Curriculum Vitae

Tiziano Fiorenzani

PERSONAL INFORMATION

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Sex Male Date of birth 12 October 1978 Nationality Italian

System and Control engineer in Aerospace and Unmanned Vehicles

POSITION

industries - Jr. Project Manager

WORK EXPERIENCE

Director and chief executive

2012 – Present

Eurolink Systems srl, Roma (Italy)

www.eurolinksystems.com

>> Chief Technical Officer<<

The Technical department is involved not only in pre/post sales activities and customer support but

also in design and development of owr own systems, i.e.:

> Design and production of sophisticated electronics boards, with FPGA, ARM, Intel, DSP for industry

and defense

> Development of embedded software

> Design and development of the Mini Aerial and Ground robots

> Research and development in robotics

>> Project Manager<<

Coordination of Projects involved in Unmanned Technologies, such as:

> LEOPARDO-B mini Robot. As PM I had to coordinate a team of 4 internal people, one externel

consultant for mechanics and thermal design, two different local mechanical workshop and 15

different suppliers. The system was designed, built, assembled and tested in less than 6 months and

the robots were delivered on time.

> LEOPARDO-A Upgrades:The project consisted in a deep upgrade of the Mini Robot Leopardo-A,

after an year of employment in Operative Field. Software upgrades, new tools, new camera mount,

300 meters wired control. I had 3 months and to coordinate the work of a team of 5 people. The

systems were delivered on time and the costs were maintained under the prescribed limits

> Master Thesis: coordination of Master Thesis in conjunction with research groups and Universities

>> ISO 9001 Quality Assurance <<

Business Development for Unmanned Technologies

July 2010 – 2012

ERMES Technologies Srl (Eurolink Systems Group),

www.ermestechnologies.com

>> Business Developement <<

Analysis and proposals for insertion in the Unmanned Technologies market. Development of the

Company's portfolio of Unmanned Solutions.

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>> Project Manager<<

Coordination and Development of micro and mini projects, such as:

> LEOPARDO-A mini ground robot: Design and Development a Mini Rover for Counter IED, really

employed in Operative Missions (actually six robots in service): system requirements and conceptual

design, development and testing of the Graphical User Interface

Director and chief executive

July 2009 – June 2010

U.T.R.I. SpA (now Selex-MUAS),

www.utri.it

>> Chief Technical Officer<<

>> Head of the GN&C Division <<

The Guidance, Navigation and Control are a focal part of the Unmanned Aerial Vehicles. My group

was responsible for the development, coding, simulation and testing of all the algorithms which make

our UAV fly.

>> Project Manager<<

My Business Unit was involved in Space european/italian projects, such as:

> Lyra launcher vehicle control: I have beeing involved in a great challengind project, regarding the

application of the new Control Theory technology to a modern Launcher Vehicle. The Program was

financed by the Italian Space Agency (ASI) and leaded by Elv. My Company was responsible for the

Control Algorithms and my team of 5 skilled people did a great job, meeting the requirements

respecting the schedule.

Head of GN&C Division

February 2008 – January 2009

U.T.R.I. SpA (now Selex-MUAS), Roma (Italy)

www.utri.it

My Business Unit was responsible for the Guidance Navigation and Control of all the Unmanned

Aerial Vehicles:

> Physical simulation in Matlab/Simulink

> Algorithms coding and testing (Kalman filters, PID control, Robust control

> Validation during real tests.

Control Engineer

March 2004 – February 2008

U.T.R.I. SpA (now Selex-MUAS),

> Research and Development in Robust Control, applied to UAV and space vehicles (see my

publication)

> Support to the evaluation campaign of the real control laws of the European Launcher Vehicle Vega

> Modeling, Simulation and Control of Unmanned Aerial Systems, such as the UTRI's Asio, Crex,

Draco and the Alpi Aviation's Strix, actually used by the Italian Air Force

Research and Development department

March 2003 – February 2004

Aerostudi SpA,

www.aerostudi.it

> R&D of automatic control methods and trajectory planning for autonomous airdrop systems

> Modeling, simulation and control of a solar sail satellite

EDUCATION AND TRAINING

MS Aerospace Engineering, Magna cum Laude

March 1998 – February 2003

University of Pisa,

Master's Thesis on Non-linear control of formation flying micro satellites

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Curriculum Vitae Tiziano Fiorenzani

Scientific High School (56/60)

September 1992 – June 1997

Liceo Scientifico Statale "G. Marconi",

Advanced Control course

2005

“LMI Optimization with Applications in Control”, prof. Didier Henrion, University of Praga

Micro UAV Pilot

November 2012

Sky-Watch, (Denmark)

Certified Pilot of Huginn X1 micro VTOL UAV

PERSONAL SKILLS

Mother tongue(s) Italian

Other language(s) UNDERSTANDING SPEAKING WRITING

Listening Reading Spoken interaction Spoken production

English C1 C1 C1 B2 B2

Levels: A1/A2: Basic user - B1/B2: Independent user - C1/C2: Proficient user

Common European Framework of Reference for Languages

Communication skills > Team spirit and ability to interact with both technical and administrative staff

> Good ability to adapt to multicultural environments, gained through my travels abroad (USA, East

Europe, Morocco, Yemen, Iran, West China

> Good communication skills gained through my experience as Business Unit Manager, Project

Manager and CTO

Organisational / managerial skills > Leadership: currently responsible of a Technical Department of 6 people and coordinator of

engineering projects.

> Management: I experienced the management of small projects where I was part of the working

team.I have the ability to find right people for the job.

> Sense of duty: I've never missed a commitment with the company or a customer

Job-related skills >> Project Management <<

> Introduced to the PMBOK standards

> Jr. Project Manager, enrolled in PMI

>> Control Theory <<

> Theory and practice in control applied to Unmanned and Space Vehicles

> Robust SISO and MIMO control (H infinity, mu-analysis, statistical robustness criteria)

> Linear Parameter Varying Control

> Classical control (PID, LQR)

> Guidance logics

>> Filtering<<

> Kalman Filter

> Extended Kalman Filter

> LPF, HPF, Notch filtering

> System estimation

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>> Quality Assurance <<

Good experience in quality processes, derived from my work in iso 9001 companies

Computer skills > Matlab and Simulink: very good experience on the packages "Robust Control Toolbox", "LMI

Toolbox", "Mapping Toolbox", "Stateflow", applied to Modeling and Simulation of UAVs, launcher

vehicles and satellites

> C programming: good knowledge of the code, derived from the implementation of the GN&C

algorithms for UAVs.

> Object oriented programming: basic knowledge of Visual Studio, applied to create GUIs.

> Graphical programs: very good experience in Photoshop, experienced in mounting videos with

"Movie Maker", "AVS" and "Video Studio"

> WEB: designing and development of basic PHP sites, applied to myown web site

> Office: very good experience with "Word" and "Power Point", good knowledge of "Excel".

Experience with "Open Office" and very good experience with LaTeX

> Operative System: Windows

Driving licence B

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Immediately after being graduated, I moved to Rome, where I have worked and still work in

engineering companies, growing my professional and management skills.

I have accumulated one decade of experience in mini-Unmanned Aerial/Ground Vehicles (UAVs,

UGVs). The result of this work are some of the main Italian UAVs, such as Strix (code development

and instructor of the first operators' class) and the Mini UAV systems of UTRI / Selex-Muas as Crex,

Draco and Asio. More recently I have experienced the Management of Project involving the design

and development of complete ground robots.

In February 2008, I was in charge of the Department of Guidance, Navigation and Control of UTRI

SpA (Unmanned Technology Research Institute). Thanks to the excellence of the department of

GN&C, UTRI has offered its services and collaborations in major European space programs such as

the Vega launcher vehicle and his future successor Lyra. In this context, I was Program Manager for

the innovative robust control of the European launcher Lyra. Also in UTRI I conducted research on

various topics in collaboration with leading research centers, such as the Robotics Laboratory of the

University of Rome and the IASI / CNR, L'Aquila.

In July 2010 I switched to a new experience in a small engineering company, part of a larger group:

the ERMES Technologies. In ERMES I took care of both Business development and design of RPVs

(Remotely piloted vehicles). I was the Manager of a Project regarding the Design and Development of

4 Mini Rover for Counter-IED missions, really employed in the Operative field.

Actually I am the Chief Technical Officer of Eurolink Systems, where I'm experiencing Project

coordination, people leading and Quality Assurance

I choose my employees with great care and I love having people in my team who are technically very

valuable so that the group as a whole may grow professionally and close orders on time.

The experience in small companies has taught me to work very well outside of my direct work ambits,

but actuallyI'm working to increase my competence in Project Management.

Publications Rotunno, Fiorenzani, Petritoli, Bennani, "Modern analysis techniques for gain scheduled Thrust

Vector Controllers of launchers", Computer Aided Control System Design, 2006 IEEE International

Conference on Control Applications, 2006 IEEE International Symposium on Intelligent Control, 2006

IEEE

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