Sara Arbós, Ph.D, Mba Email & Phone Number

Les Preses, Girona, Es

Les Preses, Girona, Es

- Developed 2 long term strategic business plans and provided out of the box ideas while developing them. - Actively participated in developing the company's long and short term strategic planning and design of its future goals. 100+ short and long meetings both in the UK and Catalunya.- Continuous financial analysis, economic review and management. Achieving and increase of the gross income by 60 % and the net benefit by 40%. - Partaken in continuous reviews of company's technical and financial performance, 4 major per year and 20+ minor.- Developed new procedures to achieve higher efficiency, 20+.- Actively involved in creating business plans from a technical, commercial and economic approaches.

Les Preses, Girona, Es

Chief Operating Officer. In change of digitalising an 80+ staff engineering and workshop plants specialising in providing engineering and construction solutions for bespoke architectural projects. Dealing with budgets of +14M€ and simultaneously supervising the adequate flow of 9-10 projects.

Les Preses, Girona, Es

- Managed and coordinated 3 companies to successfully attain a Horizon2020 grant and follow to develop a new cutting edge product while keeping the Horizon 2020 grant standards and goals.- Served as head of R&D for the design and development of the university-industry partnership stabilising two key collaborations with Universitat Politectnica de Catalunya i Universitat de Vic- Performed data analysis and provided recommendations to achieve .- Created assembly and layout drawings using AutoCAD 2007 and SolidWorks 2005 technology.- Created design layouts and part drawings using orthographic 3rd angle projection.- Conducted preliminary research studies which led to the development of a horizon2020 program.

Guildford, Surrey, Gb

- Leader of the propulsion sub-system. Managing a group of over 20 people to attain the design and construction of the 1st geostationary telecommunications satellite built by the company.- Communicating with all the satellite sub-systems. Ensuring a smooth information flow for the perfect assembly of all the sub-systems- Designing strategy to attain satellite built in record time. 8 months. - Problem solving, collaborative thinking, economic managing, team leading.- Visible Interface with the major space companies/agencies , Airbus France, EutelSat and ESA.

Guildford, Surrey, Gb

- Played key role in the design and build of a monopropellant satellite propulsion system delivering the system in record time (8 months) while keeping it in budget. (Fastest satellite ever built by the company).- Team work strategies implemented in high pressure environment. (working 150+h weeks to deliver results)- Performed heat transfer, thermodynamics and fluid mechanics simulations as well as highly technical calculations for the first ever built bipropellant geosynchronous satellite by the company. High complexity level with no prior expertise. - Developed 10+ test strategies including the design and verification of instrument level diagnostics and acceptance criteria.- Coordinated with vendors, sales reps and subcontractors for aid in project completion. - Dealt with 4 major subcontractor managing and supervising their work both in-site and off site. - Reverse engineered hardware to facilitate documentation 3 different projects.- Performed detailed calculations to establish manufacturing, construction, and installation standards and specifications, maintaining 100% accuracy rate.

Paris, Fr

Title: Experimental Investigations on low-frequency modes inside a separated jet nozzle at over expanded conditions. - Lead team of 5 to achieve the project goals. - Monthly presentations to the senior management at CNES.- Successfully developed 2 cutting edge supersonic flow visualisation techniques.- Quarterly progress report deliverable, written report and presentation, to senior management in both French and English. - Communicated my research to the academic world by presenting in 2 french national conferences and 2 local institution seminars. - Operated and the comunication link between the funding institution (CNES) and the hosting laboratory (ENSMA) developing strategies to satisfy both institutions needs while obeying to their internal policies. - Dealt with highly security sensitive data. - Teach Master students compressible flow laboratories. 30+ students 1st/2nd year aerospace engineering.(in French)- Teach problem solving fluid dynamics to 30+ students. 1st year civil engineering.(in French). - Teach fluid dynamics laboratoris to 20+ students. 1st year energy engineering. (in French).- Performed data analysis with self-developed codes to provided relevant guidelines to achieve more efficient rocket nozzles.- Design of the set-up and choice of required sub-systems to be able to gather experimental data on a supersonic wind tunnel. - Construction and design of the codes used to both acquire and process the experimental data. - Software used: MATLAB, labVIEW, Fortran. - Analysis and physical interpretation of the Results obtained.- Development and implementation of a new Particle Image Velocimetry technique.

Vic, Barcelona, Es

- Established 2 deals between private industry and the university to achieve joint research and education synergies in 2 different sectors, construction and aerospace. - Design 2 full new course syllabuses- Lecturer in Computer Assisted Design. Using Parametric Creo 2.0. (30+ students aged 18 to 40)- Lecturing 1st and 3rd year Mecratronic Engineering Students. (10+ students aged 20-25).- Provided the university with suitable candidates for other teaching positions. 1 candidate still working there. - Efficiently Implemented Creo Parametric 3 different degrees and 4 years per degree.(efficient use of 360 people)

Barcelona, Es

Lecturer of Aeroplane and Helicopter design. 4th year Aeronautical Engineering Students.- Taught 80+ 4th year Meng students in English. - Design entire syllabus form scratch. - Developing new inter-department synergies to be able to attain new research programs.

London, Gb

Thesis Title: Aeromechanical Performance of Compliant Aerofoils. - Synthesise my research findings into academic literature in the form of 2 papers in major journals. - Communicated my research to the academic world by presenting in to 2 major conferences in the field. AIAA and APS. - Won 1 major award for excellence in aerospace research (Amelia Earhart). Solely selected amongst all the winners to present my research in front of a world-wide audience of over 2000 people.- Designed, developed and constructed a full new testing system, both hardware and software. - Utilised simultaneously 4 different experimental technique.(PIV, Hot-wire annemonetry, high speed imaging and strain gauge measurements). Designed the required acquisition and post-processing codes. - Managed 3 intern summer students and 2 final year projects. - Re-design and teach a laboratory course for 1st year Aeronautical students. Included theory lectures to the full year.

Executive Mba

Program For Managment Development (Pmd) Munich-Barcelona-Ny, Business Administration And Management, General

Doctor Of Philosophy (Phd), Aerospace, Aeronautical And Astronautical Engineering

M. Eng Aeronautics, Engineering