Biographies

Aitor Arzuaga Munsuri graduated at the ETSIT Bilbao in 1999. He began his career as a grantee at Hewlett Packard, then moved to Ericsson. In 2002 he joined uSysCom, a branch of ZIV, and designed hardware for utility communications equipment. He is an active member of Cigré groups, a representative of the Spanish committee in IEC TC57WG10 and a member of IEEE. He has many articles about communications for industrial applications. Since mid-2009, Aitor is head of R&D activities at ZIV.

Jose Miguel Arzuaga Canals or Txetxu for friends obtained in 1998 his Telecommunication Eng. degree. He started his carrier in Vodafone, Spain, with positions in the IT area. In 2000 he started a new job in an Ericsson unit, whose goal was to make machines talk. At present, Txetxu is the general manager of uSysCom, a spin-off company in ZIV, uSysCom designs and manufactures telecom. equipment for the Electrical Utilities.

Mikel Zamalloa Aiartzaguena completed the studies to obtain a Telecommunication Engineering degree from the University of the Basque Country in 2006. After working for Bosch GmbH as a trainee, he completed the graduate program of the Basque Government on International Commerce. He has been working on utility communications systems for the ZIV group since he joined ZIV-USA in 2007. In 2008 he joined uSysCom-ZIV as an Application Engineer and remains in that position.