Dipl.-Ing. Diego Abia

Service Area Manager (Technical, Engineering and Security Management) for Copernicus Integrator Service. In charge of planning, coordinating, monitoring and reporting to ESA the Service Area activities. Ground Segment Engineer supporting ESA into the Project Management and Technical Governance of Copernicus Space Data Access System during the whole lifecycle, including evolutions and maintenance. Supervision of industrial providers and supporting the onboarding of new space missions.

Ground Segment System Engineer supporting to the whole Sentinel 3 Marine and Atmospheric Ground Segment as part of the EUMETSAT System Engineering team. Supporting both evolution and operational phases, including the coordination of complex tasks over team boundaries. Supporting the various associated Reviews and Control Boards.

Development of SEOSAR/PAZ Mission Archive and Catalogue. Operators training.

End to End Integration and Verification of the complete Payload Data Ground Segment (user services, mission planning, data processing, archiving and dissemination) of the two missions of the Spanish National Earth Observation Programme: SEOSAR/PAZ and SEOSAT/INGENIO.

Supporting the Design, Implementation and Testing of three Earth Observation Mission Archive and Catalogue Systems: SEOSAT/INGENIO, SEOSAR/PAZ and DEIMOS 2.

Independent Software Verification and Validation Engineer of SENTINEL 3 On-Board Software.

Safety-Critical Real-Time Development Engineer of the Message Generation Facility Element of the GALILEO Ground Segment.

Researching in the hardware-software co-design field at the Electronics Technology Systems and Automation Engineering Department. Development of tools for estimating hardware-software co-design costs. CENIT VISION Project for Telefónica R&D.

Embedded Linux systems development.

Design and implementation of applications for smartcards for the Universidad de Cantabria Computer Center.

This certification covers the 'core' service management activities and expands the current scope of ITIL to cover the 'creation' of services.

ITIL 4 Foundation introduces an end-to-end operating model for the creation, delivery and continual improvement of technology-enabled products and services.