Juan is a Naval Architect and Marine Systems Engineer. Entrepreneurial by nature and passionate about the most complex engineering problems, his first project (Proyecto SIRENA) drove the development of solar powered AUVs.
 

Juan subsequently moved into industry as a Naval Architect working in the S80+ submarine program, quickly growing to lead an engineering team first in the S80+ and later in the Indigenous Defence Submarine Program in Taiwan.
 

Recently, Juan has been working with leading USV manufacturers including Sea-Kit and ASV, developing long endurance USVs.