Oscar L. Martin Email & Phone Number

Birmingham, West Midlands, Gb

Led audit and transformation impacting over 8,000 employees at 22 sites GKN ($12B company) acquired in America through multiple strategic M&As. Transformed them from a set of diverse, outdated cultures and structures to a single lean, flexible, digital, efficient, and proud organization able to face the new industrial context.• Enabled net profit increase of 20% in only 18 months, reduced 15% the employee turnover and increased the Net Promoter Score (NPS) by 32% to a positive value due to a dramatic increase in customer satisfaction.• Implemented Zero Defects framework, reducing external quality issues to zero and internal quality issues by 95%.

Pinebluff, North Carolina, Us

- Leading Product Design, Manufacturing Engineering and IT teams.- Using Zero Defect Engineering and Lean techniques, revamped manufacturing sites reducing manufacturing costs by 38%, increasing production by 300%, and reducing WIP 64%.- I reduced concept-to-market time by 50% using DFx concepts.- Stablished new design program for electronic activated parachute systems with rocket extractor for UAS/UAV and manned aviation to customers such as Airbus, Lockheed Martin, NASA, General Atomics, Aurora Flight Sciences, Cessna and Amazon among others. - Led ERP migration to the cloud, to Oracle NetSuite and server virtualization. - Introduced BI dashboard providing accurate automated financial and operations controlling.

Barcelona, España, Es

- Promoted to General Manager of MES Systems, the subsidiary acquired from EATON Corp., to propagate the AKO values and policies into the new subsidiary.- The result was a perfect merge into AKO group. Implemented a joint structure, resulting in a reduction of 8% in operating cost.

Barcelona, España, Es

- Led the Program Management Office managing contracts for the Engineering, Procurement, Construction, Installation and Commissioning of smart process control systems for power plants.- Implemented new project management structure, removing late deliveries in only one month.- My management style resulted in increasing efficiency 150%, and a yearly 6% reduction of operating costs.

- I was early contacted by one of the investors to join the team and build the initial start-up structure to develop the patents regarding the advanced Freenox jet engine. - My initial proposal was to address the three main needs: funding, marketing and development. - Led an application process to successfully receive $1.5 M government grant. - Freenox Engine was included in the Official Technology Roadmap of IATA. - Defined the EASA/FAA engine certification plan of the Freenox Engine and subcontract structures in Germany and China were identified for the demonstrator development program.

Barcelona, Barcelona, Es

- System architect of Digital Signage embedded systems from FPGA (VHDL), PCB (Altium), mechanical, power and optical components to finished product.- I managed firmware, driver (C, C++) and software design (C++, Java) as Scrum Master.- Led the design of the low cost CPU controller and VCSEL IC & micro lens array for the laser optical module, replacing multiple SMD LEDs by a single VCSEL die.- Overviewed the optical, mechanical (SolidWorks), thermal and EMI labs.

Barcelona, Barcelona, Es

- I successfully merged engineering structures after the acquisition of MP Electronics- I reduced costs by identifying and outsourcing electronics mass production to China.- Managed the programs with DOT regarding the ground traffic control and messaging systems.

- Led the requirements, design, development, integration and qualification of two embedded communication subsystems for the Galileo GNSS spacecrafts for the European Space Agency (ESA) 1. the C-band Mission Receiver and 2. the Search & Rescue Transponder.- Leading a team composed by a Technical Manager, QA Manager and cross-functional teams, I was able to bring the triple constraint metrics for every program within control limits, thanks to an accurate budget and controlled risks, P&L and schedule.- The successful In-Orbit Validation (IOV) phase resulted in the award of the Full Operational Capability (FOC) phase contract for the full European satellite constellation.

Pinebluff, North Carolina, Us

- The implemented PMO structure was able to certify products under FAA / EASA aviation regulations.- It opened new markets increasing sales by 14%.- I introduced Lean Mfg. methods resulting in 40% cost reduction of the Tactical Systems- Successfully commissioned Eurofighter parachute system and MU90 Torpedo stabilizer.

Pinebluff, North Carolina, Us

- As Business Process Engineer I prepared the European partner organization to be fully AS/EN9100 and NATO AQAP2110 compliant, defining new processes and business structures. - That leveraged my promotion to create and lead the new Engineering Project Management Office.

Houston, Texas, Us

- Used my experience and knowledge in hardware design (PCB, FPGA, high speed electronics), OS (Linux, Windows, Novell), software apps and thermal and mechanical integration to trace the integration issues detected by the test teams, providing the fix to address them.- We were able to design the first American smartphone, the venerable iPAQ Pocket PC phone, Thin Clients, Point of Sale terminals and datacenters composed by more than 10K blade computers. - Helped to provide error free custom systems to Ford, Walmart and some national administrations.

Designed hardware devices for medical applications, including Digital Analog design, FPGA, PCB design and prototyping. IEC/UL 60950-1 and IEC/UL 61010-1 certification.

Executive Mba

Msee, Electrical Engineering