He is currently Chief Data Officer (CDO) at the Ministry of Defence's Centre for Information and Communications Systems and Technologies (CESTIC). He spent fourteen years serving aboard Spanish Navy vessels, eight of them on hydrographic ships. He has also participated in several scientific research projects aboard vessels of the Spanish National Research Council fleet. Ashore, he served at the Navy Hydrographic Institute (IHM) for 19 years in various posts and ranks, notably as Commanding Officer and Director of the IHM from 2022 to 2025. He was Spain's representative on the bathymetry working group of the European Marine Observation and Data Network project (EMODNET, 2013-2014) and a member of the technical group for the extension of Spain's continental shelf at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (2013-2015). He specialises in Statistics and Hydrography and holds a Master's degree in Engineering and Geographic Information Systems. Among other posts, he has served as Director of the Alejandro Malaspina School of Hydrography (2022-2025), lecturer on the Master's programme in Marine Spatial Planning at Universidad Iberoamericana in Santo Domingo (2017), lecturer on the Master's programme in Defence Naval Engineering at the University of Cádiz (2025), Vice-President of Spain's Higher Geographic Council (2023-2025), and member of the Council of the International Hydrographic Organization (2022-2023). He is the author of numerous scientific and academic publications.