Sofiane ABDOU

En résumé

Entreprises

• 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

Formations

• Institut National Polytechnique

  Grenoble 1993 - 1997 PhD, Computing System & Communication

• Centre De Recherche En Informatique, Ecole Des Mines De Paris Ecole des Mines de Paris

  Paris 1992 - 1993 Master's Degree, Industrial Computing,

Réseau

• Céline LETERME

• David PAUL

• Gerard GAUD

• Jean-François NOGUERA

• Jean-Philippe BERGER

• Juan Jose TORRES

• Lamia HAMDI

• Pierre WAIDA

• Sebastien BONCOURT

• Virginie BERTAUD