Carlos G.

▪Responsible for organising and maintaining for the purchase of all goods, services and contracts. Also ensuring the smooth supply of material, consumables and equipment to the company. ▪ Controlling the purchase and supply of all procured items & services. ▪ Negotiating price and terms of products with suppliers. Managing, developing & improving the purchasing team. ▪ Establishing terms, pricing, quality requirements, delivery, and contracts. ▪ Reviewing all contracts/agreements to achieve ‘best price/best quality’ purchasing. Preparing & processing requisitions, purchase orders & invoices for purchases. ▪ Sourcing Strategy for the delepoment of project. ▪ Making recommendations & advising senior management on all purchasing issues. ▪ Managing vendor relationships and building effective supply chain partnerships.

▪ Working with existing customers to help them get the most out of the products they have bought. ▪ Liaising with both current and potential clients to develop existing and new business opportunities. ▪ Identifying client requirements. ▪ Reviewing customer drawings, plans and other documents in order to prepare detailed technical proposal for them. ▪ Offering after-sales support services. ▪ Conveying solution benefits to both business and technical audiences. ▪ Conveying customer technical requirements to the Internal Engineering teams. ▪ Maintaining existing, long-term relationships with customers; ▪ Travelling to visit potential clients. ▪ Negotiating tender, contract terms and conditions. ▪ Maintaining professional working contact with key suppliers and third parties

▪ Search for new customers; ▪ Provide pre-sales technical assistance to the customer ▪ Provide supporting services after-sales; ▪ Participation in trade shows and conference;

Master´s thesis title: Effect of lanthanum addition in ductile cast iron ▪ Project Proposal: Study the effect of lanthanum addition on the minimization of porosity in ductile cast iron 1) Study of the lanthanum effect when added as a inoculant, compared to other common inoculants for nodular cast iron melts; 2) Study of the lanthanum effect when added to the ladle in the form of different alloys (cerium-mischmetal and lanthanum-ferrosilicon alloy); ▪ Techniques applied: 1) Metallographic analysis; 2) Cooling curve analysis ( thermal analysis); 3) Porosity analysis;

▪ Study of sound absorption capacity of metallic foams, particularly in aluminium foams with commercial designation Alporas. This project focused on knowing what the attenuation mechanisms are responsible for acoustic performance of the cellular materials and how it is possible to optimize the acoustic performance; ▪ Development of a standing wave tube, for measurement of the sound absorption coefficients; ▪ Study of the applicability of the aluminium foams in car exhausts;

▪ Study the influence of heat treatments on mechanical properties of aluminium-copper alloys; ▪ Acquisition of knowledge and practice in micro-hardness measurement, shear tests, analysis of image obtained by transmission and scanning electron microscope, analysis of X-ray diffraction diagrams;