TELECOMMUNICATIONS ENGINEER

Wireless networks Engineer with extensive and diverse experience in R&D, communications equipment infrastructure and telecom systems engineering. Experience includes designing, developing, integrating, testing, installing, configuring, troubleshooting and supporting cutting edge terrestrial and satellite wireless systems.

EDUCATION AND LANGUAGES

B.Sc. Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Universidad de Malaga, Spain, 2006

M.Sc. Communication Engineering and Signal Processing, Universidad de Malaga and Virginia Tech, US, 2008

Native Spanish, Fluent in English, basic Dutch and German.

PROFFESIONAL EXPERIENCE AND ACCOMPLISHMENTS

European Space Agency, European Space Research and Technology Centre (ESTEC)

Telecom Engineer Young Graduate Trainee. Noordwijk, The Netherlands. 2008-2010.

·         Worked on the Advanced Research in Telecommunications Systems (ARTES) programme under the telecom and future applications division. The main work line was the implementation of a flexible OFDM physical layer modem with COTS (Commercial off the shelf) hardware and open source software for a software defined radio platform for satellite communications.

·         Implementation of a satellite DVB-S2 standard software defined radio modem.

·         Telecom Industry activities management and monitoring:

ARTES1 Scalable Video Coding, ARTES5 Software Radio Based Regenerative Processor, ARTES1 Enhanced Multicarrier OFDM Digital Transmission Techniques, ARTES1 Study of Satellite Role in 4G mobile networks, European Space Agency  Spectrum Management Advisory Group

·         Support to several telecom lab activities and maintenance:

Satellite Gateway and Datacenter operations and maintenance, Integrated Applications Telemedicine Support for several European Ministries of Defence, Verisat DVB-RCS satellite modemTerminal Populator Emulator, Satellite Channel Simulator DCS3020, Paradise Datacom Paired Carrier Echo Cancellation Integration with multi carrier modem.

Wireless @ Virginia Tech, Center for Wireless Communications

Wireless Graduate Research Assistant. Blacksburg, VA, US. 2007-2008

·         Final Master Thesis "Implementation of a cognitive radio link", this was the first implementation of a radio of this kind, a radio that can sense the environment, as well as adapt to it and find an optimal solution in terms of power and radio frequency management in the given scenario.

·         Team leader and Recipient of the 1st overall prize in the SDR (Software Defined Radio) Forum Challenge 2007 with the project "Smart Radio for 1st responders after a catastrophe”.

·         Public safety Cognitive Radio nodes demonstration for Commtech 2007 conference in Las Vegas, Nevada. The project was voted number one by the committee.

·         In charge of the Anritsu company demonstration in cognitive radio during the SDR Forum Conference 2007 in Orlando, Florida.

·         Author of the paper "The Use of a Cognitive Engine for Interoperability, Cooperability, Link Optimization, and Regulatory Compliance" presented at IEEE DySPAN 2007 Dublin (Dynamic Spectrum Access Networks).

·         Author of the paper "A Public Safey Cognitive Radio Node" presented at the SDR Conference 2007 in Denver (Colorado).

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Software: C/C++, Matlab, Simulink, LabView, MySQL, Java, Python, Tcl/Tk, PHP, Unix Bash Scripting, VHDL, Verilog, Eclipse, SVN, OpenGL, Socket Programming, Wireshark, XML, UML, Qt, OpNET, Ns-2, Orcad, Pspice, GNURadio, Linux.

Hardware: Alvarion BreezeMAX WiMAX Base Station, ALCATEL DVB-RCS Gateway, Newtec DVB-S2 modems Azimuth Series, Up-Down Freq. Converters, Spectrum Analysers, Signal Generators, Protocol Simulators, Fiber Optic Backhaul, Cisco Catalyst Switches, FGPAs Xilinx and Altera, Embedded systems.

Protocols: ARP/RARP, DHCP, ICMP, IP, IPv6, UDP, TCP, DNS, FTP, HTTP, IMAP, IRC, NTP, POP, RTSP, SMTP, SNMP, SOCKS, TELNET, TFTP, BGP, OSPF, ATM, PPTP, H323, SIP, DVB, ATM..
Wireless Technologies: 4G, LTE, HSPA, GPRS, GSM, UMTS, 802.11, Bluetooth, UWB, WiMAX, DVB-S2, DVB-RCS, GMR.

ANNEX: PREVIOUS PROJECTS

Wimax Network Configuration and Administration

Installation and configuration of an Alvarion BreezeMAX Wimax plataform, spectrum assignation, helicoidal antennas, SNMP, and Telnet access to both Base Station and Subscriber Units, QoS using ToS value of IP Headers for setting up different services like best effort, constant and variable bitrate, realtime for VoIP and Video-Conference.

OpNET and NS-2 Network Simulation and Bluetooth OBEX

Implementation of IP routing algorithms on OpNET and simulation of the TCP congestion avoidance algorithms like TCP tahoe, reno, vegas, etc. Implementation of an OBEX server using Official Linux Bluetooth protocol stack BlueZ.

Antennas measurements, Test of Electromagnetic Radiation Devices

Use of digital spectrum analyzers, Waveguides, 3 antenna measurements method, Radar detection, Rhode & Schwarz Equipment for digital measures of GSM mobile devices.

Torrent TV with Voice Recognition features

Use of Sphinx-4 for voice recognition to command the computer to play, stop or change a video file and automatic update of the database containing the video files previously downloaded by a torrent client.

UMTS course by Optimi in Parque Tecnologico de Andalucia of Malaga (Spain)

SMTP Server, FTP Server, Socksv5 Server for Solaris O.S.

SMTP Server, FTP Server, Socksv5 implementation in C using sockets libraries.

Reverse Engineered Server of an Online Game (Lineage 2) GNU

Open Source Project in collaboration with 40 other participants. Use of TCP/IP sniffers and cryptographic algorithms to reverse engineer the used protocol. Use of Eclipse IDE for Java programming, the new online Concurrent Version System SVN and OpenTraq for community project development. Administration of a Linux based System (Debian 3.0 distribution and Ubuntu) and shell scripting to autoupdate and autocompile sourcecode generated by other programmers.

PHP/MySql Programmer

Research and development of an online Internet portal that allows customers to order and pay online for products of this company. Use of PHP, MySQL, Apache in a Unix system, and integration of an online bank payment system for the portal. Use of SSL protocols and HTTPS.