R&D Manager. Senior Engineer
Santander Area, Spain
R&D Manager. Senior Engineer
Santander Area, Spain
Telecom MEng with wide professional backgound.
Back to Spain after living and working in south France for the last 10 years. Open minded and multicultural, speaking fluently three languages (Spanish, French and English).
Everything around telecommunications with deep focus in software architectures and R&D telecom topics.
(Privately Held; Telecommunications industry)
June 2009 — Present (6 months)
(Public Company; MOT; Telecommunications industry)
December 2007 — May 2009 (1 year 6 months)
Coordinating a team of 5 engineers owning the Telephony features for 2009 Symbian phones:
- Developing and/or porting the Telephony features at Systems and Application level (from AT interface level up to the UIQ phone applications). Leading the features integration, test plans definition and code releases.
- Coordinating defect triage, pre-analysis and correction participating to daily internal Change Control Boards and interfacing with different developing, integration and testing teams.
- Driving the outsourcing of some developments, defect correction and feature testing execution and integration with different 3rd parties associated with Motorola located in Russia, UK and Canada.
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; MOT; Telecommunications industry)
March 2006 — December 2007 (1 year 10 months)
Working as individual contributor in the internal Platform roadmap planning team:
- Owner of requirements consolidation for application, multimedia and middleware.
- Active contribution to the monthly Platform Board for future platforms approval.
- Platform Roadmaps elaboration for future years and external vendor benchmarking.
- Participation in all face to face deep-dive sessions with Carriers, IC vendors and Software 3rd parties.
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; MOT; Telecommunications industry)
January 2005 — March 2006 (1 year 3 months)
Management and coaching a System Performance team with 3 engineers:
- Creation of a Performance analysis tool suite for all Motorola Platforms.
- Performance Use Cases Testing Planning with active support to different projects covering all the required tests. Tests covered all the software components, with special focus on Modem engine (GSM, EDGE, GPRS, UMTS, HSxPA), Multimedia (Audio & Video performance), Connectivity (USB, Bluetooth) and OS/Memory management.
- Creation and development of the new Architecture team lab (used by >30 people).
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; MOT; Telecommunications industry)
January 2003 — January 2005 (2 years 1 month)
Participation on the new ARM11 based software architecture definition:
- Coordinating the work referring to Power Management, Boot up and Linux APIs while keeping a constant cooperation with other domains.
- Organization of internal workshops with USA teams to assess the architecture.
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; MOT; Telecommunications industry)
January 2001 — January 2003 (2 years 1 month)
New activity creation of performance measurement analysis and testing on Motorola products:
- Covering 2G/3G Engine, Multimedia libraries, Real time OS and applications.
- Tools conception and development on Perl and Java.
- New laboratory creation for the Performance/Architecture Team.
Performance benchmarking, testing and analysis on different Motorola platforms:
- Comparative benchmarks elaboration with different IC vendors involving laboratory work and trips to coordinate measurement and testing needs.
- Temporal relocation in USA to give support to solve performance issues on V products.
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; MOT; Telecommunications industry)
November 1999 — January 2001 (1 year 3 months)
L1/L2 GSM/GPRS/EDGE. L1 UNIX Simulator for EDGE. (ANSI C software used to validate all the L1/L2 code before going to System Test phase).
(Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing industry)
September 1999 — October 1999 (2 months)
Trainee in Warsaw (Poland) developping the web page for the laser engraving company SOLARIS LASER. The web page has been online till 2005.
MEng , Telecommunications, Computers, Networks and Radiocommunications , 1993 — 1999
Master in Networks and Radio Communications.
End of studies project: “Data storage system for a DVB MPEG-2 transport flux out of a TDT system”. Project qualification: 10 out of 10.
BEng , Telecommunications, Computers, Networks and Radiocommunications , 1993 — 1996
Internet, photography, music (DJing), cooking and travelling
Premio Innovación Dragados y Construcciones en la ETSIIT de la Universidad de Cantabria en 1996