David Fernandez

Executive | M.S. Engineering | Industrial Operations | R&D Development | PMO | Digital transformation | Multicultural | Manufacturing | Dx Biotech | Medical Devices

Catalonia, Spain

About

I’m a Technical Leader working in the company of the future. My expertise includes project design and management, portfolio leadership, program management and P&L Management. I enjoy generating new ideas for innovation, working in a multicultural environment due to my international experience. I can work with pressure and able to apply new ideas to reduce the waste in the process flow, supply chain and creating new viable manufacturing and engineering processes. My colleagues would describe me as a great leader with a lot of enthusiasm creating value for the company. A person capable of developing a great team with a proactive, positive attitude with a great capacity of problem solving and risk management. Currently, I’m seeking leadership opportunities that will allow me to develop and promote technologies that benefit human health. Specific fields of interest include manufacturing operations, R&D, , supply chain, engineering, scrum, and medical devices.

Experience

  • Beckman Coulter Diagnostics (Full-time · 3 yrs 1 mo)
    • Head of EMEA Customer Service, Automation & Clinical IT Solutions
      May 2026 - Present · 2 mos

      Reporting to the head of EMEA Customer Service oversee the regional Workflow Automation & IT Solutions Customer Service team delivering end‑to‑end complex solution installations and ongoing customer support. Strong leadership skills, communication, problem solving and process improvement capabilities in a commercial environment. • Lead, coach, and develop a team of about 60 across EMEA; build succession pipelines and elevate technical & customer skills. • Own the planning and execution of complex, multi‑site installations of our Automation Systems and Clinical IT solutions implementing standardized playbooks: discovery, design validation, readiness checks, pilot, go‑live, hypercare. • Map and optimize customer and internal workflows to reduce cycle time, handoffs, and error rates introducing automation and tooling to improve provisioning, configuration, and incident triage in our installation cycle. • Oversee tiered support operations with SLA adherence, proactive monitoring, and root cause elimination. Drive a “fix‑forward” culture: permanent corrective actions, knowledge base updates, and prevention. • Establish governance: stage‑gates, risk/issue management, change control, and executive reporting, ensuring compliance with EMEA regulatory requirements (privacy, data residency, security) and local regulations & standards. • Partner with Commercial on solution scoping and handover; align with Field Service for escalations and roadmap. Coordinate with PMO for installation prioritization, capacity planning, and forecasting. • Own regional resourcing model, utilization, and workforce planning; balance in‑house and partner capacity managing budgets and cost controls while maintaining quality and customer outcomes.

    • Senior Manager , Systems, Software & Automation, Customer Support
      Jun 2023 - May 2026 · 3 yrs

      Reporting to the Global Support Tech Support (GPTS) Establish departmental goals to align with business objectives using Danaher Business System (DBS) tools to achieve results. Identify and solve complex, operational and organizational problems, leveraging the appropriate resources within or outside the department. Forecast staffing requirements and develop staff to ensure that skill levels are commensurate with the requirements of all activities. Drive new product development deliverables and support activities as well as communicate their status to line management and as necessary, other business units. Maintain a strong on-going knowledge as well as QS compliance with latest agency regulatory requirements (e.g. CFDA, FDA, NMPA, Health Canada, JPAL, IVDR) and applicable standard requirements (e.g. ISO 13485, 14001). Ensure that department activities comply with company standards and procedures. Develop, direct and execute plans for major segments of complex projects Take a leadership role in developing and implementing new techniques and initiatives to enhance Automation portfolio

  • Senior Director , R&D Instrumentation & Software at Grifols
    Sep 2017 - Nov 2022 · 5 yrs 3 mos

    Reporting to the Senior Vice President (SVP) of Manufacturing, Quality and Regulatory. Responsible worldwide of R&D for instrumentation and software engineering (100+ people) in Diagnostic Business Unit. Manage new product development in In Vitro Diagnostic (IVD) area. Including new analyzers and laboratory software in blood screening and clinical diagnostics. Responsible to work in the future laboratory, promoting the digital transformation to improve efficiency and reduce patient risk. Working in the Portfolio Management Team introducing new products in the pipeline and managing project gates and KPIs. Managing a development budget of more than 30 MEUR/year and successful integration of Nucleic Acid Testing (NAT) Analyzers in an automated track.

  • Director, Project Management at Ficosa North America
    Nov 2015 - Sep 2017 · 1 yr 11 mos

    Reporting the Ficosa North America CEO. I was responsible to monitor projects evolution and support Projects Managers’ activity and monitor project KPI's for North America operations including all the Mexico and USA plants. Achieve the profitability target during the development project life-cycle Responsible of the Tooling P&L in cost saving activities. Achieve Cost saving activities regarding all programs in production Support the Sales Area in the improvement of the customer relationship - Successful launch of several products like Audi Q5 and VW Atlas in Mexico and Tennessee factories.

  • Business Group Director - Customer Group CEO at FICOSA
    Feb 2013 - Nov 2015 · 2 yrs 10 mos

    Reporting to Ficosa Asia Pacific CEO. This job responsibilities were: - To define the strategy in order to obtain the objective of the including business plan & sales strategy development for his group of Customers acting as CEO for them . - To lead the business development and sales activities through the KAMs (Key Account Managers) - Sales target was achieved 3 consecutive years. - To lead the Projects Managers supervising the progress through Total Cost, Total Profit and internal development methodology from RFQ until all project life.. - To anticipate client needs and develop and strengthen the customers’ relationship through visits, presentations of offers, being the main Customer contact. - To investigate and predict market evolution. To analyze new tendencies. - To carry out competition market studies and innovation. - To carry out the Road Map of client profitability ensuring: - To achieve the profitability target during the project life-cycle, defining action plans when needed and supporting the Sales Area to defend product price increases due to fluctuation of the raw materials, engineering changes, etc.

  • Ficosa China 法可赛•中国 (Full-time · 7 yrs 8 mos)
    • R&D Technical Director
      Apr 2008 - Feb 2014 · 5 yrs 11 mos

      Reporting to Ficosa Asia Pacific CEO. This job responsibilities were: -In charge of Ficosa Asia-Pacific R&D Centre. Technical Design Centre with more than 100 people - Responsible of developments in accordance with the client specifications and the objectives defined for the projects in quality, price and timing matters - To manage R&D KPIs and monitor them -To establish priorities in its teams (development, laboratory, metrology, IQ) ensuring an appropriate projects development applying the standards defined by Corporate Masters. -To ensure the technical development of the profiles under its area. -To take technical decisions like buck up Intellectual Property IP. - TO lead Product Innovation in Asia Region. - To manage P&L development budget of Asia R&D Centre. -To be responsible for obtaining local lower development costs. -To keep in touch with the clients advanced engineering department. -To manage its group, guaranteeing effectiveness, development and motivation. - To work in design changes to improve product costs in several million Eur.

    • Director, Project Management
      Mar 2007 - Apr 2008 · 1 yr 2 mos

      Reporting to Ficosa Asia Pacific CEO. This job responsibilities were: - Ensure, through continuous support, training and supervision, the achievement of the defined profit, cost, investment, quality and timing goals for the projects lead by the Project Manages under his/her responsibility. -To monitor projects evolution and support Projects Managers’ activity ensuring that they respect always the internal development methodology (FDS), they use the tools defined by FICOSA (TC/TP profitability business model, Change Management …) and the procedures required by the customer. -To achieve the profitability target during the project life-cycle, defining action plans when needed and supporting the Sales Area to defend product price increases due to fluctuation of the raw materials, engineering changes, etc. -To support the Sales Area in the improvement of the relationship with the through visits, presentations, etc. -To prevent projects’ deviations in development / quality / timing and define action plans when needed.

    • Senior Manager, Process Projects and Engineering Lead
      Jul 2006 - Mar 2007 · 9 mos

      Reporting to Ficosa China Plant Director. This job responsibilities were: Process Manager responsible of Ficosa China production plant, including process development activities and production support like Maintenance, Preventive Maintenance. Also responsible of Lean Manufacturing and Continuous improvement activities to improve productivity and Quality. Responsible of Capex ivestments and production KPIs