Premium Loudspeakers for Car Audio Applications

Date: 2021 – 2022. Developed by Harman International. Customers: BMW, Audi, Daimler, Volvo, VW, Aston Martin, etc. Creators: a large team of engineers. Raúl’s contribution: director of engineering, amplifiers and speakers. Market: automotive / Tier 1 supplier. Product category: audio and other multimedia products. Since 2021 Mr. Bartolomé is leading in Europe the engineering group of subject matter experts (SME) for amplifiers and speakers. He and his team lead the development of premium loudspeakers for many OEMs in Europe, such as BMW, Volvo, Daimler, Aston Martin and many others. The development of loudspeakers, commonly called speakers, is a mix of…

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Professional Website with Portfolio, eCommerce and Blog

Date: 2019-2020.Developed by Raúl Bartolomé Castro.Customers: general public with interest in engineering, management and finance.Raúl’s contribution: as developer, designer and administrator.Product category: website. The website https://raulbartolome.com/ is the professional online showcase of Raúl Bartolomé. It is intended to show an excerpt of his professional curriculum vitae, promote the portfolio of projects, download of academics’ documents, sharing of articles in a blog fashion and point of contact. The site is created with WordPress and many other pieces of software. The style and structure was defined by a marketing manager, as a result the website presents a clean, modern and simple structure.…

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Acquisition of Quantitative Finance Data

Date: 2020.Developed by Raúl Bartolomé Castro.Product category: website and quantitative finance. This is an example of financial data acquisition and its representation. The user selects one symbol from the list box and the financial data is updated automatically in the chart. The data rage is completely functional however the search for symbol is not operational. The core of the application is done with R programming language. To make the program integrable in WordPress two steps are followed. Firstly, the application is developed as Shiny app from Rstudio. Shiny apps are made with R and provide the environment for any kind…

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Analog and Digital Audio Amplifiers and Other Multimedia Products

Date: 2017 – 2020.Developed by Harman International.Customers: BMW, Audi, Daimler, Volvo, VW, Aston Martin, Ferrari, etc.Creators: a large team of engineers.Raúl’s contribution: director of hardware engineering in Europe. Projects supervision, team management, escalations management and other managerial tasks.Market: automotive / Tier 1 supplier / multimedia electronics.Product category: audio and other multimedia products. From 2017 to 2020 Raúl was leading the hardware department in Europe at Harman International, a Samsung Company. During this period of time the department developed many audio products and other multimedia products for most of the European OEMs. The products consisted of tenths of acoustic output channels,…

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Brilliance Automotive Huasong 7, a Complete E/E Vehicle Development

Date: 2013 - 2015.Company owner: Brilliance Automotive. Developed by Magna Steyr.Customer: Brilliance Automotive and BMW.Creators: Raúl Bartolomé Castro and many others.Raúl's contribution: resident project manager for E/E in Shenyang, China. Leading the communication between Magna Steyr Austria and Brilliance Auto China among many other duties.Market: automotive.Product category: complete vehicle engineering. In this project Magna Steyr was in charge to engineer the vehicle Huasong 7 for Brilliance Auto. The task included all engineering aspects such as electrical/electronics (E/E) system and components, power train, chassis, interior, exterior, body in white and complete vehicle aspects such as NVH and others. As a project…

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CISIUM, Inc. Company Offering Electrical, Electronic and Software Development Services

Date: 2008 – 2015.Company owners: Raúl Bartolomé Castro and Luis Martinez.Customers: Ciephil Trading, VPI Diabetes Management, Surface Technology International Limited, Lear Corporation, Böning Automationstechnologie GmbH & Co. KG, etc.Raúl’s contribution: co-founder, co-owner, executive director, engineering manger and senior engineer.Market: automotive, consumer electronics, industrial and medical.Product category: engineering services. CISIUM, Inc. was a company that provided an extended palette of electrical, electronic and software development services, offering complete solutions for electronic products and electronic development, software development for PC and web applications, design and implementation of industrial automation infrastructures and integration of electronic instrumentation. CISIUM, Inc. was the partner of many small…

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Electronic Cigarette MiD One with PC Application and Website Portal

Date: 2012 - 2013.Company owner: Janty, Ltd..Developed by Janty, Ltd. and Cisium, Inc.Customers: general public.Creators: Raúl Bartolomé Castro and many others.Raúl's contribution: inventor, engineering manager and chief engineering of the complete system (electronic cigarette, PC application and web application). Additionally, senior engineer for electronic design and firmware development.Market: consumer electronics.Product category: electronic cigarette. Janty MiD (Modular Intelligent Design) was an electronic cigarette that gave the user total freedom in the creation of their individual vaping experiences. It was the first of his kind in 2014 and rapidly copied by competitors in China. The novelty of the invention is protected by…

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Smart Bag, a Prototype Controlled with an Android Application

Date: 2012.Owned and developed by Cisium, Inc.Customers: general public. Creators: Raúl Bartolomé Castro and others.Raúl’s contribution: inventor, engineering manager and chief engineering. Additionally, firmware development and Java for Android coding.Market: consumer electronics.Product category: fashion. This prototype, created by Cisium, Inc., consisted in the electrification and control with smartphone of a bag/purse made with side growing fiber optics. The bag was done by the company LumiGram. They develop a very especial fabric made from fiber optics that grows beautifully in the dark thanks to a source of light. The bag had inside a small module with the batteries and a LED…

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Home Automation System with Wi-Fi Nodes and Wi-Fi Cameras Controlled by Website

Date: 2012.Owned and developed by Cisium, Inc.Customers: general public.Creators: Raúl Bartolomé Castro and others.Raúl’s contribution: engineering manager and chief engineering.Market: consumer electronics.Product category: home automation. There are many automation systems in the marked, but only one exclusively based on Wi-Fi (IEEE 802.11) and oriented for a home environment, it is coming from the hand of CISIUM, Inc.. In this article we explain and provide the material for an open source and open hardware Wi-Fi Home automation system. The principles of our proposal are: Easy to use, targeted for people without technical background.Without the necessity of any technician to install the automation…

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Mental Coaching Services Website

Date: 2012.Developed by Cisium, Inc.Customers: general public. Creators: Raúl Bartolomé Castro and others.Raúl’s contribution: as engineering manager and senior software developer.Product category: website. The website offers online health coaching to enhance the well-being of individuals and to facilitate the achievement of their health-related goals and is specialized in alternative medicine. life balance, nutrition, relaxation and mental training. With the motto "You do not know to what you are capable. Find it out!. Beside the light and fresh design, the website distinguishes from others by its good well structures content, user friendly and intuitive navigation, social share features to the most…

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PCBA for Lens Polishing Machine Haruchika HP-043

Date: 2011.Owned and developed by Cisium, Inc. Customers: industrial companies.Creators: Raúl Bartolomé Castro and others.Raúl’s contribution: project manager, engineering manager and chief engineering. Additionally, senior engineer for electronic design and firmware development.Market: industrial.Product category: industrial automation. The scope of this project is an obsolete industrial machine without manufacturer support. The system automation was implemented with a full custom board, using discrete electronic components in an analog and digital electric nature. The target was to fix the machines, replacing the damaged boards with a new control system. During the systematic analysis of the machine and solution cases, we decided to reject…

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Engineering Consulting and Video Seminars Website

Date: October 2009 - January 2010.Developed by Cisium, Inc. Customers: general public. Creators: Raúl Bartolomé Castro and othersRaúl’s contribution: as engineering manager and senior software developerProduct category: website This web site is dedicated to the teaching of Electromagnetic Compatibility (EMC), Signal Integrity (SI), Power Integrity (PI), protection against Electrostatic Discharges (ESD) and techniques to be controlled the electromagnetic interference in circuits containing logic high-speed microcontrollers. The website showcases books written by the owner, technical article and also offers online consulting services. The website has an integrated virtual store that allows offering audio and video seminar in Windows Media Video, Quick…

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