Dr. Fabio Gerace

Business Development Manager for Earth Observation BU

Program Manager

Sales and Business Development Manager for Space market. Bid\Proposal Manager for Space Invitation To Tender (ITT) issued by ESA, ASI, LSIs and other space organizations. Change Management for on-going programs.

Site Manager in charge of: • start-up the site; • program management of co-financed and financed projects; • managing the daily operations and employees; • collaboration with local partners, remote peers and support resources; • negotiate contracts and manage relationships with key vendors and suppliers. Business Development Manager for Space market.

Business Manager Support for the following activities: • proposal management for the following ESA ITT: • prospection e qualification meeting with LSI

Working in Thales Alenia Space Italy as CE Consulting (and after as ALTRAN Italia) consultant with following roles and tasks: - Support to Proposal Manager of Earth Observation BU for the preparation of proposals on ESA ITT; - Support to Program Manager of Earth Observation BU for the following ESA studies: • Six Candidate Earth Explorer Core Missions; • Data Downlink Systems for Earth Observation Satellites operating in the 26 GHz Band; • System of Systems Analysis and Design Environment.

Business Manager Support for the following activities: • prospection e qualification meeting in TAS-I (areas: AIT\AIV, Ground Segment, Program Management, Product Assurance), in Elsag\Datamat, in ESA; • proposal management for ESA ITT; • consultants recruitment; • integration tutoring.

Working in Rheinmetall Italia as CE Consulting consultant with following roles and tasks: - Risk Management Supervisor in MIOsat program and tutoring of a junior Risk Manager.

Working in ESA\ESRIN as CE Consulting consultant with following roles and tasks: - GOCE PDGS Deputy AIV Manager - CRYOSAT-2 PDGS Project Manager Support

Working in Thales Alenia Space Italy as NEXT S.p.A. consultant with following role and tasks: - COSMO\SkyMed (ICS) AIT Responsible • in charge of Test Specifications and Test Procedure relevanto to ICS (Integrated Control System); • test engineer and test software developer for COSMO\SkyMed EGSE; • in charge of Detailed Design Document and of the User Manual of developed test software; • in charge of SPRs of test software; • responsible for integration and functional test activities of ICS subsystem.

Working in Thales Alenia Space Italy as AresTech S.r.l. consultant with following role and tasks: - Cosmo\SkyMed SAR EGSE Software Responsible • in charge of developing test software related to SAR S/S EGSE; • testing; • EGSE administration.

Design and Developing of wireless networks, security and surveillance systems and medical equipments.

R&D activity consisting in design and developing of a commercial low-cost gait analysis system able to acquire in a multi-channel and multi-device way. In such activity I was in charge of project management, of the design and partially of the implementation of its 6 subsystems modules: • "Data Manager" for the management of personal data archive and of scientific data; • "Step32" for the acquisition and pre-computing of signals from bio-sensors; • "WDM Driver" as interface to acquisition boards; ...

Design and prototyping of a micro-controlled system with USB interface allowing the real-time acquisition of signals provided by analogical or digital sensors for rehabilitation and training of professional athletes. In this activity, I was in charge of designing and prototyping of USB device (partially), of developing of WDM driver interface, of developing of acquisition libraries and real-time validation and analysis of performance.

Deputy Maintenance Manager in charge of “Nave Squalo” activities. Support to Maintenance Service for daily activities, editor of a manual-guide and developer of a relational database that is the historical archive of work performed, and the predisposition the standard tasks for ships in classes: (Tanker, High-water Tug Boat, Port Tug Boat, MTF/ MTC/ MHC).

Developer of a C + + library for calculating the pH, using neural networks Radial Basis Function, for the design of an holder system for measuring intestinal pH.

Ph.D. in Electronic Engineering and Communications Thesis in collaboration with D.E.M. S.a.S., Leinì (TO - Italy): "Decision Support Techniques in Gait Analysis"

Master’s Degree in Electronic Engineering (score mark: 107/110) - Bio-engineering Thesis in collaboration with Sorin Biomedica S.p.A., Saluggia (VC - Italy): "Neural networks for the revelation, using chemical sensors, of blood parameters"

Scientific Graduation 60/60