Paula Fortuny

• Successfully released the BLK2GO handheld imaging laser scanner and guided it from conception to launch to deliver customer value through a disruptive product. • Drive the development of new features and define the roadmap based on customer and business needs. • Work across different functional teams, including hardware and software R&D, project management and production and shape new opportunities in close collaboration with marketing, sales, business development and executive leadership.

• Contribution to business development and to provide value to customers by professional consulting. • Workflow development in the domain of 3D reconstruction from airborne images. • Technical content creation and event management.

As a Product Manager at Autel Europe, I have been working in the product definition and management of a new Fixed Wing Vertical Take-Off and Landing (VTOL) UAV focused on remote sensing applications, like surveying, agriculture, infrastructure inspection or surveillance. I have a strong focus on market, business and customer research in the professional drone industry.

As Quality Assurance Engineer I supervised the development of a Trimble’s software for Deformation Monitoring and Real-Time Networks processing (Trimble Pivot Platform). I was in charge of the definition of software test plans, data integration and processing -from GNSS receivers, Radar and geotechnical sensors- and analysis of the results. I worked closely with software developers and support engineers, helping to provide comprehensive and technical responses to customer requests.

I coordinated different projects, from the project planning phase and the data acquisition campaigns using terrestrial and aerial vehicles (UAV and small aircraft) to the processing and analysis of data from different sensors, like GNSS, INS and cameras, using different navigation and photogrammetric software. I worked in several photogrammetric projects, with different image datasets -RGB, NIR, hyperspectral, thermal- and in the calibration of cameras for photogrammetric applications.

Aerial Photography and Digital Photogrammetry, Advanced GIS, Spatial Data Management, Remote Sensing, Image Processing, Geographical Resource Survey, GNSS. - Master Thesis: "Investigating the application of pansharpening for monitoring urban vegetation"

This engineering includes the study of photogrammetry, remote sensing, GNSS and GIS in relation to the management and interpretation of the environment; as well as the shape and dimensions of the Earth through geodesy.

Development of areas such as mapping, topography, land registry, regional planning, roads, town planning, services and technology. - Thesis: "Theoretical development and study of applications of Galileo and EGNOS systems (GNSS). Analysis of the precision improvement using GPS with EGNOS"