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Darmstadt, He, De

Darmstadt, He, De

Darmstadt, Hesse, Germany

- Strategy and Planning: formulation of vision and strategy in Mission Planning and definition of a planaccordingly- Delivery and Team: responsible for deliveries within Mission Planning, supervision activities, monitoring of projects and resource planning

Darmstadt, Germany

Service Line Manager for a Exostaff/Rhea/HE/LSE consortium:- Report on new tasks, efforts and performances within the team- Identification of internal and external synergies to the teamSystems Engineer for the Ground Segments of EPS-SG and Jason-CS, following the ECCS:- Technical analysis of requirements and tradeoffs- Requirements management in DOORS- Extensive working experience with system engineering methodology from the Critical Design Review (CDR) until today… Show more Service Line Manager for a Exostaff/Rhea/HE/LSE consortium:- Report on new tasks, efforts and performances within the team- Identification of internal and external synergies to the teamSystems Engineer for the Ground Segments of EPS-SG and Jason-CS, following the ECCS:- Technical analysis of requirements and tradeoffs- Requirements management in DOORS- Extensive working experience with system engineering methodology from the Critical Design Review (CDR) until today, contributing to datapacks and documentation: functional analysis, test readiness, system verification, ICDs, RIDs management, definition of operations and operational procedures, technical notes, etc- Modelling in CORE. Support to modelling in Enterprise Architect- Requirements traceability up and down in different levels of the V-cycle, and sidewards to test cases. Traceability to components.- Definition and follow up of system, integration and test campaigns.- Detailed design and maintenance in CORE, including functional analysis, interfaces, generation of documents.- Contribution and review of datapacks, particularly RDs, ICDs and VCDs- Development of scripts in Unix/Linux and Python Show less

Darmstadt Area, Germany

Software development and maintenance:- Extensive usage of Java, Python, XML, SQL DBs- Conversion of data to NetCDF- Definition of tests in QFTests for validation campaign- Support to the Metop C Validation and Verifciation campaign- Analysis of STK (Systems Tool Kit, old Satellites Tool Kit) for supporting the operators at UMARF

Darmstadt, Germany

Flight Dynamics - Earth Observation (European Space Agency - ESA/ESOC)Responsibilities in AEOLUS at ESOC:- Identification of Flight Dynamics needs during design phase and implementation of SW based on requirements.- Support to SVT-1- Development of SW in Fortran and Python. Preparation of unitary tests in ART in Python- Implementation of SW requirements, based on requirements from FD and industry

Darmstadt, Germany

Flight Dynamics - Earth Observation (European Space Agency - ESA/ESOC)Extensive working experience in AOCS team during Flight Dynamics operations, development of SW, system tests, etc.Responsibilities in Galileo (2009-2017):- Attitude, monitoring and telecommand operations during IOV1 and IOV2 in CNES (Toulouse, France), and all FOCs (from L3 to current L8) in ESOC- SW development (Fortran) in coordination with CNES for LEOP. Fuel consumption and attitude prediction.-… Show more Flight Dynamics - Earth Observation (European Space Agency - ESA/ESOC)Extensive working experience in AOCS team during Flight Dynamics operations, development of SW, system tests, etc.Responsibilities in Galileo (2009-2017):- Attitude, monitoring and telecommand operations during IOV1 and IOV2 in CNES (Toulouse, France), and all FOCs (from L3 to current L8) in ESOC- SW development (Fortran) in coordination with CNES for LEOP. Fuel consumption and attitude prediction.- XML preparation, creation of XSL/XSLT templates, EIFIS database- Legacy SW tailoring for TM processing. Tailoring to CNES needs (IOV1 and IOV2).Responsibilities in MSG-METEOSAT (2011-2012 and 2014-2015):- Attitude, monitoring and telecommand operations for LEOPs of MSG3 (2012) and MSG4 (2015)- SW development (Fortran). Legacy SW update, including processing of TM (SODA server), attitude determination, manoeuvre computation, fuel consumption and mass properties, station coverage, etc- Generation of mission report after LEOP, describing successful results and lessons-learned, covering from after-launch separation to EUMETSAT transferResponsibilities in CLUSTER (2010-today):- Attitude and monitoring routine operations- Analysis of attitude, star mapper settings and computation of attitude manoeuvres- Preparation of TPFs for manoeuvres and star mapper settings Show less

Friedrichshafen And Immenstaad, Germany

Contractor from Capital International, Friedrichshafen - Immenstaad (Germany)Systems engineer in map on-board project for planes and helicopters:- Management support to strategic objectives in Systems Engineering department- Definition of tasks in engineering for development of software- Coordination of activities at software and design teams to ensure fulfillment of customer requirements- Activity plans and project estimations- Preparation of system design… Show more Contractor from Capital International, Friedrichshafen - Immenstaad (Germany)Systems engineer in map on-board project for planes and helicopters:- Management support to strategic objectives in Systems Engineering department- Definition of tasks in engineering for development of software- Coordination of activities at software and design teams to ensure fulfillment of customer requirements- Activity plans and project estimations- Preparation of system design specifications in DOORS- System architecture design and definition. Control requests management. Identification and definition of testing-verification-validation procedures. Requirements traceability up and down to different levels of the V-cycle in DOORS. Show less

Tres Cantos, Madrid, Spanien

Project manager in ALDEBARAN, a software tool for analysis and simulation of launchers.Coordination of sub-contractors and internal departments in GMV, S.A.

Portsmouth, United Kingdom

Contractor from GMV S.A.System Engineer in EADS (Airbus) – contractor from GMV S.A., Portsmouth (United Kingdom)Systems engineering for the design of the Ground Control Segment of GALILEO, currently in operation in Oberpfaffenhofen (Germany)- Support to definition and consolidation of requirements, ensuring compatibility and designing interfaces between Ground Control Segment elements provided by different companies and contractors. Follow up fulfillment of requirements… Show more Contractor from GMV S.A.System Engineer in EADS (Airbus) – contractor from GMV S.A., Portsmouth (United Kingdom)Systems engineering for the design of the Ground Control Segment of GALILEO, currently in operation in Oberpfaffenhofen (Germany)- Support to definition and consolidation of requirements, ensuring compatibility and designing interfaces between Ground Control Segment elements provided by different companies and contractors. Follow up fulfillment of requirements, generation of documents, quality assurance procedures, etc- Requirements analysis and flow-down in Rational DOORS. System design and interfaces (ICDs, GCS internal and external, networks, protocols, etc). Functional analysis and operations. - Design of the data structures in XML for information interchange between Ground Control Segment elements- Responsible for design of relations and interfaces between GCS elements, functional chains, timelines and procedures, under Enterprise Architect using UML , ensuring compliance to system requirements- Extensive working experience with system engineering methodology from the Critical Design Review (CDR) until today, contributing to datapacks and documentation: functional analysis, test readiness, system verification, ICDs, RAMS, RIDs management, definition of operations and operational procedures, technical notes, etc- Keeping track of changes in the Enterprise Architect model (mostly using software tool Subversion) according to Galileo quality assurance standards (taylored from ECSS) and procedures, in coordination with relevant quality officers from Galileo Industries and ESTEC Show less

Tres Cantos, Madrid, Spain

- Responsible for development of software (Fortran, Matlab, C++), project support, testing,requirement management. Interface with other companies- Matlab expert (2003-2005): Liaison with providers and customers for Matlab issues. Support toMatlab, Simulink, Stateflow technical and management issues in Flight Engineering Business Unitprojects, including, between others, proposals and feasibility testing in Mission Analysis projects.Support to Matlab implementation, according… Show more - Responsible for development of software (Fortran, Matlab, C++), project support, testing,requirement management. Interface with other companies- Matlab expert (2003-2005): Liaison with providers and customers for Matlab issues. Support toMatlab, Simulink, Stateflow technical and management issues in Flight Engineering Business Unitprojects, including, between others, proposals and feasibility testing in Mission Analysis projects.Support to Matlab implementation, according to internal GMV policy. Training of GMV staff inMatlab. Design and tutoring of Matlab courses. Development of GUIMAN, set of Matlab tools tocreate Graphical User Interfaces- Test cases definition and documentation for simulator tool in ATV. TCL/TK GUI development(2004-2005)- Prototype (GRASGPP) and final product (GRASPPF) for meteorological computation fromranging data (2003-2004). ECSS standard. SW development and algorithms for exploitation of datafrom sensors, using C++ and Matlab compiled routines. Test cases evaluation for GRASPPF- Mission Analysis tools (ORION and ORBIMAT) for simulation and orbital calculations (2003). Testcases evaluation and algorithms in C. Installation program in Visual C++ with encryption features- FFDEM (2001-2005): Formation Flying simulators for ESA/ESTEC (FAMOS and FAMOS2).Responsible for proposal for ESA. Internal article for GMV on Control and Mission Analysis. ECSSstandard for small projects. Test Cases definition. Development of algorithms for simulation ofFormation Flying missions, including orbital manoeuvres, fine LQG control and rendezvous.Matlab-Simulink-Stateflow with embedded Fortran and C code. Design of socket between STK(Satellite Tool Kit) and Matlab for graphical representation Show less

Master’S Degree, Industrial Engineering, Automatics And Electronics

- Electronics and automatics specialization area - Multiple engineering areas were covered during these studies: computer science.

Masters'​ Thesis, Vibration Of A Robotic Beam In Space Environment

Activities and Societies: Price awarded for merits as Spanish representative in the International Students Party in October 2000. Masters'.

Doctor Of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Automatics And Systems Engineering, Applied To Artificial Intelligence And Machine Learning

Phd's thesis: "Application of Intelligent Algorithms to Aerospace Problems" Phd's thesis on Artificial Intelligence Applied.