Team leading: Manages the R&D team (30 SW and HW engineers): - Recruits (15+), retains and develops team members - Introduced and conducted performance reviews: yearly numbered goals, regular mutual feedback in line with an ever-changing environment - Plans, optimizes and follows on budget and resources - Defines priorities between sub-teams, projects, and conflicting requirements, follows up throughout the project life - Acts as an escalation point for engineering issues identified by partners or customers - Acted as display technology sub-team leader and trained the sub-team to autonomy - Defines, challenges, and follows-up on developments of the framework team to increase reusability and code-sharingProject Life Cycle:- Develops and improves policies and procedures for the R&D team, namely early conflicts identification- Understands problems and limiting factors, and actively provides technical and process-related improvements- Provides company members with reporting tools - Improves information flow and facilitates collaboration and alignment between R&D and marketing/sales- Reports to project partners and customers- Partners with external field experts to identify new sources of growth, matching available know-how- Integrated IT as part of the R&D, implementing new process and security focus along the way- Uniformized software development practices, introduced and maintains Agile practices and a test-driven philosophyStrategy:- Defines and manages the innovation process from idea to product, mentoring and working closely with company scientist- Defines technology roadmap- Decides on changes as part of the management team- Identifies risks of losing market share by competition analysis and intellectual property schemes- Scouted, chose and implemented a new license management system (incl. software implementation)- Participates in scientific groups defining the future of High-Speed Digital Bus- Participates in industry trade shows

Create the future of the great cause that is safe and accessible home cardiac rehabilitation.

Main Tasks :- Conception of product architectures with consideration of:Customer requirements, strategical (roadmap) and economical (cost) aspects, connectivity, sensors, power management.- Project support during implementation of product architectures.- Evaluation of customer requests with respect to technical feasibility.- Support BCDS technology roadmap, component selection.- Technology evaluation.- Identification of pre-development topics and demands/requirements.- Execution of pre-development topics, studies. Documentation.- Realization of IP evaluations.- Lead of technical team in Product Area Connected Logistics.- Technical support and guidance of product management.Main Projects : - Bike Sensor : connectivity, crash detection and theft protection for eBikes and more!- Connected Logistic and Transport data logger : increase the portfolio of products : https://www.bosch-connectivity.com/products/transport-data-logger/

=> Senior Research Engineer (50%): Shaped ideas into projects, proofs of concept and products:Conceived and developed autonomous 4 wheels robots for airfield management :- Chose and validated all sensors and devices required for autonomous operations : Lidar, Leddar, RTK GNSS, communication medias, antennas and their integration, long range wireless emergency stop, sensor fusion algorithms for localization.- Defined, supervised and coordinated software developments under ROS.- Conducted field-tests and validation.Conceived and developed Sterela’s Smart parking management system:- Appreciated clients’ needs, competitors’ key success factors, defined state of the art and decided on technologies. - Developed car detection modules (low-power electronics, embedded software in C++ and high-performance detection algorithms with Matlab) from the initial research to the pre-production series of 200 “Witty” prototypes (Sigfox/LoRa)- Defined and supervised development of external interfaces (web-based exploitation software and web services), mobile applications (Android) and mechanical housing.=> Wireless communication technologies Specialist (25%): Advised with RF related issues : - Identified, evaluated and validated (including demonstrators, lab and field tests) current and future wireless technologies and communication protocols for every Sterela business sector (defense, ITS and robotics).- Advised project and product managers on communication systems.- Recommended comprehensive solutions (including antennas and RF analog hardware) with system trade-off analysis.=> Technical Project Leader for multi-partners and international projects (25%): Managed development teams and dealt with multi-partners in compliance with quality, cost and delay :- Led and managed successful multidisciplinary projects (see below for detailed projects).- Collaborated with universities and supervised innovative developments (antennas -patented-, algorithms and new sensors).

- Contributed to the SACER project, an « Aerospace Valley » accredited industrial research project (LAAS, Airbus, Intespace and 4 SMEs)- Established requirements and state of the art of off-the-shelf communication protocols and standards- Evaluated and determined limitations of the Multiband-OFDM modulation scheme (as implemented in Wimedia standard) via field tests in lab (anechoic chamber, indoors, outdoors) and future deployment (A340 aircraft and Eurostar 3000 satellite platform) conditions.- Researched and developed a digital signal processing architecture for a MB-OFDM type high data rate (200 Mbits/s) transceiver adapted to the specific needs of metrological WSN (pressure sensors and strain gauges)- Implemented a fully functional demonstrator on FPGAs (including COTS RF front-ends and specific antennas) with System level design tools (Synphony HLS)- Implemented a digital ASIC (with STMicroelectronics 65nm process) to evaluate energy efficiency - Demonstrator was awarded the first price in the “Student Design Competition for Software Defined Radio Graduate Division” at the International Microwave Symposium 2011 in Baltimore, MD and published in IEEE Microwave Magazine (Volume:13, Issue: 1)

Department of electronics and computer engineeringTeached 2nd, 3rd and 4th year of the Engineering course:- digital and analogue electronics- signal processing- digital filtering- telecommunications

Researched and developed a low-dropout regulator (LDO) using a new digital loop conceptModeled and researched stability on Matlab using z-transformDesigned and simulated with Cadence tools

Implementated the interface circuit between a computer and an X-Y table, allowing the automation of PCB drillingControled DC motors with a microcontroller and dedicated circuits

Established the supervision of the radio stations in the control tower of the Metz-Nancy-Lorraine airportImplementated a formatting program in Visual Basic meeting the SCTA's requirements