PSA Peugeot Citroën
- Responsable Développement et Industrialisation Nouvelles Teintes
Rueil Malmaison2009 - maintenant - Paint Technical Expertise for PSA Design and Marketing Department:
--> Design people training achieved to the industrial constraints within the framework of new colors creation
--> Technical support for the Design development of news colors to limit industrial risks
--> Management of Strategy meetings with the Marketing- and Purchasing-Department
- Technical Manager for the new colors launch process according to the Lean Manufacturing concept
--> Technical assistance for the new colors creation for a comfortable industrial launch
--> Schedule- and Costs Responsible for the industrialization of PSA worldwide colors
--> Management of the colors variety for PSA worldwide with an 1M€ operating budget
- Technical meetings Leader with paint suppliers (BASF, BKF, DAS, PPG)
--> Guidelines for the paint suppliers work (Schedule – Quality – Cost)
--> Organization of Research & Innovation Meetings for Automotive Paints
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PSA Peugeot Citroën
- Paint Appearance Expert
Rueil Malmaison2007 - 2011 - Setting of the new appearance device to evaluate the final appearance of the automotive paint
--> Creation and follow up of a new referential for Paint Appearance at all PSA plants
--> Setting of a new method to correlate the physical measurements to the visual assessment
--> Permanent improvement for the color matching process with the painted plastic parts
- Active member of the Work Group "Orange Peel" leaded by german car manufacturers
--> Mutualization of common paint appearance issue to create an unique European standard
--> Bench mark analysis to improve the Quality at PSA
--> Conference speaker for many seminar about Color & Appearance issue
DuPont
- R&D Engineer
2000 - 2004- Spectroscopic- (Infra-red, Raman and Raman spectroscopy) and rheological studies for the evaluation of the waterborne paints Quality, with the help of the chemiometry concept
- Improvement of the control system for the raw materials, using in the automotive paints formulation
- Technical support and training for DuPont Performance Coatings France
