Ramon Castella Email & Phone Number

Luxembourg

Leading embedded software design and development for lunar exploration rovers.

Several Locations

AVIO - Colleferro (Italy)• Development of VEGA-C PIL & HWIL simulators for avionics Verification and Validation activities.- Real-Time Hardware platforms assembly and integration (OPAL-RT).- Development of VEGA-C avionics simulation models (Matlab/Simulink).CENTRE SPATIAL GUYANAIS - Kourou (French Guiana)• Commissioning of the ARIANE 5 and VEGA Telemetry Acquisition and Processing system.• Maintenance of Telemetry, Tracking, Meteorology, Communications and On-Flight Safety systems for ARIANE, VEGA & SOYUZ launchers.• Assistant to the Head of the Operational Systems Maintenance Service for the management of the activities.CENTRE NATIONAL D'ETUDES SPATIALES - Toulouse (France) & Kourou (French Guyana)• Contribution to the Assembly, Integration and Verification of the Support Service systems at the Soyuz launch facilities, including: - Interface specification between the Support Service Control system and all subscribed services. - User interface definition for the Support Service Control system operation and maintenance. - Support to the AIV Responsible during all test and verification phases.GTD’S HEADQUARTERS - Barcelona (Spain)• Technical management, including, requirements definition, architectural/detailed design, verification/validation and commissioning of the following projects:- Telemetry acquisition and processing system of the ARIANE 5 and VEGA launchers for the Guyana Space Center (CSG).- On-Board Software Configuration Tools of the ARIANE 5 and VEGA launchers for EADS-Astrium..- VEGA launch control bench for the Guyana Space Center (CSG).• Contribution to writing several commercial offers for space related projects.VITROCISET - Rome (Italy)• Leader of the GTD’s real-time systems consulting group detached in VITROCISET. GTD provided technical support for the design and development of the Electric Ground Support Equipment of the VEGA launcher for the European Space Agency. The group was composed of three engineers.

Kourou - Guyana Space Center

• Head of the Operational Systems Maintenance Service composed of seven engineers. The main responsibilities were to manage all the activities related to maintenance of Telemetry, Tracking, Meteorology, Communications and On-Flight Safety systems for ARIANE 4 & 5 launchers, reporting to the respective Technical Leaders.• Engineer in charge of the maintenance of Telemetry systems for ARIANE 4 & 5 launchers. The main responsibilities consisted in system failure analysis and correction, improvement of system functionalities and participation to reviews and validation of new systems.

Barcelona Area, Spain

Engineer in charge of the software product line for Electrical Networks Supervision & Control. The main responsibilities were to maintain and improve the applications and provide technical support to customers.

Barcelona Area, Spain

• Analysis and programming of several computer vision systems for quality control and production process inspection (pill packaging supervision, checking of chip placement on intelligent cards, particle detection in packed liquids, etc.).• Design and implementation of a programmable visual environment for computer vision system prototyping.

Barcelona Area, Spain

• Analysis and programming of several computer vision systems for quality control and production process inspection (inspection of printed circuit boards soldering, parts recognition for flexible manufacturing cells, stereoscopic vision system for a pipeline inspection vehicle, etc.).

Msc, Computer Engineering

Post-Graduate Courses, Perception And Control Systems Engineering

Diploma, Advanced Image Processing

Diploma, Hp-Ux System And Network Administration