Job experiences

Pagit di Geninatti Paolo

Period: 2007-present

Role: freelancer

Sector: Products development for industrial automation, home automation, automotive, IT and telecommunications fields; embedded Linux; project management

Activities:

• Technical manager of Embedded division for a company that offers design and consultancy services on electronic/IT fields, with main activities into automotive and monitoring systems: project management, team management, design and implementation of hw/fw solutions for customers and internal projects.

  Applied skills: project management, customer relationship, technical/economical proposals, feasibility studies, hw/fw/sw design, monitoring systems for renewable energy production plants, automotive, linux BSP and application sw

• BSP development for embedded Linux systems based on ARM or Intel architectures: first and second stage bootloaders (u-boot, optimized bootloaders for specific applications), communication drivers (PCIe, USB, Ethernet, WiFi, Bluetooth, CAN, SD/MMC, SPI, I2C, UART) and media drivers (audio, video output/capture) for different application processors (i.MX6, i.MX8, R-Car, Omap, Broadcom, Atom, Broxton, ...). Implementation and maintenance of integrated software distributions based on Yocto, application software development (C++, python, php)

  Applied skills: u-boot, linux driver, realtime, embedded architectures, i.MX6, i.MX8, Broadcom, R-Car, TI, Atom, Broxton, Yocto, git, gerrit

• Project management and development/maintenance/testing activities for a complete linux BSP for an STM I/O processor used on an infotainment automotive platform: platform driver, UART, SPI, I2C, ALSA SoC sound, V4L video input and FM/DAB radio tuners, Ethernet, USB ohci/ehci, USB OTG, DMA, MLB, CAN, MFD, GPIO, SD/MMC
  

  Applied skills: linux driver development, real-time, embedded architectures, PCIe and AMBA bus, team management, project management, git, Testlink

• “Turn-key” hardware and firmware development for products and systems for applications into security, electronic payments, industrial control, home automation, consumer goods
  

  Applied skills: hardware/firmware development for boards with ARM-Cortex CPU and analog/digital electronic circuits, hw design, fw design, PCB design, feasibility studies

• TUV Italy advice for verification and validation of PCBs on an electronic product for railway application

  Applied skills: PCB (clearance e creepage) and electronic components insulation criteria verification according to EN50124 and EN60664 standards, fault-tolerance verification, type tests setup

• Product development for automobile diagnosis: hardware, firmware and software development

  Applied skills: hardware development (analog circuits, Freescale Coldfire microcontrollers, Li-Ion battery charger), firmware development (C), software development (C++, C#, CE 6.0), PCB design, automotive communication protocols (ODB-II, CAN, K-line, KWP2000, J1281, ISO9141, TP2.0)

• Project Management for a company that operates in the development and commercialization of instrumentation for plastic materials testing: management and coordination of all electronic projects (hw/fw).

  Applied skills: project management, hardware development (analog, FPGA, HCS12, 683xx, AVR, DSP), firmware development (Assembler, C), software development (C, C#, .NET, CE 5.0/6.0), PCB design, industrial automation (DC/AC/step motor controls, PID, temperature/force/pressure sensors, encoders), LabView, Matlab/Simulink

• Product development for security systems: hardware/firmware development of GSM dialer, small central alarm system with wired and wireless sensors and built-in GSM dialer, infrared volumetric sensor, mixed infrared/microwave volumetric sensor, wireless infrared volumetric sensor.

  Applied skills: project management, hardware development (analog, AVR), firmware development (C), PCB design, GSM/GPRS, wireless 434MHz, volumetric pyroelectric and microwave anti-intrusion sensors

• PCB design

  Applied skills: PCB design

• Cooperation to OpenSource OpenERP development, with activities on Italian localizations (language and accounting modules adaptation according to Italian laws and accounting standards.

  Applied skills: Python, RML, Java, Postgres, MySql, server management (Linux Debian), ERP, general and analytic accounting

Urmet TLC S.p.A.

Period: 1999-2007

Field: Telecommunications (development, production and marketing of devices and systems in the areas of auxiliary systems and network value-added services, private telephone terminals, payphones and multimedia systems)

Role: Staff role employed by the General Manager for the coordination of the Reseach and Development systems division (1999-2001)
Technical Director for the Research and Development area for user terminals (2001-2007)

Main designs:

• Service for sending SMS over the fixed telephone network
• Small and medium sized PABXs (analog, ISDN and VoIP)
• ‰Second-generation IP-based videophone for fixed telephone network (produced on more than 1,300,000 samples)
• ‰"Combined" videophone, able to operate on both traditional telephone network and on "broadband" (xDSL)

Applied skills: Project management, hardware design (analogic, ARM, PXA270, Freescale SH3), firmware design (C), software design (Linux embedded, C, C++), video-telephony over IP (SIP, H.263, H.264, AMR, RTP, SMNP), PSTN and ISDN telephony, ADSL

Audiotel Engineering Srl

Period: 2002-2006

Field: Telecommunications (development, production and marketing of devices and systems in the areas of wireless voice and data transmission (GSM, DECT)

Role: Board member

Appel Elettronica Srl in Orbassano (TO)

Period: 1991-1999

Field: Telecommunications (development, production and marketing of devices and systems, primarily in the management of telephone value added services)

Role: Hardware/Firmware designed
Research and Development Area Manager and Product Manager

Main designs:

• Interactive multi-flow announcement system (4 PCM streams @ 2 Mbit/s) with shared phonic group and CAS, multifrequency and CCS#7 signalling
• Telephone conversations recording system based on personal computer interface board with analog and PCM inputs
• "Service Node" platform to deal with all sorts of special service telephone, able to handle up to 32 PCM streams @ 2Mbit/s, with service creation environment
• Dialing box with ISDN/BRA interface for routing the originated phone traffic to fixed networks or GSM mobile networks with LCR algoritm

Applied skills: Project management, hardware design (analogic, 68000, V25, PCM, DSP), firmware deign (assembler, DSP, C), software design (QNX, C), PCM, ISDN

AET Telecommunications S.p.A. of Turin

Period: 1982-1991

Field: Telecommunications (development, production and marketing of devices and systems, mainly for data transmission)

Role: Hardware / Firmware engineer (Telephony and Data Transmission divisions)

Main designs:

• PBX intercom system for RAI (main Italian TV broadcast provider) technical services
• Telephone amplification device based on "negative impedance" principle
• Mixer for video signals and video graphics applications
• Monitoring tool for digital PCM streams @ 2Mbit/s (with implementation of an integrated custom gate-array)

Applied skills: Hardware design (analogic, digital, ASIC, 68000 CPU), firmware design (assembler, C), PCM, baseband video circuits