I was born in late 1971 in Rome, where I still live with my wife and two wonderful children.

In 1990 I've got the school-leaving certificate in telecommunications at Istituto Tecnico Industriale Galileo Galilei and, as consequence, in 1992 I became an employee of RAI-RAdiotelevisione Italiana, the state-owned television broadcasting company until 2001. During this period I carried out several roles, and the longest was relevant with the maintenance of Santa Palomba plant, an AM transmitting station located in the surrounding of Rome.

In December, 2000 I've got the master degrees in Aerospace Engineer at  La Sapienza university of Rome, whit a thesis about the simulation of the attitude dynamics of a flying platform.

In July, 2001 I started my experience  within Telespazio company. The first commitment was  to follow the launch operations of Atlantic Bird I, a  geostationary communication satellite from AOCS (Attitude and Orbit Control Subsystem ) side. This was a challenging task that taken 1 year to be complete and  let me the learning of the satellite's operation basis.

From October, 2002 to August, 2005 I participated to Mediterranean Free Flight project developing and implementing specifics anti-collision algorithms and the avionics MMI (Man-Machine Interface) to allow "free" flight in unmanaged air spaces.

From 2005 to 2008 I followed some European Project in the field of satellite-assisted navigation. Those projects were established to assess the performances of EGNOS (European Geostationary Navigation Overlay Service) system all across Italy an north-African countries.

From 2006 I became the coordinator of Telespazio LSS (Laboratorio Simulazione Sistemi - Systems Simulation Lab) where research & simulation activities are carried out in the filed of Flight Dynamics, Navigation, Earth Observation and Mission Analysis. Several efforts are also devoted in the field of distributed simulation; DIS (Distributed Interactive Simulation) standard is currently used to federate simulators within the lab and among Finmeccanica companies. Many of the distributed simulations were set- up for important international events such as Le Bourget an Farnborough.

From late 2010 I'm in charge of Mission Control and Planning Systems department.

In the framework of simulation & analysis the most relevant activities performed are related with properly made software applications made through STK Engine API.

Posted on October 28, 2010