Reda Fornera's Curriculum Vitae'

Full Name: Reda Fornera Age: 33 Gender: Male Nationality: Swiss Civil Status: Married

Seeking a challenging and rewarding position where I can contribute my skills and experience to a dynamic and results-oriented team, enabling me to enhance my professional growth while contributing to the company's continued success.

Skills

Quick learner
Independent
Open minded
Adaptable
Reliable
Disciplined
Responsible
Sociable

Education

2013 - 2015 HES-SO in Engineering Master of Science Embedded System

2010 - 2013 Ecole d’ingénieurs et d’architectures Fribourg Bachelor of Science Electronic engineer

2005 - 2009 Scuola d’Arti e Mestieri di Bellinzona Federal Certificate of Capacity Automation

2005 - 2009 Scuola d’Arti e Mestieri di Bellinzona Maturity Certificate

Experience

04.2022 - Now

Medical Device Engineer Software (Project Manager) Sequana Medical NV Zurich ZH

Project Lead on two software application written in C# .NET Acting as the only SME for Software within the company Kanban, code review, stand up meetings, planning of tasks and setting priorities of backlog tasks Creation and review of overall software and documentation for PMA submission (FDA) for an implantable class 3 device Project planning and reporting using the V-Model and coordination with other departments Creating and managing Change Requests Requirement and Specification documentation release/update (URS/FS/SDS) for Firmware and Software Projects Creating and managing test plans and verification activities Supporting Quality and Regulatory departments for documentation and audits Maintaining and update of test systems and supporting V&V on OQ/IQ/PQ documentation Performing interviews and supporting HR for recruitment Collaboration with Manufacturing on Work Instructions update/review

05.2021 - 03.2022

Embedded Software Engineer Juice Technology AG Bachenbulach ZH

Admin role of AWS account for RBAC (Cognito) and validation/debugging (CloudWatch)Feasibility study and coordination with external contractors for new features Coordination and planning (SCRUM ceremonies) with external contractors Develop and maintain of gitlab instance as admin (CI / CD included)Develop new features in freeRTOS and ESP-IDF for SAMD and ESP32 written in C Coordinate, develop and perform system tests, emc tests and quality assurance

12.2020 - 05.2021

Software Engineer / Drone Developer (Fixed-term employment) Rheinmetall Air Defense Oerlikon ZH

Technical lead of a team of 5 people Train and provide guidance on best practices for SW development Manage and coordinate code review sessions Maintain offline Gitlab instance as Admin Set up and maintain Proxmox Servers with LXC Containers Maintain and develop Python applications for Drones using ROS2 and Docker Maintain and develop Computer Vision applications written in Python and/or C++Develop application using C++ BOOST::ASIO and QML

09.2019 - 11.2020

Software Engineer IniVation AG Oerlikon ZH

Participate in SCRUM ceremonies (stand up, retrospectives, sprint planning, sprint review)Manage Gitlab CI/CD pipelines for different releases Manage and write CI/CD tests using unittest in Python Create and manage a MySQL instance in AWS Develop and maintain the DV-Software Runtime written in C++Add new Modules written in C++ (with OpenCV2) for new features Implement or Upgrade existing Modules to the final release Analyse modules performance (SNR, profiling)Add new features to the GUI written in JavaFX

09.2016 - 01.2019

Component Engineer Schindler Elettronica SA Locarno TI

Deputy team chef of a team of 5 people Shop Floor management up to level 3 Manage contact with suppliers for outof standard solution Develop of custom solutions (mechanical, electronic, software) to provide non-standard product based on customer needs Standardisation and improvement of the development process with Shell Script

04.2016 - 08.2016

Software Engineer (Fixed-term employment) Laboratorio Cultura Visiva Trevano TI

Development of Web App for Android and IOS (backend) in Python with Django Develop of instruments for managing PostgreSQL Database in Python and JSON data management Develop of Web pages in HTML

11.2015- 02.2016

Embedded Software Engineer Fleury SA Biel BE - Balerna TI

Development and implementation of new features for CNC machines in Assembler Debugging current CNC software Customer service by phone and on site for CNC software changes Help on the creation of new proposal

08.2015 - 08.2015

Electronic Engineer (Fixed-term employment)IRSOL Istituto di Ricerche Solari Orselina TI

Study and implementation of the Boot phase of a SoC (ARM-FPGA) board with a custom Linux OS build Choice and implementation of a Toolchain for the future development in C

02.2010 - 08.2010

Electrician Ospedale Regionale di Locarno La Carità Locarno TI

Help the technical service department Substitution or repair of defected objects

Languages

Italian Mother tongue

English C1 level in the European scale

French B2 level in the European scale

Spanish B2 level in the European scale

German A2 level in the European scale

Knowledge

Software and OS

Windows
Mac OS X
Ubuntu
Debian
Raspbian
Proxmox
FreeRTOS

Software and Tools

Matlab-Simulink
Wolfram Mathematica
LTspice
AutoCAD
Inventor
SVN
SAP
GIT
Docker
ROS2
CMake
LXC
CI/CD
AWS
NodeJS
NGINX
Microsoft Office
Visio
Microsoft Project Plan
MarkDown

Programming Languages

C
C++
java
python
assembler
VHDL
Lab-View
System Verilog
uniprog
SQL
R
JavaScript
HTML
CSS
SASS

Framework

Express
EJS
Django
.NET

Hardware

PIC Microcontroller
ARM Microprocessor
FPGA (Altera, Xilinx)
Intel
CNC
SAMD
ESP32
ATmega
Arduino

Normatives and ISO

ISO/IEC 14443 A
ANSI/AAMI/IEC 62304:2006
ANSI/AAMI/ISO 13485:2003
FDA-2021-D-1158

Projects

2009Maturity Projects SAMB: Monitoring of Heat Pump operations

Develop of Human Machine Interface (HMI) and software in LabView for the monitoring and statistical data collection of Heat Pump status, ignition, shutdown, temp ON, temp OFF

2013Bachelor’s Project: TrafficTracking

Develop of an algorithm using MatLab for video tracking of peoples with the possibility to count the peoples that cross an imaginary line

2015Master’s Project: TM2015 NFC Protocol for SmartCubes

Develop an electronic circuit and VHDL architecture for FPGA for the implementation of the ISO/IEC 14443 A communications protocol with the future purpose to implement this architecture in an integrated circuit for various uses

2024RaryTempo.com: Technology blog populated with AI content

This static webpage was created using the Hexo blog framework. The blog was customized starting from a public template. The blog is hosted on a DigitalOcean droplet using the NGINX server. The NGINX configuration was customized to prevent DDoS attacks by limiting connections and rates per user. The blog is also TLS compliant using Let's Encrypt with automatic periodic renewal.

2024RedaFornera.com: Curriculum website

The website is a simple static website created from scratch without using any frameworks. The layout is made with Tailwind CSS, a utility-first CSS framework, and vanilla CSS, which is plain CSS without any libraries or frameworks. The website is hosted using the NGINX server on a DigitalOcean droplet.

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