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Senior aerospace engineer with over a decade of hands-on experience in launch vehicle and spacecraft hardware, from experimental rockets (TVC control systems) to orbital transfer vehicles (OTVs). I assembled and led multidisciplinary engineering teams in a NewSpace startup environment, taking two OTV prototypes to orbit and developing complete test facilities from scratch. Strong focus on practical systems thinking, structures and mechanisms, test facilities, and flight integration with tier-1 launch providers.

Languages

Spanish
Native or bilingual
English
Fluent

Workplace preferences

Can work on-site

Buenos Aires (up to 50km)

EPIC Aerospace
Senior Engineer & Team Lead
AVIATION AND AEROSPACE
April 2019 - April 2025 (6 years)
Argentina
• • Built and led a 15-engineer team covering structures, propulsion, piping, avionics and test facilities in a New Space startup focused on OTVs.
• • Designed, contracted and supervised construction of ∼3 hectares of test facilities, including buildings, infrastructure, GSE, and integration areas.
• • Managed approximately USD 1.5M in materials, test equipment and infras tructure for OTV spacecraft and ground systems.
• • Acted as lead for structures and mechanisms, covering both flight hard ware and GSE, in close collaboration with propulsion and avionics.
• • Generated finite-element models in FEMAP and exported .op4 files to SpaceX numerical integration requirements (through FEM department).
• • Supported payload integration in the SpaceX LC-40 PPF clean room, in cluding documentation, mechanical checks and overhead crane operations.
• • Introduced systems engineering practices to improve interface tracking and verification within startup constraints.
• • Achieved delivery of two OTV prototypes in two years each, under demand ing schedules and limited resources.
Aerospace Engineer Spacecraft Team Leadership Test Facilities Flight Integration
CONAE (National Commission on Space Activities)
Research Engineer — TVC Systems
AVIATION AND AEROSPACE
April 2013 - April 2019 (6 years)
Buenos Aires, Argentina
• • Designed and tested thrust vector control (TVC) mechanisms for experimen tal launch vehicles (VEx series).
• • Adapted non-space COTS EMAs (Kollmorgen) for flight, achieving >50% cost reduction.
• • Designed fixed/movable EMA mounts and mechanical interfaces with the gimbaled rocket engine.
• • Designed hardware for LVDTs and encoders, enabling redundant nozzle posi tion sensing.
• • Participated in three launch campaigns including calibration, tests and go/no-go decisions; best performance achieved with VEx-1B.
• • Designed fixtures and procedures for center-of-gravity measurement of the VEx-5 rocket.
TVC Electro Mechanical Actuators Aerospace Engineer Flight Integration Sensors
CMT, Universitat Politècnica de València
Research Fellow — Thermal Engines
RESEARCH
February 2007 - December 2011 (4 years and 10 months)
Valencia, Spain
• • Performed experimental and analytical studies on compressor surge and fluid–acoustic interactions, including test-bench instrumentation, data acquisition setup, Matlab-based analysis, and presentation of performance and stability results.
Test Facilities PhD Diesel Engines Matlab test-bench instrumentation

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PhD Aeronautical Engineering
Univ. Politècnica de València
2011
PhD Aeronautical Engineering
MSc in Aeronautical Engineering
Univ. Politècnica de València
2010
MSc in Aeronautical Engineering