Juan Pijuan Garcia is seeking an engineering position and provides a curriculum vitae summarizing his qualifications. He has over 10 years of experience in IT systems administration, engineering, research, and teaching. Currently, he works as an IT Systems Administrator at a synchrotron light source facility in Spain, where he manages IT services and infrastructure. He holds various technical certifications and has experience in areas such as signal processing, electronics, and project management.

1. Curriculum vitae
PERSONAL INFORMATION Juan Pijuan Garcia
Noucentisme 34 Esc B 1er 2ona, 08720 Vilafranca del Penedès (Spain)
(+34) 633 83 19 84
pijucat@gmail.com
Date of birth 19/07/1984
STUDIES APPLIED FOR Engineer and Master in Research of Information Technologies
WORK EXPERIENCE
01/04/2014–Present IT Systems Administrator
ALBA - Synchrotron Light Source, Cerdanyola (Spain)
I am working as System Administrator at CELLS Computing Division in the IT Systems section. My
area of work is IT Systems support for the beamlines, controls systems, accelerators and standard
desktop.
I am the responsible to manage the IT procurement service and involved in various services as
multimedia, printing and desktop virtualization projects as well as IT maintenance tasks. Collaborated
with the network and IT security group for incidences and maintenances tasks.
Standard desktop is a service that I am doing support, preparing the new equipment and attending the
user incidences or requests, offering fast and optimum solutions.
Involved in a VDI project for the Engineering Division users, solving incidences and following the
performance. Published some applications at Xen App servers and administrator of CITRIX.
I wrote several guides and documentation for CELLS users and for the intranet, with the aim to create
simple and intuitive compositions, using workflows and graphical designs. Obtained the PRINCE2
Foundation certification for Project Management and practice ITIL course, Windows Server 2012 R2
and Active Directory course fulfilled. Obtained other licenses as EPI (Equipo de Primera Intervención),
First Aid course, the External Defibrillation Equipment and the gas manipulation license for SF6,
located in the RF and LINAC waveguides.
13/02/2013–01/04/2014 Synchrotron Operator and RF Engineer
ALBA - Synchrotron Light Source, Cerdanyola (Spain)
I was working as operator of synchrotron facility working in the Control Room as a responsible of the
operation of the machine. Moreover I solved technical incidences and created diagnostic platforms in
order to improve the synchrotron operation.
I have obtained the License of "Radiological FacilityAdvisor" and "Operator of Synchrotron" by
Nuclear Security Council in Spain. On the other hand, I was working at RF group from Accelerator
Division in for the control and diagnostic equipment for the RF Plants, the Low Level RF and statics
automatized operational reports.
Involved on the installation and commissioning of certain RF Systems as Wave Guides CoStubs, IOT
Transmitters, Water flow adjustments and signal control.
01/09/2010–30/09/2012 Research Assistant
Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona (Spain)
I was working in the Bistatic Research Group of Theory and Signal Department of the Polytechnic
University of Catalonia with a design of a Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) system. My objective was
develop a synchronous acquisition system to lock the Radar signals from the satellites Envisat,
Radarsat 2 and TerraSAR and its scattered radiation from a surfaces like Mountains or Building, to
elaborate a high resolution radiometric studies in Interferometry and Polarimetry.
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2. Curriculum vitae Juan Pijuan Garcia
Furthermore, my task was to realise a signal processing simulations with Matlab tool and
programming several devices and instrumentation like FPGA's, Microcontrollers, Synthesizers and
PXI's for specific configurations in order to make experimental acquisitions from ESA (European
Space Agency) satellites and process the signal scattered.
Our Bistatic SAR system is used in several scientific areas like Earth observation, Geology,
Oceanography, Meteorology, Environment science and more others to obtain information from natural
surfaces and its compositions with SAR imagery.
01/07/2010–01/07/2012 Secretarial application teacher
Justice administration (Several Offices) (Spain)
Explanation and teaching the administrative processes for Ministry of Justice sercretaries in order to
create registration and certification for the Civil Registries around Barcelona.
05/10/2009–Present Project manager of five eCommerce shoe stores
Calçats Pijuan, Torredembarra (Spain)
CEO and CIO of five online shoe stores and managing social media promotional campaigns.
Shoes.cat – Shoelfies.com – Espardenya.cat – Sabata.cat – Espadrillesworld.cat
01/09/2009–01/06/2010 Techer
Universitat Politècnia de Catalunya, Vilanova i la Geltrú (Spain)
Teach of Telematics Laboratory and Local Networks Laboratory for students of Telecommunications
Engineering and Computer Science in Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC) at EPSEVG
Campus.
01/03/2009–01/07/2010 Webmaster
Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Vilanova i la Geltrú (Spain)
Designer and programmer of a website for the Telecommunication Department in UPC.
Gathered information about Master and PhD programs of the Universities of EuroNF (Euro Network of
Excellence) via WorkPackage SEA 8.2. Elaboration of syllabus proposals of Information and
Communications Technologies master degrees.
01/07/2008–01/02/2009 R+D Project Coordinator
Caixa Penedès, Vilafranca del Penedès (Spain)
Coordination and design of the Automatic Cashier Application in Technological
Department at Central Services of Caixa Penedès in Vilafranca del Penedès with Flash and Java
technologies. Caixa Penedès researching the statistics of a website with Google Analytics and
Omniture. Studied websites of different international Banks in comparison with Caixa Penedès.
Design and characterization of Mortgage Calculator application for BlackBerry in Caixa Penedès
01/09/2007–01/02/2009 Research and development I+D smart cams
Ecomunicat Electronics, Vilafranca del Penedès (Spain)
Development of Artificial Vision application with an Smart Cam. Set up the algorithms of image
processing in real time for FPGA and 8051 Microcontroller. Elaborate the simulations in order to obtain
the desired results tested with testbenches and Matlab Simulations. Great experience working in a
spin-off R+I+D Electronics Company.
EDUCATION AND TRAINING
01/09/2010–20/09/2012 MERIT MASTER (European Master In Research of Information and
Communication Technologies))
EQF level 6
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3. Curriculum vitae Juan Pijuan Garcia
Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona (Spain)
Signal Processing, Statistics, IP protocols, Antennas, Numerical Methods, Image Processing, Remote
Sensing, Information Theory, Microwave Remote Sensing, Electromagnetic Fields in High Frequency
Applications and others.
01/09/2003–01/02/2009 Engineering in Technical Telecommunications specialized in
Electronic Systems
EQF level 5
Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Vilanova i la Geltrú (Spain)
Electronics, Physics, Communications, Mathematical and IT Systems subjects and projects.
PERSONAL SKILLS
Mother tongue(s) Catalan/Valencian, Spanish
Other language(s) UNDERSTANDING SPEAKING WRITING
Listening Reading Spoken interaction Spoken production
English C2 C2 C2 C2 C2
Levels:A1 andA2: Basic user - B1 and B2: Independent user - C1 and C2: Proficient user
Common European Framework of Reference for Languages
Communication skills I consider that my communication is very polite and friendly writting a emails or for example presenting
a project in a seminar. Moreover, I recognize that I have a wide vocabulary that could be used in a
certain manner depending on the technical level of the audience or ages, for example.
Job-related skills Linux and Windows advanced user.
Monitoring and diagnostic for industrial PCs and servers.
Analogue, Power, Digital and Embedded Electronic Design.
Specification to production (design, prototype, validation and test).
Expert in firmware development in C language for 8/16/32 bits Microcontrollers.
LED Lighting design (Power Electronics, LED & Thermal Design).
Automated Test Equipment Development (Hardware, Software & Test Sequences)
Wide use of lab instrumentation (Power Supplies, Scopes, Multimeters, Spectreal Analyzers,etc.
Expert in Matlab
Expert in signal and image processing
Synthetic Aperture Radar experience and synchronous acquisition system
Digital competence SELF-ASSESSMENT
Information
processing
Communication
Content
creation
Safety
Problem
solving
Proficient user Proficient user Proficient user Proficient user Proficient user
Digital competences - Self-assessment grid
Competent with most Microsoft Office and Libre Office programs and experience with Python, Bash,
Power,Shell,HTML,CSS, PHP, JAVA, SQL, ORACLE, Fireworks, Dreamweaver, Flash,Matlab,
IDL,.Visual Basic,Assembler, VHDL, Verilog, C++ and Open Office.
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Driving licence B
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
References Jordi J. Mallorqui I EEE Member and Advisor of my Thesis
Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
Signal Theory and Communications Department
Campus Nord UPC
D3-211
C/Jordi Girona, 1-3
08034 Barcelona (Spain)
mallorqui@tsc.upc.edu
Phone1: (+34) 934017229
Arnau Pérez Font Director of Marketing of Caixa Penedès BMN
Caixa Penedès Serveis Centrals
Font de l'Ametlló, 11
08720 Vilafranca del Penedès
Espanya
aperezfont@caixapenedes.com
(+34) 93 891 67 00
ANNEXES
▪ Isaac Ramos -Letter of Recommendation.pdf
▪ Juan Carlos Merlano - Letter of Recommendation.pdf
▪ Juan Carlos Rodriguez Silva - Letter of Recommendation.pdf
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Isaac Ramos -Letter of Recommendation.pdf
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Dear Sir/Madame;
I would like to recommend Joan Pijuan as a candidate for a position with your
organization. In him position as Engineering in Electronics and Researcher of
Information and Communication Technologies, Joan was employed in our Remote
Sensing Laboratory of the Polytechnic University of Catalunya (UPC) from 2010 -
2012.
Joan did an excellent job in this position developing the Synchronous Acquisition
System for Bistatic Synthetic Aperture Radar for Interferometric and Polarimetric
Applications. She has excellent written and verbal communication skills, is extremely
organized, can work independently, and is able to elaborate effectively multi-task to
ensure that all projects are completed in a timely manner.
Joan was always willing to offer her assistance and had an excellent rapport with the
many constituents served by our Signal and Communication Department. He would be
an asset to any employer and I recommend him for any endeavour he chooses to pursue.
Yours truly,
Isaac Ramos Pérez
Ph.D in Telecommunication Engineering
Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC)

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Juan Carlos Merlano - Letter of Recommendation.pdf
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LETTER OF RECOMMENDATION
I have great pleasure in recommending Mr Joan Pijuan Garcia in him pursuit of higher
educational qualification – Master’s Degree in Research of Information and
Communication Technologies (MERIT). I have been working with Joan for the past two
years enrolled in the Department of Signal and Communications at the Polytechnic
University of Catalunya - PUC .
He is articulate and can express himself very well both in formal contexts and in
informal discussions. In these years of collaboration in the same department I have
found his ideas to be innovative and creative. This was demonstrated by the work he did
on his project “Synchronous Acquisition System for Bistatic SAR in Wide Swath Mode
and Image Mode”.
He is a person with positive attitude towards life and enjoys him work. I find him to be
a dedicated and industrious student and am confident that he will excel in him higher
studies.
I believe that him endurance and analytical skills will contribute significantly to the
research at your company. I strongly recommend him for future collaboration in
research groups as a Telecommunications Engineer and as a Researcher of Information
and Communication Technologies.
Mr. Juan Carlos Merlano Duncan
PhD: Engineering in Electronics

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Juan Carlos Rodriguez Silva - Letter of Recommendation.pdf
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October 16, 2012
To whom it may concern:
I am pleased to recommend Mr. Joan Pijuan to you. I worked with Joan at
Microwave Laboratory of Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya from September
2010 to September 2012.
He has a good experience with Signal Processing Systems and strong
Electronic Engineering skills. Moreover, he is able to elaborate complex test
bench and simulations with Matlab, to ensure the desired results during the
research developed projects.
Joan positive outlook and professionalism will make him a valuable asset to any
employer or institution of higher learning. Therefore, I strongly recommend Mr.
Joan Pijuan for immediate employment with your company.
Sincerely,
Juan Carlos Rodriguez Silva
PhD – Telecommunications Engineering