Francois CARON

En résumé

Entreprises

• Cisco Systems - Compliance Project Manager

  Issy les Moulineaux 2012 - maintenant With CENBU (SGBU), managing all Smart Grid product through worldwide compliance and certification.

• Juniper (via ProUnlimited) - Compliance Engineer

  2011 - 2012 * Management team member coordinating Compliance project Service Level Agreements (SLA) with Juniper’s Business Units (BU): simplified and optimized the scoping process,
  • Enhanced commissioning process of Juniper product to local ITL laboratories, optimizing configuration script, creating test plan documentation and intensively pushing for compliance by similarity.
  • Collaborated to compliance program coordination, with ODM also, of NEBS, OSP and power substation products (Smart Grid),
  • Collaborated to simplify NEBS GR-63 testing program of new boards common to various chassis
  • Advised management on Outside Plant (OSP) standards
  • Collaborated to Juniper internal TEER testing program process, common to all BU,

• Positron Public Safety Systems - Intrado - Ingénieur consultant en DSP et conformité de produit

  2009 - 2010 Remotely from RTP, mentored a DSP engineer on code design aspects across all platforms, troubleshooting methods, as well as Matlab and embedded software programming.
  
  Mentored a DSP engineer on code design aspects across all platforms, troubleshooting methods, as well as Matlab and embedded software programming.
  
  Coached on LEC echo tail coverage to optimize LEC performances and MIPS load.
  
  Improved robustness of DTMF, CPT, CallerID and TTY receivers by modifying detection algorithms to adjust to new voice quality contexts (mobile and VoIP).

• Hatteras Networks - Compliance Engineer - Ingénieur en conformité de produit

  2007 - 2008 www.hatterasnetworks.com
  6 recommandations sur Linkedin.com
  
  
  Gestion de toutes activités reliées à l'homologation de produit.
  Conseiller en conformité auprès des dirigeants de l'entreprise.
  Analyse complète de la fiabilité des produits, i.e. MTBF.
  
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  Managed multiple projects with laboratories including NEBS level 3, Safety, GR-3108 outside plant (OSP), ATT-TP-76200, European standards ETSI 300 386, ETSI 300 019 and ITU-K.20/21/44/45.
  
  Delivered 4 certification projects over 1 year. Closely managed certification process with test laboratories and agencies from scoping to delivery phase. Other country agencies included Mexico, Australia and Canada.
  
  Reduced testing cost and improved time-to-market by leveraging previous test experience to next generation products. This was achieved by expanding and detailing the certification test plans, and clarifying test scope and severity level.
  
  Solved technical safety problem with dielectric isolation and simplified safety reports.
  
  Improved the quality of customer facing user manuals and compliance test reports by providing in-depth detailed reviews.
  
  Advised management and marketing on compliance issues.
  
  Improved product compliance management by creating a matrix of certification requirements by regulatory, market and carrier/customer for each product line.
  
  Rectified the scope of product certification to include GR-3108 and TCG requirements.
  
  Adjusted the applicable test levels for the European market (IEC and ITU-K) as required for outside plant and “other than telecommunication” centre products.
  
  Developed and updated the reliability (MTBF) calculation of the whole product line.

• Positron - Ingénieur DSP - Homologation de produit

  1999 - 2006 www.positron911.com www.positronpower.com
  1 recommandation sur Linkedin. Autres références sur demande.
  
  Ingénieur matériel, programmeur/concepteur d'algorithme de traitement de signaux et gérant des activités d'homologation de produits de télécommunication dans le domaine du 9-1-1 (centrale d'urgence) et d'isolateur de ligne de télécommunications.
  
  Développement DSP sur le C5410A de Texas Instruments, Gateways VoIP, annuleur d'écho de ligne, générateur et décodeur CallerID, ATS/TDD/TTY, décodeur et codeur de tonalité MF/DTMF/CPT et mixeur.
  
  Homologation: NEBS incluant GR-487, FCC 15 et 68, IEC 61000-4-x et sécurité électrique de produit selon la norme UL/CSA/IEC 60950-1.
  
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  anaging product compliance and DSP code design and development for E9-1-1 and line isolator products.
  
  Designed, developed, and tested in-house and integrated 3rd party DSP code.
  
  Translated legacy code from the C50 to the C5410a fixed-point processors. Created a common code structure for all products.
  
  Designed the core DSP code of all Positron E9-1-1 PSAP (Public Safety Answering Point) equipment which includes:
  * VoIP gateway using G.711/G.729a,
  * CallerID transceiver as per GR-30,
  * TDD/TTY as per TIA standards,
  * Mixer gain matrix and input/output volume control,
  * Tone generator using a innovative sequencer engine,
  * MF/DTMF/CPT detectors as per GR-506.
  
  Managed the regulatory compliance of Positron E9-1-1 PSAP products, achieving multiple UL/CSA 60950-1, FCC 15 and 68, and IEC immunity certifications.
  
  Coordinated a telephone line optical isolator NEBS compliance testing for TCG approval with world leader laboratories.
  
  Created a testbed setup of 6 prototype cabinet incorporating two 6-slot chassis equipped with 5 different network cards.
  
  Quickly acquired deep expertise in NEBS compliance aspect and project coordination with external laboratories.
  
  Initiated in-house seminars on EMC design and product compliance
  
  Created the standard library and procedures

• INRS-Telécommunications (Université - Centre de recherche) - Agent de recherche - Assistant de recherche

  1998 - 1999 www.emt.inrs.ca
  
  Codage et implémentation en temps réel sur le processeur C40 de TI d'un annuleur d'échos acoustiques utilisant les techniques FAP-RLS et de détection de double parole.
  
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  Research Agent
  Worked with Professor Dr. Benoit Champagne, on real-time coding and testing DSP algorithms.
  
  In collaboration with Nortel, coded on a TI floating-point C40 a real-time implementation of a subband acoustic echo canceller (AEC) with the FAP-RLS (Fast Affine Projection) algorithm and double-talk detector schemes.
  
  Restructured the DSP code and enhanced the code data structure to enable information sharing across all functions and subbands.
  
  Optimized extensively the code using the internal fast memory of the C40 with a innovated approach that used DMA transfers for every subband.
  
  Implemented a new (later patented) variable gain control algorithm to
  enhanced adaptive filter performance under adverse situations.
  
  Introduced various code enhancement to enhance adaptive filter performance. That including decaying error normalization on speech segment start-up and background adaptation during farend talker silence.

Formations

• Institut De La Recherche Scientifique - Télécommunications INRS (Montréal)

  Montréal 1994 - 1997 Traitement de signal -Technologie de la parole
  
  stagiaire, agent de recherche, assistant de recherche
  
  Télécommunications

• Université Laval (Québec)

  Québec 1990 - 1994 Génie électrique

Réseau

• James BABINEAU

• Ludovic DE REFFYE

• Thibaud CHALMIN