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California, United States

Mountain View, California, US

• Oversee corporate and operational finance functions, including accounting, financial planning, cash flow management, and strategic finance initiatives.
• Led transition from cash accounting to GAAP standards and directed preparations for Muon's first-year audit.
• Established budgeting processes and spearheaded FP&A exercises for project planning and customer pricing analyses.
• Developed customizable medium- and long-term financial projection models to support strategic planning and fundraising.
• Secured $56.7M in Series B funding in a highly challenging 2024 environment through rigorous financial preparation.
• Designed and implemented financial reporting structures, policies, internal controls, and procedures to optimize spend management.

Blagnac Cedex, FR

• Spearheaded production and cost optimization for U.S.-based aircraft final assembly lines (FALs) through strategic initiatives, including the alignment of support functions, infrastructure enhancement, advanced.
• Achieved a 27% cost savings above the 2021 target, resulting in a 20% overall reduction in planned costs, with 32% representing sustainable efficiencies.
• Partnered with operations to ensure cost reductions aligned with industrial improvements and quality enhancements across the business.
• Directed a portfolio of cross-functional initiatives with production, engineering, and finance teams, driving process standardization and method optimization.
• Established and chaired a Change Control Board to manage Service Level Agreements between FALs and Programs, fostering greater efficiency and accountability across operations.

Sunnyvale, California, US

• Directed a globally distributed team to deliver the Ray20 demonstrator, a groundbreaking IoT-enabled aerial sensor network with edge processing capabilities. Leveraging 5G and cloud-based neural networks, Ray20.
• Achieved project goals to commoditize high-resolution Earth observation imagery with unprecedented spatial and temporal accuracy across North America and Europe, with potential to cut market costs by an order of.
• Spearheaded the conceptual design and analytical framework for Acubed’s inaugural space technology initiative.
• Guided company strategy, culture, and operational priorities as a member of Acubed’s Executive Leadership Team, contributing to high-level decision-making and organizational development.
• Cultivated strategic partnerships within Silicon Valley’s ecosystem, collaborating with venture capitalists, GIS platforms, and remote sensing startups to drive the democratization of commercial GIS markets.
• Oversaw external partnerships, agencies, and budget, while aligning with Airbus' global Earth observation and intelligence divisions to enhance project success and industry impact.

Blagnac Cedex, FR

• Presided as Secretary of Airbus Space Systems’ Executive Committee responsible for 10,000+ employees worldwide and billion euro budgets for Earth observation, navigation and science programs, telecommunication.
• Administered the business of the Executive Vice President of Airbus Defence and Space SAS
• Managed strategic initiatives, most notably the space transformation project, which pivoted the business from a national and institutional focused organization into an agile matrix structure to compete in the fast.
• Implemented a digital single point of truth business reporting system for the Airbus Defence and Space Executive Committee, and business process engineered all divisional reporting to Airbus Group and its Board of.
• Coordinated communications and corporate agenda, and oversaw public relations for Airbus Defence and Space SAS

Blagnac Cedex, FR

• Created and chaired the Extended Enterprise Watchtower - a multifunctional team (Finance, Procurement, Operations, Engineering, Legal and Programs) tasked with identifying, evaluating and mitigating financial.
• Astutely managed and controlled supplier contracts for the Earth observation, navigation and science programs and the International Space Station, ensuring budgetary compliance for profitability targets
• Developed and executed the divisional procurement transformation savings initiative, reporting monthly to the Chief Procurement Officer and Head of Operations. The initiative achieved multi-million euro operational and.

Blagnac Cedex, FR

• Led the consolidation of three companies to create Airbus Defence and Space (opening Balance Sheet, Profit and Loss, Cash Flow Statement)
• Set up the new financial governance, processes, systems and controls for the consolidated division
• Worked with Airbus’ European social partners to align human resource and financial synergy targets for the new division
• Reported monthly to the division finance steering committee and Airbus CFO

Blagnac Cedex, FR

• Digitalized Treasury's credit management
• Designed a new integrated credit management concept which became the blueprint for Airbus Defence and Space
• Implemented a dynamic overview of status quo of credit / accounts receivables management of all Cassidian entities, including interfaces and responsibilities with financial accounting services, controlling and others
• Implemented credit management processes at Cassidian (now part of Airbus Defence and Space)Created Airbus' first internal valuation model for Investor Relations
• Built an Airbus market valuation model based on discounted future cash flows, multiples, sum of the parts and traditional value
• Analyzed key similarities and differences between Airbus' investor relation's (internal) and sell side analyst’s market valuations, as well as harmonization opportunities where possible

Blagnac Cedex, FR

• Managed corporate financial planning, control and audit of A400M program industrial perimeter across Europe
• Renegotiated A400M program multi-billion euro contract with governmental customer OCCAR
• Divested four Airbus factories and merged with EADS MAS to create two new subsidiaries Premium AEROTEC and Aerolia, achieving operational synergies
• Implemented Earn Value Management reporting in place of incremental budgeting

Blagnac Cedex, FR

• Established the A30X (a future single aisle concept plane) top level requirements - the first time a multi functional approach to requirements engineering was implemented on a development program
• Produced the A30X requirements management plan defining how a diverse set of program requirements would be captured, evolved, traded off, prioritized, verified and validated

Blagnac Cedex, FR

6 graduate placements within Airbus1. A350 XWB wing integration team2. A30X future projects concept design team3. A330 operational reliability study for QANTAS Airlines (based in Sydney, Australia)4. A320 wing "lean" manufacturing project5. Marketing and Sales navigation performance business case (based in Toulouse, France)6. Executive assistant to Wing.

Master Of Engineering (Meng), Aeronautical Engineering

A Levels, Mathematics, Physics And Art