Texas Instruments
- Mobile Phone Chief Architect, MGTS
Villeneuve-Loubet
2002 - maintenant
Mobile Phone Chief Architect of eCosto (OMAPV1035)
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·First ever OMAP chip integrating an EDGE RF (DRP technology), winning the challenge of RF sensitivity concerns created by interferences from the integrated circuit itself.
·Standby and Voice Call autonomy targets reached, thanks to 65nm specific power savings technology.
·QVGA 30 fps performance in video playback and record confirmed.
·Samples are available and have been validated on the reference design board, similar to a final mobile phone design.
eCosto Chief Architect: technical mentor of program director, working with marketing team, software and integrated circuits development teams, validation and product engineering teams. Technical leadership of more than 80 leaders & team members across several sites (France, India, USA, Germany, Denmark, Israel…).
Commercial activities support:
·Direct contribution to new business signatures, with Motorola, SEMC/Sagem and some asian ODM in having convinced them of the technical benefits of the product and its perfect match to their expectations.
·Answers to Motorola, SEMC, Nokia & LG product information requests (RFI).
·Support to product roadmap and strategy, segmentation into different market layers, for mid and long term.
Design activities:
·Product Requirements elicitation, Architecture definition, feature breakdown into software and hardware components. Top level specification creation and approval.
·Targets estimations for performance, autonomy and memory density.
·Change Request management, on a weekly basis.
Execution activities:
·System issues investigations support, Software team coaching.
·Follow up, analysis and reporting of target achievements, for performance, autonomy and memory density.
Technical skills recognitions:
·Elected MGTS (Member Group Technical staff) in 2007, first graduation in Texas Instruments technical leadership community, rewarding the technical contributions to Neptune program revenues.
·Recommendation from Raj, Motorola, on Linked In.
Mobile Phone Chief Architect of Neptune (OMAPV1030)
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·eCosto previous generation, based on external RF (Renesas or Skyworks).
·More than $500M net revenue.
·Several mobile phones already available: Sagem My700x, Porsche P9521, LG KM710, KM500, KE550 and CE110, Motorola ROKR EM28, HTC Converse, BenQ P21…
·First ever OMAP chip supporting the simultaneous execution of the GSM protocol and the multimedia acceleration on DSP, therefore saving the cost of an external multimedia coprocessor.
·First ever OMAP chip supporting the execution in real time of the GSM protocol with Windows as real time OS.
·Support of the Unlicensed Mobile Access (UMA) standard: GSM and WLAN protocol simultaneous cooperation.
·Owner of a Patent allowing a gain of 50% of ARM CPU cycles during the execution of the alpha blending algorithm to compose a QVGA full screen display mixing some user interface information and a video in background @30fps.
Alcatel
- Sr SW architect
Paris
1991 - 2002
USA, Milpitas, Ca: Senior SW architect: Alcatel 7505 Voice over IP Media Gateway
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Start-up (Assured Access Technology) acquired by Alcatel to enter the Voice over IP market.
Design and implementation of the Voice real time subsystem dealing with conversion of TDM samples into IP packets, powered by a farm of 4 DSPs concurrently executing various codecs.
Alcatel 7505 MG is the first delivered solution of Alcatel-Lucent 7500 product family.
CIT, Velizy: Senior System Validation team leader: GSM/GPRS Radio & Core Network
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Leader of a team of 8 people dealing with functional validation of the radio sub-system (BTS, BSC entities) of the Alcatel GSM/GPRS solution. Responsible for the definition and the execution of the functional test cases to validate the conformance to the system specifications. Also in charge of the GPRS data transfer performance validation in the complete system environment, including several GSM/GPRS Core Network vendors (Alcatel, Ericsson) and the Alcatel Mobile OT715 (class 10) connected to internet.
Solution GSM/GPRS/EDGE deployed on Orange and SFR networks.
CIT, Velizy: Senior C++ SW team leader: GPRS Base Station team leader
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Leader of a team of 4 people dealing with software development of the RLC/LLC/SNDCP GPRS related components. Also responsible of the associated service layers running on top of pSOS and of the design of some specific C++ design patterns for implementing the state machines.
GSM/GPRS/EDGE Alcatel solution deployed on Orange and SFR networks.
CIT, Velizy: SW C/assembler engineer: Alcatel 1000 AX: ATM backbone
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Design and development of a real time operating system, written in C and in assembler, for a 68030 processor. It included an interrupt handler, a task scheduler, several kinds of semaphores (queues, events, synchronization) and a debugger.
Alcatel 1000 AX solution delivered.
