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Paris, Fr

Paris Area, France

Lausanne Area, Switzerland

Atracsys Interactive designs and develops multi-touch applications for large touch screens, focusing on natural interactions, immersive user experience and multi-user collaboration.I created and developed the UX & Design department within the start-up, working hand-in-hand with business and software development to bring life to new kinds of user interfaces. Along the growth of company, I designed 150+ User Interfaces dedicated to wide multi-touch surfaces (table, kiosk, vertical touchscreen) for various applications and niche markets, bringing interaction and collaboration to the next level.My roles in the company also included design-related topics such as communication, marketing, corporate identity, website, business and strategy.// Keywords:UX Design / User Research / Creativity / Ideation / Storyboarding / Multi-user Multi-touch Interface / Natural User Interface / Cognitive Science / Information Architecture / Software Development / Agile PM / New business / Start-up

Lausanne Area, Switzerland

Atracsys LLC designs and develops optical tracking systems for the Medical industry, offering sub-millimetric accuracy, high speed and high resolution, for surgery applications.I designed three devices for Atracsys LLC (industrial design & CAD modelling), working closely with the CTO and electronics experts, integrating the company’s know-how.Medical devices: fusionTrack 250, spryTrack 180 and Naviswiss (www.naviswiss.eu).// Keywords:Industrial Design / Sketching / Creative research / Mechanics / CAD modeling (Solidworks) / Fabrication / Assembly / Optics / Electronics / Medical

Thourotte, France

Saint-Gobain Sekurit manufactures high added value glazing for the automotive industry.Part of a small innovation team, I worked on R&D Innovation projects and exploratory studies related to Lighting Glazing (integration of lighting solutions and LEDs in automotive glazing), as well as glazing encapsulation, plastic glazing and bonding solutions.I was involved in the upstream innovation process steering the R&D exploratory studies.// Keywords:Lighting glazing / LEDs lighting & integration / Optics / Automotive glazing manufacturing processes / Plastic injection & thermoforming / Patents & IP / Materials / Plastic glazing / Bonding / Glazing encapsulation / Mechanics / Validation testing / Business analysis / Upstream R&D management / Prototyping / Creative researchPatent: WO2014131972A1

Vélizy, France

PSA Peugeot Citroën manufactures cars with distinctive identities for each brand. At this time, mottos were “Creative Technology” for Citroën and “Motion & Emotion” for Peugeot.Part of the Research & Innovation team working on automotive HMI (Human-Machine Interface), I worked on HUD (Head-Up Display) and derived concepts of information display to the driver. My subject was to explore ideas & concepts “providing emotions to the driver while improving security”. The end goal was to prototype a promising concept inside the dashboard of a Peugeot 308 (to be tested on road later on).// Keywords:HMI / Driving information display / Cognitive ergonomics / Emotional design / Benchmark / Optics / CAD modeling (CATIA V5) / Optical simulation / Patents & IP / Industrial design / Creative research / Prototyping

Sainte-Julie, France

Plastic Omnium Auto Exterior is providing exterior parts & systems for the automotive industry.During this internship project, I worked on innovative low-cost decorative solutions for automotive bumpers (with Design-to-cost approach).// Keywords:Decoration / Plastic injection / Materials / Assembly / Creative research / CAD modeling (CATIA V5) / Prototyping / Validation testing

Grenoble, France

COLAS is a world leader in road construction. I worked in a small plant producing hot asphalt paving materials in Grenoble, delivering daily materials for road construction sites in the region.After a quick training, I replaced the production operator for 3 months, managing live production planning, stocks and trucks loading.I also designed a user-friendly HTML training support, to explain to future production operators how this plant works (process, commands, actuators …). Training tool presented to Colas’ internal innovation prize.// Keywords:Live production / Pavement materials / Industrial process / Training tool

Msc., Innovation, Design, Engineering, With Honors

Master of Science gathering Engineers, Designers and Ergonomists students. Lectures on Innovation Management, tools & processes. / FR.

Msc. & Bsc., Mechanical & Industrial Engineering

Activities and Societies: Photography, BEST (see volunteering activity) General engineering with focus on Mechanical & Industrial.

Mooc, "Design: Creation Of Artifacts In Society"

6-months MOOC to perfect knowledge on global user-centered design. (https://www.coursera.org/learn/design)