1. Page 1 - Curriculum vitae of
Serra Bou, Joan Francesc
E U R O P E A N
C U R R I C U L U M V I T A E
F O R M A T
PERSONAL INFORMATION
Name SERRA BOU, JOAN FRANCESC
Address 60-62 RONDA GUINARDÓ 08025, Barcelona, Spain
Telephones +34 686 416 692, +44 (0) 7871 572 255
E-mail jfserrabou@gmail.com
Nationality Spanish
Date of birth 16, 11, 1989
WORK EXPERIENCE
4,5 years working at ALTRAN INNOVACION. I’ve worked as SW and HW engineer at Embedded
and Critical Systems department. Currently I work as a Resident Engineer.
• Dates Nov. 2011 – September 2013
• Client INDRA and Servicios Avanzados de Fabricación Electrónica S.L.
• Project Power-Supply Gatebox Development
• Role In SW, I worked on a LED voltage and current display, an error log, and message communications
over RS-232 and RS-485. I also implemented an I2C driver, to communicate to a digital
potentiometer that allowed to tune outputs voltage, and to WR/RD data from a FRAM data
memory.
In HW, I’ve created most of the footprints for the PCB Altium project. I also tested the power supply
in functional and ESD point of view.
• Dates October 2013 – June 2014
• Client ALSTOM TRANSPORT S.A. (France)
• Project Development and fabrication of 9 test benches racks, for a train CPU HW and SW testing.
• Role I worked on the HW development and fabrication of the test benches. Also, I have designed a 48-
channel voltage level shifter PCB, to convert 5V TTL inputs into 24 to 150 Vdc outputs. Developed
with Altium.
• Dates June 2014 – Nov. 2014
• Client Critical Software (Portugal)
• Project Development of test files for an ASIC test bench. Final client was General Electric Aviation (UK).
• Role HW Testing Engineer. Implement testcases in VHDL with ModelSIM.
• Dates June 2015 – Nov. 2015
• Company ALTRAN INNOVACION
• Project R & D involving BLE, Zigbee and wearables.
• Role SW Engineer. Implementing a BLE communication.
• Dates December 2015 – Current Job
• Company Lear Corporation (Spain-United Kingdom-USA)
• Project Jaguar Land Rover PEPS by Lear
• Role Lear Resident Engineer

2. Page 2 - Curriculum vitae of
Serra Bou, Joan Francesc
EDUCATION AND TRAINING
• Dates Oct. 2011 – July 2015
• Name and type of organization
providing education and training
ETSETB, Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC)
• Principal subjects/occupational
skills covered
Ultrasonic Systems. Instrumentation And Applications
System On Chip Physical Design
Custom Smart Adaptive Systems
Microelectromechanical systems
AC Energy Converters; Design, Control and Applications
Modelling, Simulation and Control of Power Electronic Systems
• Title of qualification awarded Master in Electronic Engineering
• Dates Sept. 2010 – Feb. 2011
• Name and type of organization
providing education and training
Erasmus in HTW-Aalen, Hochschule Aalen.
• Dates Sept. 2007 – Feb. 2011
• Name and type of organization
providing education and training
EUETIB , Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC)
• Title of qualification awarded Diploma of Industrial Electronic Engineering
PERSONAL SKILLS
AND COMPETENCES
MOTHER TONGUE Catalan, Spanish
OTHER LANGUAGES English German
C2 A2
Technical skills
and competences
I’m familiarized with typical electronic laboratory equipment, such as oscilloscopes (digital and
analogic), multimeters, power supplies and function generators.
I can design electronics circuits (PCB and Stripboard) or multilayer PCBs with Altium software.
Computer Programs:
M.Office, proficient
Matlab and Simulink, Labview
Electronic circuit simulation programs: Orcad PSPICE, PROTEUS, SPICE
Programming Software PC: C, Python
Programming Microcontrollers: Code Composer Studio (TI’s), MPLABX (Microchip),
CodeWarrior (Freescale)
HW description: Quartus II (Altera), ISE (Xilinx), ModelSIM,
Precision RTL
PCB Design: Altium
FPGA boards familiarized: Xilinx Spartan-3 and Artix-7 used in Master Thesis
ZedBoard audio algorithms
DRIVING LICENCE(S) B acquired on 2008, A acquired on 2009
I’ve my own car in UK