Civil Status:
Married with Barbara since April 1999. No children, yet.
Working Experiences:
October 2001 - current date: Program Manager at USI - Università della Svizzera italiana (Lugano, Switzerland); it's an 80% employment.
- My major responsibility is coordinating the projects of the Faculty of Informatics.
- Until September 2004 I managed the project for the creation of the Faculty of Informatics.
- I'm also working as scientific collaborator at the ALaRI Institute for the Master of Engineering in Embedded Systems Design.
- For the remaining 20% I'm available as consultant through my own company.
January - December 2008: I have been the coordinator for Ticino of the federal initiative called informatica08.
October 1997 - September 2001: Test & Integration Team Manager at The Fantastic Corporation R&D SA (Manno, Switzerland)
- My major responsibility was managing and allocating Test & Integration Team resources consisting of a Team of 10 Test Engineers and a Test Lab.
- Leading the development project of the first version (V1.8) of the Fantastic Broadband System.
May 1994 - September 1997: Network Analyst at the Centro Elettronico della BSI Banca della Svizzera Italiana and BossLab (Pregassona, Switzerland)
- Responsible for: analyzing and solving Network problems, installing and maintaining LAN/WAN equipment.
- Leading the development project of a LAN/WAN Network of BSI Banca della Svizzera Italiana in Switzerland, England (London) and USA (New York).
Education:
October 1988 - May 1994: Student at the ETHZ - Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology)
- Department of Electrical Engineering
- Specialization in General Electronic
- MSc degree in Electrical Engineering
- Topic of the thesis "On-Line Recognition of Masticatory Muscles Activity with Long-Time EMG Recorder” at the Department for Biomedical Engineering
- Topics of semester projects
- “Lost of Load in an EPROM Cell” at the Department of “Reliability Science”
- “ISDN Hardware Enlargement” at the Department of “Technical Computer Science”
- Exams of Specialization
- Digitale Regelsysteme (Digital Control Systems)
- Theorie der Automatik I + II (Automatic Theory I + II)
- Robotik I (Robotics I)
- Signale- und Systemanalyse I (Analysis of Signals and Systems I)
- Schaltungstechnik II (Technik of Circuits II)
- Lokale Netze (Local Area Networks)
Courses Taken:
| Lugano, March-June 2006 |
Current research issues in Formal Verification (by Natasha Sharygina, Università della Svizzera Italiana) |
| Lugano, October 2005-February 2006 | Automated Formal Verification (by Natasha Sharygina, Università della Svizzera Italiana) |
| Lugano, November 2005-February 2006 | Venture Challenge (SUPSI, VentureLab) |
| Lugano, April 2005 | Egineering Problems and Solutions (by Michael Jackson, Università della Svizzera Italiana) |
| Rotkreuz, November 2004 | Model-Driven Development (IVM Engineering) |
| Lugano, April-May 2004 | Hardware/Software Codesign (2 ECTS - ALaRI) |
| Lugano, October 2003 | Autumn School on Entrepreneurship for High-tech Start-ups (6 ECTS - ALaRI) |
| Rotkreuz, November 2002 | UML Tools - Rhapsody (IVM Engineering) |
| Rotkreuz, October 2002 | UML Process for Realtime Systems (IVM Engineering) |
| Lugano, October 2002 | How to write a competitive proposal for the 6th framework programme (Hyperion Ltd) |
| Zürich, August 2002 |
Developing i-mode Services and Mobile Applications with Java Technologies (ETHZ) |
| Lugano, April 2002 | Industrial Design (SUPSI) |
| Lugano, June 2001 | Highspeed Network (1 ECTS - SUPSI) |
| Lugano, May 2001 | Rational Team Test (Rational Software) |
| Lugano, April 2001 | Working methods and problem solving (System Engineering) (SUPSI) |
| Locarno, Lugano, May-November 2000 | Management and Communication (Krauthammer International) |
| Lugano, March-April 1998 | The Object-Oriented Program Language C++ (SUPSI) |
| Lugano, November 1997 | Object-Oriented Analysis and Design using the Unified Modeling Language (UML) (Zühlke Engineering) |
| Zürich, March 1997 |
Introduction to the TCP/IP (ETHZ) |
| Zürich, August 1996 | Supporting Windows NT 3.51 (Digicomp) |
| Bern, October 1994 | In-depth Seminar Bridges, Switches and Routers (Wandel & Goltermann) |
Languages:
| Italian |
Mother Tongue |
| French | Spoken & Written |
| German | Spoken & Written |
| English | Spoken & Written |
| Spanish | Spoken based on few School Knowledges |
