Frédéric Champ Email & Phone Number

Montpellier, Occitanie, France

Leading a R&D department of 30+ people organized in different scrum and project teams, working on medical imaging, oncology follow-up and AI products.Management:Restructured the team in 2022, hired 20+ people, set-up middle management with which we successfully transitioned software development from V Cycle to Scrum methodology while ensuring compliance with IEC 62304.Quality and Regulatory:Contributed to new Quality Management System implementation and successfully obtained MDR certification and the renewal of ISO13485 certification.Vision and Strategy:Defining and adjusting the mid and long-term R&D roadmap based on marketing priorities, business value, and R&D efforts.Leading partnerships with key-industry players.Financing:Contributed to secure a 8 million euros investment from a reference investor through successful due diligence handling.Actively participated in public grant submissions.Leading, with financial department, the CIR/CII activities.Managing R&D budget and expenses.R&D:Contributing to the rational selection of subcontractors and take part in the technical discussions with the team, pushing the "make or buy" culture.Reviewing and challenging technical choices to guarantee an optimal balance bewteen dates, resources and scope.Led and contributed to the cybersecurity and the security risk analysis plans definition.IT and DevOps:Managing IT and DevOps activities.

Montpellier, Occitanie, France

Management:Led a software team of 12 people, including product owners, software engineers and software QA engineers.Software Development:Ensured compliance with IEC 62304.Implemented tracking and reporting tools.Managed field feedback (RUN) and development of new features (BUILD).Improved traceability of development items in Azure DevOps.Released minor versions under MDD.

Paris

As member of the EXCOM for one year until the VP of R&D joined the company, contributed to the definition and development of the company strategy and business model.Developed a long-term vision of R&D development to differentiate ourselves on the market identifying thetechnological locks to be lifted in line with the user and market demand.Management:Led the development of core technologies, coordinated and monitored the actions of an international andmultidisciplinary team of 4 engineers (biomechanic, material science, medical imaging).Ensured the compliance of the R&D developments with quality requirements (ISO 13485, 21 CFR).Quality and Regulatory:Led outsourced software development initiating IEC 62304 compliance, developing procedures, form templates, and leading regulatory strategy.Led the project from the subcontractor selection to the technical aspect, including budget and planning.Intellectual property:Contributed to the development of the IP strategy, working closely with the intellectual property attorney for patent filing (13 patents filed), trade secret, and competitive intelligence.Developed clinical expertise in several domains:- Interventional neuroradiology: aneurysm embolization, thrombectomy, AVM- Interventional cardiology: LAAC, TAVI, TMVR, and TMVr- Endovascular repair: EVARStrengthened technical expertise in medical imaging, biomechanics, material science, and 3D printing.

Paris

Research and Development:Led R&D projects related to medical imaging, managing a team of 3 engineers on various projects, including:- Automation of aneurysm analysis using statistical approach and machine learning- CAD algorithm development to post-process meshes for 3D printing- Composite material generation for medical imaging compatibilityThe projects were developed with proprietary algorithms using C++, Python, ITK, VTK.Led software development and maintenance creating and enforcing development rules using versioning tools (Git, SourceTree, GitLab) and documentation tools (Doxygen, Sphinx)Built international partnerships with medical imaging companies.Developed medical imaging expertise in fluoroscopy and transesophageal echocardiography including C-ARM, TEE, and ICE catheter manipulations in cathlabs.Project Management:Reported project advancement and expenses tracking to the EXCOM (Gantt, budget matrix, …).Defined budget for Research and Innovation team according to the company objectives.

Paris

Research and Development:Principal inventor of a 3D printable echogenic composite material to recreate cardiac tissue aspect undertransesophageal echocardiography (patent pending).Co-developed and co-inventor of an X-Ray and ultrasound compatible surgical simulation system for LeftAtrial Appendage Closure (patent pending).Software Development:Automated the production workflow from a DICOM to the 3D printed model base on CAD algorithm andmesh processing using Python, Blender, Meshlab and VTK.Developed post-processing and segmentation for 3D angiography, CT and 3D ultrasound usingthird-party software and proprietary algorithms based on ITK, VTK and developed in Python and C++.Developed a strong knowledge in echocardiography and 3D printing leveraging printers' capabilities.

Strasbourg Area, France

Led the development of a televisit application (first prototype) for IOSManaged subcontractor relations for the application development

Région De Strasbourg, France

Specialized in software development (C++) for surgical guidance:Agile software development process (Scrum)Software development for surgical navigation using augmented reality and other computer visionalgorithms including cryoablation guidance, real-time X-ray dose tracking, gastroscopy guidance.Skills: Qt, VTK, ITK, Boost, video stream, features tracking, Dicom standard, network communication, ...Android application development:Built a unique CMake compilation workflow to reuse 20 years of C++ code developed by the R&D tocreate an android application without using java.Skills: Android, JNI, NDK, CMake, C++, Qt, OpenGL ESWeb development:Optimization of DICOM exchange service for DICOM containing images, videos, and 3D models usingJavaScript, NodeJS, Mocha among other packages and tools.

Région De Strasbourg, France

Introduction to Android application development including application lifecycle and threadmanagement.

Région De Strasbourg, France

Improvement of a reconstruction algorithm for fetal Brain diffusion MRI (DWI).The project was part of the ERC (European Research Council ) project « Computational Anatomy Of Fetal Brain and implemented in BTK (namely Baby brain ToolKit): https://github.com/rousseau/fbrain/.The BTK resource program (distributed under CeCILL-B license) is developed in C++ and relies on common medical imaging libraries such as Insight Toolkit (ITK), VisualizationToolkit (VTK) and Open Multi-Processing (OpenMP).

Buc, France

Motion-compensated 3D reconstruction of interventional devices - confidential

Brisbane,Qld, Australia

Development of algorithms for blood cells segmentation able to manage the particular cases (aggregation, overlap, particular morphology).Validation of the feasibility test

Engineering Degree With Honors, Specialized In Medicine, Image Processing, And Bio-Compatible Materials

Under Graduate Licence, Fundamental Bases Of Biology And Science Courses As Biochemistry, Molecular Biology And Genetics

Firsyt Year Of Medical School

Bachelor ("A" Level), Scientific Degree With Specialization In Biology