Joel Ramirez

I’m Joel Ramirez, Senior Data acquisition engineer and failure Analysis by EDAG Mexico, I was born in Minatitlan Veracruz on March 29 1990.
I’m married with Keren, we have 2 little princesses, they are Zabdy and Libny, of course, our daughters. I have
founded my faith on Christianity religion, and my principles are based on the Holy Bible, the main reason to be founded on it is the next word:
“Therefore, all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them…” MTW 7:12 KJV
That is my living rule

Integra Automation Programming Engineer
November 2012–May 2016
As programming engineer, I was in charge to create sequences for
industrial PLCs and automation process, I had to analyze a lot of
client assembly process that they needed to automated.
I got experience on Siemens, BECKHOFF, Allen Bradley and
Hirschmann brands, getting some certifications on BECKHOFF and
Hirschmann brands like specialist on automation and networks
specialist. My greatest challenge on this company was to take my
first international business travel, with the goal of get the TwinCat 3.1
and TwinSafe certification in Verl, Germany and there were other
challenges like to improve communications skills and things like that.
At the end I got another opportunity to grown up in other company
and I leave Integra Automation with the same goal, be better where
I am.
Silice del Istmo Maintenance Engineer
May 2016–July 2016
The passage through this company was short, but it was good. In this
job position I was in charge of maintenance and calibration
scheduling and I was responsible for sensors commissioning and
PLC’s sequences modifications. Sometimes I was supporting the
technical point of view for purchases of new equipment and so on.
A challenge on this company was to enable a Water treatment
plant that didn’t works correctly for 3 years, I was in charge for PLC
commissioning and the plant works again. I leave the company to
start in a job position that turned off all my interest on automation
process and started my career again.
Volkswagen Mexico Development Engineer
July 2016–October 2018
I’ve started my interest on automotive industry when I got this job
position, it seems before I was involved on assembly process and it
was nice, but in July 2016 I got my first touch with this industry in the
development process. As Development Engineer I had
responsibilities in measurement, test and validation areas, my main
task it was the commissioning of hardware for testing cars, this was
to support with reliable data the product releases. At the end I got
this job position contract by a project that has ended on October
2018 and I leaved the company. In VWM I got experience running
test on Proving Grounds and Climate chambers. These tests were
focused complying with governments laws like FMVSS103, and so on.
EDAG Mexico Test and Validation Engineer
October 2018–July 2022
After leaving VWM, I got other job position in EDAG Mexico, this is a
company that offer services for a lot of automotive brands around
the world. On behalf of VWM I took responsibilities in measurement
area as well, to validate the performance of VW brand cars, in the
same position I was in charge of data acquisition hardware, so I
worked with VECTOR hardware and another brands like IMC, CSM,
Dewesoft and so on. I was in charge of commissioning and running
test, furthermore I was in charge for signal analysis and to
determinate the root cause of some issues in each sample car.
In this job position I was the support for some test drive to analyze the
root cause for a lot of issues related with driving performance, each
claim in these test drive shall be supported with data acquired on
vector|imc|csm|dewesoft equipment.

Stellantis Mexico Development and Validation Engineer
July 2022–November 2022
Growing up on this career I got another job position by Stellantis Mexico,
where I was responsible for development and validation of automatics
transmission in RAM Brand, I was in charge of validation for each
modification on MY25 automatic transmissions. At the end it was a big
challenge because I participate in a lot of multicultural meetings, where
I was following up issues and assembly process for testing. I was
supporting for some PO’s and some test for that transmission.
EDAG Mexico Sr. Data acquisition engineer
Nov 2022–Present Job
This job position was able because Volkswagen needed a experienced
guy in data logger area, so they was in touch with me and offer me to
go back, In this job position I work by durability department on behalf of
Volkswagen of Mexico and I’m in charge of data acquisition equipment
and support for test drive around the world. Maintenance and Updates
for equipment are on my charge as well.
The first challenge on this job position it was to analyze and know how to
migrate the old equipment for new technology based on evolution
technology curve but is a good goal that I want to lead to get better
results and to have a good performance on our department.
I’m in charge of programming and configure for dataloggers and for
special instrumentation required by internal clients. This is about
automotive ethernet instrumentation and thinks like that

Universidad Veracruzana
June 2008 – May 2012
I got my BCE degree on Instrumentation and Electronic on 2012 by
Universidad Veracruzana.
While I was in the University I had a lot of challenges, but that
increased my mood and my knowledge about electronic sciences.
I participated on electronic congresses as an intern in the research
department in this University. I took place on several researches
focused on VLSI design, integrated circuits and bioelectronic topics.
The greatest challenge that I had was to participate on research
about Sorting Networks and the state of art of VLSI deign, in this
research I was in charge of simulation of computer algorithms that
after these simulations would be implemented like an integrated
circuits for image filtering, the main goal was to reduce the
computing time when a noising image is processed.
It was a good time!
I was graduated by a good GPA of 96 on May 2012 and I got my
professional ID (7848903) by my alma mater, The University from
Veracruz, Mexico.
CBTIs 48 Acayucan, Veracruz Mexico
June 2005 – May 2008
My interest about electronic science began when I was 13, because
I liked to know how Integrated circuits works, due this interest I chose
to study in a High School with technical careers. While I was studying
this electronic technical career I participated on a lot of knowledge
competitions, focused on programming and physics topics, with
these two mixed interests I got another interest for automation and
robotics science and I enjoyed to work on programming sequences
on microcontrollers and microchips to automate somethings in my
house, I got another hobby. I got an interest on domotics topics. At
the end I got a degree as electronic technician by CBTis 48 in
Acayucan, Veracruz Mexico with a GPA of 98.