ABOUT
Electronic Engineer and Mechanical Engineer
I started my studies in electronic engineering at the National Technological University, Buenos Aires, Argentina in 2009. I finished the undergraduate degree, which lasts 6 years, after returning from Antarctica in 2019. But also in 2005 I began to study mechanical engineering simultaneously, said undergraduate degree is 5 years, at the same public university. I have 60% of the completed degree. ➛Click here to read my paper about Solar Energy
Antarctic Base Marambio
In charge of seven scientific projects for one year at the Argentine Antarctic base Marambio: Atmospheric Sciences, Seismology, Glaciology and Antarctic Marine Biology, in conjunction with institutes from Argentina, Italy, Spain and Germany. ➛Click here to learn more about my work in Antarctica
Abampere-Schneider Electric Argentina
Systems integrator certified by Schneider Electric as EcoXpert Critical Power Master, involved in energy efficiency projects analysing data and making proposals to improve industrial plants electrical systems. Click here to know more about my work as: Network and Field engineer
Abampere-Schneider Electric Argentina
• Advanced configuration and data analysis: custom reports, trends, dashboards, KPIs and graphs.
• Installation, maintenance and backup of SQL Server Express and Standard databases in independent and distributed architectures as Data engineer.
• Autocad drawings of high, medium and low voltage electrical plans.
Click here to know more about my work in:
• Energy Factories
• Automotive Factories
• Industries
MSA, Ireland
• PCB assembly process.
• Data and time analysis to improve production process.
• Assembly and testing Gas meters.
•Electronic testing and performance verification Functional testing of assembled boards/ units and recording of test results .
My name is Barbara Ortiz, an Argentinian data scientist with experience in electronic engineering.
Currently, I work (remotely) as a freelance data engineer. On the other hand, in my free time I study finance, implementing AI models and I do data mining, researching stock and cryptocurrency statistics.
I worked as a Production Assembly associate at MSA, a factory in Ireland. Also I worked for 2 years as a field engineer, energy specialist and commercial engineer in several companies in Argentina for Schneider Electric – Abampere.
I was Field engineer worked as Systems integrator certified by Schneider Electric as EcoXpert Critical Power Master, involved in energy efficiency projects analysing data and making proposals to improve industrial plants electrical systems.
• Installation and configuration of UPS, PowerLogig and Sepam power monitoring family meters, water, gas, and air measurements equipment.
• Advanced integration and configuration of PME software.
• Intermediate knowledge in SCADA and PLC
• Data analysis of energy quality and energy efficiency (power quality, sag, swell and transients)
• Installation of meters, ubiquity antennas, and connections with wiring mobdus TCP/IP and Mobdus RS485. Configuration of Mobdus devices connected to EtherGate gateway and EGX 150.
•Autocad drawings of high, medium and low voltage electrical plans.
As Data Scientist I worked:
• Advanced configuration and data analysis: custom reports, trends, dashboards, KPIs and graphs.
• Installation, maintenance and backup of SQL Server Express and Standard databases in independent and distributed architectures as Data engineer. ETL
Getting insights from data is something I really like. Data visualization and machine learning are some of the techniques I am using to achieve this. I have helped many companies better understand their data and thus be able to make critical decisions regarding improving energy efficiency, manufacturing times and production processes.
I am passionate about space and caring for the environment and I would love to help you if you have a project in those areas. I have lived for a year at the Marambio Antarctic base as head of the scientific pavilion and I am interested in the research work at the poles. I am currently volunteering in the MAPPPD project (Mapping Application for Penguin Populations and Projected Dynamics) is part of NASA’s citizen science projects, in which I use georeferenced and satellite images. I am also studying Google’s new Solar API to generate projects with open source and renewable energies.
I am a big believer in open source because I believe that by sharing solutions we can achieve much more as a community. That’s why I prefer to use SQL and Python for my daily work.
Education
I studied Electronic Engineering at the National Technological University in Buenos Aires Argentina and I have 60% of Mechanical engineering at the same university. I was a programming teacher in C and C++ for 10 years, I also taught electronics at the university as an assistant. In my free time I continue learning different programming languages and software, as well as languages. My native language is Spanish, I have an advanced level of English, an intermediate level of German, a basic level of Portuguese, Italian and French.
I completed Google’s Google Data Analytics Certificate track on Coursera and Generative AI at SAP. Most recently, I completed the course Artificial Intelligence by ICDL Ireland. I am preparing the Microsoft Azure AZ-900 certification and Cisco CCNA certification. I am also studying Full Stack at the University of Helsinki.
I always like to develop myself by following an (online) course, developing a new application or simply asking a coworker about their development.
Data science is something that attracts me a lot, I think it is due to my passion for challenges and all the possibilities that are available to obtain information from that data. There is so much that can be done and it is all there, in the data! I am always ready to go out of my comfort zone again, to play big and to do hard things.
Hobbies
In my free time I also like to ride a bicycle, dance, mountaineering, take photographs of landscapes and I do astrophotography. I love traveling, learning about new cultures and telling a story through words and photographs, that’s why I write travel notes. To relax, I paint and am learning to play the piano. I believe that opposites attract, programming and art live in me. On some trips I do diving, since I am a certified open water diver and I would love to continue to the next level. I am a curious person and I like to make friends from different countries in each city I live.
