Professional skills

2009 LSE SPACE FRANCE.
Satellite TMTC simulator study: This simulator is used to simulate satellite in order to validate end to end TMTC chain but not satellite behavior.

2001 – 2008 Centre National d’Études Spatiales – Toulouse – France
ATV Control Centre.
In the ATV (Automated Transfer Vehicle control centre frame), in charge of supporting prime contractor (CNES) for following sub-systems: M&C (Monitoring and Control), TTFEE (TM/TC frontal Equipment), DG (DataGateway : firewall equipment) from the design up to operations:
- Supporting project management to realize computer sub-systems: design, sub-contractor development following, acceptance.
- MDB (Mission Data Base) design participation, and OCMDB (MDB visualization tool) project management: design, development following, validation, user support,
- FCP (Flight Control Procedure) tool project management: design, development following, validation, user support,
- ATV-CC simulator (SOSIE: TM/TC simulator) project management: change design and validation, user support.
- Sub-systems integration and ATV-CC system validation participation.
- Vehicle expert support during qualification tests (QT/QO/SVT),
- ATV ground control operations support,
- M&C support team management.

2000 – 2001 Centre National d’Études Spatiales – Toulouse – France
Project management.
Data treatment and simulation tools development and validation:
- Standalone orbit control simulator design and development,
- Aero-braking orbiting simulator design and development.
- Space mission GUI simulator development.
- Stars recognition software development.
- DMS-COF (Columbus Orbital Facilities): component development and integration/validation tests following: House Keeping Temetry, Data Monitoring and Computing, CCSDS format, packetisation…
- ELOP CCU (images compression embedded software, TM/TC): development and tests management.

2000 - Matra Marconi Space
DGA call for tender
In the frame of Syracuse III phase B answer:
- in charge of designing the transition architecture between Syracuse II et Syracuse III:
* System definition files writing participation.
* System requirements writing participation.
* Ground segment requirements writing participation (network control part and satellite control part).
- in charge of designing the transition architecture between Syracuse II et Syracuse III,:
* Detailed phase by phase transition file writing: transition architectures, services restrictions, fallback option procedure, planning.

1999 - Alcatel Space Industries
Assistance à Maîtrise d’OEuvre
In the EGNOS European Project frame: ESTB-CPF, EETES and MTBsub-system Sub Program Manager:
- Computer sub-system development main contractor support. The sub-contractors were:
Spanish for ESTB-CPF development, Spanish for EETES development, and Italian for MTB development. All negotiations were in English.
- Acceptance test was in spain for EETES and ESTB-CPF, and integration took place in Norway.
- The main tasks are:
* Contract trading and managing,
* Interface between sub-contractor and EGNOS prime-contractor technical responsible,
* Requirements changes negotiations regarding financial and planning aspects,
* Development management,
* Product validation and acceptance.

1997-1998 Engineering project responsible
Development and management of following project:
- Military Headquarters system design and development for ‘Matra Système et Information’: telecommunication system between headquarters and operational fields.
- Embedded ground/plane communication sub-system development and validation for Thomson Airsys.
- Satellites constellation management workshop tools development for CNES.
- New video diffusion architecture assessment forCNES based on information new technology.
- Observation satellite generic control centre for Alcal Space : generic GUI development.

1993-1996 Alcatel Espace
Prime contractor support
In SYRACUSE II project frame:
- Equipment development project manager: SUPA V1 (embedded stations supervision equipment), SUPM V1 (metropolitan stations supervision equipment), CSR V1 (Network
supervision Centre equipment), SUPA V2 et SUPM V2.
The main tasks are:
* Contract trading and managing,
* Interface between the final client (French army : STEI), the sub-contractor (CS-Defense) and SyracuseII prime-contractor project management,
* Requirements changes negotiations regarding financial and planning aspects,
* Development management,
* Technical interface the prime
* Systems validation and on-site acceptance.

1982-1993 Technical project manager
ESIA: In petroleum fleet multi-site scheduling and control system development project for SAUDI ARABIA:
- Team leader (7 developers) during French development,
- In charge of sub-systems integration and system validation,
- In charge of installing and maintaining system on site: JEDDAH for one year and a half.
SECMAT: In charge of designing, developing embedded real time software for Telecommunication equipment:
- Maritime radio telephone to terrestrial telephone network link,
Air traffic beacon supervision via telephone network,
EDF : In research department:
- Test experimental nuclear station pipe drawing and management software,
- Collect user requirements for software evolutions.
CFV : digital electronic activity responsible :
- Prototype and specific digital electronic board design.
SNECMA : numerical engine tools design and development :
- Numerical command files processing to extract manual intervention time,
- Manual intervention time codification with operator help.

TECHNICAL SKILLS
Languages : C, C++, Ada, PASCAL, FORTRAN, JAVA, JAVASCRIPT, PHP, assemblers, AWK, SQL, Visual Basic.
Hardware : HP 9000, SUN, DEC/VAX, IBM, COMPATIBLES PC, MOTOROLA, INTEL.
Systems : UNIX, VMS, MVS, MS-DOS, MVS/XA, Windows.
Configuration management: Clear Case, CVS.
Specific skills:
- Prime contractor support,
- System integration / validation,
- Supervision system, tele-supervision,
- Control/Command,
- Satellite Control Centre, CCSDS, ECSS
- telecommunications,
- MONITROL (industrial process supervision package),
- Network : Ethernet, TCP/IP, SNA, X25, ARINC, GOST,
- BUS : VME, 1553,
- SGBD : BDR temps reel, ORACLE, ACCESS, MYSQL,
- METHODS : SDM/S, SDM TRANS, GAM-T17, PSS05,
- Tools: ANDROMEDE, ARTEMIS, MS project, SURETRACK.

FORMATION
1983 : ENSAM Aix en Provence - Diplôme national d’Ingénieur Arts et Métiers.

LANGUAGES
French: mother tongue.
English: good level (spent one year and a half in SAUDI ARABIA).