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Johnson Controls International
- Project Leader in Value Analysis / Value Engineering
Colombes
2011 - maintenant
Transveral project management :
- Value Analysis : technical cost-savings in Mechatronics after SOP
- Value Engineering: technical cost-savings during RFQs and at beginning of development.
Missions:
- Investigation with all project’s technical contributors on cost-saving possibilities and generation of downsizing ideas and proposals
- Search of more cost-effective suppliers for electronics and mechanical parts.
- Validation of proposals’ technical risks, gains and costs, with technical experts and financial contributors: purchasers, program managers, product lines, ...
- Implementation or modification of internal design rules with technical experts
- Participation to negociation with customer for solution’s implementation
- planning, budget
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Kostal
- Technical Project Leader for French customers
2008 - 2010
- Technical interface between project teams and project leaders in Germany and customer (mainly PSA)
- French inter-projects transversalisation for HW development (cost-saving proposals, standardisation, …)
- HW response at RFQs and RFIs
- Responsible of technical proposals to customer’s change requests
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ELA Medical
- Head Electronics Designer (Subcontracting)
2007 - 2007
Head Hardware Designer for a 100% custom test unit for tests on implantable pacemaker’s ICs.
* Features : 16 precision programmable voltage regulators (-10V/+10V) multiplexed by program on 96 outputs (any combination available); current-voltage measurement with high –precision dual-slope ADC, current sources, bufferisation, programmable current limitation, anti-transient device, dynamic voltage feedback, several protections (ESD, voltage, current, etc …), …
* Hardware validation tests: electric tests, unit tests, integration tests, … ;
* Software development in C for user-interface, software validation ;
* Test-bench characterization and auto-calibration implementation.
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Delphi Automotive
- Technical Hardware Team Manager (subcontracting)
Villepinte
2007 - 2008
Technical Team Manager on a on a unique mixed electronics/power board for low-cost car for South-American and Chinese market:
* Technical Team Manager overseeing 5 other employees
* Study and design of board, simulation with PSPICE, prototype …
* Search for components, contacts with manufacturers, prototypes production management, …
* Write-ups of routing specifications and routing follow-ups.
* Project manager’s assistant on electronics’ subjects : planning, client follow-up, regular technical meetings at client’s offices (PSA), …
--> 1st assignment : Technical Leader on a phase-lead innovating project involving the design of a detection and protection system against fire hazards on automotive electronic boards .
* Technical Leader overseeing 3 other employees
* Benchmarking, parts and detectors search, feasibility studies, functional specifications drafting, technical solutions drafting, tests and characterizations for fire hazards and for possible solutions, functional analysis, preliminary hazard analysis, quality management, reliability calculations, …
* Meetings and reporting to the client
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Siemens Transportation Systems
- Project Engineer (Subcontracting)
Saint-Denis
2006 - 2006
Project Engineer in charge of VAL’s (driverless metro system) motor control business for Roissy, Turin and Toulouse :
* planning and budget, bidding definition and management, trade negotiations, ordering process, application contracts drafting, suppliers follow-up, products integration follow-up, repair & overhaul management, …
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Johnson Controls Automotive Electronics
- Head Electronics Designer (Subcontracting)
Colombes
2004 - 2005
Head Hardware Designer for a Battery Management System board (R&D, so-called phase-lead project) :
* Functional study and design of prototype board (before ASIC’s availability), simulation with PSPICE, … ;
* Functional and environment specifications (automotive, EMC/EMI, accuracy of measurement, …) ;
* Routing specifications (EMC/EMI) and routing follow-up (4 layers) ;
* Exhaustive error analysis with Excel of complete chain (from sensor to ASIC) for the 3 measurements (voltage, current, temperature) ;
* Dialog with ASIC designers (based in USA) for accuracy of measurement improvement ;
* English written Design Justification Document (80 pages) along with a hard-soft interface specification document, …
* English written document for knowledge capitalization on accurate error calculations of a measurement chain with A/D conversion (90 pages)
1st assignment (4 months): Head Designer for a stabilized switching power supply, transverse on different clusters (for GM) for AC/DC supplying of a VFD (Vacuum Fluorescent Display) :
* Study and design of power supply (BUCK type) – 5W under 6V, simulation with PSPICE
* Study of stability on specification’s range : ambiant temperature, input voltage, requested current variation (inrush current, …), …
* English written justification document of the complete design.
* Study and write-up of routing specifications linked to EMC/EMI problems. Analysis of complex EMC problems including demanding standards for a switching power supply on a single face PCB (no mass plan).
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Valeo
- Head Electronics Designer (Subcontracting)
Paris
1999 - 2004
* Study and design of board, simulation with PSPICE, prototype …
* Search for components, contacts with manufacturers, prototypes production management, …
* Write-ups of routing specifications and routing follow-ups.
* Project manager’s main assistant on electronics’ subjects : planning, client follow-up, regular technical meetings at client’s offices (PSA), …
* Drafting of Several documents: Design Justification Document, Electrical validation, EMC/EMI validation, knowledge capitolization, …
* Validation tests: EMC/EMI, Electric tests, unit tests, integration tests, characterizations of parts,…
* Circuit Boards industrialization follow-ups, industrial drafting tests, …
Other assignment : Parts Standardisation & Road Map for the entire Valeo group among the Expertise Centre in Electronics (transversal organisation). Study fulfilled for ‘smarts’ (« intelligent » power MOS) and « low-drop » linear voltage regulators :
* Internal know-how analysis, detailed technical study of parts ;
* Meetings with internal purchaser managers and purchasing strategy analysis ;
* Technical and Sales meetings with suppliers and prospection of new suppliers with purchaser managers ;
* Definition of technical and purchase ratings with purchaser managers and technical managers for a part’s choice. Finalisation of parts choice ;
* Results presentation for each concerned Valeo division.
