Ing. Avelino Julian Souto Lorenzo

Managing the engineering team located in the Expleo sites in Barcelona (Spain), Iasi (Romania) and Munich (Germany) working on a 48V battery management system for a German OEM.

Managing Director and Lead Consultant. Clients: - Ford Motor Company Limited - Jaguar Land Rover Automotive PLC - Dyson Ltd

Coordinating the development team distributed among the Lear sites in Valls (Spain), Salé (Morocco) and Pune (India) responsible for the successful delivery of body electronics products for more than 15 Jaguar Land Rover carlines. Defined the Automotive SPICE ENG.8 process (SW Test) used globally across all Lear Corporation sites, allowing the company to reach its highest capability and maturity level to date after a successful external audit in 2017.

Architected and led the development (in collaboration with the MIT spin-off nuTonomy) of the vehicle control system for the first JLR autonomous vehicle ever tested on public roads. Designed and developed two vehicle features called "Remote Control" and "Multi-Point Turn" presented by JLR in its 2015 Technology Showcase and with a brand impact equivalent to that of a £14 million marketing investment.

Specified 150+ design change requests issued to Ford Tier 1 suppliers (£2+ million budget) in order to successfully deliver 5 new programmes (Fiesta, Focus, F-250, Ranger, Edge) into production. Simplified the global communication networks specification process for diesel vehicles resulting in over £500k savings in its first year of adoption in design change requests only.

Designed and developed a new product line of diesel emission control systems that represents now over 90% of the revenue of the holding subsidiary Idneo Technologies S.L. Invented a fully configurable position detection algorithm that reduces by half the software development time needed for new gear shifters programmes.

Designed a passenger traffic flow simulator to identify the optimal elevator group solution for tall buildings. Acting as Tier2, development of safety-critical vehicular software under the AUTomotive Open System ARchitecture for the chassis domain. Software architecture design and integration tests. ISO26262 functional safety standard.

Working with the OBDH Team on a 32-bit FPGA-based soft processor architecture.

Reliability prediction of electronic systems under MIL-HDBK-217F and Bellcore/Telcordia standards.

Activities and societies: Automotive Club, 34 IESE Auto Industry Meeting, Consulting Club

MsC Thesis: "Study, design, implementation and analysis of embedded systems in the picosatellite Xatcobeo" Fernando Aguado Agelet.

Erasmus Year.