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Akka Technologies
- Project Manager (FN Herstal)
Paris
2016 - maintenant
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Akka Technologies
- Technical Project Leader (SONACA SA - Belgium)
Paris
2015 - 2016
Pre-serial and serial projects : EMB 170 & 190 Slats, Legacy 500 Flaps and Dassault F7X & F8X Slats and FLE
- Leadership of a multi disciplinary engineering team (Design - Stress - Material and Process - Configuration - Testing)
- Responsible for the definition and modification of the products in accordance with customer (intern & extern) needs
- Respect to the Program objectives (Scope, Quality, Cost and Delivery)
- Deliverables management to be compliant with project scope
- Priority and Risk management
- Customer & supplier relationship management
R&D project: feasibility study of a composite part currently made of aluminum
- Leadership of a multi disciplinary engineering team (Design - Stress - Material and Process)
- Development plan, budget, planning, resources, risks
- Project follow-up: dashboards, steering committee lead, ETC, KPI
- Technical and commercial trade-off
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Akka Technologies
- Material & Process Engineering Consultant (SONACA SA - Belgium)
Paris
2012 - 2015
Support engineering for non-metallic material & process department:
CAPM / PMI certified
M&P Focal Point for Flap Legacy 500 project since January 2013 (Management and follow-up of M&P activities on this project)
Support engineering on other programs: A350 // A400M // BD500 C-series // ERJ190 // R&D (ECOTAC)
- Material characterization and qualification (fabrics, tapes, fillers, resins, composite parts, sealants, coatings, adhesives & fasteners)
- Follow up of mechanical testing activities on composite specimens, subcomponents and industrial parts
- Follow up of advanced composite structure manufacturing : Prototypes, First Part Qualification, Certification parts, Pre-serial production parts + quality statements of the parts and continuous improvement of the manufacturing processes
- Composite parts repair
- Testing of free of chromate agents for chemical conversion of aluminium alloys
- Aluminium alloys repair before TSA treatment
- Aluminium alloys repair after assembly and aging
- Materials and fasteners selection for EMH and lightning protection (electrical bonding), leakage protection and corrosion protection
- Reporting : test results analyses and reports, procedures, material handbooks
- Participation to seminars (AMD Workshop - Airbus in Brussels, ...)
Additional function since July 2013: Site leader for AKKA Benelux on customer site (32 consultants):
- Federative objectives - team spirit
- Collaborative objectives
- Communication objectives
- Commercial objectives
- Technical meetings organization
- Meetings with other site leaders to develop our skills and efficiency
- Recruitment sessions
skills: Resin Transfer Moulding (RTM), Same Qualified Resin Transfer Moulding (SQRTM), Liquid Resin Infusion (LRI), Advanced Fiber Placement (AFP), DMA, DSC, DCB, ILSS, CAI, tensile testing, compressive testing, In plane shear testing, Single Lap Shear testing, pull-off testing, peeling testing, Tartaric Sulphuric Anodisong (TSA), Chemical Conversion Coating (CCC), Electrical bonding, salt spray aging, PMBOK, CAPM
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Université catholique de Louvain-la-Neuve (UCL)
- Research Engineer - Materials and Process
2010 - 2012
Project Skywin (APC and E-COM) - Study on the enhancement of mechanical properties of a composite material produced by RTM process
Bibliographic research / raw material characterization / (nano)filled polymers and composites processing / physicochemical, mechanical and morphological characterization of (nanofilled)polymers and composite materials / technical advice for industrial partners / prospecting labs and industries in order to achieve specific developments / supervision of 5 Master thesis students
The main fields studied are : thermo-mechanical properties, damage resistance, electrical conductivity and fire resistance of epoxy resin + carbon fiber composite materials.
Project Skywin (ECOTAC): Bibliographic research on abradable seals
skills: Resin Transfer Moulding (RTM), Liquid Resin Infusion (LRI), DMA, DSC, TGA, Cone calorimeter, DCB, ILSS, CAI, tensile strength test, compressive strength test, HPLC, SEC, FTIR spectroscopy, Raman spectroscopy
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Université catholique de Louvain-la-Neuve (UCL)
- Master Thesis Student
2010 - 2010
Project Skywin (APC) - Study on the enhancement of mechanical properties of a carbon fiber / epoxy resin composite material
Study on the dissolution and the diffusion of a polymer into an epoxy resin / development of a modified curing process / morphological and thermomechanical characterizations of secondary and ternary blends
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McBride
- Laboratory Technician
2008 - 2008
Feasibility, stability and performance studies on a new non-ionic surfactant added to several existing formulations
Experience on the workfloor: analysis at the quality control department and observations at the production and filling platform
(6 weeks internship and student job achieved for 5 weeks)
