Curriculum Vitae Roberto Alfano

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Personal statement

25 years of Industrial Machinery experience, acting embedded in over 100 Fortune-500 Multinational Companies, caring the success of over 300 Projects in 40 Countries. Solid bases in Physics, Digital and High Frequency Electronics,Industrial Automation, Pneumatics, Machine Vision technologies and precision Mechanics. Initial 5 years as R&D ElectronicDesigner. Since 20 years a passion for Teamwork and Customer satisfaction, living in 120 Packaging Plants, 163 Packaging Lines the daily challenge of Machinery’s Installation, Startup, Commissioning, Service and Training. Six-Sigma Black Belt, trained and accustomed to let Packaging Production Lines valued up to 100 million $, reach in the shortest time their Contractual performances. Italian citizen and national.

Multiple-Skills

· AutomatedQualityControlofFMCGproductsintheFoodandBeveragePackagingLines

· Machine-VisionandElectronicinspection

· High Frequency,Infra Red,UV,X-raysandGamma-raysautomated quality controlsintheFMCG Food and BeveragePackagingLines

· HighFrequencyElectronics and Telecommunications

· Industrial Machinery Automation (Omron, Siemens, Allen-Bradley and Telemecanique platforms)

· Installation,startupandcommissioning

· RootCauseAnalysis,appliedtoFMCG PackagingMachineryinefﬁciencies

· ProblemSolving,appliedtoFMCGPackagingMachineryinefﬁciencies

· Product Safety, related to sensitive products (Food, Beverage & Pharma)

· On-siteAudits

· Overhauls

· In-house trainings

· Sparepartlistings

· Site management

· Project management

· Communication skills, both written and verbal in English, Spanish, French, Portuguese, Italian

· Proficiency in all areas of Microsoft Office, including Access, Excel, Word and PowerPoint

· MS Windows, Mac-OS X and Linux operating systems

· High level languages (i.e., Visual Basic, C, Visual C++, etc.)

Employment History

Engineer, Graphene Ltd, Porto, Portugal

(May 2012 – Present, 3 years)

Achievements and responsibilities:

· European Union Patent 011799186

· Research activities regarding the application of graphene-based nanotechnologies detectors in the FMCG Food, Beverage and Pharma

· Installation, startup, commissioning, root cause analysis of electronic inspection equipments

· Developed a system extended in multiple chained Shifting-Registers (Filler, Capper, Conveyors, Electronic Inspectors) reducing to < 1/30 millions False Negatives’ occurrencies (actually contaminated dangerous containers, not rejected), presently applied to hundredths of fast (> 52000 containers-per-hour, 1.6 m/s) Sensitive Products Packaging Lines in Europe and Asia

· Authored and coded the network of Cloud-based Company websites http://www.graphene-lda.com

R&D Consultant, Nestle’ Waters R&D (Product Technology Centre), Vittel, France

(May 2011 – January 2013, 2 years)

Authored R&D monographic textbooks, presently part of the NESTLE’ worldwide Intranet, consulted by Technical Managers, Procurement Dept. Managers, Production Managers and Maintenance Managers because detailing the:

· Physical & operative principles forallexisting modelsand brands of Electronics in the World

· MinimumRequirementsthesemachines and equipments have tosatisfy

· Acceptance Testmethodologies, part of the Bottling Line Acceptance Test.

Field Engineer (Subcontractor), Sidel/Tetra Laval Group, Parma, Italy

(February 2009 – April 2012, 3 years)

Achievements and responsibilities:

· Installation, startup, commissioning, service and staff training: 428 Electronic Inspection equipments in 39 Countries, 120 Packaging Plants, 163 Packaging Lines

· RootCauseAnalysisProblemSolving Expert (Sidel Champion)

· Site Management, for teams up to 5 technicians

· Design consultant of the Technical Department

· Design consultant of the Procurement Department

Field Engineer, Sidel/Tetra Laval Group, Parma, Italy

(May 1994 – January 2009, 15 years)

Achievements and responsibilities:

· Installation, startup, commissioning, service and staff training

· Commissioned 428 Electronic Inspection equipments in 39 Countries, 120 Packaging Plants, 163 Packaging Lines . Complex equipments mainly German-made, integrating up to 120 CPUs and 8 CMOS cameras

· RootCauseAnalysisProblemSolving Expert (Sidel Champion)

· Site Management, for teams up to 5 Field Service Technicians

· Design advisor of the Technical Department

· Design advisor of the Procurement Department

· Reached the highest existing employed role (6th level)

Electronic Designer, Cortese SpA, Bologna, Italy

(January 1990 – April 1994, 4 years)

Achievements and responsibilities:

· Electronics’ResearchDevelopmentforthe automations (Omron and Allen-Bradley)controlling thePackaging Machinery adopted by Textile Companies (over 120 Packaging Lines Projects).

· Pioneering design (February 1990) of touch-screen logo-driven Human-Machine-Interfaces

· Project Management for tens of Packaging Lines valued ~ half-a-million euro each

· Artificial Vision applications to automatise the Quality Control of products (Omron)

· Design and system integration of Track-and-Trace systems adopting barcode readers (Datalogic)

· Design and system integration of industrial Labelling systems (TEC Toshiba, Markem Imaje, Zebra)

Missile Electro Mechanical Specialist, Italian Navy, Libeccio Frigate, Italy

(October 1984 – April 1986, 18 months)

Achievements and responsibilities:

· NATO security clearance

· Command of the naval weapons systems: AA missiles, AS missiles, 127/54 gun, 40/70 Bofors, Electronic War rockets, etc.

· 23000 nautical miles, spent constantly engaged in Cold War driven NATO exercises and missions

· Seargent, assistant to the Secretary (Secret Services) of the Commander

Education

University “Alma Mater Studiorum” AD 1088, Bologna, Italy

(November 1986 – November 1989)

Astrophysics, not terminated

Aero-naval Military School, Taranto, Italy

(September 1983 – August 1984, 3 months)

Certification of Missile Electro Mechanical Expert (Naval Weapons’ Control systems), at the onset of the 18 months Military Service

Post-High School ENAIP, Genoa, Italy

(September 1983 – August 1984, 1 year, 14th consecutive year of Schools)

Certification of Expert in Digital Electronics and Industrial Automation

HighSchool “GalileoGalilei”, Genoa,Italy

(October 1977 – June 1983, 5 years, 13th consecutive year of Schools)

Telecommunications and Electronics

Other 52 Courses

1. OMRON SYSMAC PLC AUTOMATION (2 months, Porto, Portugal)

2. OMRON Sysmac C200H-RT002-P (2 days, by OMRON, Italy)

3. OMRON touch-screen HMI interf. programming (1 day, by OMRON, Italy)

4. ROOT CAUSE ANALYSIS & CRITICAL THINKING (10 days, HBC Consul, London, UK)

5. SIEMENS Step 5 programming, basic lev. (4 days, by SIDEL, Italy)

6. SIEMEN Step 6 programming, basic level (by SIEMENS, 4 days)

7. SIEMENS Simatic + ET200 hardware (1 days, by SIEMENS, Italy)

8. ALLEN-BRADLEY PLC, basic level (3 days, by ALLEN-BRADLEY, Italy)

9. TELEMECANIQUE PLC, basic level (3 days, by TELEMECANIQUE, Italy)

10. BOTTLE CONVEYORS' AUTOMATION, advanced (6 days, in SIDEL, Italy)

11. INLINER with PROCON GL controller, advanced level (2 days, in SIDEL, Italy)

12. STARBLEND MIXER, basic level (2 days, in SIDEL, Italy)

13. ALFA ROLLQUATTRO, Labeling machines (2 days, in ALFA, Italy)

14. ALFA TOPBRAIN, Labeling machines (1 day, in ALFA, Italy)

15. PAMA PASTEURIZER machine, SASIB Verona (1 day, in SASIB Verona, Italy)

16. MANZINI COMACO SEAMER (2 days, in COMACO, Italy)

17. FANUC ROBOT (5 days, by FANUC, Italy)

18. STARVISION AS, Rotary Empty Bottle Inspector, advanced level (28 days, in SASIB, Italy)

19. HEUFT EBI, Empty Bottle Inspector (5 days, in HEUFT, Germany)

20. HEUFT VX, Full Bottle Inspector, basic (3 days, in HEUFT, Germany)

21. HEUFT SX, Sorter, Full+Empty Bottle sorting (2 days, in HEUFT, Germany)

22. HEUFT Linear, (Empty Bottle Inspector), advanced level (5 days, in HEUFT, Germany)

23. HEUFT InLine, (Empty Bottle Inspector), advanced level (5 days, in HEUFT, Germany)

24. HEUFT EBI (legacy-Empty Bottle Inspector), advanced level (2 days, in HEUFT, Germany)

25. HEUFT VX, Full Bottle Inspector, advanced (3 days, in HEUFT, Germany)

26. HEUFT FinalView, Final Contain. Check, adv. (3 days, in HEUFT, Germany)

27. HEUFT LGX, Returned Crate Insp., advanced (2 days, in HEUFT, Germany)

28. HEUFT VGX, Full Case Inspection, advanced level (3 days, in HEUFT, Germany)

29. HEUFT basic, Full Containers Check, adanced level (1 day, in HEUFT, Germany)

30. HEUFT synchron, Conveyors Control, basic level (1 day, in HEUFT, Germany)

31. HEUFT Local Area Network, advanced level (2 days, in HEUFT, Germany)

32. HEUFT SQUEEZER, Leak Check, advanced level (1 day, in HEUFT, Germany)

33. HEUFT DELTA-K REJECTOR, advanced level (1 day, in HEUFT, Germany)

34. HEUFT DELTA-FW REJECTOR, advanced level (1 day, in HEUFT)

35. HEUFT XY REJECTOR, basic level (in HEUFT, Germany)

36. HEUFT FLIP-X REJECTOR, advanced level (in HEUFT, Germany)

37. PRESSCO BNS, PET Empty Bottle Inspector, advanced level (in SIDEL Octeville, France)

38. STRATEC COMPACT LINE-X, X-ray Fill Level & Cap Insp. (2 days, in STRATEC, Germany)

39. STRATEC COMPACT LINE-O, Laser Fill Level & Cap presence Inspector (1 day, in STRATEC Germany)

40. STRATEC FEM, Filler & Labeller Monitoring, advanced level (2 days, in STRATEC, Germany)

41. STRATEC E, Labeller Monit. & Fill level Inspection, advanced level (1 day, in STRATEC, Germany)

42. STRATEC EM, Labeller monitoring, advanced level (1 day, in STRATEC, Germany)

43. STRATEC VK-X, A-ray full carte & full case inspect. (2 days in STRATEC, Germany)

44. STRATEC IMAGE, Retuned Crates Inspector, Camera-equipped (2 days, in STRATEC, Germany)

45. STRATEC (CENTRO) SINUS SORTER REJECTOR (1 day, in STRATEC, Germany)

46. FT-SYSTEM CP600 WEIGHCHECKER (1 day, in FT-SYSTEM, Italy)

47. FT-SYSTEM CL600-RX, X-Ray Full Bottle & Label Inspector (2005, 1 day, in FT-SYSTEM, Italy)

48. ZEBRA TECHNOLOGIES, Industrial Barcode & Label printer (1 day, by Zebra, Italy)

49. TOSHIBA TEC B-SX4, Industrial Barcode label printer, advanced (2 days, by TOSHIBA TEC, Italy)

50. MARKEM IMAJE Industrial Ink Jet printer, basic lev. (1 day, in Cortese, Italy)

51. CAD Pro/ENGINEER 2D, rel. 8.0 (5 days, in Cortese, Italy)

52. IBM, HighLevelLanguages, Operating Systems and Hardware (30 days, in IBM Genoa, Italy)

References

Tens of references (Company emails, phone numbers, etc.) by Plant Managers, Technical Dept. Managers, Production Managers, Maintenance Managers and Electronics R&D Designers) are available upon request

Publications in peer-reviewed Academic Journals

· 3 publications, Harvard University CfA, Cambridge, Mass., USA, orbits’ computational studies

· 3 citations, Harvard University CfA, Cambridge, Mass., USA

Patent

· 011799186, endorsed by the European Union’s Office for the Harmonization of the Internal Market (OHMI)

Some of the Countries where I operated

· USA
· Germany
· Mexico
· Sweden
· Danmark
· France
· Spain
· Portugal
· Russian Federation
· China
· Thailand
· Italy / · United Kingdom
· The Netherlands
· China
· Brazil
· Argentina
· Venezuela
· Paraguay
· South Africa
· Mozambique
· Angola
· Tanzania
· Algeria / · South Africa
· India
· Romania
· Austria
· Azerbaijian
· Mayotte
· Slovakia
· Croatia
· Serbia
· Mali
· Oman
· Iran

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