Mauro Aja Prado

Hardware Manager for the Orion European Service Module (ESM) • Coordinated transport and logistic activities for the shipment and export of the Flight Module 1 to the Kennedy Space Center as well as all required hardware according to the campaign schedule • Developed the ATLO integration & test kit tree from the campaign schedule at the Kennedy Space Center. Responsible of delivering the production orders to meet the campaign schedule in coordination with AIT, Engineering, QA and Work preparation

AIT Industrialisation for Orion ESM on behalf of Airbus Defence and Space • Developed the integration kit tree that covers all integration and test activities during the Bremen Campaign. Support to the Configuration Management team for completion of the ABCL • Performed cross functional clean up meetings with the Design Office to define the content of the integration kits

Provide project management competences, solutions, processes and tools to ensure projects success in the field of product development for the automotive industry: Ø Creation of a process to ensure engine components are released and documented on time ahead of production for diesel engine programs Ø Definition of a requirements management process to manage general and project specific requirements across different product lines and customers to improve RFQ response time and quality for a Tier 1 Supplier

"Leveraging Ontology technologies for data modeling in space engineering": Ø Survey of data modeling approaches applicable to modeling engineering data in the context of MBSE (Model-Based Systems Engineering) Ø In-depth comparison between modeling engineering data with Ecore and OWL Ø Demonstration of results with instance-level models

Development of BeanShell (java) scripts to support the testing and validation of a GNSS receiver simulation: Ø Data (bitstream) processing from the Spirent simulator to get position, velocity and time in 100 mili-second intervals Ø Coordinate frame transformation ECI to/from ECEF according to the ICD GPS 200D standard Ø Attitude determination Ø Creation of a graphical user interface to compare receiver data and simulator data

Responsible of troubleshooting a security administration tool in IBM’s host servers and of the installation of the tool client in customer servers: Ø Created migration procedure and documentation of the security tool for internal use Ø Provided continuous Infrastructure support for proper functioning of the tool

Space Techniques and Instrumentation

First semester of the Erasmus Mundus SpaceMaster program

Second semester of the Erasmus Mundus SpaceMaster program

Micro and Nano Technology, Instrumentation and Data Systems and Microwave and Optical Transmission Systems.

Automation and Robotics