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Competences

Hard

• Electrical infrastructure and market and risk modelling, design and programming.
• Machine learning: Neural-Networks, outlier detection, custom models, forecast, etc.
• Optimization: MIP, Convex optimization, Stochastic optimization, etc.

Soft

• Product development (Agile / Waterfall)
• Consultancy.
• MBA.

Experience

Currently: Spain [Red Eléctrica de España]

• Innovation.
• Power systems planning activities.
• Plexos modelling group lead at ENTSO-e.
• Power systems tool development and research.
• Management of several research projects.

2018-2019: Spain [AFRY]

• Electric markets design and optimization.
• Strategic power systems planning (Projects by the World Bank, US Aid, etc.).

2015-2018: Spain [DNV, INDRA]

• SCADA systems functional design.
• Market optimization and dispatch design.
• Consultancy projects.
• Tendering.
• Forecast engine based on neural networks.
• Research work: Blackout simulator, FLISR (Fault location), State estimation.
• Electric Market simulations.

2013-2015: Netherlands [DNV]

• Several European projects.
• Grid-connected energy storage research.
• Research projects.
• Students supervision.

See Portfolio for more information.

Programming

C/C++, Java, C#, Python, Matlab, SQL and no-SQL.

I have working experience in all of them, specially in python.

Check out my open source projects.

Education

“The education is the one you provide yourself”  – Isaac Asimov –

2020-2021 MBA

Master in business administration (MBA) at EAE and Barcelona University.

Thesis on the monetization of open source software (10/10).

2012-2013 Master in RAMS

RAMS stands for Reliability, Maintainability, Availability and Safety. Studied at the university of Las Palmas of Gran Canaria.

The master thesis subject was the reliability calculation in medium voltage grids (Supervised by Iberdrola personnel).

2004-2011 Industrial engineering 

(5-year program equivalent to a master degree)

Industrial engineering, with electric specialization at the university of Las Palmas of Gran Canaria. As formulated in the Spanish academic schemes, industrial engineer with the electric specialization is the top electric engineering degree and it is equivalent to a master in the newer Bolonia courses.

The final thesis subject was the scaling of a robotic vehicle so that it could behave as a real car and be a platform for research. It took me a while since I had to build the prototype and program the software (10/10).

Courses

I have taken official courses on:

• Computational finance (Georgia tech)
• Technology commercialization and valuation, University of Las Palmas of Gran Canaria.
• Wind power and associated installations, Economical promotion society of Gran Canaria.
• Energy efficiency and energy audits in buildings and industry, Economical promotion society of Gran Canaria.
• Numerical simulation and optimization, University of Las Palmas of Gran Canaria.

I have learnt plenty of other things by myself using the web. One of these is Machine learning.

Languages

• Spanish (Native)
• English as the usual working language.

Selected experience

2020 Innovation projects award

Won the Red Eléctrca’s project that better anticipated the future in 2020:

Electric solver library (formulated as an ecosystem’s central piece)

Spain Long Term planning

2019 Consultant, Red Electrica de España, Spain.
Description, Long term planning of Spain’s power system using power system
optimization tools (PLEXOS) in conjunction with PSS/e.

Kazakhstan Long Term planning

2019 Consultant, AF-Pöyry, Spain.
Description, Long term planning of Kazakhstan’s power system using power
system optimization tools (In-House) in conjunction with Power Factory.

Mozambique-Zambia interconnection planning

2019 Consultant, AF-Pöyry, Spain.
Description, Feasibility study using power system optimization of the
Mozambique-Zambia interconnection. Included modelling of the South African
Power Pool (SAPP).

Micro grid control and calculation engine

2018 Researcher-Consultant, INDRA, Spain/Australia.
Description, Design of a calculation and control engine for the implementation of the smart-grid system at the Monash University in Melbourne
(Australia).

SCADA topological and calculation engine

2018 Researcher-Consultant, INDRA, Spain.
Description, SCADA system implementation project for KPLC, DSO of
Kenya. Design and implementation of unbalanced three-phase calculation
system.

SCADA economic dispatch

2017 Researcher-Consultant, INDRA, Spain.
Description, SCADA system implementation project for SEPS, the Slovak
TSO. Design and implementation of the auxiliary services dispatch system.

FLISR system design

2017 Researcher-Consultant, INDRA, Spain.
Description, Design and implementation of the FLISR system (Fault Location Isolation and Service Restoration) for INDRA’s DMS system.

Electrical calculation software

2015-2018 Ingeniero, Spain.
Description, GridCal, Open source project for the design and implementation
of electrical calculation software (power flow, short circuit, voltage collapse,
stochastic calculation and network collapse).

Reliability improvement study

2016 Researcher-Consultant, DNV GL, Spain.
Description, Reliability improvement project for the electricity distributor
CGE in Chile.

Blackout probability estimation software

2014-2016 Researcher, DNV GL, Spain/Netherlands.
Description, Internal R&D project to build a network simulator capable of
estimating the probability of blackouts in a power grid.

 

Ancillary services price forecast

2016 Researcher, DNV GL, Spain.
Description, Internal R&D project to build a secondary market price estimator. Made using LSTM neural networks.

 

Software to size storage coupled to renewable energy sources

2015 Researcher, DNV GL, The Netherlands.
Description, Project for the definition and construction of software to dimension batteries connected to the grid or to renewable facilities. Special
emphasis in the case of the USA.

 

Software to size and dispatch storage in the grid

2013-2015 Researcher, DNV GL, The Netherlands.

Description, PLATOS, Project of the Electromobility program for the defi-
nition and construction of optimal location and sizing software for batteries
in the electric network. In consortium with Fraunhofer ISE and EMD.

 

Short time horizon solar production forecast

2013-2015 Researcher, DNV GL, The Netherlands.
Description, National Dutch subsidized project for the construction of a
software for predicting solar irradiation at intervals of less than 15 minutes,
using distributed measurements taken from existing photovoltaic installations.

 

Economic dispatch of energy systems software

2012 Researcher-Consultant, 3iDS, Spain.
Description, Government of the Canary Islands project for the calculation
of the amount of eligible renewables in the electricity system of Gran Canaria
with stability guarantee.