Gerardo Lecuona Email & Phone Number

Ticino, Switzerland

Reporting to the CEODeveloping from scratch and maintaining long term the partner network all over the world. Provide the technical and commercial expertise expected by the critical power protection community. Responsible for the market introduction and expansion of the 4th Generation of fault-tolerant 3phase modular UPS-systems. • P&L responsibility• Responsible for growing the company’s business• Identifying new opportunities for growth and continued financial success• Focusing on building value on company products.• Reinforcing the organization's mission, vision, goals and strategic objectives.• Developing long-term and short-term strategic goals, organizational structure, direction, and human resource management.• Maximize the Company’s technology and commercial value through internal R&D• Drive key product development work streams to enable the company to commercialize differentiated and competitive products for critical power protection.• Build and manage trusted partner relationships to ensure successful product launch and sales growth.• Communicate with cross functional teams to promote new product development programs, marketing campaigns, operational efficiencies, strategic planning processes and any other overall business initiatives or improvements.

Quartino - Switzerland

Reporting to the Global R&D and Business Development Manager.I’m responsible for the departments of:• R&D, • Engineering, • Quality and • Connectivity-Programming annual budget for the technology organization-Planning resources and timing to achieve time to market deadlines. -Organizing the four departments to achieve business goals.-Designing and implementing business processes within the technology organization to guaranty on time and on quality results.-Keep IP KPIs on target-Designing and implementing business processes from the technology organization to guaranty a good cross functional interaction.-High crossfunctional interaction with Supply Chain department, Production department, After Sales department and Product Marketing department.

Ticino, Switzerland

Reporting to the R&D Technology Director, I had the responsibility of a multidisciplinary team formed by:•Thermo-mechanical Engineers•Power Electronics Engineers•Embedded software engineer•Prototyping assembly •Project managers•Electronics Technicians Creating teams with this multidisciplinary skills to develop new UPSs products.To maintain on budget, on time on quality projects development.Maintaining the good working atmosphere to achieve business goals.Implementing a platform design mindset to save time and costs on product maintenance life cycle.Following manufacturing engineering documentation and activities for full production

Ticino, Switzerland

Developing and managing project schedules, analyzing critical paths and keeping track of the day-to- day achievements. Informing stakeholders.Keeping contact with vendors and serving as an interface between vendors and technical team. Working with teams of mechanical engineers, software developers, power electronics engineers, firmware development to identify project risks and maintain the on-time, on-budget projects.Organizing update project meetings with sales, operations, product management and R&D to keep all stakeholders informed. As R&D Project Engineer, directly involved with Hardware, firmware,design.

Ticino, Switzerland

Hardware and firmware development for Critical Power Infrastructure products (Uninterruptible Power Supplies)Programming in C language for embedded processors, VHDL for FPGs Connectivity protocols, I2t, SPI, RS485, ETH, ModBus, CANFailure Root cause analysis to identify any intrinsic problems in the product design. Designing, programming, debugging, testing and documenting new product futures

Ticino, Switzerland

• As part of the development team I was directly in contact with the redesign of a new wireless embedded application that involved Analog and Digital electronics. • Schematic and PCB design • Analog Sensors Signal conditioning.• Directly development of the firmware for the low power MSP430 microcontroller family (in C). • The project involved the CC1100 Chipcon transceiver.

Guadalajara Area, Mexico

www.doner-systems.comDigital Automotive systems• As a co-founder of the company I was in contact directly with the customer in order to translate the ideas and needs into systems (products). I had the opportunity to follow all the process of the systems design from the concept idea to the final prototype, to the production. To understand the economics and monetization of the products designed.To think in the marketing of them.• Support to the sales department.• Firmware programming in assembly for 8 and 16 bit microcontrollers. • I used in most of the products, SPI, I2C, RS-232, NMEA protocols.• I worked with GPS technology in a tracking system for the automotive market. • I worked with an RF OEM spread spectrum technology integrating it into a system. • I took part in the migration code from assembly to C, in order to reuse and save time in the development process.• Collaborated in the PCB design for the products. • Still owns 33% of shares

Guadalajara Area, Mexico

• I participated in the design of a platform for a product series in order to reuse the firmware in assembly and improve the time to market for the next products. • I worked together with the industrial designers and marketing departments to meet all the requirements of the customer. • Design of the PCB circuits to reduce noise and save some components using the PCB design properties. • I worked with CAN, SPI, I2C and Rs-232 protocols • Development of firmware for 8 and 16 bit microcontrollers in assembly most of it, and C a minor part. • Support to the sales department

Master Of Business Administration (Mba), Business, Management, Marketing, And Related Support Services

Master Of Science (M.Sc.), Embedded Systems Design

Bachelor'S Degree, Electrical And Electronics Engineering