its overall business strategy

COMPOSITE MATERIALS SPECIALIST
-FEM analysis, material and structural calculations
-Damage and Failure analysis

BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT
-Redefinition and implementation of Sergem’s overall strategy and business model, aiming at broadening its market scope and value offer to the customers
-Sustainability of composite materials with specific attention for their maintenance, structural health monitoring and repair

PROJECT MANAGEMENT

TECHNICAL CONSULTANT
-PFMEA analysis for a client company from the defence sector concerning electronic systems for defence applications

PhD RESEARCH
“Damage Resistance of Fibre Metal Laminates under Impact and Indentation Loads”

TEACHING AEROSPACE SUBJECTS

ARTICLES FOR AEROSPACE JOURNALS

Education

Master in Business Administration: Nyenrode Business University, Breukelen, The Netherlands
• Graduation mark 7.85/10, January 2007
• Fully financed by means of the Nyenrode “Spirit of Enterprise” Scholarship
• Including the “Kellogg-Nyenrode Executive Program” module at the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA

Finite Elements Modelling Course: NIMR College, Nieuwegein, The Netherlands, March 2002

Professional Engineering Qualification: State Exam, Rome, Italy, June 2001

MSc in Aerospace Engineering: La Sapienza University, Faculty of Engineering, Rome, Italy
• Graduation mark 105/110, March 2001

Skills

• Maintain relationships with customers and business partners, fostering company network
• Managing relationship with suppliers in the IT, financial and legal domains
• Drafting project and contract proposals, regarding studies and development projects
• Fostering company participation to complex long-term research efforts in cooperation with other companies as well as universities and major research institutes
• Engineering skills such as FEM analysis, material and structural calculations, failure analysis, etcetera

Languages

Italian: Mother language
English: Proficiency – fluent reading/writing/conversation
French: Advanced – fluent reading/writing/conversation
Dutch: Upper Intermediate – reading/writing; Intermediate – conversation
Spanish: Elementary – reading/writing; Basic – conversation

Other

IT and computer skills
-Operating Systems: Windows, Android, UNIX (elements), Linux (elements)
-Software: ABAQUS implicit/explicit (1000 hours), Century Dynamics AUTODYN (600 hours), Microsoft Office, Tecplot, Mind Mapping, Autodesk AutoCAD, Autodesk Inventor, ESI PAM-CRASH (elements), ProE Wildfire (elements), Catia (elements), MSC Nastran/Patran (elements), IDEAS (elements), Corel Draw, Photoshop, Acrobat, miscellanea of software for different uses
-Programming Languages: Visual Basic for Application, Matlab/Simulink, Maple, Mathcad, Mathematica, FORTRAN, PASCAL, ADA (elements)

Main areas of interest
- Aerospace R&D, Aircraft Design, Materials and Structures, Numerical Modelling, Management, Business Strategy

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