Date and place of Birth : 1st of December of 1972 at Geneva (Switzerland).
University
Automation and Industrial Electronics Engineer at ETSEIT (UPC) of Terrassa (Barcelona) since 1995 to 1997, (best score 96/97).
Complementary courses for Electronics Engineering at U.A.B. of Cerdanyola (Barcelona) since 1994 to 1995: Physics for Microelectronics and Programming Fundaments (C language).
Technical Industrial Engineering, Electronics at ETSE of Tarragona (URV) since 1990 to 1994
Technical Secondary School (3rd degree)
Professional course of "Automatic Systems" at I.P.F.P. Comte Rius of Tarragona since 1993 to 1994
Secondary School
BUP and COU at IB of Flix since 1986 to 1990 (university
access score 7,39)
[Che97] Emmanuel Chevalier, Joseph Aguilar Martin, Gil Blanch i Colomb, Jose Luis Mesas Laserna. Hybrid manufacturing line supervision and diagnosis by means of fuzzy rules connected with a causal graph. In Proceedings of the sixth IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems (FUZZ IEEE 97), Vol. 3, pp. 1259-1264. Barcelona, 1997 07 01 - 1997 07 05. ISBN 0-7803-3796-4.
German language courses by European Speech at Tarragona, in 2007-2008.
Team Management course by Business Audit Consulting at Valls, in 2006.
Finance for non financial people course by AC Group at Valls, in 2006.
Finance management course by AC Group at Valls, in 2005.
Human Resources management by Business Audit Consulting at Valls, in 2004.
Confident Project Leadership
seminar
by Wenell
Management AB at Göteborg (Sweden), in 2003
Seminari about new developments in
electrical systems for automotive
by Lear, QRTech,
Evidente and Semcon at Tanum (Sweden), in
2002
- Networks / Systems Integration (QRtech AB)
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Automotive 42 Volts systems (Evidente)
- Infotainment systems for
personal cars (Semcon)
Six Sigma course (Green Belt level) by Lear corp. at Göteborg (Sweden), in 2002
Applied Project Management seminar by Wenell Management AB at Stockholm (Sweden), in 2002
Introduction toDatabus protocols for automotive by QRTech AB at Trollättan (Sweden), in 2000
Introduction toUnigraphics, 3D CAD by GESAB Engineering AB at Trollättan (Sweden), in 2000
ABB S4 Robots, Programming (arc welding) by the Trainning Department of ABB Flexible Automation S.A. at Sant Quirze del Vallès (Spain), in 1998
Total Quality course by the Quality Management School of Barcelona, in 1998
RobCAD basic and RobCAD with module Spot by Tecnomatix, in 1998
Course about Enviromental Impact Avaluation Studies by the Col.legi Oficial d'Enginyers Tècnics de Catalunya, in 1994
Courses by Merlin
Gerin in 1992 - Electricity distribution . Protection
of people
- MIE BT 039. Connetions to ground
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Practrical calculus of shortcircuit currents
- Building
Control Systems (domotics)
Spanish and Catalan: fluent
French: fluent
English: work language at the moment , 603 points of TOEFL score (January of 1998)
Basic skills of German, Swedish, Portuguese and Italian
Since July of 2008 I work as Operations Performance Manager at the Service department of Vestas for the Mediterranean and Latin America.
Since September of 2003 to May 2008 I worked as European Coordinator of EDS Design Optimization. Being the leader of a paneuropean group with members in Sweden, Germany, Poland, Hungary, Rumania, Great Britain, France, Portugal, Spain, Tunisia and Turkey, we worked for SAAB, VOLVO, FORD, OPEL, JAGUAR, PEUGEOT, CITRÖEN, RENAULT and NISSAN. My employer continued to be Lear Corporation, but now I was located in Valls (Catalunya-Spain).
Since May of 2000 to September of 2003 I took the position of EDS Responsible for the SAAB 9-5 at Lear Corporation in Sweden. As EDS Responsible I lead the design team (5 people) on the complete Electric Distribution System of the car.
Since May of 1999 to May of 2000 I worked as Resident Engineer for Electronic/Electric Distribution Systems (EEDS) on automobiles, working for Lear Corporation on the development of the new SAAB models, in Sweden.
Since January of 1998 to May of 1999 I worked as an industrial robot programmer (ABB, KUKA and Fanuc) at the Robotics Department of Serra Soldadura SA ( Barcelona), on spot and arch welding systems for the automotive industry. Working in Spain, France and Germany for different automotive companies.
Research grant from CNRS (France) since October of 1996 to May of 1997 (7 months), at LAAS-CNRS of Toulouse (France), to work at the design and the start-up of a Supervision system (using A.I. techniques) for a bread factory of Heudebert ( Danone groupe). The project, called Hybrid manufacturing line supervision and diagnosis by means of fuzzy rules connected with a causal graph, was an invited session (Fuzzy Techniques in Process Control) at the Sixth IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems, in July 1997 in Barcelona.
Collaboration university-industry stage since July to September of 1995 with ENSA-AUXINI working at the Quality Assurance department in the Steam Generators Replacement Project of the group 1 of the Atomic Power Plant of Ascó.
Collaboration university-industry stage since July of 1993 to
March of 1994 with DOW Chemical
Ibérica, working at the Computers and Maintenance
departments at the Cracker-Tarragona North factory in the developing
and start-up of an automation system for a propane storage plant
(distributed control system with PLC's and SCADA terminal).
Automation
industrial robots ABB, KUKA and FANUC
lasers, laser systems and their applications.
oleo-hydraulic and pneumatic systems.
PLC (hardware and software), Allen & Bradley, Klöckner_Moeller and Siemens.
software for instrumentation & control, Labwindows CVI.
software for control and simulation, Matlab and Simulink.
software for design and simulation of robot cells, RobCAD.
Computer science
basic knowledge about Unix.
software for symbolic mathematics, Maple.
internet user since June of 1997.
web pages, html code (index at http://www.oocities.org/gil_blanch/ ).
other usual PC software (AutoCAD, MS Office...).
Driving license
Spanish driving license A1, A2 and B1 since 1991.
Member of the Grup de Natura Freixe de Flix (environment study and protection) .
Member of the Agrupació Excursionista Talàia at Vila Nova i la Geltrú.
Espeleology course by the Grup Epeleològic Talàia, October 1998
Alpinism course by the Federació d'Entitats Excursionistes de Catalunya, May 1999
10th of April of 2009
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