2021
Just after turning 40, I turned another milestone: I decided to quit Companies in order to start a new path in the world of
tesching at the beginning of Nov 2021.
This can make one turn up one's nose looking at the reactions of my interlocutors: I consider it stimulating and extremely enriching.
I was called to teach Computer Sciencein high schools: I was at Istituto Mosé Bianchi in Monza during school year 2021-2022,
teaching in AFM (Administration, Finance and Marketing) and CAT (Buildings, Environment and Territory) for standard daily school as well
as for evening school for adults and prison school. Many experiences with different people: I learn something from each of them!
I'm at Istituto Achille Mapelli in Monza for school year 2022-2023, teching mainly to High School for Scientific Studies -
Applied Sciences.
2014 - 2021
I worked as Tech Manager for the Trotec Laser subsidiary in Italy. Beside all the management and other important parts of my job,
including implementing new products and strategies, budgeting, team scheduling while using state of the art tools such as SAP and SalesForce,
the most rewarding moments were when I can make people exclaim 💡I got it💡. A customer, a colleague, a trainee who can have an Eureka!
moment and connect dots was what makes my day.
Going behind all the bells and whistles, back to the roots, to the very simplest and clearest concepts and ideas is what I
believe is most needed.
If you can express yourself simply and clearly you can be understood. If you can be understood you are trustworthy. And this is a good
environment to build good relationships, of any kind.
2015 - 2018
I owned Strawberry Fields Srl, where our focus is helping our customers in finding "Smart Business Opportunity" through strategic consulting and marketing
and pre-sales automation tools.
I designed and implemented these tools which are covered by a patent request. One visible front end application of these tools is
laser.education.
Processes automation is the aim of these kind of tools. We are using technology so that all value chain actors, both customers and suppliers,
can share knowledge to make better, faster and more clever choices and decisions.
2008 - 2014
While ending my MSc I started working in my family-run company, Porta & C., in order to develop the distribution channel of
Trotec laser systems in Italy. Being a very small structure has its pros and cons.
For sure some pros are important aspects which shaped my job too: flexibility, curiosity and fast error / learning and development process in all business area,
from marketing to sales, from contents creation to customer support.
I was lucky enough to live those crazy years learning and rooting an even stronger human and working ethics despite the progress of a global economic
transformation which led to the acquisition of Porta by
Trodat-Trotec Group.
Being more technical-oriented, those years were a deep dive training into what's needed to run and get a succesful commercial business with sparkling
creativity, limited resources and inspiring relationships.
2004 - 2009
MSc at the Politecnico di Milano with a major in space engineering. I developed my thesis about thermal, mechanical and electronics assembly,
integration and verification (AIV) for
Palamede, which is a
micro-satellite class mission developed by Space Dept. starting from 1997, thus forerunning the actual trends and needs for small-sats in the space industry.
I also had fun creating the new Palamede website: it seems quite oldie now, but still functional!
2003 - 2006
I was part of the Thermal Dept. involved in thermal design and testing for preminent International Space Station missions
(
AMS-02 and
EuTEF) as well as for satellite missions like German Army satellite
constellation
SAR Lupe at both system and sub-system level and at
various phases of projects development.
This job led me to create, handle and study big data sets with the main aim for correlation and optimization of thermal models to tests results.
2000 - 2003
BSc at the Politecnico di Milano with a major in space engineering. This is where I first came in contact with actual space programs while working at my thesis
as an intern for Carlo Gavazzi Space (now
OHB Italia), developing system level thermal models
for
AMS-02.
AMS-02 is a state-of-the-art particle physics detector designed to operate as an external module on the International Space Station (ISS), where it was
installed on 19-May-2011 by Space Shuttle Endeavour
STS-134
specialists and where it's going to be until the ISS end of life thanks to maintenance and updated done mainly during
2019 spacewalks. It takes advantages of the unique space environment to study
the universe and its origin by searching for antimatter and dark matter while performing precision measurements of cosmic rays composition and flux.
