Constantino Barber

Experience

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  Vodafone

  May 1996 - Aug 1997

  Access Network Engineer

  Network deployment and management EngineerAchievement: Lauching on the air the Vodaphone (former Airtel) network in the island of Ibiza in the summer of 1996

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  Lahm

  Sept 1997 - Mar 1998

  Lahmeyer Informationstechnik GmbH

  Senior consultant for GSM Network deployment.

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  CH2M Hill

  Apr 1998 - Jun 2004

  Project Manager

  Ocupied various positions in the company, from Field Force Manager (04/1998 – 10/1999), through Engineering production Manager (10/1999 – 09/2000) to Project Manager (10/2000 – 06/2004).Lead the Design center for the design of the Ono Hybrid Fibre Coax Network involving a team of 200+ engineers spread arround Spain.Achievements:- 2002 Turnover: over 7 M€. Contract negotiation to achieve additional € 330,000 extensions. Reduced operating costs of the project by 9%, achieving together with a higher turnover, increased benefits of 38 % above plan and thus saving the effect of a reduction in sales globally.- Lead an organizational and cultural change to resolve staff demotivation and labor dispute.- Reducing of production time by 50 % in 6 months, even exceeding the objectives of process improvement group. It involved both internal staff and suppliers.- Development of procedure manuals fieldwork and its standardization for use in all regions. Show less

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  Tecatel S.L.

  Jul 2004 - Oct 2013

  As Manufacturing Director, my role was to ensure the provision of state of the art products in the quantity, quality and cost requiered to maintain and improve the positioning of the company in the telecommunications sector. To achieve this goal my responsibilities included:• Electronic component market prospection and international supplier selection.• Negotiation with Suppliers and Subcontractors. Establishment of supply agreements with manufacturers and distributors of raw materials.• Management of product development team. • Establishing and maintaining standards of product quality• Monitoring the production process and achieving the cost, time and quality objectives.• Coordinating the operations in the plants of Spain, Poland and Algeria, as well as the sucontracted works in Asia.Achievements:- Commissioning of the new digital TV receivers ( Satellite and Terrestrial ) manufacturing plant from scratch: including amongst others, the tasks of recruitment, purchase of machinery, establishment of procedures, working methods, purchasing policies, quality assurance and control system implementation, survey and selection of semiconductors suppliers, etc. .- Production Volume in 2009: 300,000 devices Show less

  • R&D Director

    Jun 2010 - Oct 2013

  • Manufacturing Director (2005-2010), Purchasing Director (2004–2005)

    Jul 2004 - May 2010
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  Medip Health

  Nov 2013 - Apr 2014

  R&D, Quality and Regulatory Director

  Mediphealth is a spin-off from the Tecatel group. It specialises in the IT healthcare sector providing bedside entertainment systems and medical added-value applications to the clinical ecosystem.I lead the development of electromedical devices for vital signs monitoring. This involved all the development cycle, from HW design, to prototype evaluation, going through component sourcing, prototyping, firmware development and testing. Also involved compliance of regulatory requirements as well as ISO13485 implementation. Show less

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  Innare

  Sept 2014 - now

  Co-Founder & Design Thinker

  Innare is a strategic innovation firm that cooperates with companies and organizations in training and developing professionals on the skillsets and methodologies to encourage and promote innovation, as well as in creating multidisciplinary teams deploying innovative products, services and/or strategies. Innare is also helping to develop a culture of innovation and facilitating the process of change and transformation towards innovation.

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  AURA FINANCIAL TECHNICAL S.L.

  Sept 2014 - now

  Marketing Manager

  At AURA we assist our clients establish productive business relationships with overseas clients, suppliers and business partners. Our speciality lies in utilizing proven relationship building skills and problem solving negotiation strategies across cultures, to assist our business partners reach high quality agreements and resolve trade conflicts with their international counterparts.We taylor our services to match our clients needs. Services include:* Third party direct representation in negotiations* Team participation in cross cultural team negotiations* Observer/Advisor* Consulting for the preparation of international negotiation strategies* Preparing comprehensive company negotiations policy and guidelines* Mediation in trade disputes* Workshops, Courses, and Seminars on cross cultural negotiations Show less