-
PACE France (ex. PHILIPS Set Top Boxes)
- Program Manager
2008 - maintenant
Responsible for High Definition projects portfolio supporting Retail Business
Line strategy.
- Manage project managers and multidisciplinary team. Drive supplier.
- Control product profitability
- Lead relationships with the customer.
Achievements:
- 6 high end products branded PHILIPS launched (DTR5010/12, HDT8010/12,
DSR5020/19, DSR2020/19, DTR5520/05, HDT8520/05) in Retail and Diagonal
- Build competence team on VIACCESS: Product launch within 6 months.
- First DVB-T2 products (DTR5520/05, HDT8520/05) in the market.
- B2B product for Boxer (Under certification)
- Budget =~ 4 M€/year. Management of 10 engineers (France and India).
-
Philips Consumer Electronics
- Project Manager
Suresnes
2005 - 2008
Management of one or more projects (depends on complexity) according to the defined development plan (Timing, product price, Development cost, Quality) and development model (suppliers involved)
-Definition of project plan, budget estimations and required resources,
-Full empowerment on multi-discipline: hardware, software, mechanics, test engineering, industrialization, cost-engineering, purchasing.
-Compliance/Deployment of processes related to Business Creation for Retail PHILIPS project(s)
Achievements:
. High technology product (New IHM and TvTv data EPG) with six international software stakeholders (TVTV, Iwedia, Philips Design, Philips Bangalore, Philips STB, Tara system). Deployment in Germany.
. Terrestrial product for Boxer (Sweden). Certified and deployed.
. DVR SD product using a new chip and new development model.
. Responsible of HD Terrestrial Retail program: 4 products.
-
Philips Consumer Electronics
- Software Project Leader
Suresnes
2004 - 2005
Mission: Conception of embedded software for PREMIERE German operator.
- Design the software (and tools) according to NAGRA-NASC specification. The architecture is always used in PHILIPS STB.
- Management of the software Certification.
- Committed on planning, quality, and cost of deliverables.
Achievement: First PHILIPS STB product compliant with NASC requirements.
-
Philips Consumer Electronics
- Software Project Integrator
Suresnes
2002 - 2003
Mission: Integration of embedded software (drivers, middlware, application).
- Support to the stakeholders (software suppliers, factory, …)
- Definition of integration tests to evaluate the software maturity
- Management of the Software Change Control Board (bugs): Submission, correction, verification.
- Member of the Process Improvement: Team who lead the software department to CMM2
Achievement:
- Satellite product to DIRECTTV; 1 Million products;
- First PHILIPS Retail Free to air product for European market.
-
Philips Consumer Electronics
- Software Senior Designer
Suresnes
1999 - 2001
Functional and hierarchical responsible of a software architecture for STB communication with external devices : (modem V22, V32, …, USB, IEEE 1394, TCP/IP)
-
INRIA
- Senior Research Engineer
Le Chesnay
1998 - 1999
Conception, Design and implementation of wireless network (802.11) for an European project.
-
INRETS
- Research Engineer
CHAMBRAY LES TOURS
1998 - 1998
Control of autonomous vehicle based on video localisation.
-
INRIA
- Research Engineer
Le Chesnay
1993 - 1997
Mission: Specification, formal validation and implementation of missions for autonomous vehicles: Platooning, Automatic parking.
Publications : http://www-rocq.inria.fr/praxitele/equip.praxi/sofiane.abdou/cvsofiane.html
Videos and demonstrations: http://www.lara.prd.fr/pictures.html
