Curriculum Vitae
Founder at Grespi Technology. I take drone and IoT products from discovery to delivery — hardware, firmware, and the business around them.
London, UK · British & Italian (EU) citizen
Available for consulting & freelance work
Experience
Mar 2025
– Present
– Present
Founder — Product & Delivery
Grespi Technology
- Generated £45k in consulting revenue with £50k committed and an active pipeline in development.
- Delivered a 40-page feasibility and technical assessment for a non-technical client — identifying risks, defining requirements, and shaping product-lifecycle planning.
- Led discovery across multiple client projects: stakeholder and user interviews, needs mapping, problem statements, Product and Technical Requirements Documents, and success metrics.
- Architected and built IoT cloud/dashboard infrastructure and devices from scratch for multiple IoT clients.
- Directed engineers building a med-tech hardware prototype and digital-twin simulation that unlocked investor interest and advanced the client to the next stage.
- Defined development plans, scoped MVPs, set KPIs, and aligned multi-disciplinary teams across hardware and firmware.
- Run business operations end to end: finances, procurement, invoicing, and go-to-market strategy.
Feb 2025
– Jun 2025
– Jun 2025
Robotics Engineer (Intern)
Stellar Advanced Concepts
- Conducted technology and requirements evaluation for a small bio-inspired uncrewed aerial system.
Jan 2021
– Jul 2021
– Jul 2021
Technical Program Manager (Intern)
Amazon Robotics
- Built a Tableau dashboard used by engineering, systems & product integration, programme managers, and fulfilment-centre operators — real-time visibility into product flow and bottlenecks across the warehouse network, from region level down to individual zones.
- Authored a whitepaper proposing a rapidly deployable short-term storage system, letting fulfilment centres scale capacity for demand peaks (Prime Day, Black Friday, Christmas) in days, not months.
- Led requirements analysis for internal project-management tooling: stakeholder interviews, user profiles, and requirements matrices to inform tool selection across distributed teams.
Jul 2020
– Aug 2021
– Aug 2021
Start-Up Accelerator — "Year in Enterprise"
Loughborough University
- Intensive business-development accelerator: business model canvas, financial planning, and market research.
- Completed business planning for an AI-powered Applicant Tracking System with end-to-end process automation.
- Led a team pitching a solar-powered drone venture to the Minerva Business Angel Network — highly commended for innovation, communication, and professionalism.
Volunteering
Jan 2026
– Feb 2026
– Feb 2026
Event Services Volunteer
Milan Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics
Jul 2021
– Jun 2022
– Jun 2022
Innovation / Product Officer
Loughborough Students' Union (LSU), Enterprise
- Proposed and established the Innovation Officer role — retained by subsequent committees — to support student founders on business and product decisions.
- Designed and hosted the "CS × Enterprise Talent Match" event, enabling teams to form and build early prototypes.
- One participating business went on to raise £70k, supported by the demo created following the event.
Education
MSc
Aerial Robotics
University of Bristol
Merit · Sep 2022 – Dec 2023
BEng
Robotics, Mechatronics & Control Engineering
Loughborough University
Second Class, Upper Division (2:1 Hons) · Oct 2018 – Jun 2022
Projects
Master's Dissertation — Long-Endurance Fixed-Wing Flight
A geospatial method for extending fixed-wing drone endurance by identifying regions with a high probability of atmospheric updrafts for energy scavenging.
Despatch
A systems-thinking project-management app, built for industries outside the tech-aligned space.
UniversityDB
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Pagett
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Capabilities
Product DeliveryDiscovery & ScopingCross-Functional LeadershipClient ManagementSystems Thinking & Engineering
Tools
SQLPythonSvelteKitCursor / Claude CodeHTML/CSS/TSWireframingDockerIoTSolidWorks
Languages
English — native
Italian — advanced
Spanish — intermediate
Russian — basic
French — basic