Project Engineer
Resume:
curriculum vitae
Personal Information
Name
Zanotti Daniela
Address
*, *** *******, *****, ***** di Negrar, ITALY
Telephone
****.*******@*****.***
Green Card Holder
Permanent resident in the U.S. starting from September 2012
Nationality
Italian
Work Experience
Dates (from – to)
March 2008 - Today
Name and address of employer
Macchi Boiler - Operative division of Sofinter SpA
Type of business or sector
Oil & Gas
Occupation or position held
Project Engineer (June 2011 - Today)
Main activities and responsibilities
Main duties and responsibilities:
Technical development of the engineering scope (concept design work)
Coordinate engineers and draftsmen
Liaison with clients
Liaison with/direction of 3rd parties (suppliers)
Review and adherence to specifications, regulations and standards
Preparation of project documents (progress reports, design reports, survey reports)
Occupation or position held
Process Engineer (March 2008 – May 2011)
Main activities and responsibilities
Process engineer on several projects of industrial boilers for Oil/Gas & Petrolchemical sectors and heat recovery steam generators for cogeneration plants (CHP).
Main duties and responsibilities:
Process simulations
Process Flow Diagrams (PFD's) with heat and material balances
Process data sheets
Piping and instrumentation diagrams (P&ID's)
Equipment lists (with associated sizing calculations)
Line lists (with associated sizing calculations and hydraulic calculations)
Investigations of technical items - documented in written reports and studies
Engineering design
Attendance to equipment / boiler performance test on site
Support of HAZOP panels and other hazard assessments
Coordination with other engineering and design disciplines
Used to travel as necessary to Customers' site. Travels included Oman, Qatar, India, and Europe.
Dates (from – to)
March 2004 – March 2008
Name and address of employer
INAF – National Institute of Astrophysics at Arcetri Observatory (Florence, Italy)
Type of business or sector
Scientific Research
Occupation or position held
Automatic Control Systems Engineer
Main activities and responsibilities
In this role, I've been directly involved in the design and test of automatic control system for adaptive optics in the international (USA, Germany, Italy) project Large Binocular Telescope (LBT).
Main duties and responsibilities:
Development of the automatic system for the actuation and control of the telescope adaptive secondary mirror
Development of system model and computer simulations. Analysis and simulations have been carried out using IDL and Matlab / Simulink
Software design and development for complex control system
Tests definition and execution in order to validate the model and tune the automatic control system (Software test, Electronic Tests and Calibrations, Dynamical characterization with technical shell, electro-mechanical test in low temperature environment)
Control systems usually designed and tested: PID, PD with Feed Forward Matrix and Proportional with Control Forces integrator.
Dates (from – to)
February 2004 (one month)
Name and address of employer
VZLU (Aeronautical Research and Test Institute) Prague, Czech Republic
Type of business or sector
Aircraft Scientific Research
Occupation or position held
Automatic Control Systems Engineer
Main activities and responsibilities
The contract was finalized to the design of an Automatic Control System for wind tunnel test of a 3-mobile surfaces aircraft in the European-sponsored project 3AS, Active Aeroelastic Aircraft Structure.
Education and training
Dates (from – to)
1996 – 2003
University
Politecnico of Milan, Italy
Title of qualification awarded
MS in Aerospace Engineering (5 years degree) with a majoring in aircraft systems design.
Mark: 92 / 100
Principal subjects covered
I have attended the following specialization courses:
Aircraft systems
Aerospace structures design
Fundamentals of aircraft engines
Turbomachine
Aircraft instrumentation
Aerospace automatic control systems
Flight dynamics and controls
Aircraft radio communication systems
Graduation Thesis: Design of a Control System for a Canard Foreplane Applied to a Three Surface Model for Aeroelastic Wind Tunnel Testing.
The Thesis deals with design and realization of a canard foreplane control system for an existing aeroelastic demonstrator, suitable for wind tunnel testing.
Supervisor: Prof. S. Ricci in charge of the course “Aeronautical Structure Testing” and Prof. P. Mantegazza in charge of the course “Aero-elasticity” at Politecnico di Milano (Milan University)
Professional courses
August 2005
Summer School on Adaptive Optics, University of California Santa Cruz (UCSC), California, USA.
During the summer school I've attended the following courses:
Mathematical Modeling and optimization
Linear Algebra for Adaptive Optics
Adaptive Optics for Communication
Personal Skills and Competences
Languages
Italian
Mother tongue
English
Fluent
French
Basic
Social Skills
Good interpersonal skills, team spirit, flexibility, able to cope with stress, used to work in a multicultural and international group, problem solving oriented
IT skills
Good ability with MS Office.
Familiar with the following programming languages (Matlab/Simulink, IDL, C, Language G - Labview, Turbo Pascal) and applications for control systems and lab tests (Real Time Application Interface (RTAI), RTAI-Lab, XRTAI-Lab, Matlab, Simulink, Labview, Working Model)
Code & Regulation known
ASME CODE
ASTM
NFPA 85
PTC
API CODE
NACE
Familiar to Local Regulation code as Royal Commissioning (Saudi Arabia), ARH (Algerian Regulation for Hydrocarbon), etc.
Publications
[1] Control of an all movable foreplane for a three surfaces aircraft wind tunnel model using Matlab/Simulink and RTAI Linux (S.Ricci, A.Scotti, D.Zanotti) in Elsevier Science, 26 January 2005
[2] The adaptive secondary mirrors for the Large Binocular Telescope: a progress report. (Advancements in Adaptive Optics, proceedings of SPIE )
[3] Modal Trajectory Generation for Adaptive Secondary Mirrors in Astronomical Adaptive Optics (T.Ruppel, M. Lloyd-Hart, D. Zanotti, O. Sawodny)
[4] First light AO system for LBT: toward on-sky operation (S.Esposito, A.Tozzi, A.Puglisi, E.Pinna, A.Riccardi, S.Busoni, L.Busoni, P.Stefanini, M.Xompero, D.Zanotti, and F.Pieralli, ) in Advances in Adaptive Optics IIi, B.L. Ellerbroek and D.Bonaccini Calia, July 2006
[5] High SNR measurement of interaction matrix on-sky and in lab (S.Esposito, R.Tubbs, A.Puglisi, S.Oberti, A.Tozzi, M.Xompero, and D.Zanotti) in Advances in Adaptive Optics II, B.L. Ellerbroek and D.Bonaccini Calia, July 2006
[6]The adaptive secondary mirror for the Large Binocular Telescope: results of acceptance laboratory test (A. Riccardi, M. Xompero, D. Zanotti, L. Busoni, C. Del Vecchio, P. Salinari, P. Ranfagni, G. Brusa Zappellini, R. Biasi, M. Andrighettoni, D. Gallieni, E. Anaclerio, H. M. Martin and S. M. Miller), July 2008
[7]Adaptive secondary mirror for LBT and its capacitive sensors: how can we calibrate them? (Marco Xompero, Armando Riccardi and Daniela Zanotti), July 2008
Other skills and competences
Automatic Control System (PID, Optimal Control Systems)
Control System applied to aircraft structure
Control system applied to Large Optical Telescopes
Measures, acquisitions and data analysis (i.e. accelerometer)
Modeling and use of electromagnetic actuators
Good knowledge of preliminary Aircraft design
Additional information
September 2004
Design of a “Control System for a Canard Foreplane applied to a Three Surface Model for Aeroelastic Wind Tunnel Testing” won the University Degree Prize “Prof. Dal Fabbro” established by the Politecnico of Milan for the Academic Years 2002-2003.
The prize is awarded to the most innovative design project in aeronautical research developed during the academic year at Milan University.
June 2004
I attended to the SPIE (Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers) Europe International Symposium Astronomical Telescopes in Glasgow, Scotland, UK.
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