Jean-François Labrecque-Piedboeuf Email & Phone Number

Canada

Montreal, Quebec, Canada

• Manager of the thermal/flow simulation services team
• Space industry thought leader
• Principal engineer/Consultant for structural and thermal simulation

Région De Montréal, Canada

• Structural and thermal analysis of satellites, exoplanetary projects, electronic units, antennas
• Interface with customer and sub-contractor technical experts, responsible for project design reviews
• Planning and supervision of environmental tests – thermal and vacuum cycling, vibration, acoustic, shock
• Production support – provide directives for manufacturing, schedule optimisation, deviation reports
• Responsible of the MDA thermal/vacuum test facilities: management of a… Show more
• Responsible of the MDA thermal/vacuum test facilities: management of a team of technicians, planification and production follow-up, continuous improvement

Lausanne, Switzerland

- Responsible for the mechanical design, analysis, fabrication, assembly, tests and integration of the Gravity Gradient Earth Sensor project (GGES). The unit was flown on a ballistic rocket in Sweden in October of 2012, in partnership with the European Space Agency as part of the REXUS program, in order to reproduce micro-gravity effects.- Teaching.

• Thermal analysis of the telecommunication system of the AM5 and AM6 satellites
• Design of thermal components
• Preparation and participation to the Preliminary Design Review

• Implementation of the new project management policy from the Treasury Board of Canada
• Review of Project Approval Documents (Next Generation Canadarm, Next Generation Rover, Radarsat Constellation Mission, etc.)
• Participation to Project Management Support Committees

• Review of a tensioning scheme for Synthetic Aperture Radar membrane antennae
• Experimental validation of the results
• Redaction of a scientific article
• Presentation of the results at the 2009 International Astronautical Congress, Daejeon, South Korea

• Creation, review and amelioration of work processes
• Review of the Project Approval and Management Framework
• Definition of the roles and responsibilities of the project management office

• Creation and update of specification sheets and drawings
• Conception and fabrication of parts and tools
• Parametric modeling of parts

• Support to the Quality Management Head and replacement during vacations
• Optimization of the quality inspection processes and methods
• Quality assessments and tests

Ingénieur Mécanique, Génie Mécanique

Activities and Societies: CosmoPoly (2009-2010) Member of the CA of the Fond d'Appui aux Initiatives Étudiantes (2009-2010)

Master'S Project, Mechanical Engineering

Master's thesis project done at the Bauman Moscow State Technical University, from March 2012 to August 2012: Development and.

Master En Ingénierie, Génie Mécanique, Technologies Spatiales

Participated to several projects at the Center for Space Technologies (now the Swiss Space Center)