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New Chairman

Raffaella Mandarano (Engineer), Managing Director and legal representative of Proteo SpA, a company specialised in the design of software and automation systems for water networks, is the new Chairman of the  Etna Hitech consortium.

The Board of Directors appointed her in a meeting on 13 March 2009.

 

Curriculum Vitae

She was born in Catania on 14 May 1961 and graduated in hydraulic engineering in April 1987 at Catania University with the highest possible grades. She qualified to practice in the engineering profession in May of the same year, enrolling in the Order of Engineers of Catania.

She held numerous trainee appointments during the time she was at University and afterwards, the most important of which was in the USA at the Colorado State University in Fort Collins, the Polytechnic Institute of New York and the Environmental Protection Agency in California in September 1984.

She completed a trainee appointment at IBM’s European Research and Development Centre in Rome in 1987.

She participated in numerous management courses held by ISVOR FIAT, Business International, Junior Benchmarking Club, Total Quality Management IBM.

She has been the Chairman of the Etna Hitech consortium since March 2009.

She has been the Managing Director of Proxima S.r.l. since May 1997.

She has been General Manager of the Catania Ricerche (Catania Research) Consortium, a company with private and public  shareholders that has been working in the field of technological transfer between research entities and companies, since February 2007.

She has been a member of the committee for the development of female entrepreneurs of the Catania chamber of commerce since April  2008.

She has been Managing Director of PROTEO S.p.A. since October 1995, mainly involved in the coordination of the company’s research and development activities. She has managed design and works management for numerous automation and control systems, as well as software development for the management of water, environmental monitoring and waste water treatment plants, also using standard and ad-hoc application software produced by Proteo.

The following is a list of the main projects financed by European Union funds, on a domestic and international level, that she was involved in as Coordinator and Scientific Manager:

  • A project for the pre-competitive development and industrialisation of the competitive call PIA Networking 2005 for Etna Hitech, called DEDALO - Semantic WEB;
  • A project for the pre-competitive development and industrialisation of the competitive call POR 3.14 2005, called GAS STONE, for the supply control of fuel supply systems, for which PROTEO was the group leader;
  • A project for the pre-competitive development and industrialisation of the competitive call POR 3.14 2005, called HAZARDOUS, for the control of Flush Flood in urban environments, for which PROTEO was the group leader;
  • A project for the pre-competitive development and industrialisation of the competitive call POR 3.14 2005 remote detection of counter batteries and related services;
  • European project for cooperative research CRAFT 2003, called MOBICOSSUM (Mobile Computer Software System for Utilities Management), for which Proteo was group leader; she coordinated six European companies and two research centres: Catania University and IFAK Magdeburgo;
  • A project for the pre-competitive development and industrialisation managed by MAP (PIA Ministerial Decree dated 5.08.03), called SUSHI PLAT- middleware platform for supply control;
  • An industrial research project (in accordance with Law 297 of the MIUR Ministerial Decree dated 31.12.2003), called PECOSS (Pervasive Computing Software System);
  • An innovation and industrialisation project in accordance with Law 488, Ministerial Decree dated February 2003, for the development of supervision and control software;
  • An industrial research project, “488 research” operations (Ministerial Decree n. 629 dated 23.10.98) S145-P “Advanced models for the control and management of fluid networks using genetic programming techniques”; this collaboration involved both project management and the development of purely scientific aspects. (Proteo’s research laboratory is registered in the MURST roll);
  • Technological innovation project (PROTEO-IMI) for the development of integrated software for the modelling and management of fluids networks; from November 1996 to July 1998;
  • She has coordinated and sustained partner companies for the presentation and preparation of numerous research and development projects;
  • From November 1989 to September 1996 she was a member of the Board of directors of PROTEO, managing the Systems and Automation department; she was involved in the management of “turn-key” contracts and orders for supervision and control systems, and networks for the transmission of data relative to water systems, as well as automation systems for treatment plants. She was also involved in design and works management for numerous automation and control systems, and the development of software for the management of water systems, environmental monitoring, irrigation plants and waste water treatment plants.