Curriculum Vitae
Candau Sánchez de Ibargüen, José Arturo
José Arturo
Candau Sánchez
de Ibargüen
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Aeronautical and SW
Engineer
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Caballerizas 3, Sevilla, Spain
Aeronautical Engineer with more than 7 years of international experience. Knowledge in the fields
of flight test system analysis, manufacturing planning through simulation, research, software
engineering and stress engineering.
Experience
Nov 2017 Now
Flight Test Data Analysis Engineer. Powerplant & APU systems. GTD.
Sevilla, Spain. On behalf and on site of Airbus Defence and Space. TEAVA
Tasks:
Analyzing A400M Engine and APU systems and their interface with other aircraft systems by means
of studying recorded signals from buses and information from monitoring systems on-board.
Using Flight Test dedicated tools to survey prototype behavior.
Processing of aircraft recordings. Analysis and synthesis of data contained.
Root cause investigation of system malfunctions during operations in preparation for aircraft
delivery to customers and during development campaigns.
Checking and reporting Product Aircraft Test Manuals during production acceptance phase.
Developing automated analysis algorithms through computer programming. Validation of
algorithms and statistical approaches used for the analysis. Support and testing on developments
and definition of methods and tools developed by Means Departments.
Supporting activity during flight test: attendance to briefing meetings before and after tests, real
time follow-up, on aircraft support to flight test engineer during static tests, results analysis and
test report elaboration.
Studying turbomachine vibration environment focusing on elements that have suffered damage or
fatigue related issues not expected in design specification.
Studying correlation between failures in service with engine parameters: oil system pressure and
temperature, power settings, flying conditions …
Interfacing and supporting other departments: DO, Structures, MAP, Programs, FTI, Means
Tools and skills applied: Python, Matlab, Database query, Airbus internal tools, System engineering
Jan 2018 –
Jan 2019
FreelanceSoftware Developer. Remote. Part-time.
Kenaptus. Norwegian start-up
Tasks:
Developing a JAVA interface to read data and metadata from standardized PDF documents from
various industries and formats.
Parsing data extracted using a Python script and producing an ISOSTS version of the original PDF to
interface the KENAPTUS framework of enhanced document navigation.
Versioning control using GIT. Producing executable files and packaging libraries and resources
generated.
Tools and skills applied: JAVA, Python, GitLab, Eclipse
Last update: July 2019
Curriculum Vitae
Sep 2015 Aug 2017
Candau Sánchez de Ibargüen, José Arturo
Manufacturing and research engineer.
Bristol, UK
Contractor on behalf of Airbus UK.
Team leader and responsible for the deliveries. Team size 2.
Project: Numerical Factory Simulation (NFS). Mar 2015 – Aug 2017.
The objective of this project was to study the current manufacturing techniques existing in Airbus and to
produce a set of tools to aid with preliminary phases of factory design, come up with the number of
resources needed (machines, workers, tools, surface, and transportation). Different scenarios and
interfaces of the factory with suppliers were considered.
Tasks:
Studied the state of the art wing factories in Broughton to understand the manufacturing processes
and the change that new disruptive manufacturing capabilities would bring to future factories.
Analyzed the current production planning tools and capabilities within Airbus.
Extended previous tools created to allow for the simulation of other scenarios, technologies and
build philosophies.
Used Discrete Event Simulation along with Agent Based simulation using the Anylogic software
package.
Designed a set of inputs required to run a simulation and implemented the interface with the
simulation software through a Java script.
Optimized the level of resources needed in the factories. Monitored the level of stocks of final and
intermediate products in the simulation and compared them to the levels existing in working
factories.
Analyzed the impact of changes and delay in the supply chain.
Created a Project Management Plan (PMP) to track the project.
Achievements: Tool produced was downselected to serve as the simulation framework for the fuselage
demonstrator in the next generation aircraft initial phases.
Tools and skills applied: Java, Anylogic, Eclipse, Heuristical Optimisation, Design of Experiments
Technical lead and responsible for communication with customers and stakeholders.
Project: QUIET SimPy. Sep 2015 – Mar 2016.
Tasks:
Extended the Python open source library SimPy to perform Discrete Event Simulation adapted to
manufacturing.
Migrated the existing models in the legacy tool QUEST to a full application written in Python.
Validated the results obtained.
Created an excel front end featuring a VBA-Python connection for visualising the results live.
Simulated an aircraft wing manufacture facility using real shopfloor data.
Documented the full project. Handed over the tool and knowledge acquired to the customer.
Tools and skills applied: Python, SimPy, VBA, Delmia QUEST, TDD, UML, CAMTASIA, TDD, UML
Project: Agile Wing Integration Hackathon. Weeks 3 and 42 of 2016.
Tasks:
Agile Wing Integration Project. Lead by Airbus with academic partners and government funding.
Created a series of models and prototypes for a feasibility study previous to large scale tool
developments in the context of the AWI Project.
Lead manufacturing team. Team size 8.
Supported the event organisation.
Presented the results obtained and liaised with the other 2 teams in the hackathon.
Project: Django web server development. 2 months.
Created a web service for our customers to access a visualization tool on data acquired from
factories and processed with JavaScript D3.
Project: A350 Quality survey and prediction. Apr 2016 – Oct 2016
Creation of predictive models for classification and regression problems with data provided by
quality from issues encountered in final assembly line.
Development of visual analytical tools to facilitate the data exploration.
Tools and skills: Data analysis, Spotify, Python
Last update: July 2019
Curriculum Vitae
Jul 2013 Aug 2015
Candau Sánchez de Ibargüen, José Arturo
Software and Stress Engineer. Altran UK. Bristol, UK
On behalf and on site of Airbus UK. ES and EGW.
Project: Topology Toolbox Optimizer. Jul 2013 – Ago 2015.
Tasks:
The purpose of this project was the development of a Python program capable to take design data
and increase its granularity through a stress analysis and a weight calculation.
Interacted with Airbus stress tools (ISAMI, Nastran, Presto, ISAMI) through their APIs and the
automated generation of input files that were ran in batch.
Developed and tested new stress methods for novel technologies under the supervision of Airbus ES.
Derived the weight of components with different technologies and designs.
Achievements: The optimal technology and design combination obtained from our studies will be used
for manufacturing a full scale composite wing that will serve as a demonstrator for the Wing of the future
project.
Project: Landing Gear Weight Estimation. Jun 2014 – Nov 2014.
Partially migrated the Matlab landing gear design script to Python.
Implemented an automatic sorting and scoring algorithm in Python using the weight databases
available.
Documented the full project. Handed over the tool and knowledge captured to the customer.
Tools and skills applied: Python. TDD. UML documentation. Database handling.
Other projects and tasks:
Wrote an Internal Web Interface tool using C# to automate Altran’s ERP absence internal system.
Developed and adapted a python user interface (GUI) application as a framework for the integration
of various load algorithms. Created a customised Python installer.
Training on development of component items written in JAVA for ISight.
Tools and skills applied: C#. Java. PyQt. GUI Design (MVC).
Mar 2012 Dec 2012
Program Manager. Airgrup S.L. Seville, Spain.
Responsible for communication with clients and management of client and procurers relations.
Production control and responsible of deliveries to civil aircraft programs.
Control and monitoring of stock levels in manufactured products, intermediate products and raw
materials for production.
Tools and skills applied: Excel, SAP, VBA, Airbus Supply Chain Portal.
Mar 2011 Mar 2012
Internship in Factory’s Quality for Airbus Spain. Seville, Spain.
Quality Manufacturing. Root cause investigation of quality reports. Non-conformity sheets tracking,
Discrepancy Informs (ID's) control and monitoring, management of production KPI’s.
Master
Thesis
Numerical 4 point bending test for a composite material beam.
Stress. Composites. Airbus test campaign. Python automation.
Last update: July 2019
Curriculum Vitae
Candau Sánchez de Ibargüen, José Arturo
Academic Background
Nov 2012 Mar 2013
University course on Composite Material Calculation and Design.
Universidad de Sevilla
300 hours of theoretical, practical and laboratory lectures on the use and calculations with these
materials in the aeronautical framework.
Jul 2010 Sep 2010
LYDES Project, leadership and professional development.
San Telmo Business School
Intensive Program in developing skills, knowledge and business attitudes. Studying IESE, Harvard
and San Telmo’s business cases.
Abr 2011 Mar 2012
Master in Professional Development (during internship in Airbus)
Universidad de Alcala & CIFF
Aeronautical Engineering Degree and Masters Degree-
Escuela de Ingenieros de Sevilla. Spain.
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4th Year of Aeronautical Engineering
Politecnico di Milano, ERASMUS scholarship.
Languages
Understanding
Speech
Writing
English & Spanish
French
Italian
Software
CATIA V5R18
MATLAB
PYTHON 2.7
C#
JAVA 8
VISUAL BASIC
Nastran - Patran
SAP
OTHERS
SOFTWARE SKILLS
50 h lectures in university degree and occasional use at work.
3 months of experience and use for academic projects.
4 YOE.
3 months of experience.
3 YOE.
1.5 YOE.
2 YOE.
2 YOE.
Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio, Access. High Level, Simulink, Anylogic, QUEST,
Camtasia.
Object Oriented Programming, Repositories, Test Driven Development, Design
Patterns, Agile, Scrum, GUI design, Database programming
References can be provided upon request.
Last update: July 2019
