Francois AMAND

En résumé

Entreprises

• Intel - System Engineering Leader - Wireless Connectivity for IOT and Wearable

  Meudon 2015 - maintenant Leading a team (8 members including 4 direct report) involved on:
  - Customer Support (change request, evaluation phase, architecture support …)
  
  - Wireless Connectivity solution proliferation across multiple market segment (Smartphone, Wearable, IOT, Automotive, Mobile Wireless Router) running on different OS (Linux Yocto, RTOS, Android): market need analysis, requirements/use cases analysis, HW/SW Architecture analysis, Shift-left activities through proof of concept...
  
  - Development of differentiating platform features
  
  Technology: Bluetooth Low Energy, 6LoWPAN, 802.15.4, ZigBee, Thread, BT Mesh
  Operating System: Zephyr, Linux Yocto, OSTRO OS, Brillo
  Intel's IOT Platform: Edison, Galileo, Arduino101, D2000, MinnowBoard
  
  Engaged Staff Member working to evolve team's skillset and to move from Mobile expertise to IOT and Wearable.

• Intel - System Engineering Leader - Wireless Connectivity for Smartphone/Tablet Differentiating Features

  Meudon 2014 - 2015 Lead a team (10 members) responsible to define and develop/integrate differentiating features on Android Smartphone involving Wireless Connectivity technology through the complete V-cycle (use case and requirements, system architecture, development, integration, validation, certification and customer support), with multi-project proliferation.
  
  Features being addressed by the team: Passpoint 2.0, WiFi Serial Bus / MA-USB, A4WP/Rezence/AirFuel Wireless Charging, Wireless Docking, LTE/BT/WiFi Coexistence, Bluetooth 4.1 Features Offloading, Hybrid/Fused Location, Miracast.
  
  Multiple patents submitted by the team and approved for filling.
  

• Intel - System Engineering Leader - Wireless Connectivity

  Meudon 2009 - 2014 Managing team of 4 peoples responsible to define Platform Architecture for Wireless Connectivity Domain (Bluetooth, Wifi, Location, NFC, FM Radio, Wireless Charging) on Android Smartphone and Tablet.
  Responsible to define Features/Use cases and Platform Architecture from Hardware (Board, SOC, Interfaces) to Software (Drivers, Middleware, Framework, Application) that will be implemented on different platforms.
  - Providing guidance for platform differentiation
  - Providing guidance on derisk plan by making SW pre-integration activities, early performance/power measurement
  - Driving proof of concept activities to confirm architecture proposal
  - Evaluating 3rd party solution. Driving early engagement with prototyping
  - Technical Survey on multiple standards to understand roadmap and intercept
  Driving collaboration across organization to differentiate the platform, and leverage features across projects.
  Coaching up to 3 trainees per year on multiple project to bring new features.

• Texas Instruments - System Chief Architect for low cost chipset solutions

  Villeneuve-Loubet 2006 - 2007 o Managing system analysis from customer change request (new BT profile, Video Playback/Record, Audio Post Processing, FM related use cases, Firmware Update Over the Air (FOTA), China Charger, Memory card, …),
  o Insuring performance alignment between estimations and measurement with System Verification team (power consumption, CPU load, throughput, memory footprint…),
  o Presenting to customer the product and result of system analysis,
  o Driving Architecture team and SW R&D on all previous aspects.

• Texas Instruments - System Architecture Team Leader (MGTS)

  Villeneuve-Loubet 2005 - 2009 Managing team of 10 peoples performing system architecture analysis on all features available on a mobile phone.
  
  o Defined team charter, internal process and document templates fitting organization process.
  o Growing the team up to 10 peoples, in charge to define product system architecture from customer/marketing requirements and use cases to mapping between SW, HW SOC and board for all aspects to be supported on a phone (connectivity like SPI/UART/USB/Bluetooth/NFC, memories, security, multimedia, modem, location, debug…).
  o Put in place method for feature analysis from benchmarking and theoretical analysis to performance modelling with CoFluent for USB and Bluetooth features.
  o Managed architecture definition for up to 5 chipset products in parallel.
  o Technical participation to roadmap and strategies through meeting with 3rd parties and manufacturers on NFC, SIM, USB, Memories, LCD, …
  
  Patent: US8442586 - Determining USB/ISO interface and power supply voltage in mobile device

• Texas Instruments - System Engineer – BSP&Tools Team

  Villeneuve-Loubet 2004 - 2005 • Responsible for Board Support Package and Tools Team
  • Definition of SW drivers’ architecture for OMAPV1030 chipset product based on Nucleus RTOS, with technical management of 10 internal resources and 6 subcontractors. Leading part of the development with team based in India (Bangalore) for platform wake-up on engineering samples.
  • Definition of HW debugging strategies from processor tracing (ETM9, Emulation…) to on-chip observability, including emulation tools aspect with Lauterbach company.

• Texas Instruments - System Engineer – L1 Software Team

  Villeneuve-Loubet 2000 - 2004 • Update of modulation/demodulation and channel decoding chain in Matlab for GPRS standard
  • HW System validation pre/post silicon for TCS2100 and TCS2200 GPRS products (RTL simulation and on-board debugging). ARM7 and DSP C54x assembly/C coding for test case development through emulation of use cases and scenario. Debugging through emulator and JTAG interface.
  • Development of Secure boot ROM and low level drivers for TCS2200 GPRS product (Texas Instruments' M-Shield™ Mobile Security Technology solution)
  • Team leader of L1 SW System Team in 2002 (5 peoples), in charge of team structuring, activity planning and technical recruitment.
  • Managed SW adaptation for new products to enable L1 Modem validation (3 days wake-up for GSM call after 1st engineering sample).

• BRIME SUD - System Engineer – Subcontractor for Texas Instruments

  1998 - 2000 • Finalization of IrDA protocol stack development on embedded system (ARM7) with associated test cases. Development in C of UART drivers dedicated to IrDA on ARM7 processor.
  • Feasibility study to implement L1 GSM layer in SDL language from existing C software (language learning, translation of C code to SDL).
  • Study of GSM transmission chain in Matlab for GPRS standard integration.

Formations

• Université Nice Sophia Antipolis

  Nice 1993 - 1998 Digital Signal Processing

Réseau

• Cedric LE CLAIRE

• Florent PEYRAUD

• Jean-Luc RIGAUD

• Loic HAMON

• Loic LECONTE

• Matthieu QUEHEN

• Pascal CUSSONNEAU

• Stephen BUSCH

• Vanessa BODRERO

• Vincent GEOFFROY