Sergio Gerosa
Author

Sergio GEROSA GEROSA is an Aeronautical Engineer working since more than fifteen years in Thales Alenia Space, the largest European aerospace industry. Head of Commercial Telecommunication Programs (in Italy) between 2002 and 2006, he has then been appointed as Director Product Competitiveness. He has a large experience in the implementation of state of the art project management techniques, in particular of EVM and Risk Management methodologies. He is a member of Project Management Institute (PMI) since 1998, and Associate Member of the Board of the PMI Rome Italy Chapter. He is member of the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Engineering Management & Economics (Inderscience Publishers). Sergio teaches Project Management in three Masters of Science organized by Italian Universities (University of Rome “La Sapienza” and University of Rome “Tor Vergata”), as well as at the Thales University for the Passport to Program Management and Introduction to Contract Management courses. He is author of the several papers on project management ("The Project of a Lifetime ", IPMA World Congress 2008; "The Tower of Babel: When Communicating Becomes a Nightmare ", PMI EMEA 2008; "A Design to Cost Methodology to Manage Complex Product Development in the Space Industry", PMI EMEA 2007; "Using Knowledge Elicitation Techniques in the Risk Assessment of Space Projects", PMI EMEA 2006; "Project Financing and Risk Management: a new challenge for program management in the space industry of the third millennium", PMI Europe 2001 and published as Cover Story on “Project & Profits”; "Earned Value Management: How to avoid the 90% complete syndrome" IPMA 2002; "Methods and applications of Risk Management in space programs" & "Earned Value Management techniques for engineering and prototype production activities", PMI 1999 Annual Symposium). Sergio can be contacted at Sergio.Gerosa@thalesaleniaspace.com.