Giuseppe Santoro

Connected Car specialist - Concept design feasibility on-board (FCA/Stellantis PD) presso Stellantis

Turin, Piedmont, Italy

About

Experienced automotive telematics technical pm focused on on-board and off-board vehicle communications, protocols vehicle design/functionality, developing new oem connected vehicle technologies Social contacts: https://linktr.ee/sorbeppe

Experience

  • Technical PM - Connected Vehicle on-board Concept design feasibility (FCA/Stellantis PD) at Capgemini Engineering
    Jun 2020 - Present · 6 yrs 2 mos

    Project: FCA/Stellantis Global connected vehicle program (TBM 2.0) at FCA-PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT (Emea region) Position: Concept Feasibility functional requirements Study specialist (Turin - Mirafiori ) Main activities: - As part of the feature development process, I have to assess the high-level requirements for a requested connected feature and future features impacts on component onboard/offboard. It involves the technical feasibility and the modifications required to the connected vehicle platform that enables the feature to be operational, starting from the customer oriented needs, managing the formalization approving and release of functional requirements. - Benchmark activity on connected vehicles to find out any eventual improvement by features comparison with others global vehicles brands - Identifying challenges to deploy new idea against the rollout plan - On board services integration: check if all CAN signals are available, individuating of any missing Global API to Cloud services Main topics: - Head unit TomTom Live Navigation features: Connected personalized and predictive Nav, Location sharing, Navigation Street view - PHEV\BEV Electric vehicle features: EV Routing, Dynamic range mapping, PHEV Optimized Navigation - Fuel Cell (Hydrogen) vehicles Tools: DNG (Doors Next Gen), EA (Enterprise Architect), JIRA, VISIO

  • Altran (Turin, Piedmont, Italy)
    • Technical PM - Connected Vehicle End2End design&integration specialist (FCA Product development)
      Jan 2019 - May 2020 · 1 yr 5 mos

      Project: FCA Global connected vehicle program (TBM 2.0) at FCA-PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT (Emea region) Position: Off board/ On-board services car connectivity design & integration specialist (Turin - Mirafiori ) Description: Responsible for the End to End detailed Design of each feature and declining the requirements into the Off Board and On Board Components. Responsible for the End to End integration of each feature declining the requirements into the Off Board and On Board Components. The E-2-E Integration Specialist leads the integration phase when all the system components have to implement the distributed features. In this phase is required to identify issues coming from components or system bugs, make the troubleshooting and drive the suppliers to the final validation of the system. Main activities\topics: - SOS legislative call, Assist call, UBI (Usage based insurance), FTD (Fleet telematics data), Wifi hotspot, remote operations, vehicle finder, PHEV\ BEV (Electric vehicles), In vehicle messaging (Recall and service messages), e-sim (EUICCID) lifecycle, FOTA -AOTA (Firmware over the air) - responsible for each connected feature, define the end-to-end design and the list of high level requirements, coordinating all the departments involved (ICT, Product definition, Product Development,etc.) and releasing the system document - responsible for the design completeness and compliance to high level feature requirements and performances - support the integration team during the development process joining debugging session and reviewing the design if needed - work into Global FCA team to minimize features variants and ensure Regional customizations - support the Validation team during End to End Integration - manage integration issues, involving several FCA departments (ICT, Product Development,etc.) and suppliers in order to identify, assign and solve all system bugs - responsibility for integration issues tracking and bugfixing Tools: Modelio, JIRA, VISIO

    • Technical PM - Connected Vehicle Telematic Box Module (TBM) specialist (FCA Product development)
      Mar 2018 - Dec 2018 · 10 mos

      Progetto: FCA Global connected vehicle program (TBM 2.0) at FCA-PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT (Emea region) Posizione: TBM Requirements engineer/ On-board services integration specialist (CRF – Centro ricerche fiat in Turin (Orbassano)) Descrizione: - Supporto alle attività di ingegneria su connettività 4g di serie (Jeep-Maserati-Alfa romeo) e funzionalità di infotainment - Analisi e definizione di requisiti funzionali relative al componente tecnico (TBM 2.0 Ecu- Telematic box module) - Analisi integrazione e impatto dei requisiti funzionali di connettività su tutte le ECUs onboard (Head Unit – Vehicle functions – Body control module - Telematic box module) - Vehicle to cloud Api technical review (Interface Api between TBM ECU and GSDP back-end: MQTT over Proto buffer) - Wifi-hotspot (On-board) - Component technical specifications requirements owner - Topic seguiti: Wifi hotspot (On-board), Remote operations (Start/Lock/Unlock/HVAC/Trunk/Horn/Lights/ Status), AOTA (applications over the air) Vehicle finder, IVA (In vehicle activation), IVM (In vehicle messaging),IVH (In-vehicle help), Privacy mode,Vehicle health report, SQDF (Service quality data feed), Eco coaching, Jeep off-road pages, PHEV /BEV, Emergency-call and Assist-call, embedded-SIM lifecycle - Interfaccia EMEA con NAFTA (North America area) e APAC (Asia-pacific area) per customizzazione regionale delle specifiche - Definizione flussi e processi operativi, interfacce e protocolli - Gestione delle fasi di sviluppo del prodotto - Gestione dei fornitori tecnici (Magneti Marelli, Harman, Continental, Aptiv, Panasonic) - Gestione, tracciamento e controllo delle CR (change requests) sui requisiti - Identificazione dei problemi con un potenziale impatto sui costi, pianificazione e minimizzazione o rimozione del loro impatto. - Supporto a test, validazione e attività di integrazione. Partecipazione al processo di convalida, STRUMENTI • Doors, Polarion, Assembla, MQTT protocol

    • Technical PM - Connected Vehicle Business functional requirements Engineer (FCA Mopar)
      Jun 2017 - Feb 2018 · 9 mos

      Progetto: FCA Global connected vehicle program at FCA-MOPAR Connected services (Emea region) Posizione: Automotive functionals requirements engineer (Turin @ Mopar – Sede di Volvera 2) Descrizione: - Analisi e definizione di requisiti funzionali su connettività di serie (Jeep-Maserati-Alfa Romeo) e Infotainment partendo da specifiche richieste di buisness - Scrittura documenti di specifiche tecniche e funzionali (EMEA region) - Argomenti seguiti: Wifi hotspot (On-board), Remote operations, Vehicle finder, IVA(In vehicle activation), IVM (In vehicle messaging),IVH (In-vehicle help), Privacy mode, Eco coaching, Jeep off-road pages,Emergency-call and Assist-call, eSIM lifecycle - Interfaccia EMEA con NAFTA (North America area) e APAC (Asia-pacific area) per globalizzazione delle specifiche - Interfaccia tecnica (connectivity) con altri team FCA ( product business management, legal , functional safety, product development, HMI ) - Definizione flussi e processi operativi,interfacce e protocolli - Gestione delle fasi di sviluppo del prodotto - Gestione dei fornitori tecnici STRUMENTI Polarion, JIRA, Microsoft Visio

  • Reply (Turin, Piedmont, Italy)
    • Software Test Engineer
      Apr 2017 - May 2017 · 2 mos

      Progetti: Intesa San paolo mobile app, Intesa San Paolo web portal, Unipol Sai mobile app Descrizione: - Esecuzione di test UAT (User-acceptance test) e system test Tool: HP ALM (application life-time management), Test link, Mantis bug trucker

    • Iot Tester Engineer
      Mar 2017 - Apr 2017 · 2 mos

      Progetto: Allianz Safe home project - Scrittura test book di back end (http get,post,put) a partire dai documenti di specifica software - Esecuzione test di back end - Scrittura test book sul protocollo MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport) standard di IOT (Internet of things) - Esecuzione test sul protocollo MQTT Tool: Mosquitto message broker

    • Ran Engineer: Mobile Networks Data analyst for VODAFONE IT
      Jun 2016 - Mar 2017 · 10 mos

      Progetto: Mobile network quality benchmarking - Attività di bonifica,validazione e valutazione di dati eterogenei (chiamate voce e sessioni dati) acquisiti tramite drive-test su diverse tecnologie(2G,3G,4G e VoLTE) e relativi alle reti di acesso mobile dei 4 principali operatori (Vodafone,Tim,Wind,Tre) operanti sul mercato. - Elaborazione e consegna reportisca con cadenze settimanali al cliente ( Vodafone Italia ). - Attività contraddistinta da un’elevata e frequente interazione (anche quotidiana) col cliente finale.

  • Software developer (Java-Android) at IIT-CNR
    Apr 2015 - Apr 2016 · 1 yr 1 mo

    Progetto di ricerca: implementazione protocollo di comunicazione opportunistico su Wifi-direct Implementazione MVC di un protocollo di comunicazione wireless su dispositivi mobili (Android) che adotta la tecnologia Wifi­Direct (Wifi P2P) e funge da middleware per offrire connettività di rete ai livelli superiori attraverso la creazione di una rete auto-organizzante Ambiente di sviluppo (IDE):​ Android Studio Linguaggio di programmazione:​ JAVA

  • Attività di Ricerca industriale Progetto SEAMED at Universita' Di Catania
    Nov 2014 - Apr 2015 · 6 mos

    Progetto: SEAMED - Satellite Emergency Assistance For Mediterranean Region Descrizione: - Analisi requisiti canale di comunicazione tra box interconnessione e centro servizi a terra; - Identificazione requisiti degli apparati di comunicazione via satellite; - Requisiti di interfaccia tra i sensori e il box di interconnessione; - Definizione requisiti di comunicazione della postazione centralizzata e dei relativi apparati; - Definizione requisiti della struttura informatica della postazione centralizzata; - Studio sulle piattaforme tecnologiche utilizzabili a supporto delle esigenze mediche. Tecnologie utilizzate: WSN (Wireless sensor network) WBAN (Wireless body area network) Architetture e scenari in reti di sensori basate su comunicazione satellitare Arduino.