Stefano Scala

Experience

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  University of Sannio

  Jan 1994 - Jan 1996

  On Contract Professor of "Flight control systems"

  On contract Professor of the module "Flight control systems", in "Automatic Control" course at Università del Sannio in Benevento, Italy

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  Centro Italiano Ricerche Aerospaziali

  Dec 1994 - May 2000

  Researcher in the Flight Mechanics and Control Department

  - Development of methodologies for analysis and synthesis of control systems - Modelling, analysis and control of aerospace control systems Main projects: 04/99-05/00 Chairman of Action Group GARTEUR FM(AG11) - NEAT, NEw Analysis Techniques for Clearance of Flight Control Laws for certification of flight control laws04/99-05/00 Action Group GARTEUR FM(AG12) - PIO, Pilot-in-the-Loop Oscillations Analysis and Test Techniques for their Prevention - Responsible of the European Handbook on PIO. - Algorithms for on-board detection and prevention of PIO. 01/98-05/00 ADFCS, Affordable Digital Flight Control System for a Small Civil Aircraft (SCA). EU project. - Development of FQ-MET, a Flying Qualities MATLAB Evaluation Toolbox - Physical modelling of SCA - Flight control laws 04/98-07/98 FESTIP, Future European Space Transportation system International Program, ESA project - Configuration analysis: controllability and stability analysis and optimization of reentry trajectories.04/97-12/99 SAS-CNR, CNR project - Automatic guidance algorithms for helycopters. 01/97-12/99 Working Group AGARD WG23 on Flight Control Systems - Algorithms for detection of Pilot Induced Oscillations (instability in the pilot-aircraft flight control loop).01/95-12/97 FBW-YAK130 Fly-By-Wire YAK-130 (Aermacchi , Yakovlev) on digital flight control system development. 12/94-04/97 Action Group GARTEUR FM(AG08) Robust Flight Control in a Computational Aircraft Control Engineering Environment- Robust flight control laws for the Design Challenge HIRM - Robust Flight Control Literature Survey DataBase, accessible via Internet. 12/94-12/96 ASANCA II - Active Sound and Noise Control in Aircraft, phase II. EU project. - Robust control for vibration reduction in turboprop aircraft Show less

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  Elasis

  May 2000 - Dec 2010

  - Responsible for development of simulation models of components of vehicle and algorithms for various vehicle control systems: engine, gear-box, ABS/ESP, suspensions, steering, transmission, body electronics, Agricultural tractors and machines, Construction Equipments machines. - Responsible for development of Model Based Engineering and Auto Code Generation of controller SW for several CNH Agricultural applications. Competences: - Development of simulation models of vehicle and subsystems for Software In the Loop and Hardware In the Loop environments - Design, test and optimization of control diagnosis and recovery algorims for various vehicle control systems and their integration - Development of methods, techniques and SW tools for robust design and sensitivity analysis of electronically controlled vehicle systems performance. - Model Based Engineering and Automatic Code Generation of vehicle control Software. Show less Responsible of development of simulation models of components of vehicle and algorithms for various vehicle control systems: engine, gear-box, ABS/ESP, suspensions, steering, transmission, body electronics Competences: - Development of simulation models of vehicle and subsystems for SIL and HIL environments - Design, test and optimization of control diagnosis and recovery algorims for various vehicle control systems and their integration - Development of methods, techniques and SW tools for robust design and sensitivity analysis of electronically controlled vehicle systems performance Show less

  • Electric and Electronic Systems & Integration - Modelling & Simulation Manager

    May 2007 - Dec 2010

  • Responsible Embedded Systems Analysis and Design in Control Systems and Electronic Integration Dept

    May 2000 - May 2007
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  Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II

  Jan 2004 - Jan 2015

  On contract Professor of "Vehicle Control Systems"

  On contract Professor of the course "Vehicle Control Systems", from the 1st to the 10th editions of the Post Lauream Master UninAUTO, on Automotive Engineering.

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  FCA Fiat Chrysler Automobiles

  Jan 2011 - Dec 2021

  Technical Responsible Electronic Architecture & Integration at Pomigliano Technical Center;Responsible of FCA EMEA Software Factory for Instrument Panel Cluster. In house application software development with AUTOSAR architecture and model based software engineering process.Responsible for Systems Engineering and Software Factory activities at Pomigliano site.Sep2018-Mar2020, FCA Area Product Owner for Simulation, Reprocessing and Data Management in L3 Autonomous Drive Thunder Project for an Highway Pilot system, jointly developed with BMW. Development of software applications for closed loop simulation and validation of trajectory planning and control software, open loop reprocessing and validation of sensor fusion and perception software, and management and analysis of data from road tests and simulations.Apr2011-Mar2014 Project Responsible of Public funded Research Project IESWECAN "Informatics for Embedded SoftWare Engineering of Construction and Agricultural machiNes", on improvement of Model Based Software Engineering process. Show less

  • Global Manager of Infotainment Software Department

    Mar 2020 - Dec 2021

  • R&D - Product Development - Electronic Architecture & Integration Technical Responsible

    Jan 2011 - Mar 2020
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  Università degli Studi di Salerno

  Jan 2020 - Jan 2021

  On contract Professor of "Advanced embedded software"

  On contract Professor of the course "Advanced embedded software" at Università degli Studi diSalerno.

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  Stellantis

  Jan 2022 - now

  As SPL of Ducato platform I am responsible of the functional and software configuration management, by:- guaranteeing the consistency of the SW evolutions of the modules/organs/components contributing to the SW platform of all the vehicles in the program​- arbitrating the modifications to be applied​- coordinating the functional and software validation of the configurations​- animating the convergence of software defects with prioritization of resources and associated means​- implementing and managing the KPIs of the SW platform- ccordinating the contributing professionals to reach the program targets Show less

  • Software Platform Lead

    Sept 2023 - now

  • Head of Software Department in Engineering - South Europe Technical Center

    Jan 2022 - Aug 2023