Joan Amate

Building professional audio systems

Terrassa, Catalonia, Spain

About

Telecommunication Engineer and Executive MBA specialized in product development of professional audio systems with main focus in embedded systems and digital signal processing. Continously working with suppliers and customers abroad, in multinational enterprises and SMEs. As R&D manager, developed tasks related to product creation process definition, product innovation, collaborative projects and definiton of R&D policies from the business strategy. Specialties: Audio signal processing, audio power amplifiers, communications Business strategy, innovation, process definition and development

Experience

  • Amate Audio (Greater Barcelona Metropolitan Area)
    • Chief Technology Officer
      Sep 2007 - Present · 18 yrs 10 mos

      Project managment of new product developments. Coordination of internal and external development teams. Creation of processes and good design practices. Connection with sales and marketing for product definition and launch strategies. DSP and microcontroller programming.

    • Product Development Engineer
      Oct 2002 - Aug 2007 · 4 yrs 11 mos

      Design and implementation of power amplifiers and DSP audio systems for Master Audio. Microcontroller and DSP programming PCB design Creation of line test services Project guidance from the idea to the production phase

  • Project Engineer at Philips Speech Processing
    Sep 2000 - Aug 2002 · 2 yrs

    Software development of speech recognition algorithms for embedded systems, with emphasis in speaker-dependent words. Working in implementation in industry projects (mobile phones, handsfree carkits) with international customers.