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Last update: Nov 28th, 2002




Jose M. Pozo

 E-mail: Jose.Pozo@bristol.ac.uk

How I look like after all day long in front of a computer

Jose Pozo
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Me!!

Some pictures (hey!! it's me in the office and Almeria, my city in the south of Spain)


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Me again!!
Aguadulce, the sea port Aguadulce, the beach Almeria, la Rambla
Almeria Almeria Monsul beach









Personal Information

  • Nationality: Spanish
  • Birthdate: October 14, 1978
  • Civil State: Single

Education

Telecommunication Engineer

1996 – 2001 Universidad Pública de Navarra
(Public University of Navarra, SPAIN)
UPNA
Telecommunication Engineering course's main subjects:
  • Digital Signal Processing: Algoritmic techniques for the digital processing of signals. Applications in communications: voice and image processing, elements and subsystems based on signal processing.
  • Computer Architechtures: Multiple layers structures. Virtual machines. Operative systems. Real time kernels.
  • Design of Electronic Circuits and Systems: Software tools for the design of integrated circuits and electronic systems, hybrid circuits etc... Special systems for information processing.
  • Electronic Instrumentation: Special electronic circuits and equipment. Applications in communications and control. Advanced electronic instrumentation.
  • Microwave Circuits: Guided wave elements. High frequency devices and circuits for communications.
  • Microwave Devices: High frequency devices and circuits for communications.
  • Antennae and Communications Electronics: Antennae. Communications electronics: components and subsystems for transmission and reception.
  • Radio Electric Waves Telecommunication Systems: Radio-communications systems: types and main features. Propagation.
  • Networks, systems and services: Network modelling and dimensioning. Switching technology. Time and spatial switching. Information coding and cyphering. Telecommunications policies and standards.
  • Computer Networks: Computer networks. Broad band networs. Networks and seervices planning and management.
  • Optical Communications: Devices, transmission media and techniques used for telecommunications at optical bands.
  • Signal Detectors and Conditioners: Introduction to measurement systems. Resistive transductors. Signal conditioning for resistive transductors. Electromagnetic and variable reactance transductors. Signal conditioning for variable reactance transductors. Generator transductors. Other transduction methods.
  • Codes and Cryptography: Noiseless transmission channels. Noisy transmission channels. Error correcting codes: linear, cyclic, Reed Muller codes, etc. Introduction to cryptography. Classical methods. Notions of computational complexity. Flow cyphering methods. The DES method. Public key systems. The RSA method. Applications of cryptography.
  • Telematics Laboratory: Introduction to the Linux operative system. Introruction to bash. Linux programming: cc, gcc and make. Data types and control structures. Functions. Pointers. System calls: standard I/O. Concurrent programming and process intercommunication.
  • Antennae Laboratory: Collective distribution of terrestrial and satellite TV. Measurements with UHF antennae. Microwave antennae. Patch antennae in microstrip technology.
  • Mobile Communications: Mobile radio systems. Propagation in a mobile environment. Empirical approach. Fading. Digital modulation in a mobile environment. The different mobile communication systems. Diversity techniques. Cellular radio telephony. GSM services. Multiple access techniques. GPRS. UMTS.
  • Satellite Communications: Propagation loss, thermal noise and quality factor. Block diagrams, structures and equipment. Fixed satellite system. Broadcast satellite services. Multiple access satellites for fixed Earth stations links. Mobile satellite services. VSAT networks. Fundamentals of electromagnetic compatibility.
  • Low Frequency Signals Processing: Voice processing. Redundancies coding and removal. Automatic speech recognition. Biomedical signals processing.
  • Intelligent Buildings and Domotics: Intelligent buildings. Domotics. Other intelligent structures.
  • Computer Networks Management and Security: Network management according to OSI standards. Internet standards. Management Information Base (MIB). MIB-II. The SNMP network management protocol. The SNMPv2 network management protocol. Network manager and agent implementation. Basic concepts about network security. Firewalls.


2001 – 2002 Vrije Universiteit Brussel
(Free University of Brussels, BELGIUM)
Vrije Universiteit Brussel
For getting support from the teachers and for the final presentation of the end of major project carried out in JDL Technologies


Other Education

Training Courses
  • Texas Intruments DSK 6711
    Day Workshop at Texas Instruments
    Northampton (England)
    February 28, 2002
  • Texas Instruments

Seminars
  • Signal Capturing and Processing Seminar
    Participating: Acal, Analog Devices, EBV Elektronic, Intersil, Motorola, National Semiconductor and Texas Instruments
    Steenokkerzeel (Belgium)
    February 19, 2002

  • Cabling Day
    Participating: Avaya, Allied Telesyn, D-Link, Network Instruments, ACTL
    Steenokkerzeel (Belgium)
    February 5, 2002

Professional Experience

R&D and DSP Engineer

2001 – 2002

JDL Technologies

Voie de Liège 33
B-4040
Herstal (BELGIUM)
Tel +32 4 248 06 57
Fax +32 4 248 08 23
URL: http://www.jdl.be/
E-mail: info@jdl.be
JDL Technologies


Development of HOISNED project (HIGH ON-LINE SPEED INSPECTION SYSTEM WITH NOVEL ELECTRO-OPTICAL DEFLECTION, on-line control quality of shock-absorvers from POLMETASA) , funded under the BRITE/EURAM Program
  • Solving image processing problems

  • Programming TI DSP that controls the whole system

  • Evaluation of Optical Set-up

  • Evaluation of TI DSPs C5X C6X


Participation in BRITE/EURAM funded international meetings
  • Meeting at Fraunhofer Institute (Friburg, Germany) for explanations about Hoisned optical set-up (October, 2001)

  • Hoisned Meeting at Asociacion de la Industria Navarra (Navarra Industrial Association in Pamplona, Spain), studying the whole Hoisned system and the applications in the market . (November, 2001)

  • Meeting at Fraunhofer Institute (Friburg, Germany) solving problems about lenses alingment (March, 2002)


Languages

  • Spanish: Mother tongue

  • English: Good in speaking and writing

  • French: Beginner level

Computing

Computer Languages
  • C/C++
  • Java
  • Assembly languages (Texas Instruments and Motorola)
  • Matlab
  • Pascal


DSP Development Tools
  • TI Code Composer Studio IDE
  • Developer’s Kit for TI DSP by MATH WORKS (Included in Matlab 6.1)


Operating Systems
  • Windows 9x/ME/NT/2000/XP
  • Linux (High level of knowledge in Unix)


Programming Windows
  • Visual C++ 6.0
  • Visual Basic 6.0
  • Delphi 5


Internet designing and programming
  • HTML
  • Javascript
  • Macromedia Flash 5.0
  • Macromedia Dreamweaver Ultradev 4
  • CGI


Other programs
  • Labview 5.1 (data acquisition, process monitoring and control of instrumments)
  • Matlab 6.1 (Simulink, guide editor, control of instrumments…)
  • Optsim (Optical systems design and simulation)
  • L-Edit (Layout editor for microelectronic design)
  • Microsim (PSPICE for windows, Electronic circuits experimental design)
  • Autocad 14 and Personal Designer (Drawing utilities)

Achievements

Erasmus Grant, interchange opportunity supported by the European Union (April 2001)

Activities

Webmaster

Interests

Computers, Software programming, Sports, Cinema, Music, Travels.

Other Information

  • Driving licence
  • Free of military service