Industrial engineer and founder of Ideambox. Product development for the automotive and aeronautical industries across Europe, America and Asia — from the Murcia countryside to Taipei, by way of Valencia, Paris, Barcelona, Shanghai and Michigan.
Eleven stops, three continents. Tap each point to see what happened there.
Education, factories and a company of his own — the story, in order.
Born in Alguazas, a small town on the Segura river plain. Growing up among orchards and workshops, he becomes fascinated with how things are made — and takes them apart to find out.
Universitat Politècnica de ValènciaWhere it all begins: technical drawing becomes a calling. Bancaja Foundation Award for the best Final Project (2000).
First stint abroad: an intensive English course in Reading. The language that would later become his daily working tool across three continents.
Universidad Politécnica de CartagenaFull industrial engineering degree with a mechanical focus, overlapping at the end with his first professional steps.
ESTACA · ParísAn Erasmus year at Paris's transportation engineering school: CAE, simulation, and a first life outside Spain.
MTorresFirst job, in aeronautics: aircraft assembly tooling in CATIA V5 and structural simulation with ANSYS LS-DYNA, under the technical supervision of Airbus, Boeing and CASA. Contributes to an offshore wind-powered desalination plant.
Nissan Industrial VehiclesThe jump into automotive, in Barcelona: brake systems, finite element analysis and design-change releases for industrial vehicles.
Ficosa InternationalTechnical owner of gear-shift programs from quote to start of production: Opel Corsa, Ford Focus, Renault Espace and the Fisker Karma's shift-by-wire push buttons. Rapid prototyping, additive manufacturing and APQP/PPAP.
ESERP Business & Law SchoolAn MBA alongside the Ficosa day job: engineering meets the business perspective that would later make Ideambox possible.
Ficosa International · Taicang plantFive years living in Shanghai and working at the Taicang plant, leading the command-and-control technical team, a $45M/year business: hiring and training the local team, rolling out IATF 16949, and programs for GWM, Geely, Volvo, Toyota, Chevrolet, Nissan, DPCA and Qoros.
Ficosa International · NAFTAIn the heart of America's car industry: the division's NAFTA roadmap, technical presentations to FCA, General Motors and Hyundai, and a team of 10 engineers. 20% fewer design issues through periodic design reviews and APQP.
Great Wall MotorsChief engineer and SbW technical expert at China's biggest SUV maker: design and launch of the validation laboratory and production line, a multidisciplinary team of 15 and an $800k budget. Two gear-shift assembly patents (2016, 2017).
Ideambox · TaipéiHis own company, founded in 2011 and run full-time since he moved to Taipei: strategic product engineering and manufacturing in Asia for global clients. Advanced optimization (FEA, topology, lightweighting), a supplier network across China and Taiwan, and product validation from prototype to series.
Digital products, hardware and ventures in motion between Taipei and Spain.
Product-engineering studio in Taipei, founded in 2011: taking founders and companies from idea to factory — industrial design, CAD, electronics, prototyping, validation and manufacturing in Taiwan and China. 80+ products and prototypes and a network of 30+ vetted suppliers.
The gear shifter, reinvented: a three-dimensional shift-by-wire touch screen with its own gestures and integrated feedback that replaces the gear lever. US patent 10,975,957 (2021), pitched to carmakers and automotive Tier-1s.
A 1,500-lumen smart headlamp, the first designed around the human eye's peripheral vision. Full development since 2016 — optics, electronics, BLE firmware and manufacturing — with a luminaire assembly patent (2019) and a caving variant on the way.
A platform for selling your home with confidence: compare two or three verified independent agents from your own micro-area, with no hidden commissions. Piloting in the Málaga neighbourhoods of El Atabal and Puerto de la Torre.
Finds exact duplicate files in OneDrive, Google Drive and Dropbox with nothing to install, and sends them to the recoverable trash in one click. Cloud cleanup without surprises.
The app that shows the exchange rate your bank actually applies — card, ATM, cash and transfer — across 500+ banks in 34 countries. On Google Play, with iOS on the way.
Frictionless e-invoicing for Taiwan: small businesses set up and issue official e-invoices from a phone or iPad, with no dedicated terminal and no paperwork.
A living map of the local music ecosystem: schools, teachers, rehearsal rooms, instruments and events, verified and connected to each other. In development.
Complete rebuild of the website and online shop of Lin's Culture, a Taiwanese house of traditional Chinese music: from WordPress to a custom bilingual platform.
Trilingual website (traditional Chinese, simplified Chinese and English) for master Lin Ku-jen's bamboo flute atelier, including his audiovisual archive.
Managing and playing for Team Spain at the World Cup Taiwan, the football tournament of the island's international communities. Several editions wearing the shirt.
Aerial photo and video series by drone: the eroded formations of Bolnuevo, the Mazarrón coastline and Taiwanese landscapes, between 2016 and 2020.
Expert in product development and engineering optimization, with a track record at PSA, Volvo, GM, Ford, Toyota, Nissan, Great Wall Motors, Geely and Airbus. Chief engineer at Great Wall Motors, advanced engineering manager at Ficosa and, since 2019, founder of Ideambox in Taipei: engineering and manufacturing in Asia for global clients.
What he does best is taking products from prototype to series production: advanced analysis and simulation, materials and manufacturing optimization, validation and test management, and multicultural teams on both sides of the planet.