GUE Instructor resumé

Professional

• (2021 - Present) GUE Instructor Trainer
• (2018 - Present) Current - Teraqua Space CEO (Space systems and Underwater communications)
• (2018 - Present) GUE Instructor
• (2015 - 2018) Lead RF engineer at Rocket Lab New Zealand
• (2012 - 2015) Communications engineer at Deimos Space
• (2008 - 2012) Electromagnetics lecturer assistant at Carlos III University

Education

• PhD on Electromagnetics
• MsC, BsC. Telecommunications Engineering
• EIT Business School - Innovation Management

Diving Qualifications

• GUE Instructor Trainer
• GUE Instructor Fundamentals, Documentation, Rec 1, 2, 3, DPV, Gas Blender
• GUE CCR - JJ diver
• GUE Cave 2+
• GUE Tech 2
• GUE DPV2 Cave
• GUE Documentation diver
• DAN EFR
• PADI Rescue diver
• Aida Freediver level 2

Diving Experience

• Grupo de Exploración Moraig
• Grupo Cueva del Agua
• Project Baseline Costa Blanca Manager
• Project Baseline Wellington
• Project Baseline Lake Pupuke
• MCEP 2017
• Alviela 2017, 2018, 2019
• Sardinia 2018, 2019
• Project Baseline Finisterre
• New Zealand Reef exploration project
• New Zealand cave
• Cuba, Mexico, California, Florida, Seattle, Hawaii, Spain, Italy, New Zealand, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Norway, France, South Korea, Egypt, Croatia
• Cave survey and exploration: Plura (Norway), Spanish caves, including dry caving
• Exploration of several caves in Spain through GAEM (espeleological group)
• 2000+ logged dives
• 1000+ cave dives
• 500+ DPV dives
• 300+ mixed gas dives
• GAEM - Grupo de Actividades Espeleológicas de Madrid

Community Involvement

• Project Manager of Project Baseline - Costa Blanca
• GUE Spain community development
• Project Launching in Spain
• Active member of GUE NZ
• Running conservation projects in Spain, Portugal and Italy
• Dry-caver and active member of underwater speleology team
• Expanding your horizons through diving
• Human Behaviour on Extreme Environments, caves, space exploration

Special interests

• Underwater communications, underwater world, ecology, Space, interplanetary exploration
• Sinergies between Space Exploration and Caves
• Underwater Photography and Photogrammetry
• Underwater Survey
• Underwater Archaeology
• Cave Exploration
• Engineering, Science activities
• Human behaviour in extreme environments

Publications

• Project Baseline - Costa Blanca
• [MMS] Benthic foraminifera and brachiopods from a marine cave in Spain: environmental significance
• Diving with a goal (Madrid dive show 2020)
• Projects in Scotland and Spain (Public talk, March 2020)
• Cave exploration in France and Spain (Public talk, March 2020)
• Project Baseline Costa Blanca (April 2020)
• Diving with a goal (Oceanides, March 2018)
• New Zealand explorations (Blue Drinks, May 2018)
• Diggin the world (http://diggintheworld.wordpress.com/)
• Escápate (#19, #20, #23, #24, #25, #26, #27, #28, #29, #30 http://www.cluboceanides.org/escapate.html)
• Bajo las Olas (http://www.bajolasolas.org/)
• Revista Buceadores (GUE Spain Community)
• Local newspapers awareness for diving

Languages I teach classes in

• English
• Galician
• Portuguese
• Spanish

Additional languages

• Spanish
• English
• Understands Portuguese, French, Italian and German

Additional Info

Diving section of Speleology group
Active member of GAEM (Grupo Actividades Espeleologicas Madrid)
Human Behaviour on Extreme Environments
Underwater photography on caves and open water
Underwater and Space communications

Teaching Worldwide

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