José María Súnico

* I am an experienced R&D Projects Manager with more than 15 years experience managing research and innovation in different environments (Industrial, Defense and Space). I have large experience managing change in R&D departments of technological companies through creating synergies among company assets, external research centers, manufacturers and distributors. I have also large experience managing a convenient technology transference and HR development with improved skills and aptitude to achieve desired goals.
* I am an experienced strategy consultant and advisor for the introduction of new technologies in order to achieve strategic business plans.
* I am currently interested in the fields of ubiquitous computing, ambient intelligence, business processes driven emergent applications and uniform service provision layers for different vertical markets: defense, space, automotive, health, inmotics-domotics, gaming, vending, security and industrial automation among others.

José María Súnico’s Specialties:

* Technology management.
* Change management.
* Technology intelligence & scouting.
* Research & Innovation management.
* Intellectual Property management.

José María Súnico’s Experience

Consultant

CognoLink Limited

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Research industry)

November 2007 — Present (1 year 1 month)

* CognoLink is an industry-focused network of executives, physicians, scientists, engineers, attorneys, market researchers and other professionals from around the world. Members of CognoLink are compensated for consulting with global business and investment leaders on topics within their area of expertise. Council Members provide their industry-specific insights through telephone consultations, educational events and written products.
* In my case, I am focused in:
- New technologies.
- Information technologies and services.
- Technological companies/market/strategies in Spain.
- Spanish technological companies/market/strategies
Research Projects Officer

Recreativos Franco

(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Gambling & Casinos industry)

December 2002 — Present (6 years)

* Functions.-
- New Technologies Advisor for the Board of Directors.
- Technology Intelligence and Scouting.
- Responsible for the research and innovation actions inside the R&D department. I am in charge of the proposal, specification and design of new development infrastructures and new architectures for gaming machines.
- Responsible for the technology transference and training processes to develop our R&D engineers skills and capabilities.
- Responsible for the birth and maintenance of a solid research group through the creation of tie relationships with research groups of well known reputation and research departments of our main suppliers. When I started working here there was no real research activities. Today the budget I am in charge for exceeds 350,000.00 € and I have achieved tax deduction of the full budget through Spanish Government actions.
Consultant

Gerson Lehrman Group Council of Advisors

(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Research industry)

August 2002 — Present (6 years 4 months)

* The Gerson Lehrman Group Councils are industry-focused networks of executives, physicians, scientists, engineers, attorneys, market researchers and other professionals from around the world. Members of the GLG Councils are compensated for consulting with global business and investment leaders on topics within their area of expertise. Council Members provide their industry-specific insights through telephone consultations, educational events and written products.
* In my case, I am focused in:
- New technologies.
- Information technologies and services.
- Technological companies/market/strategies in Spain.
- Spanish technological companies/market/strategies.
Hardware Chief Officer

Minorplanet Systems

(Public Company; 51-200 employees; Automotive industry)

December 2001 — November 2002 (1 year)

* Functions.-
- Management and R&D duties in the Embedded Systems Development Section in the Development and New Products (DNP) Department. My goals were leading the developing activities for autonomous embedded systems for the automotive market providing status and location information via heterogeneous communications technologies (GSM / GPRS / AMPS / CDMA / TDMA / Bluetooth / DECT / ISM-RF) using positioning systems GPS/GSM from a HW-SW co-design perspective.
- New technologies advisor for the board of directors.
Team Account Manager / Project Manager

LSI - IEL - ETSIT - UPM

(Educational Institution; 11-50 employees; Research industry)

July 1998 — November 2001 (3 years 5 months)

* Functions.-
- Team account manager and responsible for a 7 senior engineers plus 7 to 14 last-year students workgroup where we developed telemetry systems prototypes and proof of concepts for different clients (Vodafone, Redes Levante, Cobega and Zanussi among others).

* Research @ ETSIT - UPM.-
- AIM Esprit action @ IEL (2001): "Provide an open interface which eases the provision of services over 2,5G and 3G mobile networks to mobile customers in an international roaming environment".

* Teaching assistance @ ETSIT - UPM.-
- Assistant in the subject “Electronic Systems Laboratory”

* Patents.-
- Joint Author of the Patent number 2157818 (1999): Modular System to develop Telemetry and Telecommand Applications based on GSM Communications (property of Vodafone).

* Publications.-
- Main author of the article “Industrial integration of B2B-B2C systems based on mobile communications” published by Rogelio Segovia Foundation Magazine (#7, October 2001).
Owner

CyberDrago

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)

June 1994 — June 1997 (3 years 1 month)

* Functions.-
- Analysis, development and integration of thermal and electronic simulation tools for UNIX/Linux platforms.

* Trademarks.-
- Joint author of Linux Omega ®, a spanish distribution of the Linux Operating system.
R&D Engineer

SENER

(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Defense & Space industry)

December 1990 — May 1994 (3 years 6 months)

* Functions.-
- Development of a printed circuit board (PCB/SMD) integral design methodology for European Space Agency (ESA) projects.
- PCB/SMD prototype systems development and the corresponding thermal and electronic reliability tests (FMECAs). These prototypes are a part of the complete electronic system used by communication satellites and spatial buoys (SOHO and UBM) for ESA COLUMBUS project.
- Assistance in the development of a computer simulation framework used to simulate the European Fighter Aircraft (EFA) engine.