Manager of "Le LAB", the EQIOM national multidisciplinary technical center and in charge of the R&D subject management for EQIOM. This technical center consists of five laboratories : road binders and aggregates, concrete, grout and mortars, chemistry & durability laboratory. It is providing the assistance for all EQIOM branch activities:- Cement production and sales: Customer assistance for modifying existing products, for solving daily production problems, for creating some new products, for providing the specific production control results- Concrete: Assistance for creating new formulae, for qualifying some complex mix design by performing specific tests, for finding some solutions in case of difficulties on jobsite- Aggregates and roads binders: For testing some new potential sources and for qualifying aggregates for specific concrete mix design, for studying some clients soil sample and simulate some treatment for adapting some road binders formulationIt is an open site with shared offices for colleagues from commercial, production and support services. From 2014 up to the middle of 2015, I was in charge of the EQIOM national multidisciplinary technical center project, which include the design, the conception, the construction, the equipment choice & investment, the collaborators hiring and the organization.

France Benelux area activity:Management of the multidisciplinary Engineers team and the technical center laboratory- for providing technical studies for the clinkers, cements, concretes and aggregates production sites- for providing technical assistance for the commercial team and the clients- organizing the technical training for colleagues and customers- for the R&D activity and the development of new productsHolcim members for professionals associations (ATILH, nationals projects)

Clinker & cement production manager (1 600 000 T/y)Process optimization:- two 2800 T/d kilns- two cement grinding lines (80 - 320 T/h)- alternative fuel installationTeam: 8 Supervisors & 50 Employees

Clinker & cement production manager (1 400 000 T/y) Process optimization:- one 4000 T/d kiln- one slurry mill (400 T/h) two cement grinding lines (80 - 150 T/h)- alternative fuel installationTeam: 1 Engineer, 5 Supervisors & 30 Employees

Technical studies / Expertise in cement and admixture chemistry:- new admixture development with partnership (CIA-Holderchem, Elf-Atochem, Rhodia),- ultrafines binders compositions development for special application (masonry & soil injections)

Development of a method for the synthesis of optical planar waveguides with fluorides glasses.Creation of new compositions of fluoride glasses.