Abel Mendes

Background

About Abel Mendes

With 15 years of accumulated experience in technological areas, covering the areas of innovation and development, aerospace, aeronautics, and industry, I have been performing the following roles and duties: Project management related to the development of new products and services; Technical management related to the development of new products and services; Systems architecture senior engineer; Senior project engineer at the development of hardware and embedded software. While performing those roles and duties, I was able to acquire a wide range of technical and management competencies, mainly: Project breakdown and task planning, management of financial, material and human resources, focusing on efficiency, compliance of requirements and deadlines; Coordination, preparation, and submission of complex proposals, covering technical, business and management subjects, for national and international open calls for proposals; Development of highly technological innovative solutions, satisfying a wide range of demanding industrial, aerospace and aeronautics requirements; Project management and integration of technical teams at European consortiums composed of multidisciplinary teams. Among the many systems that I developed or oriented technically during my career, I would like to highlight the following ones: for aeronautics, a telemetry system, that has to resist up to g of constant acceleration and temperature up to 150 ºC; for space, a high-efficiency PCDU (Power Control and Distribution Unit), with triple redundancy (2oo3), envisioned for a future Mars mission; for industry, an innovative low profile AGV (Automated Guided Vehicle) with a payload capacity up to 800 kg, and central differential traction. Currently, I am working on the development of another two AGVs.