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Christophe MAZEL

MÉRIGNAC

En résumé

Expert in Airborne System for UAV's and software development:

• Strong background in management of worldwide software engineering teams and in supporting sales force for software project value engineering and budget estimation.

• Extensive experience in customer services: company and assets presentations, needs analysis, project management.

• Effective teamwork and cooperative skills while achieving critical deadlines.

• Expertise in C/C++ programming language for graphics applications as well as advanced programming in high-performance systems.

Mes compétences :
Analysis
Contract negotiations
Leadership
Management
Management R&D
Microsoft Project
Microsoft Project Management
Negotiations
Planning
Strategic
Strategic planning
Team Leadership

Entreprises

  • PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATION at ENSEIRB (Engineering School) - Educational committee member and teacher

    2011 - 2012

  • PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATION with Aeronautics International cluster AEROSPACE VALLEY - Co-animator of Autonomous Systems Group

    2009 - 2012 Organize an define in collaboration with 2 others co-animators the workshops and technology roadmap on the Autonomous Systems topic.

  • Fly-n-Sense - CEO

    Mérignac 2008 - 2012 Fly-n-Sense Company founder.
    Fly-n-Sense activity is dedicated to UAV systems design et manufacturing.

  • Mercury Computer Systems (Europe) - International Business Development

    2006 - 2008 International business development position at the Avionics and Unmanned System Group in MCS.

  • Mercury Computer System (San Diego, CA) - NavSim Engineering Manager

    2005 - 2006 R&D team leader for Navigation & Simulation emerging group at Mercury Computer System. Responsibility for worldwide resources management, software project management, teams coordination, outsourcing contracts and ISO certification process.
    - Led and achieved successfully the development of the first NavSim projects: After 1.5 year of development, the product VistaNav is launched in Dec 2005 and 2 prototypes leading to new products are demonstrated, http://www.mc.com/industries/aero/navigation/
    - Set up collaboration with partners, design and supervise collaborative projects for UAV Control Ground Station or Virtual co-pilot service.
    - Promote NavSim technology: Organize technical presentations for RFP, technical seminars, and trade shows e.g., AUVSI (Baltimore, June 05), NBAA (Orlando, Nov. 05), UAS project (Monterey, June 06).
    - Manage outsourced contracts: Review and approve Statement Of Work, project follow-up, acceptance process management e.g., TUD (Technische Universitat Darmstadt) contract.
    - ISO representative: Company site leader for the ISO 9001-2000 certification process.

  • Mercury Computer System (San Diego, CA) - Professional Services Manager

    2003 - 2005 Professional Services Division responsibility for worldwide resource management, project management and cost planning.
    - Define Professional Services Division strategy and business development (report to CEO or VP sales).
    - Lead consulting and customer projects: coordinate effort with Sales force and manage technical team for specific projects and consulting missions (10 people including project managers, software development engineers, trainers and interns).
    - Support software commercialization: OPALE product (developed for the French Space Agency CNES, graphical satellite mission simulation).
    - Manage collaborative R&D projects with other MCS groups and with academic consortiums (5 grant projects: Brain microcirculation study, Micro-tomography for material evolution study, Virtual Reality and haptics interface for geosciences, Indexation, compression and watermarking for 3D objects exchange, Open Inventor for immersive environments),
    - Academic activities: Steering committee member for the GeoBench and SEMANTIC-3D projects, MCS representative for NoE (European Network of Excellence) INTUITION.

  • TGS (Bordeaux, FR) - Group Leader - Technology Management Services

    1998 - 2003 Services business infrastructure set-up, value engineering, cost follow-up and management software engineering team.
    - Led engineering team dedicated to specific projects, expertise, assistance and training.
    - Managed custom projects and services for European market and support sales/marketing European representatives for Services business growth.
    - Supervised expertise, assistance and training missions: Organized the missions and defined the technical and human resources assignment procedures.
    - European project representative: TGS team leader in the European consortium for ISO-3D ESPRIT project (3 years and 8 partners: private and public companies, bank and laboratories).

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