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,…

Date: 2010.Company owner: Lear Corporation.Developed by Cisium, Inc. Customer: internal user of Lear Corporation.Creators: Raúl Bartolomé Castro and many others.Raúl’s contribution: engineering manager, project manager and lead engineer.Market: automotive.Product category: data codification. In the scope of the single activities related to electronic hardware engineering support, CISIUM has perform the review of an electronic component data base of more than 6000 part numbers. The database belongs to one of the biggest companies in the automotive sector. The review, supervise, wrap up in term of electronic attributes and datasheets, have been done closely with the top electronic components specialist of the company and has…

Date: 2005 - 2009.Developed by Lear Corporation. Customers: Nissan, Renault, BMW and Mitsubishi.Creators: Raúl Bartolomé Castro and many others.Raúl's contribution: senior hardware engineer. Responsible of electronic design, electronic component selection, schematic design, PCB supervision and review, EMC review, DFMEA, FTA, etc.Market: automotive / Tier 1 supplier.Product category: control and power distribution. Smart Junction Box (SJB) integrates passive junction box features with electronic module functionality. It uses microcontroller based technology to switch power and control vehicle body functions. SJB technology utilizes a total systems approach by optimizing and integrating control and power distribution functions into a single module. SJB replaces relays…