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Sagem Defense Security
- Division Manager - Flight Control Systems & Automatic Pilots
PARIS
2011 - maintenant
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ECT Industries
- R&D Department Manager
Nizerolles
2009 - 2011
R&D Department Manager, ECT Industries, Toulon (France)
Majors:
- Development and industrialization of products in all the engineering fields applied to aeronautical & airborne equipments, military and civil applications for helicopters, as well as commercial aircrafts.
- Organization of projects from scratch on new industrial concepts and complex environments (e.g. Night vision LCD displays, avionic equipments, DO-178B and DO-254 design standards, certification ...).
- Team Management & Training (team over 20 engineers, incl. 5 project managers).
- Management of Research & Development Department.
Personal Innovations: widening of intervention areas and personal expertise:
- Complete design of equipments, including areas of mechanical design, hardware, software, optical design, animation and supervision of cross-engineering activities
- Qualification (DO160) and product certification application according to design standards
- Products industrialization
- Evaluation and monitoring of R&D budgets
Major contributions in management and design organization:
- Development of products submitted to certifications (EASA ETSO)
- Integration of innovative technologies (e.g. night vision LCD displays)
- Workforce increase of the R&D department (9 to 20 engineers, 5 project managers, plus over 10 engineers in fixed prices subcontracting)
- Management of consulting personnel, associated follow-up
- New dashboards, setup of new management indicators, financials & workforce
- Setup of new configuration management process, with adequate tooling
- Contribution with new capacity to design software according to DO178B standard
- Contribution with new capacity to design hardware according to DO254 standard
- Recruitment, resources training and management.
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Axlog Ingénierie
- Project Manager
2008 - 2008
Project Manager for Thales Airborne Systems, BU Electronic Warfare
Study of porting and development, including cost assessment and steering of a team of 2 engineers. The purpose was porting of an application Ada, for wide range analysis of radar detector data to a new hardware platform (filtering, detection, threat characterization and sorting).
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AXLOG Ingénierie
- Department Manager
2005 - 2008
Majors:
- Disciplined project management process and leadership skills dealing with cross-functional teams of Project Managers delivering Real-Time Critical Embedded Software.
- Critical and Real-Time Embedded Software, Operating Systems and Drivers, Protocols.
- Steering of teams of more than 15 people in complex industrial contexts.
- Safety Equipments for Railway and Aerospace Transportation.
- Setup of Organization / Reporting / Indicators as support decision tools.
- Cost Evaluation and management of fixed-price commitments, for project up to 1.2 M.
- Management oriented through resources motivation, with respect to their skills, interests for particular expertise and results-oriented.
- Recruitment and Resources internal training.
- Quality Assurance Model CMMI3; Design Standard EN50128.
Projects Director, Manager of Dedicated Engineering Service ANSALDO STS France, Railway Transportation
Critical software design for safety train control systems, management of projects of software design, management of engineering group/service, supervision of all fixed-price commitments led on this site for this customer, double reporting (customer as well as hierarchy).
Projects size ranging from 300 K to 1.2 M, management of engineering team over 15 engineers, including 4 project managers:
- Executive Direction Support: Definition of the actual client needs / Feasibility studies / Realization of functional and technical specifications / Client representative regarding project supervising (up to 1.2 M)
- Software Design and system Architecture
- Expertise, assistance to certification (EN50128).
In parallel, technical leader of software activities in customer facilities, for the international projects EUROCAB HSA/BREDA (Belgium, Netherlands and Germany), TPWS (Indian Railways), and CTCS (Chinese Train Control System):
- Technical Direction Assistance and Supplier Relationship Management
Relation Management with production and marketing departments, Development of team coordination
- Project long-term planning / Setup of test strategy and analysis of impacts on system.
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AXLOG Ingénierie
- Project Manager
2002 - 2004
For Schneider-Toshiba Inverter Europe:
Responsible for complex applicative functions of the embedded software of variable frequency drives for asynchronous motor, management of software maturity aspects and re-use strategy for new products:
- Design of the new integrated functions in the frame of specific versions of the inverter
- Responsible for applicative functions for the development of several king of speed inverters
- Elaboration of re-use strategies for newly developed software design.
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AXLOG Ingénierie
- Project Manager
2000 - 2001
Engineering Team Manager, Technical Leader, Lucent Technologies, Paris (France)
Responsible for software activities of development of telecommunications equipments SDH (multiplexors), and manager of the development team of 8 engineers:
- Responsible for the software architecture for the definition of the new telecom product, improvements of the previous design (SDH 16 Gb/s).
- Management of technical facts, risks assessment.
- Management of the development team (8 engineers), and Support to the coordination of the different teams of hardware and software development, and of system qualification.
- In charge of the Interface with the Marketing and system engineering Departments.
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AXLOG Ingénierie
- Software Development Engineer
1998 - 2000
Majors:
- In charge of different projects of software design,
- Specialized in real-time environments and operating systems, and embedded systems.
- Extension of the capabilities of Real-Time operating system kernel pSOS+. Assembler ARM7/ARM9 (3 months).
- For Thomson-CSF Communication, porting of proprietary communication protocols over SPECTRA. The goal was to allow to remotely control embedded numeric combat radios (PR4G). Setup of a complete validation environment for testing the remote control functionalities. C, VRTX-SA (9 months).
- For STNA (Technical Service for Air Traffic Control), porting of a SNMP protocol stack to a VRTX-PC real-time operating system environment, for integration to an Air Traffic Control System and Displays. Development of the corresponding validation environment & tools. Setup of an SNMP manager on station. C, PC, VRTX, Windows NT (3 months).
