Brief Biography:
I am a committed professional working in a challenging business environment, an excellent communicator, resourceful, with good organisational abilities. I am a positive leader, team player, problem-solver with group work skills and an outgoing personality, curious and customer oriented, able to work under pressure and dealing with work and clients’ needs. I am willing to travel.
Professional Experience
2009 – 2011 R&D Department, Tsem Research
Research Director - Project & Product Manager – Chief Technology Officer
Technical and Research programs consulting services, co-working with leading Italian Industrial Companies: FIAT Group Automobiles, FERRARI, ELASIS, NOLAN, etc.
Responsible for products design and R&D projects management in the fields of Healthcare and Engineering. My role consists of manage and work with a team of professionals with different abilities in order to achieve the finest results. My role also involves customer training activities in co-operation with private & public bodies, management of client expectations, suggesting improvements and assuring the maximum customer satisfaction. I am involved in biomedical devices production & management as well as some relevant R&D projects management in the fields of personal health monitoring & rehabilitation. I have been lecturer on research subjects at national and international conferences and ECM seminars.
2011- Present Faculty of Medicine and Surgery, University of Naples - Federico II, Italy
Contract Professor
Bioengineering, Electronics and Informatics.
2009-2010 Faculty of Medicine and Surgery, University of Naples - Federico II, Italy
Contract Professor
Information processing systems & methods in medicine.
2008-2010 Dept. of Biom. Electr. and Telecomm. Eng., University of Naples – Federico II, Italy
Project Manager, System integrator, Product Designer
HealthCare, e-Health, TeleMedicine & TeleCare, Remote and Wireless Sensing
Research of low power electronic solutions for physiological signal acquisition.
In charge for “RECOM – Remote & Continuous Monitoring” project general management. The project has been partially funded by Regione Campania in the framework of POR Campania 2000/2006 Misura 3.17
My role also involved the design of high impedance front-end for biomedical signal acquisition, device prototypes development: electronic board layout, electrical and electronic components, microcontroller firmware.
2006 - 2009 Napoli, Italy
Project manager and Consultant
Medical devices, Technology Innovation, e-Health, Automotive, Energy storage, Breath Alcohol Analyzer; Training and business development activities for public and private companies.
2005 Dept. of Biom. Electr. and Telecomm. Eng., University of Naples – Federico II, Italy
Internship
Remote sensors, wearable electronics and wireless technologies
Lecturer on biomedical signal processing, wireless & remote sensing, at several international conferences and seminars
2004 Medicon and Health Telematics Conference, Ischia, Italy
Student technical staff member
Education and professional qualification
2009 Certificate in Management Studies - Master Diploma
Cattolica del Sacro Cuore University, field: Health Services and Systems Management
2009 PhD Diploma
Alma Mater Studiorum University, Bologna field: Bioengineering
2007 Certified Engineering Licence
National Engineering Register - Sec. of Naples, Naples, Italy
2005 Degree in Electronic Engineering, Biomedical Engineering: Personal Monitoring and Wearable Devices
Federico II University, Naples, Italy
The thesis aims to design a portable Bluetooth ECG monitoring system and to discuss the advantage of wireless communication protocols in personal monitoring devices.
An abstract of the thesis was published on the Proceedings of the 3rd European Medical and Biological Engineering Conference ‘05
2003 Certificate of Attendance - European Course on Biomedical Engineering
Dept. of Medical Physics Patras University, Patras, Greece
Academic achievements
2009 Certificate of Merit - IEEE Award
IEEE - ITAB 2009 Larnaca, Cyprus
2008 Certificate of Merit - IFMBE Young Investigation Award
IFMBE - EMBEC 2008 Antwerp, Belgium
2005 XXI Bioengineering PhD Course Grant
Alma Mater Studiorum University, Bologna, Italy
2002 European Union Erasmus Project Grant
European Course on Biomedical Engineering – Dept. of Medical Physics
Patras University, Patras, Greece
Other relevant info
Member of CNVR- Consorzio Veneto di Ricerca board of Directors
Author of over thirty international and national scientific publications
Selected as reviewer and chairman for international meetings
Foreign languages: fluent English (written & oral)
Proficient user of MS Office, Mac iWork, MATLAB, Xcode
Member of UMI (Unione Matematici Italiani)
Fitness Instructor - CONI – Italy
Academic positions:
Contract professor
Research interests:
Biosignal & Bioimage processing, Bomedical Electronics & wearable electronics, Health Technology assessment
What I think of the idea behind WebmedCentral:
It may be an interesting way to knowledge excange and communicaiton within the scientific worldwide community