Sylvain Jolibert Email & Phone Number

Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Managing an international team of 10 Engineers across 3 sites with a transversal role of Lean Manager consisting in identifying and resolving performance issues to increase quality and customer satisfaction

Région De Boston, États-Unis

■ Responsible of the Global V&V (Verification and Validation) team in the Device Connectivity Department:- Manage a global team of up to 8 V&V Engineers localized in Boston Area (USA) and Paris (France).- Responsible of extensive hiring and training program: 2 resources being external with a mission turnover every 12 to 18 months.- Coordinate software components testing projects in parallel following a software manufacturing approach: up to 10 projects in parallel - 3 weeks test workload each in average.- Organize tests in house or at external sites (medical device manufacturers or hospitals):- Responsible in detecting opportunities and supervise development of new Test Automation Tools.- Manage the test environment transition program to Microsoft Test Management.- Maintain strong relationship with medical device manufacturer verification teams to coordinate transversal verification phases once new device firmware are released.- In charge of managing the Pilot Sites Program for device driver interface releases.- Report to the director of the Device Connectivity Department.■ Achievements: - Increased significantly product Quality based on strong metrics results. - Improved team efficiency and productivity by leading development of 3 test automation tools. - Implemented and maintain a project management application that fits our software verification activity. It allows to track the activity and extract KPI of interest to follow team performances.- Put in place and lead operating mechanisms to monitor the V&V activity.- Supervised major migration projects: Defect Management database (Bugzilla to TFS), (Team Wiki database to Salesforce).■ Technologies:- Salesforce, TFS 2010, VBA, Test Virtualization, Video Conferencing (Virtual Team)

Région De Paris, France

■ Lead a Verification and Validation Project Team:- Lead a team up to 10 Test Engineers on large Verification project for main product (SmartLinx Solution).- Work in collaboration with different stakeholders including the V&V Manager, Development Manager, VP R&D, System Engineers to develop a Test Strategy and Objectives for first a major code migration in the product.- In charge of defining a strategy of product stabilization and quality increase: Defect root cause Analysis, Process Update, Test Environment and Tools.- In charge of Training of new hires on the product.- In charge of the planning, monitoring, and control of the testing activities and tasks.- Provided Coaching and Technical expertise during test execution.- Lead the Training of the professional services team after product Release.- Several travels at customer sites to troubleshoot field issues on pilot sites and supervise implementation of new product.■ Achievements: - Release of a major version of the main product with significant stabilization of the quality.- Organized and Provided main training on the product to an audience of 20+ people / 5 days long (Professional Services, Technical Sales teams, Product Managers)- Experience of 3 weeks in the field at the principal pilot customer site to supervise first usage of a new product feature by the customer: provided technical support for Nurses and Hospital IT, Troubleshooting, data log monitoring.■ Technologies:- HL7, Hyper-V, VMWare, Oracle VirtualBox, VirtualPC, TFS 2010, Wireshark.

Région De Boston, États-Unis

■ In charge of Verification and Validation of medical Device Driver Interfaces (DDI), Core Product (Smartlinx Solution) [60%] and Development of Test automation tools [40%]:- FDA 510(k), ISO 9001:2008, medical device regulatory approval processes.- Identify opportunities and Developed Test automation tools in Python to streamline tests procedures.- Wrote and Executed Test Protocols for medical device drivers: Serial and Ethernet Communication Protocols on Ventilators, Infusion Pumps, Patient Monitors, Oximeters, Beds, Gateways...- Wrote and Executed Test Protocols for Core product including features such as: HL7 to EMR connectors, Backup Failover System, ADT Feed (Admission, Discharge and Transfer)...- Frequent travels over the US at medical device manufacturer sites to perform communication testing between devices and Capsule Solution: GE, Philips Healthcare, Draeger Medical.- Travels at customer sites (Hospitals) to validate product fixes and provide customer support.- Performed FAI (First Article Inspection) for the first version of the Capsule Neuron at the main Warehouse.■ Achievements: - Developed 3 main Automation tools in Python that help us save up to 25% of the overall Workload.- Verified and Validated 12 Medical Device Drivers projects (up to 3, projects in parallel of 2 weeks workload each in average).- Participated to the Verification and Validation of two major updates of the Core product (3 months and 6 months lead time projects in teams of up to 10 Test Engineers).■ Technologies:- Development: Python (Wrote Automation Tool), C++ (for basic code analysis: bug detection, code differential). MySQL. - Medical: HL7, Serial & Ethernet Communication Protocols.- Virtualization: Hyper-V, VMWare, Oracle VirtualBox, VirtualPC.- Test Environment and Tools: Bugzilla, TFS 2010, Tortoise CVS, Wireshark.

Région De Paris, France

■ Developed mechanisms of biological data displayed in the Amadea Bio-Pack platform in Java (swing):- Assessment of current context and existing issues: the project was initiated by previous intern without ever being completed successfully.- Definition of a more efficient Architecture and development of the missing components.- Reporting to the Head of the bioinformatics department at ISoft.■ Achievements: - Developed a component able to display scatter plots based on thousands coordinates following the approach of Data-morphing. Used for example to modelize a protein structure working with volumetric data.■ Technologies:- Java, Swing Library, Eclipse IDE for Java, Amadea Bio-Pack, Data-morphing

Région De Toulouse, France

■ Supervised Development completion and performed Validation of the Bioinformatics tool MAMSat (Meta-Analysis of microsatellites) & performed research on microsatellites in HLA (Human Leukocyte Antigen) region:- Conducted research in 558 Unit of INSERM (National Institute of Health and Medical research, the leading national public research institution in biomedical research in France): Collected Information about microsatellites in HLA region and enhanced the MAMSat Database with annotations found. - Worked on interface between biologists team located at INSERM and development engineers from INRA (French Agronomic Research Institution).- Collected user specifications from different stakeholders in the Biologist team and lead scope definition with the development team.- Performed Validation of the Bio-Informatics tool MAMSat.- Reporting to Dr. Anne Cambon-Thomsen heads the team “Genomics and public health - interdisciplinary approach”.■ Achievements: - Publication: MAMSat, a bioinformatics tool for annotating and analyzing literature on HLA Microsatellite markers.- Release of the live version of MAMSat.■ Technologies:- PHP, MySQL, JavaServer Pages Technology, Genomic, Biobank, Innovative therapy

Région De Toulouse, France

■ Developed a training application with Adobe Director: aimed at training the instructors to the commands of ATR flight simulators: sole analysis and conception of project:- Received computerized base pilot training in the pilot training center (ATC).- Used ATR pilot simulator to get accustomed to the tool.- Collect Inputs from pilot instructors and wrote user specifications. - Developed an interactive Training software for Pilot instructors to learn how to use simulator operator: designed User Interface and programmed interactions.■ Achievements: - Developed an interactive training application - Originally targeted to be a proof of concept, the product has been utilized as a first live version by instructors to be trained on ATR plane Simulators. ■ Technologies:- Adobe Director, Photoshop, Lingo (object-oriented programming embedded in Director).

Masters Degree, Bioinformatics

Bachelor Degree, Cellular Biology And Physiology

Diplome Universitaire Technologique (Equivalent To An Associates Degree Specialized In It In The Us), Informatics Technology (It)