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New South Wales, Australia
Posted:
October 11, 2016

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Software Engineer

After my Master Degree, I have been working for 25 years in the ICT field, spreading in many industrial sectors and covering several roles. The skills I’ve gained, leveraged by a genuine passion, led to first level achievements in all projects I handled. Important international experiences complete the professional profile.

Education

Title

Specialization

Specialization

Final Mark

Master Degree in Electronic Engineering

Computer Science – Software

Industrial Automation

110/110 with honors (Summa Cum Laude)

1985 – 1990

1987 – 1989

1989 – 1990

July 17th 1990

Certification/License/Association

Certification

Association

Certification

Licensed Engineering Professional Certification

Italian Engineer Register member

Australian Computer Society Skill Assessment granted under ANZSCO cat. 261313 (Software Engineering), Ref.Nbr. 828236

October 1991

November 1991

May 2014

Languages

Overall

Read

Write

Speak

Listen

English

IELTS SCORE (1..9)

7.5

8.5

6.5

7.5

7

French

8 YEARS schooling

Intermediate

Italian

Mother tongue

Personal Data

Resident

Parkes, New South Wales, Australia

Birthdate

December 23rd, 1966

Citizenship

Australia, Italy

Personal Notes

Hobbies-Passions

Online Trading (ProRealtime, Metatrader, Dealbook, MetaStock)

Music: Accordion

Music: Organ, piano

Music: Band/Orchestra

Personal Development (PNL, Coaching, Counseling, Nogotiation)

Radio Command avio flight

Advanced

Advanced

Advanced

Professional Experience

Exposure/Level

Industry Sectors

Process Control and Instrumentation

Firmware (embedded systems software)

ERP/MIS

Web

Finance (automated trading)

Advanced

Advanced

Advanced

High

High

Responsibilities

R&D, Design/Architect

Development

Selection/Recruitment

Education/Training

Team Management/Leading

Specifications & Documentation

Consulting

System Integration

Business Development

General Management

Advanced

Advanced

Intermediate

Advanced

High

Advanced

Advanced

Advanced

Intermediate

Intermediate

CPU Platforms

Intel 80x86 family

Intel 8051 family

Motorola 68HC11 family

SGS Thomson ST6 family

DSP Texas TMS family

Advanced

Advanced

intermediate

Intermediate

Intermediate

Programming Languages

C

C++

C#

Java

Assembly

Pascal

Basic (Visual Basic)

Javascript

IEC 61131 (LAD, STL, FBD, SCL, CFC, SFC)

PHP

Python

Erlang

Elixir

Elm

Advanced

Advanced

Advanced

Intermediate

Advanced

Basic

Advanced

High

Advanced

Basic

Intermediate

Intermediate

Intermediate

Intermediate

Web

HTML, DHTML, CSS

Javascript

jQuery

ASP

ASP.NET, MVC, WCF

PHP

XML, XSLT, XAML, JSON

High

High

Basic

Intermediate

High

Basic

High

PLC & DCS

Instruments

Siemens Simatic (S5, S7, M7)

Allen Bradley

Beckhoff

Modicon/Schneider

GE

Honeywell

Hollysys

ABB

Softing 4Control

Matsushita/Panasonic

Eurotherm

MTL

Advanced

Intermediate

Advanced

Advanced

Basic

Basic

High

Advanced

Basic

Intermediate

Basic

Basic

SCADA

GE iFix, Proficy

WinCC

Vijeo/Citect

Intouch

WizCon

Movicon

ZenOn

High

Intermediate

Advanced

High

Intermediate

High

High

MES

OsiSoft PI

Schneider Ampla

Matrikon ProcessMORe

Advanced

Basic

Advanced

Operating Systems

MS-Windows (from 3.1 to 10)

Unix/Linux

mC/OS realtime kernel

DOS

Advanced

High

High

Advanced

Networks

Ethernet

TCP/IP & UDP (socket programming)

Profibus

CAN

DeviceNet, ControlNetwork

Lon

RS232-RS485-RS422

Modbus

OPC

Advanced

Advanced

Advanced

Intermediate

Intermediate

Basic

Advanced

Advanced

Advanced

Development Platforms

MS Visual Studio

Visual Basic 6 & VBA

LabView & LabWindows (National Inst.)

Simatic PCS7

Codesys

Crystal Reports

Advanced

Advanced

Intermediate

High

High

High

Office

Platforms

MS Word, Excel

MS PowerPoint, Visio

MS Project

Matlab

Advanced

Advanced

Intermediate

Basic

Trading Platforms

Metatrader

Prorealtime

NinjaTrader

Advanced

High

Intermediate

Database

SQL Server

MySQL

Postgres

MS Access

ODBC

Advanced

Basic

Basic

High

High

Northparkes Mines

Jan 2012 – Now

Senior Control Systems and Network Engineer

Description

Design-Develop-Manage control systems, PLC-DCS-SCADA-MES level accountability, provide support for day-to-day running of company ICT systems with special process control environment accountability, Carry out technical research and development to enable continuing innovation within the process control infrastructure. Design, develop, commission and maintain Software as required by the company operations.

Projects/Jobs

Control Systems Administration

Jan 2012 – Now

Description

Maintain and manage the Control System. Design, development and commissioning of new control systems

Highlights

Important experience in the mining sector

Technologies

Schneider, Citect, p80i, B&R, Rockwell (Allen Bradley)

Business Application Development

Jan 2012 – Now

Description

Design, develop, test and Maintain Web based applications reporting business data analysis

Highlights

Collecting data from different sources and presenting them in the intranet

Technologies

Linux, Elixir/Erlang, Phoenix, Elm+Javascript, HTML, CSS

Legacy Controllers Upgrade

Jan 2012 – Now

Description

Upgrade the legacy controllers to actual equipment, redesign of network structure and porting of control software

Highlights

Wide expertise area

Technologies

Siemens Simatic, Schneider Unity, Vijeo/Citect

Technical Training

Jan 2012 – Now

Description

As the business major expert in software engineering, organize specialized training to increase staff efficiency in software related activities

Highlights

Wide expertise area

Technologies

Production floor (instruments, DCS, SCADA), production data (Database, SQL, reporting), Back End analisys (C#, Elixir, C Front End presentation (HTML, Javascript, ASP.NET, CSS, elm), Operating systems (Windows, Unix), OS toolchain (RDBMS, Web services, application architecture)

MES System Administration

Jan 2012 – Now

Description

Design, develop, test and commissioning of site MES application, with KPI, downtime, workflow, production and data reconciliation.

Highlights

MES application for the mining system

Technologies

Matrikon ProcessMORe, Schneider Ampla, Osisoft PI historian, Windows OS, C#, Reporting, Web services, SQL Server

CSiCo S.R.L.

Mar 2004 – Jan 2012

Co-Founder & Managing Director

Final Clients

My company has several clients in different sectors, including:

Food and Beverage

Tobacco processing

Medical devices

Chemical

Pharmaceutical

Tool Machinery

Building Automation

Energy

Description

After having started with a 2 people staff, CSiCo has grown to 15 staff members in 4 years, and got a 7 figure turnover. My involvement in the company encompasses:

Staff members selection & recruitment

Staff members training

Team forming and leading

Design projects architecture

Developing standard software modules

Research and Development

Business Development

Customer Relationship Management

General Management

Project Management

Product Management

Program Management

Resource Allocation

Resource Planning

Consulting

Highlights

As an entrepreneur, I have had the possibility to fully develop my potentials and become a mature and complete professional.

Projects/Jobs (For space reasons only relevant projects reported here)

Building Automation Concentrator

Jan 2011 – Dec 2012

Final Clients

A major building automation supplier

Description

Many devices in use in the building automation sector have proprietary protocols. The application purpose is to create a communication concentrator that implements all these protocols, exchanges process data with the devices and gives them as output with an open well-known protocol. The market price of the concentrator has to be very low to be competitive, so it is chosen an embedded Linux system. The application is highly network oriented, and implements several custom communication stacks.

Highlights

An example of networking centered application

Technologies

Linux, C++, C, Assembly, RS232, RS485, Modbus, Ethernet, Lon, Knx

Work Areas

See Managing Director/Description

Trading Custom Indicators & Robots

Apr 2010 – Now

Final Clients

Trading Institutions

Retail Traders

Description

MetaTrader is a widespread realtime trading platform. It features an internal scripting C-like language, that allows to create custom trading indicators and trading robots (called Expert Advisors, aka EA). Trading companies and retail traders usually don’t have programming background, so they rely on outsourcing to get to reality their trading ideas.

Highlights

My programming experience together with my passion for online trading make me a good partner in online trading software projects.

Technologies

Metatrader, C, Trading Indicators, Trading Robots, Expert Advisors

Work Areas

See Managing Director/Description

Security Scanners

Aug 2009 – Now

Final Clients

ProRealtime users

Description

ProRealtime is a Trading software Java-based. It has a built-in programming language (Probuilder). I developed several security scanners (ProScreeners), that scan the set of securities of a market (e.g. NYSE stocks, DAX stocks, Commodities, Forex and select those that satisfy specific conditions in price and/or against trading studies/indicators.

Highlights

An example of experience in the financial online tradinc sector. I got rid of ProRealtime, an important trading platform.

Technologies

ProRealtime, ProBuilder, ProScreener, Java.

Work Areas

See Managing Director/Description

Industrial Boiler Controller

Mar 2009 – May 2011

Final Clients

Industrial Boiler manufacturers

Description

Control the flow of combustible and air to optimize the burning efficience in a range of heating load. Control the CO emission as per national regulations and keep it under maximum values by air injection. The controller is an embedded system with RT Linux. Features:

Ingition sequence control

Graphical editing of load curves

Gas&Air modulation

CO emission guard

PID load control

Messaging on Event

Remote Control

Hystorical Local storage (trends)

Asset management and maintenance alerts

Highlights

All features (I/O exchange, PID closed loops, graphical management, messaging and RE232, RS485 and ethernet socket networking) have been developed completely from scratch, relying on the RT Linux operating system (no third party libraries)

Technologies

RT Linux, C++, C, Assembly, RS232, RS485, Modbus, Ethernet.

Work Areas

See Managing Director/Description

Matlab Predictive Model

Feb 2009 – Dec 2009

Final Clients

Coating & Paint producers

Description

The R&D department of the client gives a Matlab-based complex predictive model of a core process. The purpose of the model is to forecast the value of some key variables of the ongoing process. The requirements are:

Acquire process variables

Feed the Matlab predictive model

Adjust process setpoints according to the model’s predictions

Store process variables and preditcions

Study the stored variables to work out quality/efficience indicators

The acquisition of process values is done usineg NI (National Instruments) DAQ boards, LabView, LabWindows. Some parts are written as C++ external libraries.

Highlights

An example of real project with exposure to Matlab and NI products

Technologies

Matlab, LabView, LabWindows, National Instruments, C++, DAQ Boards

Work Areas

See Managing Director/Description

Tobacco Primary USA

May 2008 – DEC 2012

Final Clients

Imperial Tobacco Group PLC

Description

Control: 70+ Beckhoff controller stations

Local HMI: 70+ Windows CE Local Panels (one per controller)

Supervision: 3 server + 12 client ZenOn supervision stations + 1 SQL Server Data Warehouse server, 240+ forms, 4000+ VBA LOC + 1500 C# LOC

Instruments: inverters, weighers, cell loads, motors, valves, Radio Frequency barcode scanner, barcode printers, flow meters, pressure transmitters, temperature transmitters, light displays

I/O: 10000+ I/Os, TwinSAFE security technology

Networks: Industrial Ethernet, Profibus DP, RS232, RS485

Highlights

This is one of the biggest projects. The team is composed by 8 members. Here, I got rid of ZenOn.

Technologies

Beckhoff, TwinCAT, ZenOn, Window CE, C#, C++, .NET, Profibus DP, RF, SQL Server

Work Areas

See Managing Director/Description

Coating Pro

Jun 2007 – Oct 2009

Final Clients

A pharmaceutical machinery manufacturer

Description

In this case, the client wanted to offer to the market a solution cheaper than the competitors. I studied a specific solution based on a special controller and developing the application without using a SCADA. Thanks to this solution, the market price has been halved and the client could this way enlarge his market quote.

Highlights

An example of experience in the pharmaceutical sector

Technologies

IEC 61131, C#, C++, .NET

Work Areas

See Managing Director/Description

Sodium Hydrosulphite

Mar 2006 – Jun 2007

Final Clients

A major chemical company

Description

Control: 3 DCS redundant ABB AC800M stations

Supervision: 2 server + 5 client C#.NET supervision stations, 80+ forms, 5000+ C# LOC

Instruments: inverters, weighers, cell loads, motors, valves, Radio Frequency sensor over Modbus, flow meters, pressure transmitters, temperature transmitters, viscosity transmitters

I/O: 3000+ I/Os, most in Ex zone.

Networks: Industrial Ethernet, Profibus DP, RS232, RS485

Batch Management: CSW Batch management engine

Highlights

This application gave me the possibility to master ABB DCS systems. It was one of the 20+ projects where the SCADA application is built in C#, relying on CSW, with OPC communication. Finally, this is a project where I installed my C#.NET batch control solution, based on CSW.

Technologies

ABB DCS, OPC, C#, C++, .NET, Modbus, RF

Work Areas

See Managing Director/Description

Company Website

Mar 2006 – Sep 2006

Final Clients

My company website

Description

The chosen technolgy is ASP.NET, with AJAX as framework

Highlights

The previous ASP knowledge expanded to the new ASP.NET technology, with exposure to AJAX.

Technologies

ASP.NET, C#, AJAX

Work Areas

See Managing Director/Description

Formaldehyde

Mar 2006 – Nov 2006

Final Clients

A major chemical company

Description

Control: DCS MTL

Supervision: 2 server + 2 client C#.NET supervision stations, 50+ forms, 2000+ C# LOC

Instruments: weighers, cell loads, motors, valves, flow meters, pressure transmitters, temperature transmitters

I/O: 2000+ I/Os, most in Ex zone.

Networks: Industrial Ethernet, Profibus DP

Highlights

MTL DCS

Technologies

MTL, OPC, C#, C++, .NET

Work Areas

See Managing Director/Description

Biodiesel

Oct 2005 – Jul 2006

Final Clients

A major oil & gas company

Description

Control: Beckhoff CX 1020 Controller

Supervision: 2 server + 2 client C#.NET supervision stations, 120+ forms, 16000+ C# LOC

Instruments: inverters, weighers, cell loads, motors, valves, flow meters, pressure transmitters, temperature transmitters, viscosity transmitters.

I/O: 2000+ I/Os, all in Ex zone.

Networks: Industrial Ethernet, Profibus PA

Highlights

Oil & Gas sector application. Profibus PA.

Technologies

Beckhoff, Profibus PA, C#.NET

Work Areas

See Managing Director/Description

Ureic & Melamminic Resins

Sep 2005 – Oct 2007

Final Clients

A major chemical company

Description

Control: DCS Schneider

Supervision: 2 server + 4 client Citect supervision stations, 100+ forms, 2000+ Script LOC

Instruments: weighers, cell loads, motors, valves, flow meters, pressure transmitters, temperature transmitters, viscosity transmitters, motion devices

I/O: 5000+ I/Os, some in Ex zone.

Networks: Industrial Ethernet, Profibus, CAN

Highlights

A get-rid-of project for Schneider and Citect

Technologies

Schneider, Citect, Script, C++, CAN, Profibus, Ethernet

Work Areas

See Managing Director/Description

CSW

Jan 2005 – Jan2012

Final Clients

Internal

Description

In order to be less dependent on SCADA packages, that needs hardware keys to be bought in order to be run, I decided to develop a Windows framework to use in place of SCADA packages. I called this framework “CSiCo SCADA Workspace” (CSW). It is written mainly in C# (90%), and the remaining (low level coding)in C++ and Assembly. It is composed by the following .NET DLLs:

Visual Studio .NET extensions: the .NET framework encompasses Visual Studio extension assemblies that allow programmers to extend the funcionality of the IDE. Using this facility, Visual Studio .NET has been extended in order to offer additional functionalities, more close to a SCADA dev. platform:

oTag List Designer

oAlarms Designer

oDevice Designer

oAsset Management Designer

Field Library: several Field communication drivers:

oOPC Client

oModbus RTU and TCP Client

oBeckhoff ADS

oHollysys

o...

Scada Library: many custom controls that are built to have mimic functionality connected to tags

Net Library: components for the Service Oriented Client/Server functionality (based on .NET Remoting)

MES Library: Graphical Batch Management Engine inspired to ISA S88.

Highlights

With this framework, I and my employees can develop a SCADA application in the same time (= same costs) required by a SCADA package and using Visual Studio .NET. The biggest advantages are that hardware keys (and the relative license costs) are eliminated and we have the full .NET framework available for custom needs

The framework size is of 21.000+ LOC

Technologies

.NET, C#, C++, Beckhoff ADS, Modbus, Modbus, OPC

Work Areas

See Managing Director/Description

Acrylic, Vinyl, Phenolic, Powders

Oct 2004 – Aug 2005

Final Clients

A major resins chemical company

Description

Control: 10 Beckhoff Controllers (300 and 400) PLCs, 34000+ IEC 61131 LOC (Lines Of Code)

Supervision: 4 server + 8 client Movicon supervision stations, 500+ pages, 7000+ VBA LOC

Instruments: inverters, weighers, cell loads, motors, valves, External PID controllers, flow meters, pressure transmitters, temperature transmitters, viscosity transmitters

I/O: 6000+ I/Os, part of them in Ex zone.

Networks: Industrial Ethernet, Profibus DP, RS232, RS485

Highlights

Beckhoff technology is based in Codesys, a hardware independent controller software development platform adopted by many brands (e.g. WAGO, ABB, Schneider). Movicon is in Italian SCADA.

Technologies

Movicon, VBA, Codesys, TwinCAT, Beckhoff, RS232, Profibus, Ex, Ethernet, DP

Work Areas

See Managing Director/Description

Alkid & Polyester

Mar 2004 – Jun 2005

Final Clients

A major Alkid & Poliester chemical company

Description

Control: 12 Siemens S7 (300 and 400) PLCs, 23000+ Step7 LOC (Lines Of Code)

Supervision: 2 redundant server + 15 client iFix supervision stations, 400+ pages, 15000+ VBA LOC

Instruments: inverters, alarm central, weighers, cell loads, motors, valves, flow meters, pressure transmitters, temperature transmitters

I/O: 4000+ I/Os, part of them in Ex zone.

Networks: Industrial Ethernet, Profibus DP, RS232.

Highlights

The whole site is under control of the systems (also peripheral gates to the site)

Technologies

Windows, iFix, VBA, S7, Step7, RS232, Profibus, Ex, Ethernet, DP

Work Areas

See Managing Director/Description

Freelancer Software Engineer

Jul 1990 – Mar 2004

The clients

As freelancer I worked for several clients id different industry sectors:

CAD/CAM

Telecommunications

Tobacco processing

Automatic Distribution

Tool Machinery

Water process

Financial (trading)

Responsibilities

Staff members selection & recruitment

Staff members training

Design projects architecture

Developing standard software modules

Research and Development

Consulting

Achievements

I got a deep and extensive experience in software engineering and about industry sectors I’ve worked in. I got the professional and human maturity to create a new successful start-up.

Projects/Jobs (For space reasons only relevant projects reported here)

AREA MANAGEMENT

May 2002 – Mar 2004

Final Clients

A major Italian SCADA company

The Italian branch of a major German Controllers manufacturer

Description

In this period I have been the area manager for the Italian north-eastern territory. In this role I did:

Product promotion

Customer technical and commercial support

Shadow-working

Education and training on the products

Development of SCADA communication drivers:

oKNX/EIB (Building Automation)

oMatsushita Controller FP (TCP/IP)

oBeckhoff ADS

o...

Highlights

I got a good command of marketing, commercial, customer satisfaction and negotiation processes.

Technologies

Windows, C++, Visual Basic, VBA, Movicon, Citect, ZenOn, Beckhoff, Modicon, Modbus, Schneider, Allen Bradley.

Work Areas

Education, Training, CRM, Negotiation, Development, Shadow-working, customer support, customer satisfaction.

MES WEB KPI

May 2001 – Feb 2002

Final Clients

SCADA package suppliers

Description

Given a Database with historical production data, this web application gives several Key Performance Indicators. Data are accessed via SQL and ODBC and then are elaborated. The KPI results are then presented as Web Page.

Highlights

This project has been developed using IIS and ASP (Active Server Pages)

Technologies

Internet Information Services (IIS), ASP, Visual Basic, SQL, ODBC, Javascript, HTML, DHTML.

Work Areas

R&D, Architect, Develop, Test, Debug, Document

JavaScada

Mar 2000 – Jun 2002

Final Clients

Experimental project of a SCADA package supplier

Description

Due to the fact that all known Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition (SCADA) packages are based on Windows, the client wants to invest in developing a Linux/Java (GNU) package. The software exchanges data with some field-level instruments and controllers, maintains a realtime database, handles alarms, stores hystorical data in a MySQL database, displays trends, mimics and report pages.

Highlights

In this project I had a good understanding of Java and Linux

Technologies

Linux, Java

Work Areas

R&D, Architect, Develop, Test, Debug

Porting a legacy Unix App -> windows

AUG 1999 – Jun 2000

Final Clients

A storage service company

Description

An existing application developed under Unix is not supported anymore. The client want to port it in a Windows based distributed system

The DB2 existing database had been migrated to SQL Server

A Windows Server system has been installed and configured, with a proper NAS high availability unit.

The legacy Unix based structure (main processor with several terminals) has been substituted with a client/server intranet Windows-based structure.

The software application has been rewritten as a three-tier application: on the server side the database management (first/data tier) and the business logic (second/business tier) and on the client the front-end logic (client/third tier). The communication between clients and server has been realized by a specific protocol, that I developed over Ethernet socket services.

Highlights

I had the occasion to work on a Unix system. It was also my first multi-tier application and the project where I got rid of Ethernet socket.

Technologies

Unix, Windows, Win32, C++, MFC, SQL Server, DB2, Multi Tier Software, Ethernet socket

Work Areas

R&D, Architect, Develop, Test, Debug, Team leading (3 developers)

Banking Desk-Side Front-End

Jul 1997 – Mar 1999

Final Clients

A banking farm service company

Description

The client manages a electronic farm with mainframe systems, and supply data warehouse and banking business logic to some major banks. With this project, the client wants to replace the legacy chararcter-oriented desk application with a more actual Windows graphical application. Two modules have been developed:

A ethernet socket-based communication protocol. This protocol has been developed in collaboration with mainframe managers, to be secure (encription) and transaction-based. Then, I developed the client side.

The front-end, a forms-based Windows application to allows the desk operators to fulfill their duties with simplified procedures than in the legacy character-based application.

Highlights

I had the possibility to learn several banking procedures and terminologies.

Technologies

Windows, Win32, C++, MFC,Multi Tier Software, Ethernet socket.

Instrument & Process Control

May 1997 – Mar 1999

Final Clients

Philip Morris Switzerland

Philip Morris Kazakhstan

Description

Process control and supervision of primary tobacco plants. Several level of software have been realized:

PLC: 20+ S7-400 Stations, 10+ S7-300 stations

PC: 20+ Intouch supervisory stations

PC: Batch Scheduler

Networking:

Industrial Ethernet Network for PC<->PLC communications

Profibus FDL network for PLC<->PLC communications

Profibus DP for remote I/O

RS232 for special device communications

RF (Radio frequency) for handheld terminal communications

In this projects more than 20 software/system engineers have been involved. My assignments have been:

Designing a standard for software development, to be adopted by all the software engineers

Controlling comformity to the standard of team softwares

Controlling optimization and quality of team softwares

Writing simulation software: during the development phase, I did several simulation engines (C They did simulate the machinery and served to test and troubleshoot most critical process automation tasks before the commissioning phase.

Device management FBs: I developed Function Blocks to manage all the devices on the production floor connected to the PLCs, as for example:

oLight Displays on the production floor

oBarcode readers

oMoby magnetic tag readers/writers

oInverters

oTobacco scan machines

Motion control for discharge robots

Inter PLC communication standards: a set of FBs to setup communications inter PLCs

Radio Frequency handheld device software: a C++ application to be run in the handheld device and a paired FB to be run in the PLC.

Process control software: I developed and tested several process control parts of the plant.

Highlights

The level of quality required by the client (Philip Morris), the complexity of the system and the large scale make of these projects a milestone in my experience.

Technologies

S7, STEP7, AWL, SCL, LAD, Industrial Ethernet, Profibus, DP, RS232, Radio Frequency, C++, Intouch, Visual Basic, SQL Server

Work Areas

QA (Quality Assurance) R&D, Architect, Develop, Test, Debug, QA

Crystal Growing Process

May 1997 – Oct 1997

Final Clients

Italian Research Institute

Description

The insitute had an automatic machine that controls the process of growing stratified crystals. The parameters of the process phase are calculate externally and given as input to the RSView (Rockwell) supervisory application. An Allen Bradley PLC controls the growing process. An external application reads process data from the RSView database, makes automatically the calculation of the process parameters interfacing to a Matlab mathematic model and write them back to the RSView database, and so to the Allen Bradley PLC.

Highlights

Rockwell (Allen Bradley) automation project. All the interprocess communication between the existing RSView application and my C++ application is via DDE, a good example of legacy integration.

Technologies

Rockwell Automation, Allen Bradley, DeviceNET, ControlNetwork, RSView, Matlab, Win32, C++, DDE

Work Areas

R&D, Architect, Develop, Test, Debug, Document

OLE Realtime Dataserver

Set 1995 – Dec 1995

Final Clients

SCADA package providers

SCADA application developers

Description

Cyclically read data from instruments and control devices and maintain a realtime database to service SCADA client applications. The dataserver contains user lever drivers for the following network protocols:

Siemens AS 511, a RS232 based proprietary protocol by Siemens (for who knows Siemens S5, the protocol of the PLC programming port)

Siemens 3964R, a RS232/422 serial point-to-point proprietary protocol by Siemens

Siemens Sinec L2, a RS485 (mono)master/(multi)slave proprietary protocol by Siemens, that later became Profibus.

The software was required to act as server for different client applications using OLE, so it is a precursor of OPC (Ole for Process Control) server technology.

Highlights

The main challenge has been decrypt the protocols, that were not “open”. To do it, I put an observer PC in the network. I developed an application that passed through received telegram (so the normal normal exchange was not disturbed), but recorded all of them. Studying the stored telegrams, I could decode the protocol and therefore could write communication drivers for the procotols.

Technologies

Windows, Win32, C++, MFC, OLE, Siemens, Sinec L2, S5, AS511, 3964R, RS232, RS422, RS485

Work Areas

R&D, Architect, Develop, Test, Debug, Document

Robot Inverse Kinematic

Aug 1995 – Nov 1996

Final Clients

Robot machines constructors

Description

Given a predefined path and a parameterised robot structure, returns the sequence of movements that the axes of the robot must perform in order to make the hand (tool) point to go through the path.

Highlights

For this project I studied the inverse kinematic theory and to implement it in a software developed an C++ class library for multidimensional matrix calculations.

Technologies

C++

Work Areas

R&D, Architect, Develop, Test, Debug, Document

Telecontrol

Jul 1995 – Oct 1995

Final Clients

Telecontrol application developers

SCADA package providers

SCADA application developers

Description

Establish a PSTN modem connection to a remote serial network.

Highlights

At the time of the project, the possibility to use the normal telephonic network to connect a SCADA application to a remote Instrument/PLC/485 network was a pioneer application.

Technologies



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