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Delivering technical, managerial, and business development services to tech companies in the semiconductor and embedded electronics industries. Reference business partners include service companies, SMEs (Reflex CES), and large accounts (Wabtec, Ariane Group, Thermofisher).Embedded Expertise is also a reseller of System-On-Modules, embedded boards and programmable IoT gateways from Dusun IoT and other fine electronic vendors.► Technical - Product defintion, system architecture, management of requirements - Hardware design, FPGA, ARM-based micros, asymmetric multi-core architectures - NXP i.MX expert - ASIC/FPGA design flow - Embedded software: bare-metal, RTOS, Linux, C, Python, IoT, embedded AI/ML - Toolchains and build environments, SDK and BSP setup, Yocto - Debug environments: JTAG, real-time trace, gdb, Segger, Lauterbach - Security of hardware platforms - Technical writing► Management - Project and program management - Team leadership - Contract management - Institutional projects, calls for tenders, grants► Business - Business development - Identification and qualification of opportunities and leads - Sales support - Industrial partnerships

Jumaro Invest brings money, time, and relentless efforts to small or early-stage companies with high growth potential in exchange for a share of ownership in the company.In addition to providing financial support, Jumaro Invest also offers its expertise, experience, and industry connections to help the companies succeed. This can include advice on product development, strategy, hiring, and more.I only invest in projects I understand and can actively contribute to. This mainly boils down to tech ventures in the semiconductor, electronics, and embedded software industries.

Le Mée-Sur-Seine, Fr

As COO for Comsis, a leading supplier of Wi-Fi and Wi-Fi derivative products for emerging, demanding, or niche markets, I orchestrated the processes necessary to turn technological assets and intellectual property into commercial products. I held functional authority over the company including a team of cross-functional engineers and managed the company’s day-to-day operations while simultaneously being engaged in R&D processes.SELECT ACHIEVEMENTS:► Implemented corporate design rules, VMM verification, and procedures to enable consistent quality and manufacturability of products.► Led designing and manufacturing of a system-on-chip silicon device embedding proprietary IPs, which awarded the company with a "silicon-proven" status.► Established industrial partnerships with IP suppliers, tool vendors, and software companies.► Empowered design and manufacturing of 10+ OEM electronic products embedding the company's technologies.► Secured several million Euros of government, EU, and other institutional grants. Built consortiums, raised awareness, and developed business across partners.► Defined formal bidding procedures, which increased the win rate 6-fold to a whopping 85%

San Jose, Ca, Us

During my time as Technical Marketing Manager for Atmel, a leading ASIC, memory, and microcontroller manufacturer at that time, I oversaw 6 engineers with functional and hierarchical authority to drive the mission of a new BU.The BU was launched by the top management as a high potential business development program, with its own independent resources.SELECT ACHIEVEMENTS:► Created and introduced a whole product line with 3 silicon devices. Developed alliances to build the supporting collaterals: emulators, compilation package, reference O/S, libraries, protocols stacks, reference designs.► Led the design of the silicon devices and related embedded software (voice processing, protocol stacks).► Set up the technical support team and procedures. Designed training programs and trained sales worldwide.

San Jose, Ca, Us

As Group Manager, ASSP Application, I led a team of 3 application engineers and provided internal support to sales and marketing to enable improved understanding of the application requirements.SELECT ACHIEVEMENTS:► Obtained upper management buy-in to set up the first corporate application lab.► Managed the customer support team that enabled repeated multi-million-dollar sales by providing pre-sales support for prototype customers.

San Jose, Ca, Us

In this position, I designed Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASICs) for the customers of the ASIC business unit.

As Design Engineer for a semiconductor design house, I provided design services to semiconductor companies and handled front-to-back ASIC design and project management.

Engineering Degree, Micro-Electronics, Electronics, Embedded Systems

Msc, Mechanics