Simone Melani - simone.melani@gmail.com

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Project manager at CESVIT MICROELETTRONICA srl

Past

Project manager junior at ABC Appalti Bonifiche Costruzioni sas

Education

Università degli Studi di Firenze

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Simone Melani - simone.melani@gmail.com’s Experience

Project manager

CESVIT MICROELETTRONICA srl

(Defense & Space industry)

January 2008 — Present (1 year)

CSM a R&D and Design House with a particular expertise in the most advanced sectors of microelectronics:
System-on-Chip, ASIC, MCM technology, SiP
CSM brings in its competence in solutions that RFID / RFDC, High Density Packaging ICs and Smart Sensors.

I currently try to develop project in the areas of FP7 (mainly in Security, Logistic, Space, Transportation, SME), but also in EDA or ESA, TED, UNGM etc.. .

Project followed in CSM :

- MOON Esa - MOtion cONtrol chip ESA ITT AO 1-5662/08/NL/IA for rover and Mars land veichles

- PACSMAN - Increase PAssenger Comfort and Satisfation in a more efficient airport MANagement system (FP7 AAT)

I'm following also management aspects of two important projects:

- European Soc Platform - European Defence Agency project's

- MINERVE - Identification and real life tracking of military equipment missiles and system (UE)

I have expertise in research of Business, Tenders and Consortium.
Project manager junior

ABC Appalti Bonifiche Costruzioni sas

(Military industry)

November 2006 — December 2007 (1 year 2 months)

The core business of ABC is removal, clearance of territories from unexploded war materials and of humanitarian mine removal, demining, UXO (unexploded object) and ERW (explosive remanant of War). I followed projects also in the surveys, diagnostics and planning in the fields of cultural heritage sites, archaeology and restoration, clearance and unexploded war devices. Whit ABC I worked on project direct by ONU,UNESCO,UNOPS,NATO,MAE etc..

Some examples in which I participated :

- Provision of professional service in high-risk areas of UNOPS

- Selection of Implementing Partner for Anti-Personnel Mine (APM) and Ammunition Stockpile Destruction, Afghanistan, UNDP

- Supervision of Survey for UXO removal in the Inland Waterway Transport System – Europaid - Serbia

- Restoration works of the saint sebastian fortress on the island of Mozambique – UNESCO

- Tri-dimensional documentation of Ta’ Ħaārat and Skorba Temples – Heritage of Malta

Simone Melani - simone.melani@gmail.com’s Education

Università degli Studi di Firenze

Doctor, Political Science, 1997 — 2003

- Speaker of the 2004 conference "Peoples, men, armies. Who is at war? "Which Took part Professor. Luciano Bozzo (Professor of Strategic Studies) and Lucio Brunelli (Vaticanis of the National TV News Tg2).

2004/2005 Collaboration with Center for Strategic International Studies (CSSI)

Coll. with the geopolitical magazine online www.equilibri.net
"China: energy crisis, nuclear solution" ; "Pakistan: Musharraf delicate balance"

- 2002/2003 Foundation and the direction of the scientific journal political-economic Quarterly "Il nuovo Malaspada" and following articles:

- Dossier terrorism, the threat of Islamic fundamentalism - MAY 2001

- "Is America Back? Scenarios and analysis for a possible war in Iraq" September , "The National Security Strategies of The USA. Analysis and Comment"

-- Taking the first 2003 edition of the Journalistic "Letter 22" in collaboration
With the University of Florence and the National newspaper "The Nation"

Activities and Societies:

Thesis Degree in History of International Relations: "Britain: Tony
Blair facing new forms of international terrorism, 1997 - 2003 "
Prof.. Antonio Varsori, Prof.. Luciano Bozzo. During this work I was able to research at: International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS), London School of Economics, War Department of King's College London, Johns Hopkins University in Bologna, ' Institute for International Affairs (IAI) in Rome and European University on Florence (EUI).

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Simone Melani - simone.melani@gmail.com’s Interests:

defence and security activities study, read national and international news and books, trekking and climbing,

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