Interview

Here we have an interview with Pedro Pablo Ortega Massó, ex-worker in General Electric Heatlhcare company. Enjoy.

So what did you study at university and where?

I studied Electronical Engineering al the Laboral University of Tarragona, Spain.

In how many companies have your worked?

I've been working in two companies. Both of them related with the same activity: Healthcare in the diagnostic imaging department.

Can you tell me some of your tasks in both companies?

The first one was "Compagnie General du Radiologie"(CGR). It was a french company that manifactured radiology devices for diagnostic imagin exclusively, from year 1974 to 1984. Along these ten years, I was working in the technical service in charge of the maintenance radiodiagnostic devices of this company as well as ultrasound and digital vascular systems.

The other company was "General Electric Healthcare" (GEH). In 1984 CGR joined to GEH and I was in charge of technical support for Computed Tomography( CT). After five years I started to do clinical applications, helping to the Engineering department to develop tools for diagnostic imaging in CT. After six years I was moved to the Magnetic Resonance imaging (MRI) working in the clinical applications. Eight years later, I started to work in the Marketing and Sales department, finishing my laboral activity as a MR sales specialist.

So, your career's knowledge was very useful in here...

Of course. As I started in a technical department, all my career was very useful and I had to apply all my knowledge when I was working in the field, reparing the different devices as well as developing electrical and electronical instalations.

Did you have to travel in the development of you laboral duties and how often?

Yes, I had to travel along Iberia mainly, but I had to travel to some european countries and Africa to do clinical applications and to the USA to perform some training twice per year.

Did the market keep seeling machines despite the crisis in our country?

The crisis has affected to this kind of companies specially because the social security that is the biggest buyer for this kind of devices has reduced dramatrically the adquisition of this imaging diagnostic devices.

Do you think the market will rise again in a few years?

Fortunately, in the last quartet of the 2014 the market is starting to increase their activity and the operating planning has been risen a 3 % over the expectation.