Laurent Franck Email & Phone Number

Mazères, Fr

Toulouse, Occitanie, France

As consultant and expert in space ground systems, I support and provide guidance to our international customers with their space projects, covering phase 0, phase A to phase F. I have experience in R&D, ground segment design & development, support to procurement, project management, satellite operations, higher-level training and international environments. Sample activities: - Monitoring the system integrator activies for the test & deployment of an HTS control & user ground segments (test plans & reports reviews, engineering support, definition of system acceptance, definition of the operations rationale, training)- Support to the pocurement of a European-wide satcom user ground segment (RFP preparation, technical and commercial hearings)- Definition of maintenance policies for ground terminals (identification of key aspects, definition of best practices)- Support to the procurement of space monitoring capabilities (technical requirements, RFI and RFP preparation)- Prime contributor to an ENISA report on cybersecurity for LEO satcom (published in Q1 2024, ENISA website)- Higher-level training covering multidisciplinary aspects of space systems- Technical expertise during due diligences

- Participation to Launch & Early Orbit Phase (LEOP) of geostationary telecom satellite as ground segment manager and TT&C specialist (10 missions over 4 years)- Part of the LEOP core team led by the flight director- Mission-specific configuration & qualification of satellite control centres- Participation to the design & development of new satellite control centres- Participation to the procurement of TT&C services - Expert support on earth stations and ground segments- Reporting to our customers about ground segment qualification, technical coordination- Training of teammates & users of the control centre- Customers' visits- Team knowledge management

Toulouse Area, France

Engineering Academy, Airbus Defence & SpaceWorking on telecom competence management and relations with the Universities.

Toulouse Area, France

Head of the Toulouse team and site of IMT Atlantique. - Teaching to final year students in the engineering and post-graduate curiculum. All courses are in English. Keen on using modern teaching practices including collaborative and blended learning (mixed digital/classroom training)- Author/co-author of 50+ scientific articles in conferences & journals.- Coordinator of two MOOCs: "Introduction to satellite communications" (Coursera) and "Introduction aux communications par satellite" (FUN - France Université Numérique). - Participation and lead of R&D projects, supervision of PhD candidates. - Development of the strategy & scientific policy for the site. - Member of the TeSA lab (http://www.tesa.prd.fr) and co-chair of the scientific committee for a mandate (scientific roadmap, internal call for projects, ...)- Founder and tech lead of a satcom lab offering experimental facilities for our students, from cubesat test plateforms to state of the art SDR. Extensive collaboration with National Instruments on these topics.- Chair of the ETSI Satellite Emergency Communications working group

* Toulouse site of ENST* Teaching and research in the field of satellite communications

Toulouse Area, France

* Teaching in fields of networking, software engineering

Toulouse Area, France

* Working on research projects in the field of satellite networking

* Pursuing a PhD degree on routing for inter-satellite link networks

* Organizing practical work sessions on topics such as operating systems and C and Cobol language

Post-Doctoral Degree, Telecommunications

French "Habilitation à diriger des recherches" given the right to formally supervise PhD students. Mandatory to access full professor.

Phd, Satellite Communications

PhD obtained with highest honors ("Très honorable avec les félicitations du jury").

4-Year Degree, Social Sciences

4-year degree called "Licence" (in French) Degree obtained with high honors ("Grande distinction")

4-Year Degree, Computer Science

4-year degree called "Licence" (in French) Degree obtained with regular honors ("Satisfaction")