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THALES - Research and Technology division (11/2006-02/2013)

Embedded Solutions Expert / Project Manager

    Lead technological evolutions at headquarters level to cope with the next ten years' products' needs. Expertise recognition from upper management. Lead research and development teams (2-8 people). Manage budget, schedule and resources for project development. Manage several project in parallel, find synergies to reduce development costs. Establish lucrative relationship with customers and partners. Patent and publish research results.
  • Design innovative embedded solutions to boost computation performances, improve components reliability, reduce power consumption and equipment price.
  • Develop requirements and specifications for image and signal processing dedicated parallel architectures
    • Designed and prototyped Heterogeneous Many-core Architecture for embedded image and signal processing
    • Designed and prototyped fault tolerant many-core architecture for smart cameras.
    • Specified and Lead FPGA architecture design for signal processing of aircraft embedded radars
  • Develop requirements and specifications for dedicated embedded operating systems and middle-wares
    • Lead PhD candidate with subject : "Modelling Hardware/software real-time embedded Operating System"
    • Lead PhD candidate with subject : "Design Hardware/software modular real-time embedded Operating System"
  • Coordinate and participate in European and French research projects
  • Coordinate architecture definition and development with other divisions and external companies
    • Internal partners : Thales Avionic, Thales Alinea-Space...
    • External partners : TTTech, SysGo, Esterel Technologies, RealTime@Work, KalRay...
    • Academic partners : Technical University of Vienna, Technical University Karlsruhe, INRIA, ONERA...
  • Present and defend solutions to upper management
  • Lead FPGA (2 people) and Software (up to 6 people) development teams
  • Lead and supervise 2 PhD candidates and mentor 3 junior engineers
  • Manage budget and schedule during implementation
  • Support bid effort with white paper or customer visits
  • Develop SystemC simulators to validate solutions on several architectures, reducing prototyping costs
  • Publish results in scientific journals and present at seminars and conferences
  • Work in Germany, Switzerland and Austria with partner and client teams when needed.
  • Member of the scientific and technical comity to review projects deliverables
  • Program Comity member of ISORC 2011
  • Successfully Passed European Commission financial audit.
  • Successfully passed ISO 9001 audit on Project Management.