General Manager Technical Director

LA PERNA GIOVANNI – CURRICULUM VITAE

Resident in Italy, Cuveglio (Va), Via privata Campo dei Fiori 5/A – cap 21030

Born in 1951, single, Italian citizenship

Home phone number: +39-033*-*******

Mobile phone number: +39-335-***-****

E-mail address: ***********@*****.***

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

from 2015 to 2017 GSE S.p.A. – Brindisi ( Br-Italy)

The Company manufactures aircraft structural components in metal and advanced carbon fiber materials.

Approximately 150 employees.

Consultant for Project Management for the development of a new civil aircraft ( new ATR42 ) movable surfaces in carbon fiber. In addition I managed, as Technical Director, the specialists of HELITEC in Gallarate, design office belonging to the same group of GSE.

Directly reporting to the General Manager.

Achievements and responsibilities

-Planning and control of the program activities with the commitment to fulfill technical requirements, delivery times and costs.

-Management of specialists to produce all the technical documentation necessary for the manufacturing phase.

-Management of the interactions between the manufacturing and procurement resources involved in the order development in the respect of the customer specs with the target of items certification and prototypes acceptance via ground and in flight testing.

-Management of technical/commercial relationships with the customer either autonomously or as a backup to the commercial officers.

from 2011 to 2015 IMF s.r.l. – Luino (Va)

The Company is leader in producing and selling machines and systems for foundries .

Vice Executive President of the North American branch : IMF NORTH AMERCA INC

Directly reporting to the General Manager

Achievements and responsibilities

Project Management for the implementation and management of a brand new customer assistance service included a new Spare Parts Service

-Definition of internal procedures and direct management of logistics and operations.

-Outsourcing in order to find alternative suppliers in USA in order to improve the delivery lead times to the customer. ( 30% reduction at the end of the period)

-Commercial activities for the acquisition of new orders of spare parts in USA and Canada

-Coordination of the technical assistance between the American customer, the American branch of the Company and the Head quarters in Italy

Audit of the finance administration of the American branch to assure the congruity withfinancial budget targets.

Business development finalized to new commitments in USA and CANADA.

from 2008 to 2011 MONTEFERRO S.p.A. – Monvalle (Va)

The Company is leader in production and sell of lift rail guides and their installation accessories.

Project Manager for Russian area

Directly reporting to the General Manager

Achievements and responsibilities

-Management of a new production site Start up in Russia

-Management of all the legal actions to create the Russian branch as a legally entity recognized by the Russian law in order to legally operate in Russia either for production or for commercial activities.

-Management of all the technical and operative activities intended to build and to perform the manufacturing rump up with the commitment to fulfill technical requirements, delivery times and costs

-Rough materials procurement inside CIS, search of potential suppliers (foundries and hot millings)

-Commercial survey in order to identify potential new customers in Belarus and Ukraine.

from 2006 to 2008 SELEX GALILEO AVIONICA S.p.a. – Ronchi dei Legionari (Go)

Company involved in aeronautic sector – design, manufacture and sell of unmanned air vehicles systems (UAV)– 200 employees

Technical Director for UAVs

Directly reporting to the General Manager

Achievements and responsibilities

-Directly reporting to the General Manager Project Management for systems development and manufacturing including prototypes preparation and ground and in flight certification.

-Order specifications analysis ( technical contents, timing and costs)

-Planning, control and coordination of design activities including landing gear system (8 designers for mechanical systems and structures, 25 designers for electro avionic and electro mechanic systems, 5 designers for development testing of mechanical, electromechanical and electro avionic systems, 5 designers for aeronautical technologies)

-Management of uk engine supplier and of Israelian Consultants for the development of a very new UAVs fleet system.

-Coordination and control of development and manufacturing of prototypes and ground and in flight testing inside time and costs limits set by the specs.

-Management of supplier relationships for technical and cost targets achievement.

- Management of customers relationships as a backup to the commercial dpt

from 2005 to 2006 ATR Group S.p.A. – Colonnella (Te)

Design and manufacturing of structural components in composite materials - 70 millions € turnover - 900 employees.

Project/Account Manager for aerospace and high speed trains

Directly reporting to the Commercial Director

Achievements and responsibilities

-Projet Management for orders development

-Plannig and control of order activities to assure the fulfillment of stated technical performances, time schedule and costs.

-Coordination of technical and manufacturing resources.

-Management of technical/commercial relationships with the customer either autonomously or as a backup to the commercial responsibles.

from 2001 to 2005 SIAC S.p.A. – Pontirolo (BG)

The Company is in the “automotive” business, electromechanical and structural systems ( pilot cabs) for tractors and heavy duty machines – 70 millions € turnover - 1.000 employees in six plants in Europe and Brazil.

New Products Director for Design, Industrializzation, Pre-seres manufacturing and Quality Control in the Brasilian branch

Directly reporting to the CEO and to the Brazilian unit General Manager.

Achievements and responsibilities

Project management for orders development.

-Planning and progress status for all the orders acquired by the Brazilian branch of the Company to identify possible deviations and to identify the necessary steering actions.

-Design, Product innovation and Idustrialization. The activity was done using advanced CAD tools performing executive design for the mechanical, structural parts for the colored thermoplastc interiors finishing and for the installation of electro mechanical components. I have fully redefined the design department organization where we completed three new models of cabs.

-Development and manufacturing of prototypes till the completion of P.P.A.P. procedure. I organized and managed a special manufacturing unit dedicated to the

first prototype assembly activities.

-Pre-series manufacturing with important volumes and the related logistics. I did ”Make or Buy“ analyses . I prepared the feasibility plan for the transition to a new painting process for protective coating based on “anaforesis” technology.

-I implemented the planning and progress status control of activities using modern Program Management criteria.

Production engineering.

Procurement including supplier search in Brazil and Argentina

Quality Control in ISO 9000/QS900 environment. I managed an internal process for quality improvement with 6Sigma methodology. I implemented some lean manufacturing modification in the manufacturing line. I managed the non conformities negotiations with the customers.

Commercial support for the acquisition of new orders in the Brazilian area.

from 1997 to 2001 NARDI ITALIA S.p.A – Abbiate Guazzone (Va)

The Company is in the “automotive” business, OEM safety components (steering wheels), for Europe, Japan and USA markets - 15 millions € turnover - 220 employees in thre plants one of which in USA.

Operations Director for Commercial, R&D, Quality Control and procurement

Directly reporting to the General Manager.

Achievements and responsibilities

Project management for orders development including the pre-series production with direct management of:

-Design, Product Innovation and Industrialization with intensive usage of advanced CAD tools for mechanical design, polyurethane forming, wood machining, leather wrapping, painting and electronic components development.

-Prototypes manufacturing with PPAP preparation, including tools design, development and try out. Pre-series production and testing laboratory conduction.

Qualiy in ISO9000 environment and Company certification as supplier of the main car manufacturers in Europe, Japan and USA. I have successfully worked to get the ISO9001 certification for Design, Quality Control and Commercial departments.

Purchasing management including supplier evaluation and control, economical negotiations, search of alternatives and cost reduction plans.

Commercial responsible including offers, economical negotiations, post sell assistance and marketing activities.

I gave my contribution to the “ Start Up” of a new plant in USA.

frpm 1977 to 1997 AERMACCHI S.p.A. – Venegono (Va)

Company involved in aeronautic sector. Design and manufacturing of whole aircrafts and aircraft sections for military and civil customers. - 150 millions € turnover - 2.000 employees.

Achievements and responsibilities

1995- 1997: Project Leader for the AEM/YAK 140 jet trainer program

Directly reporting to the Program Manager

-Project management for the development of the western version of the aircraft.

-Planning and progress status control of the design activities.

-Time schedules and costs deviations control.

-Marketing support for the technical introduction of the new aircraft to the potential customers interested in the new aircraft.

1993 – 1995 Aermacchi Representative” resident in Russia for AEM/YAK 140 jet trainer program

Directly reporting to the General Manager and to the Program Manager

-Project Management for the development of the trainer aircraft prototype either for the design, or for prototype manufacturing and the flight testing activities.

-Support into all the areas of the cooperation program with the Russian partner.

-Start up of the “ Representative” office and relations with the Italian Embassy, the representatives of Russian Air Force and of the foreign countries interested in the program.

-Preliminary analysis of the requirement of the future manufacturing plant..

-Staff Management of 2 people one of them Russian.

1989 – 1993 Deputy Technical Director for EFA program ( European Fighter Aircraft )

Directly reporting to the Technical Director.

-Project management for order development and prototype production ( the order consisted of the production of Flying prototypes of 20% of the whole aircraft). I managed the design, the manufacturing and the certification of the components committed to AERMACCHI. I worked to the preparation of the supply offer for other aircraft subsystems design.

-Design management adopting “Concurrent Engineering” methods and using advanced CAD-CAE systems ( CATIA, NASTRA, PATRAN ). The design was based upon the usage of advanced materials like aluminum alloys, carbon and kevlar fibers titanium alloys.

-Budget preparation for the design unit and subsequent monitoring of deviations.

- “Make or buy “ analyses for design activities and management of design activities carried out by external engineering offices.

-Management of technical relationships with the partners of EFA consortium ( BAE, CASA, FOKKER…)

-Program management for the complete certification of an innovative application in some item manufacturing of the electron beam welding process.

-Staff management of 60 people.

1977 - 1989 starting as Structural designer to Chief of “ Aeroelastic and Dynamic structural design” department

Directly reporting to the Technical Director

-Experience in structural design and, in the last five years of the period, assumption of the design responsibility for aeroelastic design of aircraft structures from the preliminary design phase to the prototype flights.

-Usage of FEAM tools( finite element analysis methods) and FORTRAN codes for the aircraft flight dynamics analysis and the flight loads evaluation.

-Responsible for structural loads to be used in design, testing and in flight loads validation ( in flight certification )

-Coordination of external team from university researchers to prepare a mathematical model to analyze the structures behavior during landing manoeuuvres.

-Involvement in upgrade program for MB326K aircraft, full development of the new close air support aircraft AMX inside an international cooperation program with ALENIA and EMBRAER.

-Staff Management of 6 engineers.

EDUCATION AND MILITARY SERVICE

1970 Scientific secondary school

1976 - 1977 Mountain Artillery officer

1977 University Degree in aeronautical Engineering in 1977 – “Politecnico di Milano“ University in Milan

1978 State Licence to legally operate as an engineer and since then enrolled into the official Board of Engineers of Varese district

1985 Release of reports about new methods for structural analysis.

1986 Master in Business Administration, Università “ Bocconi “ of Milano.

LANGUAGES

English, fluent either written or spoken

Brazilian Portuguese, good either written or spoken

Russian, good either written or spoken

French, good

Spanish, basic knowledge

COMPUTING EXPERIENCE

Compilers tools : FORTRAN good, BASIC basic knowledge, MICROSOFT VBA sufficient, C basic knowledge.

Personal computing : MICROSOFT WORD – EXCEL – ACCESS - OUTLOOK - POWERPOINT good, INTERNET navigation good

CAD tools: AUTOCAD good, PRO-E basic knowledge, CATIA basic knowledge

CAE tools: NASTRAN basic knowledge, ABAQUS basic knowledge

Project Management: MICROSOFT PROJECT very good

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