
Senior Validation Engineer at Cisco Systems.
Milan Area, Italy

Senior Validation Engineer at Cisco Systems.
Milan Area, Italy
Massimo is an experienced leader in electronic products verification, able to reduce costs through productivity and vendors’ management.
He can enhance sales through improvement on product quality and getting the required marks and certifications for several countries
Wide experience in Optical-DWDM, HW, SW validation & testing, compliance regulatory on several Cisco platforms as ONS15454, 15454SDH, 15310MA, 15600, 15216, 15302, 15305.
Massimo acquires strong Project management skills, able to manage external labs, driving customer activities with International exposure.
Quality and productivity goals met with process excellence and Business Process Re-Engineering, following ISO9001 & TL9000.
Massimo is co-founder of MilanIN Business club, defined Vision & Mission, set values, bring the club from 10 to 5000 members.
Massimo starts-up Club-IN projects, National Federation of Social Business Networking ClubIN (http://www.clubin.biz): is a free National Wide network of local Business Clubs in Italy, launched as generalization of our practical experience with MilanIN Business Club 2.0 of
Milan (http://www.milanin.com)."
Communication standards (SDH,Sonet, E1/E3/E4/ DS1/DS3, Ethernet-10/100- GE-10GE, Escon, Fiber Channel(1G,2G,4G),OTU1,OTU2) and related instrumentation. TLC regulations:ITU-T,BellCore,IEEE.
Transmitting boards, optical Amplifiers and Passives, ROADMs, WSS, DWDM systems and Metro Access Networks.
TL1, SNMP.
Layer2 switching, CoS, QoS, VLAN tagging, Throughput statistics, RFCs.
(Public Company; CSCO; Computer Networking industry)
January 2001 — Present (8 years 7 months)
-SW Test, DWDM networks. setup & verification of a ring with ROADM nodes. IP over DWDM feature..
- HW Validation release lead: Develop metrics to track and monitor projects & advance status. Plan the activities. Prepare documentation for Quality reviews.
-Synchronization test lead.
- Compliance Regulatory & NEBS Test Manager (EMC, Safety, Environmental). : Plan & manage test activities, with a team of 5 Engineers and external labs worldwide.
- Responsible for OEM & ODM products and platforms HW Validation:
Develop test strategies, write test cases and test plans, manage logistics & resources, perform testing.
-Write test procedures for the standardization of DWDM testing within several BU in Cisco Systems (Best Practices definition)
-HW Test Engineer: plan & perform testing activities: HQA, Wireline, Synchronization, EDVT testing. Design and implement test benches. (Amplifiers, Filters, Line Cards, Transponders). .
new technologies, new product development, strategic planning, international travel, marathon running.
National Engineering Association.
MilanIn, www.milanin.com.
June 2005: Award received for the best project work (thesis) of the course, at the end of my MBA.