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Samsung Electronics
- Director SoC Silicon Validation and FPGA
Saint-Ouen Cedex
2013 - maintenant
In charge of Exynos SoC Silicon Validation and FPGA.
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Texas Instruments
- Hardware Platform Validation Manager
Villeneuve-Loubet
2012 - 2013
Senior Manager Silicon Validation
SOC Silicon Validation
Management:
40 engineers (including managers)
Recruitment interviews (internals and contractors)
Team and employees objectives setting (tasks and schedule)
Performance reviews, compensation and skills management
Training, feedback and mentoring
Budget (travel, investment) ownership and contractor management
Silicon validation technology and processes improvement
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Texas Instruments
- Design Verification Manager
Villeneuve-Loubet
1997 - 2012
Manager Design Verification
SOC Top Level Design Verification
Formal Verification
Elected SMTS (Senior Member Technical Staff) 2004
Management:
Up to 16 TI engineers and 80 contractors (internal and low cost externalized)
Interviews , objectives setting, careers, compensation and skills management
Built low-cost near-shore contractors capacity (up to 60 engineers):
Serbia, India, Hungary, Ireland, Romania, Morocco
Design verification technology and processes improvement:
Collaboration with TI sites in Dallas, Bangalore, Houston, San Diego, Tokyo and Chicago in order to share best practices and implement new methodology
Verification reviewer of TI IPs and SOC, auditor for external IPs (interconnect, GPU …)
Member of Dallas Verification Symposium organization committee
Introduction of Formal verification within TI, creation of a 5 members team
Collaboration with CAD vendors to introduce within TI new functionalities or tools (like Power Aware, Specman, Register mapping tool)
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Thomson-CSF
- Modelisation, Simulation and IHM manager
1987 - 1997
Manager Simulation & Modeling
R&D engineer
Management (1993 1997):
6 Thomson-CSF engineers and 6 contractors
Interviews (internal and external new team members)
Employees objectives setting (tasks and schedule) and compensation management
Individual contributor (1987 1997):
Thomson-CSF digital cartography council member (1994-1997)
Thomson-CSF Simulation and Physical Modeling council member (1993-1997)
Signal processing lab teacher at ENSTA engineer school (4 months, 1990)
Digital radio-altimeters simulator (digital cartography, radio propagation, signal processing), enabling new equipments generation: model delivered and ported successfully on Dassault-aviation mainframes
Rafale IFF real time model delivered to Dassault: accepted first pass
Warship communication network reconfiguration algorithm (patent as inventor, 1994) (publication in the Thomson technical book, 1993): graphical demonstrator built in time for customers marketing
Ray Tracing model for WLAN (located in Eurecom Sophia-Antipolis) enabling successful demonstration to customers (hospitals, trains, metros)
Radar propagation model (on secondment in Thomson-CSF Bagneux), unlocking our radar department
Communication equipments processing GUI and ELF propagation model for French underwater army (DOD 2167A development), delivered in time with 70% benefits
IT engineer in charge of UNIX Sun workstation installation and maintenance
