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Date Submitted: Last Modified: Current job: Employment Term: Job location: Date available: Industry: KeywordsEDUCATION DETAILS
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-Higher Diploma in Applied Science (Software Design & Development) |
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Sept 2003 June 2004 |
National -Final average qualification: 70% (Honours) |
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-Research & Development |
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Aug 2001 Jan 2002 |
Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering , -Duties: Power quality research engineer. Presentation of the final year thesis of my degree that I previously started at the Polytechnic University of Valencia.- Qualification 100% |
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Oct 2000 July 2001 |
Department of Electrical Engineering, Polytechnic -Duties: Power quality research engineer. Final Year Thesis of my masters degree: “Software and Hardware Environment for the Control of Power Electronic Circuits. Application to STATCOM “. |
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-Masters Degree in Industrial Electronics and Automation Engineering (2 years) |
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Sep 1998 July 2000 |
-Final average qualification: 70% (Honours) |
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-ERASMUS scholarship –Final year diploma thesis |
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Sep 1997 June 1998 |
Dublin Institute of Technology ( D.I.T. ), -Duties: Successful completion of examinations in several subjects. Final Year Thesis of my diploma: “Building Services Design Project “. -Average qualification of thesis and subjects: 90% |
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-Diploma in Electrical and Control Engineering (3 years) |
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Sep 1994 July 1997 |
-Final average qualification: 74% |
WORK EXPERIENCE
· ACRA CONTROL Ltd. , Landscape House,
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July 2004 ----------- Sept 2009 |
- Senior Applications Engineer. Responsibilities: Advanced technical support and problem troubleshooting for Flight Test Instrumentation (FTI) related products, pre-sales technical advice, generation of technical documentation, internal and external training, complex FTI systems final setup and testing as well as participating in design cycle of new software and hardware products. Check website: http://www.acracontrol.com/ |
· ACRA CONTROL Inc. ,
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Feb 2008 ----------- June 2008 |
- Senior Applications Engineer. Responsibilities: To provide technical expertise and training to junior engineers as well as remote technical support to flight test engineers all over the |
· CREATIVE LABS , Blanchardstown ,
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Feb. 2003 -- Sept. 2003 |
- Technical Support Specialist. Responsibilities: To provide advanced technical support to external and internal customers for a comprehensive range of electronic multimedia products, including all aspects of software, PC hardware and peripherals. |
· FORD
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Feb. 2002 -- Nov. 2002 |
- Automation engineer. Responsibilities: I was involved in the FORD B256 (Fiesta) and Mazda production project at FORD Spain. I was responsible for programming industrial robots, Allen Bradley Logix 5555 PLC’s and SCADA applications in different production lines. My duties also included management and training of Ford staff, daily production assistance, ensuring that the company’s programming standards and deadlines were continually met, and handling Ford enquiries and project modifications in a professional manner. |
· DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING,
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Aug. 2001 -- Jan 2002 |
- Power Quality research and development engineer. Responsibilities: I worked as Power Quality research engineer while finishing my final thesis. My duties included preparing reports, papers and projects proposals and also performing experimental and simulation studies in the Power Quality Lab. I attended the 76th SEMA Conference for which I participated in the preparation of a paper. I was also involved in an EU project related to the implementation of Demand Side Management in the European market. |
· DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING, Polytechnic
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Oct. 2000 -- July 2001 . |
- Power Quality research and development engineer. Responsibilities: For my final year thesis of my degree I worked as Power Quality research engineer designing and implementing the specific control strategies (PID controllers and mathematical transformations), hardware (A/D converters, power protection stages, data acquisition and filtering card, PWM generator, etc) and software (undertaken using ANSI C under Real Time LINUX) of a static compensator (STATCOM) prototype which was built for a Spanish private energy supplier. This project also provided great experience in the use of electronic test equipment and PCB design. |
PUBLICATIONS
· “Review of a successful distributed networked and modular FTI Implementation”.
Paper written for and presented at the 19th Annual Symposium of the European Chapter of the Society of Flight Test Engineers (SFTE) , Sept 2008 , EADS / WTD 61 Manching,
· “A Flexible Control Environment for the STATCOM and its Application for Other Custom Power Devices “.
Paper written for the 5th IASTED International Conference Power & Energy Systems, Nov. 2001,
SKILLS
· FLIGHT TEST INSTRUMENTATION and TELEMETRY related
-Flight Test Instrumenation buses:
Expertise in theory, installation and troubleshooting of MIL-STD-1553, ARINC-429, IRIG-106-99
-Data Flight recorders:
Experienced user of SES solid state recorders and Reveal software as well as HEIM D20 series implementing the ARINC-717/573 standard as recording format , IRIG-106 Chapter 10 (Digital Recorder Standard)
-Programming languages for data processing:
Experienced in developing applications in C, C++, Visual C++ and VB (Visual Studio environment), VBA (Outlook, Excel, Word and Access), Matlab and Python
-Engineering packages:
Experienced user of Matlab/Simulink, Labview, CC, Octave, Orcad/Pspice and various CAD software.
-Real Time/Post Process data analysis software packages
Expert in Magali (NDA , 1553 and all ACRA modules) and GSWorks ( based on IADS).
-Time:
Expertise working with GPS, NMEA standard and IRIG time codes formats.
-Sensors and transducers:
Expertise in theory, installation and troubleshooting of temperature measurement (PT-100, thermocouples) , strain gauges, Endevco accelerometers (Piezotron, Isotron, ICP), resolvers, synchros , LVDTs , digital encoders, flow meters and PSI/Scanivalve pressure scanners.
-Distributed and Synchronized Data Acquisition Systems:
Expertise in installation, setup and troubleshooting of distributed data acquisition systems synchronized to a microsecond resolution (standard wired synchronization and PCM) or tens of nanosecond resolution (Ethernet based PTP synchronization). Comprehensive understanding of grounding, shielding and noise reduction in data signal measurements.
-Telemetry link (RF)
Extensive knowledge of analog frequency modulation, digital communication systems theory and link budget calculations specifically applied to PCM/FM telemetry system design and troubleshooting
Experienced working with linear , (omni)directional antennas and Malibu HD-40 tracking antennas
- Telemetry applications summary:
As application engineers acquired expertise in installation, setup and troubleshooting of end-to-end solution from aircraft to groundstation including the Real-Time and Post-Processing data display software, PCM/FM radio link, RF transmitters (up to 20W) and RF receivers (standalone and Lumistar LS-25v2), diversity combiners (Lumistar LS-23 Pre/Pos detection mode and ACRA GTS/DEC/004), Bit Synchronizers (Lumistar LS-40 and ACRA GTS/DEC/003), PCM decommutators (Lumistar LS-50 , ACRA SAM/DEC/007 and GTS/DEC/003).
· OPERATING SYSTEMS & COMPUTER HARDWARE
-Advanced knowledge of Windows 9x-2000-XP
-Advanced knowledge of computer architecture, hardware, peripherals and networking: LAN, Ethernet, Network Hardware & Software, the OSI and TCP/IP Reference Models , firewalls and computer anti-virus protection.
-Unix , Linux, Real Time Linux and real time systems theory.
· SOFTWARE DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT
- Strong knowledge of Object oriented design & programming: C , C++, Visual C++ and Visual Basic.
- Database and Internet design & programming: ASP, DHTML, CSS, JavaScript, VBScript,
- IT project management: Design and development of a Cinema Reservation Website as annual project developed in ASP, VB, JavaScript and SQL server.
| 1 month - Discovery | 400 euros | convert |
| 3 months - Bronze | 1050 euros | convert |
| 6 months - Silver | 1800 euros | convert |
| 12 months - Gold | 2950 euros | convert |
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