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EDUCATION
October 2011 – at present Master online in Astronomy and Astrophysics
Valencian International University (Spain)
March – June 2005 Specialist in Satellite Communications
Postgraduate course composed of 5 modules: space segment, ground segment, satellite link, user segment and orbital mechanics
Universidad Politécnica de Madrid – E.U.I.T. Telecomunicación (Spain)
1995 – 2001 Telecommunications Engineer – option: communications (antennas, radiocommunications, optical communications, microwaves, signal processing...)
Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingenieros de Telecomunicación (E.T.S.I.T.)
Universidad Politécnica de Valencia (Spain)
February – July 2001 Final studying project: Execution of a simulator of city over flying
ERASMUS scholarship, in the « Equipe de Traitement des Images et du Signal » (ETIS) of the « Ecole Nationale Supérieure de l’Electronique et ses Applications » - ENSEA (Cergy – France)
1991 – 1995 High school diploma in Sciences (Bachillerato). I.B. “José de Ribera” in Xàtiva (Spain)
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
January 2013 - at present Erasmus USOC Operations Engineer & Ground Controller at ESA/ESTEC (The Netherlands) - Space Applications Services
- Training in the Columbus Systems and Operations at ESA/EAC
- Being trained as a console operator and ground controller to support ISS payload operations under the responsibility of Erasmus USOC
- Preparation and validation of operational products for new payloads
November 2009 - December 2012 ATV Ground Control Engineer at CNES (Toulouse) – VITROCISET
- Support to the preparation and operational maintenance of the ATV Control Center subsystems: acceptance testing, installation, configuration, follow-up of related AR/Rfc
- Support to the Assembly, Integration, and Validation (AIV) of the ATV-CC: test procedures preparation, execution and reporting
- Technical responsible of the Mission Data Base (MDB) related activities: reception, verification, adaptation to the ATV-CC needs, import into ATV-CC subsystems
- Responsible of the Ground Control Procedures maintenance: definition, update and validation
- Ground Controller position handling during the Simulation Campaign and all the operational phases of the ATV mission: monitoring and operation of the ground subsystems, interface with International Partners (ISS GC and GSOC GC), technical support to the ATV-CC users
June 2007 – May 2009 Herschel/Planck Operations Engineer at Thales Alenia Space (Cannes) - RHEA group
- Preparation of the System FCPs (nominal flight procedures), System CRPs (contingency procedures) and Commissioning procedures.
- Revision and updates of the Herschel/Planck Spacecraft User Manual
- Support to the System Validation Tests preparation and execution at ESOC (SVT-1 & SVT-2)
- Support to the LEOP and Commissioning activities preparation
July 2005 – May 2007 Spacecraft Operations Engineer (Spanish Trainee Programme) at ESA/ESOC (Germany)
Herschel/Planck Flight Control Team (September 2006 – May 2007)
- Preparation of the flight control procedures to operate the SREM instrument
- Support to the Mission Control System testing (SCOS2000)
SMART-1 Flight Control Team (July 2005 – September 2006)
- Ground operations automation: procedures definition, development and testing
- Medium and short term mission planning
- Routine spacecraft operations: upload of the Mission Timeline, download of telemetry stores and events, satellite performance checking
- Training in all the spacecraft subsystems (TTC, AOCS, Power, Thermal, Data handling)
- Participation in the lunar impact operations on the 3rd September 2006
April 2003 – July 2004 ESA’s Young Graduate Trainee Programme. ESA - Redu Ground Station (Belgium)
PROBA Operations & Control Team (Earth observation mission) - 11 months
- Operations of the 2 main scientific instruments (CHRIS and HRC): user requests reception, planning consolidation and commands generation
- Satellite pass monitoring (SCOS II system): transmission of telecommands, reception of telemetry and acquired images, satellite performance checking, manoeuvre checking, detection of anomalies
- Data extraction, processing and archiving
- Preparation of the weekly status report
In Orbit Testing Team - 4 months
- Programming of a routine to monitor the ARTEMIS LLM payload (HP VEE)
- Participation in the EUTELSAT e-Bird commissioning and acceptance phase
October 2001 – December 2002 Consulting Engineer. ALTIOR - ALTRAN group, Paris (France)
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Training period in Nortel Networks (UMTS development and integration teams)
- Mission in General Electric Medical Systems (Computer Software Applications department)
LANGUAGES
Spanish / Catalan : Bilingual
French : Fluent
English : Fluent
German : Beginner
Italian : Beginner
INFORMATICS SKILLS
Computer Languages : Pascal, Java, C/C++, HP VEE
Operating Systems : Windows 95/98/2000, UNIX, LINUX
Tools : Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Powerpoint), Matlab
Specific Space SW: SCOS II and SCOS 2000 control systems, MOIS (Manufacturing and Operations Information System), MUST (Mission Utility & Support Tools)
OTHER INTERESTS
- Co-author of the paper “SMART-1 Ground Operations Automation” (presented at Spaceops 2006)
- Driving licence
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