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Curriculum Vitae Massimo Verola MASSIMO VEROLA WORK EXPERIENCE September 2014 – Present Engineering Director Company Name Civitanavi System (Pedaso [FM] - ITALY) Main Responsibilities Leading the Engineering team of Civitanavi Systems, an innovative italian technological company which designs and manufactures proprietary inertial navigation systems based on FOG (Fiber Optic Gyro) devices. Product requirements specification, development project plan and control, design/review of major architectural blocks in INS (Inertial Navigation Systems), sensor data analysis. Definition of engineering tests and formal tests for SW/HW certification. Interaction with national and european institutions (IT MoD, ENAC, EASA) and research/academic entities, participation to conferences in the avionics or navigation sensors sectors. Business or sector Inertial Navigation Systems February 2009 – July 2014 Program Manager Company Name Northrop Grumman Italia (Pomezia near Rome - ITALY) Main Responsibilities Planning, monitoring and control of project cost and schedule, product performance and quality for design, development, test, certification and series production of special avionics equipment for the european consortium "Eurofighter", in particular navigation systems based on GPS and on dead- reckoning (inertial sensor) for the multirole military aircraft EFA Typhoon. Day-by-day coordination of all the activities pertaining to the program execution, from the project start-up to the maintenance and retrofit of delivered production systems, involving an Integrated Project Team with representative from Engineering, Manufacturing, Contracts, Import & Export, Finance. Establishing the planning and control baseline, the resource allocation, the risk management plan. Direct reporting to the General Director and presenting the monthly review to the mother company NG US. Single point of contact to the prime contractor, Alenia Aermacchi, providing immediate feedback on program progress status. Business or sector Defense Industry - Navigation Systems December 2008 – January 2009 Project Leader Company Name Selex Galileo - Pomezia (Rome - ITALY) Main Responsibilities Short experience spent in Selex Galileo, working on a project for avionics equipment supply to FINMECCANICA. Business or sector Defense Industry - Avionics September 2005 – October 2009 Adjunct Professor Company Name University of Rome "La Sapienza" (Rome - ITALY) Main Responsibilities Teaching experience at the University carried out in parallel with the main job. Professor of the course of "Laboratory of Operating Systems", pertaining to the 2nd year of the Faculty of Informatics: 40 hourse of traditional face-to-face lectures and 5 exam sessions per academic year. Web site http://twiki.di.uniroma1.it/twiki/view/Lab_so_1/WebHome?rev=150#! Business or sector Academic Research and Education - Computer Science © European Union, 2002-2013 | http://europass.cedefop.europa.eu Page 1 / 7 Curriculum Vitae Replace with First name(s) Surname(s) September 2004 – November 2008 Program Manager Embedded Computing Company Name Quadrics Supercomputing World (Rome - ITALY) Main Responsibilities Coordination and lead of a group of HW/SW Engineers, dedicated to the development of a custom Mission Computer for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV). Suppliers management, customer technical and contractual relationships, schedule and cost management, product post-delivery maintenance. Participation to scientific committees within FINMECCANICA Holding regarding emerging multicore processor architectures (IBM Cell) for high-performance computing. Business or sector Computer Hardware - Avionics January 2000 – August 2004 Head of Professional Services Company Name Quadrics Supercomputing World (Rome - ITALY) Main Responsibilities Leading a team of SW Engineers specialized in the design, implementation, optimization and maintenance of HPC solutions. Management and definition of the SW architecture of R&D projects. Participation to the proposal definition of research projects funded by italian and european institution. Technical support to the Marketing & Sales Unit. Business or sector Computer Hardware - High Performance Computing February 1999 – December 1999 Project Leader Company Name Sistemi & Automazione (Rome - ITALY) Main Responsibilities Project leader and system architect of the IOT (In Orbit Test) project, part of the Automation System of the telecommunication satellite measurements (prima contractor: Telespazio). Definition of the software engineering procedure in the framework of the company Quality System for the ISO 9001 certification. Business or sector Space Industry - SW Engineering September 1995 – January 1999 SW Engineer Company Name European Southern Observatory (ESO) (Garching bei Muenchen - GERMANY) Main Responsibilities Responsible of VLTI (Very Large Telescope Interferometer) Control Software: VLTI goal is the coherent combination (interferometry) of the light beams coming from four main telescopes - 8 meter diameters - and some relocatable auxiliary telescopes, installed at the ESO Observatory on Cerro Paranal in the Atacama desert, Chile. Requirements definition, functional analysis, detailed architectural design, implementation, integration, test, installation and maintenance of the VLTI Control System. Technical reviewer of SW subsystems contracted to european industries and research institutions (AMOS, Fokker Space, Observatoire de la Cote d'Azur). Business or sector Astronomy research - Control Systems December 1993 – August 1995 Technologist Company Name Istituto Nazionale per la Fisica Nucleare (INFN) (Frascati - ITALY) Main Responsibilities Architectural design and implementation of the control system of DAFNE, an electron/positron particle accelerator designed and commissioned at the National Laboratories of Frascati. Configuration and installation of the control HW, design and implementation of the control SW, development of SW interfaces towards data acquisition devices. Business or sector Physics research - Control Systems © European Union, 2002-2013 | http://europass.cedefop.europa.eu Page 2 / 7 Curriculum Vitae Massimo Verola December 1991 – December 1993 Systems Engineer Company Name IBM ECSEC - European Center for Scientific and Engineering Computing Main Responsibilities Optimization of computational kernels for HPC (High Performance Computing) SW applications. Develeopment and test of SW libraries customized for parallel and cooperative processing. Survey and evaluation of mass storage management systems. Business or sector Computer Science October 1989 – December 1991 Systems Engineer Company Name IBM Research Center of Rome Main Responsibilities Development of a SW prototype for speech synthesis (TTS=Text-to-Speech). Development fo a SW product for voice recognition (ASR=Automatic Speech Recognition). Linux systems and networking administration. Business or sector Computer Science EDUCATION AND TRAINING October 1983 – May 1989 Master degree (BSc and MSc - 5-years laurea) in Electronics Engineering Final grade 110/110 summa cum laude Institution University of Rome 'La Sapienza' Thesis Title "A Hidden Markov Model for the Estimation of the Spectral Characteristics of the Voice Signal" October 1978 – July 1983 Diploma di Maturità Classica (High school diploma - 5 years of study on classical subjects) Final grade 60/60 Institution Liceo Classico “Giulio Cesare” - Rome © European Union, 2002-2013 | http://europass.cedefop.europa.eu Page 3 / 7 Curriculum Vitae Replace with First name(s) Surname(s) PERSONAL SKILLS Mother tongue(s) Italian Other language(s) UNDERSTANDING SPEAKING WRITING Listening Reading Spoken interaction Spoken production English C1 C1 C1 C1 C1 August 1991 - Dublin (IRELAND) - Eurocentre Dublin School English language course - 3 weeks - Intermediate level “Statement of Achievement in English”: grade 6/8 Daily usage of english language, in writing and speaking, since the first work experience in IBM (1989). At present, english is the main language for reporting, presentation, technical papers and reports, project planning documents, during call-conferences and meetings with international customers, project partners and reseach/certification institutions. German B2 B2 B1 B1 B1 October - December 1998 - München (GERMANY) - Goethe Institut Language course "German for Foreigners" - 16 weeks - Advanced Level October 1995 - February 1997 - München (GERMANY) - Goethe Institut; Sprachen & Dolmetscher Institut; Muenchen Volkshochschule Language course "German for Foreigners" - 16 weeks - Basic and Intermediate Level Achieved “Zertifikat Deutsch als Fremdsprache”, certificate of german language knowlegde as foreign language: grade 102.5/120 Daily practice of spoken german language during the residential period in München (1995-1999 - employed by European Southern Observatory, in Garching bei Muenchen). French A1 A1 A1 A1 A1 January - March 1998 - Muenchen (GERMANY) - München Volkshochschule Language course of French - 12 weeks - Basic Level Random usage of French language with colleagues and during travel for vacations. Levels: A1/2: Basic user - B1/2: Independent user - C1/2 Proficient user Common European Framework of Reference for Languages © European Union, 2002-2013 | http://europass.cedefop.europa.eu Page 4 / 7 Curriculum Vitae Massimo Verola Communication skills ▪ excellent communication gained in the role of project leader/program manager and empowered by menthoring skills developed through the academic teaching experience ▪ ability to modulate the communication