London, England, United Kingdom
Dynamic and result-oriented person, interested in developing new projects characterized by high technological innovation and in collaboration with academic research. I like team working and cooperating with people. Specialties: Simulation with Matlab and Simulink, Model analysis and Control System Design, Power Electronics design, Thermal and Electromagnetic FEM simulations, System architecture, PCB Layout Design
Responsible for electronics product design engineering team, low-rate initial production. Working with Production Engineering and Manufacturing to oversee development of product from concept to production readiness review within CPI TMD’s New Product Introduction framework processes, providing innovative solutions to customer or market requirements on time and to require cost. Enhance and Enable the company’s engineering capability to lead, innovate and preserve its capabilities at the forefront of its varied core technology requirements. Support Sales team and customers in driving new business opportunity through development and into manufacture.
Team Leader of Instrumentation Amplifiers developed in TMD Technologies, based on TWT technology with a modular and scalable approach and digital control. TWTA system requires very accurate HV voltage power supply and low noise. I'm in charge to develop new functionalities to expand the functionality and capability of commercial Amplifier. I manage to team focus on commercial amplifier to design new variants from power electronics and RF integration to cover several frequency and power levels. I coordinate and support production, test of the equipment and after sales. I support also technical support new prospect for sales contract working closely with sales colleagues and customer when needed. Team working and communication is a key part of my work to coordinate person with different skills from electronic to RF, from design to production. Moreover, my work requires interdisciplinary skills to cover both Power Electronic design and RF design, including test knowhow for both fields.
Technical authority of new Instrumentation Amplifiers developed in TMD Technologies, based on TWT technology with a modular and scalable approach and digital control. The system requires HV voltage power supply with a very accurate output voltage control: better than 0.1%. I'm in charge of the development of new functionalities, implement new variants to cover several frequency and power levels and support production and test of the equipment.
I designed the electronics for an Inductive Power Transfer (IPT) system and a Power Management Module (PMM) for Radio Frequency Harvesting. For the IPT design, I developed the electromagnetic simulation of the inductive link (considering the coil structure, the surrounding and the gap between Tx/Rx) and the electronics simulation of the matching and power boards, including a resonant power amplifier and a rectifier. Moreover, I was in charge of the electronic simulation of the entire IPT system to verify the overall behaviour. I designed the boards with Eagle (schematic + layout) and tested the system. I deeply characterized the COTS PMM and low-power devices, performed in the internal laboratory equipped with high quality instruments with a resolution of 10fA / 10nV. I developed an internal PMM design as proof-of-concept for RF PMM to be implemented in a future ASIC. I tested and characterized deeply Lithium battery and ceramic capacitors as storage.
I was involved in the design of large Induction Heating furnaces, such as Reheating Furnaces for rolling mills, both with hot charging directly from the caster, and cold charging. The design requires multidisciplinary skills, like thermal and electromagnetic simulation of the process with FEM simulation (like Comsol Multiphics), electronic simulation of the inverter and the LC circuit, up to the technical specifications of all power components (inductors, capacitor’s bank inverter switchboard and water cooling unit) considering both the electrical and mechanical constraints; this task required a deep coordination with other company’s departments. The commissioned plants were a 17MW for billet and 8MW for slab applications. I contributed to the design of the inverter control with Matlab/Simulink simulation and implementation for electrical motors.
▪ I designed photovoltaic tri-phase grid-connected transformerless inverters (20 kW and 30 kW). In particular, I worked at power board, low voltage control board, modelling and real-time control design of 3 level Neutral Point Clamped inverter and interleaved boost converter using Matlab and Simulink. I analysed and guarantee the compliance to European grid interface requirements (CEI 0-21, CEI 0-16, VDE 0-126, VDE AR-N-4105) and safety requirements (EN 62109-1, EN 62109-2) for the integration of the system into the electrical grid. I collaborated to the real-time control's implementation on TI DSP. I supervised the approval tests (type-tests and EMI-tests) with external certification laboratories. These activities have resulted in 3 granted patents. I collaborated with the UPS division for the design of the real-time current and voltage control.
Same job as BTicino, MetaSystem Energy s.r.l. was acquired by BTicino in 2012.