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ARIANEGROUP - Finance Directorate
- Head of Finance and Control - Launchers Development
2013 - maintenant
Management of the Finance & Control team in charge of the Launchers Development Programs
Main responsibilities and achievements :
* Set-up, organization and management of all financial aspects for the Ariane 6 programmes (3B€)
* Active contribution to the ArianeGroup joint venture creation : set-up and organization of a new multi-site and multi-cultural team, process and tools sharing and harmonization, management of assets transferred from Airbus and Safran to ArianeGroup (contracts, revenues, margin)
* Management of financial performance and KPI's : Order Intake, Sales, Costs, Gross Margin, Cash, Workload, Geo-Return
* Management of all financial processes : Estimate At Completion, Operative Plan, yearly budget and forecast, external auditors presentation, investment and CAPEX, Internal Work Order (between ArianeGroup SAS and GmbH), subcontracts review and validation, ...
* Contribution to business preparation (proposal structuring, costing and challenging, business plan elaboration, negotiations with ESA) and capture of competitive deals
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AIRBUS GROUP - Launchers Program Directorate
- Program Manager - Launchers Avionics and Software
2007 - 2013
Set-up and management of the Ariane 5 development programs for all avionics, software and electrical ground means (130M€) : obsolescence and anomaly treatment, evolutions for new programs
Main responsibilities and achievements :
* Anticipation of future avionics needs, elaboration and deployment of a general roadmap.
* Elaboration of project proposals and direct negotiations with ESA (European Space Agency)
* Set-up of the program team organisation in charge of managing the avionics projects, and of declaring the launcher flightworthiness wrt. all electrical and software aspects.
* Respect of the schedule, gross margin and technical performances, for all projects. In particular, successful flight introduction in from 2010 to 2013 of all redesigned equipment.
* Set-up of partnerships with other companies (TAS, GTD) to optimise the industrial organisation and to ease the geo-return
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AIRBUS GROUP - Operations Directorate
- Head of Department - ATV
2004 - 2007
Management of the ATV Functional Engineering and Software
Departement (100M€ , 120 people), in charge of:
* Functional studies of the Automated Transfer Vehicle
(mission management, vehicle management, data handling,...)
* Flight and Safety Software development and validation
Main responsibilities and achievements :
* Creation of the department, and in particular of a reinforced team dedicated to project management (configuration, schedule, requirements, quality)
* Recovery of the "software crisis'' situation revealed in 2003 on the ATV Program = recovery of the customer trust wrt. software development and quality aspects
* Delivery of all software versions on time, on cost, on quality
* Management of the end of the project, reduction of the team from ~120 people to a core team of ~10 people, competence transfer from all subcontractors to this core team, The 1st ATV was successfully launched in 2008, and the second one in 2010, with a perfect behaviour of the on-board software and functional system.
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AIRBUS GROUP - Quality Directorate
- Quality Manager & Software Engineering Process Group Manager
2003 - 2004
Management of the "Software Engineering Process Group" in the Quality Directorate :
* Evaluation, review and regular improvement of the software processes,
* Leadership of the CMM level 2 certification (Software Capability Maturity Model).
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AIRBUS GROUP - Operations Directorate
- Head of Service - On Board Systems for Strategic Missiles
2001 - 2003
Management of the "On Board Systems for Strategic Missiles" section (25 people) responsible of Digital and Communication System, On-Board Computer, Flight and Control Software, R&D projets and proposals in the field of real time critical software
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AIRBUS GROUP - Operations Directorate
- R&D Project Manager - Distributed Simulations
1996 - 2000
Set-up and management of R&D projects in the field of "Distributed Simulations", in international cooperation with European industries and universities, through various funding from ESTEC, European Union, French Industry Ministry, or self-funding.
This technology enables the large-scale interconnection of geographically distributed simulation facilities, interacting in real-time via a High Perfomance Network.
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AEROSPATIALE MISSILE - Project Directorate
- Software Project Manager - ASTER Missile
1991 - 1996
Project Management of the ASTER missile software development, in French-Italian cooperation: technical specifications, interface definition, software development supervision (subcontract to Alenia), electrical integration, validation, system qualification, flight tests, results analysis, technical and operational expertise
