David Padilla

System Owner of EasyGas, which is the system in place to support gas trading processes and activities across Europe at Axpo. EasyGas covers the physical management, balancing, nomination and allocation of gas

Responsible for the interaction with potential clients and partners in Germany as the first employee in Germany, providing expert technical support and presenting solutions to the sales and business teams. • Draft and deliver presentations, demonstrate the features of company products to clients • Identification and contact of prospects in insurance • Company representative in events, workshops and conferences related to insurtech, insurance and data science in Germany and Spain

Support in the preparation, management, documentation, and maintenance of the IT Product Portfolio and the Customer Ecosystem (CES) cloud platform within BMW IT Group (FG-601 Department) • Project manager of one of the CES Proof of Concepts, an integration of a new API Based Dealer Management System • Creation and maintenance of CES Technology Radar • Preparation of internal workshops and decisive slides and presentations in the areas of sales, after sales and customer relationship management

Successfully manage global agile projects for the financial industries, including digital transformation and innovation in mobile banking • Creation of project plans and user stories in an agile environment (SCRUM) • Communication with Fidor internal team members and stakeholders • Preparation of management presentations, reports and meeting minutes for top management

Design, development, adaptation, and testing of robust acoustic and language models of cloud and embedded based cutting-edge conversational voice information retrieval systems for a multitude of languages • Evaluated and recommended, followed by adoption of new de-noising algorithm for in-car, home, and mobile environments • Was assigned to both internal (Amazon Echo like Bluetooth speaker) and external projects (Samsung, Toyota/Lexus, General Motors, Comcast)

Acoustic modeling research and development of the new generation language roll-out for the Nuance flagship embedded recognition engine, VoCon Hybrid • Improved multi-lingual acoustic models for the automotive industry • Development of production tools to optimize the acoustic modeling training and testing environment • Administration of the test data pool of the whole Automotive R&D division

Maintenance, usage and debugging of the Finnish Speech recognizer developed at Aalto University Speech Recognition group

WePlay360 (Website, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube channel), focused on Microsoft Xbox 360 gaming console • Writing news, previews, and reviews of games as well as other related video games products • Visiting leading video games companies and distributors • Conducting contests and promotions in collaboration with the major video games distributors in Spain

Creation and management of the official blog of Assassin’s Creed video game (Xbox 360, PS3, PC) for the Spanish market

• MBS Best Scholarship

• Erasmus scholarship 2009-2010 • Master thesis: “Coupling acoustic and language models in speech recognition in noisy conditions” • Overall grade (GPA): 2.95 (good)

• Premio de Excelencia 2010 (Excellence Award 2010), UC3M • Bilingual modality • Overall grade (GPA): 3.21 (very good)