Experience

TerraviewOS

• Spain
• Software Development
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Chief Technology Officer

  • Aug 2023 - Present

• Chief Solutions Architect

  • Jun 2022 - Aug 2023

  General Role: Responsible for company-wide Innovation and technology, and team. Conceptualised, implemented and executed innovation strategy, foci (topics), and operations. Key function to look ahead of the CTO’s horizon and ensure key trends identification and delivery of POCs that consider business and technical feasibility. Responsible for IPRs, NDAs. Work carried out is funded as a mix of private (internal) and non-dilutive funding. Terraview (start-up) is a unified vineyard management platform. Integrated set of products like yield estimation, smart irrigation & disease predictions.Specific Roles: • Innovation portfolio management: currently activities of smart sensorless irrigation, risk analysis, Terraview edge offering, vineyard robotics, satellite imaging techniques.• Driving funding mechanisms: Since Sept 2021, many proposals in differing stages (in-flight, submitted, acquired), national and EU funds.• Vineyard robotics. Managing team of 3. 700k CHF (1.4M CHF total). Key lead (PI) and coordinator.• Technical oversight and consultation both in Innovation and in Engineering departments. Guidance on infrastructure as code and service design. Baseline technologies used: AWS, GCP, Python, Docker, Swarm, Terraform, Ansible, Gitlab CI/CD.Other Roles: • SNF Proposal reviewer. Critical assessment of complete project outputs, scientific, & technological performance, and financial efficiency. Show less

• Head of Innovation

  • Dec 2019 - Jun 2022



Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts

• Switzerland
• Education Administration Programs
• 700 & Above Employee

• Subject Expert

  • Jan 2021 - Present



European Commission

• Belgium
• Government Administration
• 700 & Above Employee

• Independent Expert

  • Jan 2014 - Present

  Critical assessment of complete project outputs, scientific, & technological performance, and financial efficiency. Critical assessment of complete project outputs, scientific, & technological performance, and financial efficiency.



Open Grid Forum

• Software Development

• Chair, Open Cloud Computing Interface Working Group at Open Grid Forum

  • May 2009 - Mar 2021

• DCI-FED Working Group at Open Grid Forum Secretary

  • Jul 2010 - Jul 2011



ZHAW Zurich University of Applied Sciences

• Switzerland
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Senior Researcher

  • May 2012 - Feb 2021

  General Role: Senior research in the Service Engineering Group. Former deputy head and is co-founder of ICCLab research group, which was the current’s group genesis. Co-designed the ICCLab strategy, marketing and image. Member of core management team. Involved in hiring and growing the international team from 3 to 30. Key to research and innovation transfer proposals and project acquisitions and their management. Targeted National and EU funding vehicles. Core focus is on cloud computing, with specific roles in areas of cloud application orchestration, standards, interoperability and automation. Read more about my specific roles at this position and other roles in the attached documents. Show less



Intel Corporation

• United States
• Semiconductor Manufacturing
• 700 & Above Employee

• Innovation Researcher & Engineer

  • Aug 2005 - Apr 2012

  Role: Research proposal development & execution, software architecture & development and standards-bodies participation. Outputs all targeted to internal business lines and external National and European-funded projects. Focused on cloud computing (AWS in 2007) with a major concentration on OpenStack (2010). Work package/Task lead in collaborative projects. Internal exploitation activities (Cloudbursting, P2P): architecture and implementation. Invited expert to EU collaborative activities. Co-founder of CloudCamp community chapter to Ireland. * Researcher at FIware * Exploitation manager and researcher at SLA@SOI Show less



Csartec

• Dublin

• MD and Consultant

  • 2006 - 2012



Trinity College Dublin

• Ireland
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Research Assistant

  • Jan 2005 - Jun 2006

  Creation of the first prototype P2P implementation of the digital business ecosystem (DBE). Actively involved in project management, integration, partner support/consultation, deliverable authoring and presenting to partners and the EU commission. * Teaching duties: Java programming Creation of the first prototype P2P implementation of the digital business ecosystem (DBE). Actively involved in project management, integration, partner support/consultation, deliverable authoring and presenting to partners and the EU commission. * Teaching duties: Java programming



Infineon Technologies

• Germany
• Semiconductor Manufacturing
• 700 & Above Employee

• Software Engineer

  • Dec 1999 - Dec 2003

  Once Guardeonic, now Infineon. Cryptographic software development. Key participant in developer meetings, design meetings and code reviews. Once Guardeonic, now Infineon. Cryptographic software development. Key participant in developer meetings, design meetings and code reviews.