Bernardo is a Senior Project Manager with 15 years’ experience in the Aerospace industry. Currently, he is Navigation Business Manager at Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL) where he has been leading integrated project teams across the whole lifecycle of satellite missions, delivering programmes such as OTB-1 (USA), FORMOSAT-7 (Taiwan/USA), OptiSAR (Canada) and thirty-four British made Galileo navigation payloads (EU). Before that, he spent four years at Airbus Defence and Space, working on large telecommunication satellite programmes. He started his career as a Graduate Engineer at Rolls-Royce plc after a master in Manufacturing Management from Loughborough University. On Saturday mornings, you will invariably find Bernardo on his mountain bike, exploring the Surrey Hills trails. Bernardo is originally from Portugal and is married with two young daughters.SynopsisProjects take all forms, some change processes, some build infrastructure and some introduce new products. The latter also takes many forms, from introducing a new chocolate bar to be produced by the million to a new car produced by the thousands. Automakers use a lot of virtual tools, but still might make 30 prototypes at different stages of development.What if your product is more complex than the car, cannot be serviced during its lifetime and you are making just one. The risks are higher. Space exploration vehicles and satellites are high value products produced in very low volumes and so are high risk projects. This year’s Project Controls Prestige Lecture examines what controls need to be in place and how they are used in such projects.SSTL has been changing the economics of space since the 1980s. With a pragmatic approach to project delivery could there ever be shortcuts when it comes to providing the ultimate quality for the least possible cost? SSTL’s Bernardo Martins will present the controls used in projects made by this British space-pioneering company and how it compares to the more traditional space industry.
