LUGINI Claudio

GLOBAL VILLAGE CAMPUS 2009 – Selected among the best 100 Italian Engineers

Experience
• 2009, March ‐ present SUBCONTRACT PROCUREMENT MANAGER
Responsible for the procurement of some mechanical and electrical satellite equipments.
Main tasks: Make or Buy, scouting and audit of potential subcontractors, negotiation of contractual
and financial aspects, planning of main milestones and management of subcontractors’ activities in
order to achieve programmatic and financial company objectives in accordance to the technical unit requirements.
Acquired Skills: strong orientation towards goals, leadership and team working, autonomous,
working under pressure, enterprise, problem solving, time and risk management.
Inter-Consulting S.r.l. for Thales Alenia Space S.p.A.

• 2008 July ‐ 2009 March ENGINEER for VEGA Launcher liquid engine and for the propulsion system of the SmallGeo Satellite. Main tasks: propulsion design, equipment technical specifications, supplier relations
for propulsion equipments in accordance with purchasing office. ManPower S.p.A. for AVIO S.p.A.

• 2007, April - August NPS Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey CA USA; internship as visiting research associate.
Project: design of a Thrust System for Laboratory Spacecraft Simulators of Autonomous Docking.

• 2007, January - May Participation in “Le défi aérospatial étudiant”, a project of the “Astronaute Club Européen” (ACE)
to design the primary propulsion system of VSH (Véhicule hypersonique réutilisable aéroporté
Suborbital Habité), with SAFRAN, THALES, Dassault Aviation, GIFAS, IAF. Team work.

• 2005, May - September Thesis work on structural calculation: Structural Analysis of the Space Shuttle Wing.

• 2001, June - July CNR, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Acoustic Research Area. Internship on The study of a
Sensor of Acoustic Surface Waves made of a Substrate of Si/AlN. Team work.

Education
• 2009, February Esame di Stato: Italian Qualification to practice Engineering Profession in the Industrial field.

• 2008, April - May MBA: Master in Business Administration, DESIA, at SupAéro, Toulouse, France.

• 2006 - 2008 FRENCH DEGREE: Cycle Ingénieur in SupAéro Engineering, ISAE Institut Supérieur de
l’Aéronautique et de l’Espace, Toulouse, France.

• 2005 - 2008 ITALIAN DEGREE: Laurea Specialistica in Space Engineering at SAPIENZA Università di Roma, Italy.
Mark obtained: 109/110.

• 2002- 2005 Aerospace Engineering, three-year degree at SAPIENZA Università di Roma, 110 cum laude/110.

• 1997 - 2002 Scientific High School at Benedetto Croce School, Roma, Italy.

Publications C. Lugini, and M. Romano, “A Ballistic-Pendulum Test Stand to Characterize Small Cold-Gas Thruster
Nozzle”. Acta Astronautica

Language Skills Italian: Mother Tongue, English: Fluent, French: Fluent

Informatics Skills Environment: Windows, Linux, Unix.
Language: Fortran, Java, Matlab, Simulink.
Software: MS Office, Latex, SAP and other engineering software.

Divers Waterpolo and swimming coach, Lifeguard, Aikido, Second place in Maths Olympic Games 2000
Tutor for the Scientific High School freshmen, 2000-2002.
Mini - projects: SupAéro: Flight Test of the TB-20 Airplane
CNES: Analysis of the Cassini-Huygens mission
ONERA: Analysis of the Body-Shock distance during the ExoMars reentry
FOR ITALIAN LAW: “Ai sensi del D. Lgs. 196/2003, acconsento che la società tratti i miei dati sensibili e acconsento anche che siano eventualmente trasferiti a società terze che effettuano ricerche e selezione di personale”