Ivan Ferrante

– Definition and refining your innovation strategy – Structure and management of innovation projects portfolio – Integration of innovation into your organizational strategy – Exploration of new value-creation possibilities – Solution generation, validation and business case development – Co-creation and facilitation of workshops – Design thinking, Creative Problem Solving (CPS), Innovation sprints

– Team Management: Leading an R&D team of 8 people – Project Leadership: Steering complex development projects in fast-paced, cross-functional, and multidisciplinary environments – Product Development: Optimizing consumable devices in compliance with ISO13485 regulation – New Product Introduction (NPI): Guiding product development from design concept to verification testing – Life Cycle Management (LCM): Conducting failure investigations and implementing design changes – Design Transfer to Production: Link between R&D and manufacturing, collaborating with consultants and suppliers – Risk Management: Participating in FTA and FMEA as a Risk Management team member – Team Building: Successfully recruited and structured a talented, agile, and multitasking R&D team – Product Launch: Brought a consumable IVD device to market, producing over 10 million units – Innovation Initiatives: Facilitated ideation sessions, resulting in patented technological solutions – Continuous Improvement: Contributed to the ongoing enhancement of the R&D Engineering group

– Management of the Consumable R&D team – Development and optimisations of the microfluidic consumable device – Participation to supplier audits as technical expert – Following the design and the development of the new products and assembly lines – Design transfer to production – Risk analysis and part of the Risk Management team

– Development of new technological processes for LOC realization in the field of biology and medicine – Responsible of the micro-fabrication technological processes for Lab-On-Chip (LOC) – Management of microfab machining – Machines Training for users – Technology watch

System Integration Engineer - Emerging Specialties Automation R&D Group

– Project: Diagnostic instrument for diffuse cancer therapy monitoring connected with a ICT telemedicine platform – Partners: Telecom Italia S.p.a., While1 S.r.l., Istituto per la Ricerca contro il Cancro di Candiolo (IRCC) – Main responsabilities: – Design and development of a polymeric LoC for injection molding fabrication process – Design, development and realization of a diagnostic instrument for the automation of RNA extraction from blood and real-time quantitative PCR of cancer markers

– Project: Microcantilever-based biosensors for food contaminants (toxins, allergens, hormones and bacteria) – Partners: Ferrero S.p.A., Lavazza S.p.A., Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale di Torino (IZSTO) – Main responsibilities: – Design, development and realization of an automatic microcantilever biosensors characterization system and its control software for highthroughput analysis – Design, development and realization of an automatic microcantilever biosensors characterization system for in-line sampling analysis of food contaminants in the production chain – Lecturer of Physics Laboratory (01-02-2009 - 01-07-2010)

– Project: Lab on Chip (LoC) for technology for biomedical and agro-food diagnostics – Partners: Telecom Italia S.p.a., While1 S.r.l., Lamp S.r.l., Istituto per la Ricerca contro il Cancro di Candiolo (IRCC), University of Turin, Cattolica University of Piacenza – Main responsabilities: – Design, development and realization of a diagnostic instrument based on polymeric LabOnChips for DNA extraction and real-time quantitative PCR for pathogen bacteria identification – Design, development and realization of a diagnostic instrument based on polymeric LabOnChips for DNA extraction and real-time quantitative PCR for genetic analysis (rare diseases) and therapy monitoring (colon cancer)

– Lab on Chip (LoC) technology for genetic and agro-food analysis (@ Olivetti-IJet) – Partners: Fondazione Bruno Kessler (FBK) – Biodiversity S.p.A. – Cattolica University of Piacenza – University of Trieste – Main responsibilities: – Design, development and realization of a thermal-cycler for Si-based LabOnChips and its control software – Development of a fabrication process (with clean-room facilities) for the realization of polymeric LabOnChip – Design, development and realization of a thermal-cycler for polymeric LabOnChips and the control software for DNA extraction and genetic analysis (PCR reaction) and for pathogen bacteria analysis – Plasma Polymerised functionalised polymeric DNA-Microarray for diagnostics (@ POLITO) – Partner: Biodiversity S.p.A. – Main responsibilities: – Design, development and realization of spotting system for Plasma Polymerised polymeric DNA-Microarray slides, a hybridization station, an automatic washing system and a scanner for a complete diagnostic analysis with DNA-microarray – Microcantilever as an absolute pressure sensor (@ POLITO) – Partners: Varian S.p.A. – Main responsibilities: – Design, development and realization of a characterization system for the measurement of cantilevers frequency and its control software – Lab on Chip (LoC) technology for genomic analysis (@ POLITO) – Partners: Inpeco S.p.A., Asperbio, MicrolaOptoelectronics S.r.l., Biodiversity S.p.А. – Main responsibilities: – Design, development and realization of a thermal-controller and a liquid handling system for the automation of a genetic protocol implementation on a LoC coupled with a DNA-Microarray slide – Microcantilever-based sensors for biomedical analysis (@ POLITO) – Partners: Istituto per la Ricerca contro il Cancro di Candiolo (IRCC) – Development of a characterization system for the measurement of cantilevers frequency and its control software for cancer markers biosensing

Internship on Harvesting Energy for wireless sensors