Turin, Piedmont, Italy
System architect and project lead with 15+ years experience in the Automotive field. I’ve been working in the Infotainment & Telematics area since 2010, developing and designing Linux based embedded devices for many of the most important car makers worldwide. I’ve acquired a huge experience in gathering, analysing and discussing customer requirements and modelling hardware and software architectures through UML and Object-Oriented techniques. I have a deep knowledge of the major CAN and Diagnostic protocols and ASPICE quality processes. I also have a solid background as Full Stack Developer of mobile and web-based applications with Flutter, Java, Node.js Great team player used to work with Agile Methodology.
Responsible for designing the software stack and define the connected services for Agricultural and Construction vehicles.
System Architect in the Telematics area where we realize embedded Linux based hardware platforms to provide connectivity and remote services for some of the major European car makers. As System Architect I’m responsible for: - gathering, discussing and negotiating customer requirements (coming mainly from the different brands of the Stellantis Group); - defining an unified software solution capable of handling all the car network architectures of the Stellantis groups; - conducting the Design FMEA ensuring ASPICE quality level 2 on the software engineering processes; - defining the system architecture, the design of the software components and their interfaces; - coordinating the software teams working on the different software components to ensure the consistency of the software to the system architecture.
Software Project Leader in an embedded Linux project aimed at developing the first Linux powered telematic box in Marelli. I’ve developed the bootloader, contributed in the creation and customization of the Linux Distribution, customized Linux drivers for usb, audio and ethernet. The product was based on an ARM11 (as main application processor) and a secondary microcontroller for strict real time tasks, Qualcomm chipsets for WiFi and 3G. The product was meant to provide Internet connectivity inside the car and to the infotainment system.
Feature Lead Sotware Embedded and Symbian Platform - Responsible for the implementation of DRM 2.0 (Digital Rights Management) on the Motorola Symbian Platform. Involved in all the phases from requirement gathering to ship acceptance. Among the responsibilities are: - Sub-contractor management (Discretix, Symbian, UIQ, Sasken) * Definition and coordination of code development * Planning and Maintenance * Coordination of feature and field testing - Among the job carried out, there’s the development of a new and optimized shared memory driver under Symbian as well as other optimization on the firmware.
- Architect and Project Lead of a team of 10 people for the development of the Firmware Over The Air (FOTA) feature for the Japanese Market. Since 2005, responsible for all the phases from Requirement Gathering to Testing and Maintenance of the feature. - During 2005, responsible for the implementation of a new A-GPS client on Motorola phones to reach a faster positioning. The project has been carried out together with Telecom Italia Mobile. - From 2003 to 2006, responsible of the OBAN EU project (www.oban.org) for the definition and development of a new EAP based authentication scheme for Mobile Terminals with support for fast handover over WiFi Network (3 patents submitted)
Technical Lead for the development of a Base Station simulator written in JAVA for GSM/GPRS and WCDMA technologies. Developed and Patented (as single inventor) a software simulator written in Java, for the testing of SMS, EMS and MMS services. This product is now part of several Motorola programs used by field tester engineers.