Diego Bartolome
MSc and PhD in Electrical Engineering from Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, with MSc in Management and Business Administration from Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Currently working as CEO at Ta with you.
| Headline: | Entrepreneur |
| Website: | http://www.tauyou.com/blog |
| Skills: | Business, Electrical Engineering, Engineering, Entrepreneurship, Management |
| Location: | Sabadell - Barcelona |
| Interested in: | Brainstorming, Finding business partners, Finding cofounders, Finding team mates, Meeting new people, Professional opportunities, Promoting my startups, Recruiting for my startup |
| Tags: | image to text, machine translation, mobile, speech, text to image, text translation |
WORK EXPERIENCE
| Employer: | Ta with you |
| Position: | CEO |
| Time period: | May 2006 - Present |
| Description: | Strategic planning, fundraising, product definition, sales, marketing, human resources, IPR
management, partner negotiation, technical lead ... We break languages barriers, for our most recent news, please see our blog: www.tauyou.com/blog |
| Employer: | CTTC |
| Position: | Technology Transfer Project Manager |
| Time period: | October 2005 - June 2007 |
| Description: | Reporting to the Technology Transfer Area Director, my main duties were:
1) Project management control: 5 strategic internal testbeds and 4 industrial projects. 2) Patent portfolio creation and management: 7 international patents filled and 3 in preparation. 3) Business development with local and international companies. 4) Management support to engineering technical director: proposed to Director a career framework for the Engineering group to reduce personnel rotation. |
| Employer: | Aida Centre RFID Solutions |
| Position: | Patent consultant |
| Time period: | March 2005 - March 2006 |
| Description: | Reporting to the CEO, I started and managed the RFID IPR portfolio involving patents and utility models (contact me for details). |
| Employer: | Gedas Iberia (T-Systems) |
| Position: | Consultant Project Manager |
| Time period: | November 2004 - October 2005 |
| Description: | Reporting to the Group Manager at Gedas, my main tasks involved:
1) Key account management. 2) Leading the deployment of Gedas/SEAT systems in 6 European countries (automatic notice, vehicles campaigns management). 3) Coordination of a small team (5 SEAT/Gedas members). 4) IT strategic consultancy to the SEAT intermediate management. |
| Employer: | CTTC |
| Position: | Researcher |
| Time period: | December 2002 - November 2004 |
| Description: | Under the supervision of my PhD Thesis Advisor,
1) I participated in the European Project Marquis, two Networks of Excellence, wrote new research project proposals, etc. which helped the initial development of the CTTC. 2) Led 3 MSc students on Game Theory applied to communication networks and WiFi networks simulation. 3) Besides the previous Engineer tasks, the overall outcome of the PhD thesis are 5 journal articles and about 20 conference papers with more than 185 citations in total (December 2008). |
| Employer: | Technical University of Catalonia |
| Position: | European Project Engineer |
| Time period: | October 2000 - November 2002 |
| Description: | Reporting to the Project Manager,
1) I participated intensively in the European project UniLAN (receiver antenna algorithms for WiFi systems): made proposals and presentations, wrote deliverables, attended meetings, etc. 2) I cooperated with CEA-LETI (Grenoble) to implement in DSP the designed algorithms, which resulted in several joint publications and a testbed. |
| Employer: | Motorola Labs |
| Position: | Research assistant |
| Time period: | January 2000 - July 2000 |
| Description: | Under the supervision of a Research Engineer, I was involved in the design of PHY-MAC link
adaptation algorithms for WiFi systems. |
| Employer: | Bosch |
| Position: | Research Assistant |
| Time period: | June 1999 - August 1999 |
| Description: | Reporting to the Project Manager, I was involved in the Digital Radio Mondiale (DRM, digital AM) research project. |
| Employer: | Generalitat de Catalunya |
| Position: | Systems manager |
| Time period: | June 1998 - January 2000 |
| Description: | Reporting to the Group Manager, my main tasks were:
1) Mail program administration (sendmail in Unix systems) for more than 80000 users and 3 main user groups (internal, teachers and students). 2) General system administration tasks. 3) Set up a Catalan <-> Spanish translator for teachers. 4) Proposed and evaluated new opportunities. |
INFORMATION
| Awards: | (2008) Winners of the Top Catalan Innovator Award in the Mobile Asia Congress.
(2008) Finalists (Pamplona session) in the European Venture Contest Award 2008. (2008) Semi-finalists at Techcrunch 50. (2008) Best start-up in Sabadell. (2007) Participants in the International Technology Forum. (2007) Finalists (Pamplona session) in the European Venture Contest. (2007) Finalists of start-ups Pavilion within SIMO. (2007) Finalists in the entrepreneur contest of Caixa Manresa. (2007) 1st prize in the 3rd Entrepreneurs' prize in the tourist sector. (2007) Granted for a booth in Mobile World Congress 2007 (within Catalan Pavilion). (2007) Finalists in CIDEM prize for startups. (2006) Finalists in Proyecto NETI for technology-based startups. Personal (2003-2004) Granted by the Catalan Government and CTTC for the last part of the PhD. (1995) Granted 1st year of University degree because of outstanding high-school performance. |
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Ta with you
Ta with you offers human quality machine translation solutions for any platform including mobiel devices, to reduce costs in more than 40% and delivery times. We market our technology in a SaaS model, being able to work in any language pair.