WORK EXPERIENCE
June 2007- June 2008 European Space Agency (ESA-ESTEC) in Noordwijk (the Netherlands) and in Les Mureaux (France)
Young Graduate Programme in the Human Spaceflight Directorate for the ATV-Jules Verne project
Support Jules Verne’s Verification and Control activities regarding the system level specifications (ISS, Control Center and Ariane V interfaces, ATV):
- Participation in the writing of the Verification Control Documents for the Segment Specification (SSP) and the Interface Requirements (IRD) ATV to ISS
- Maintenance of traceability matrices for ESA/NASA bi-lateral verification and ESA/NASA/ RSC-E trilateral verification, consisting in:
- collecting inputs during meetings with international partners (RSC-E and NASA)
- programming VBA macros in Excel to automatically generate requirements’ closure burn-down curves
- summarizing and updating verification evidence (method and level of verification, links to waivers and RIDs, referenced documents, estimated closure date)
- Support to the requirements’ close out coordination and scheduling (meetings’ agenda and MoM)
- Inputs on verification requirements progress status (statistics, assessment of criticality) used in the Pre-Board and Board presentations during the QR2-Part II and FAR meetings
- Attendance of key project meetings in ESTEC and in Les Mureaux ATV site: panels’ collocations, Qualification Reviews (QR2-Part I and QR2-Part II) and Flight Acceptance Review
Sep.2005 –Sep. 2006 DaimlerChrysler Research and Technology North America in Palo Alto (USA)
Statistical Data Analysis and Database Design for Chrysler Fast Feedback project:
· Statistical analysis of data collected by vehicle’s On-Board Diagnostics computer (in Matlab)
· Maintenance of the project’s DB2 database: data management improvements, development of new features
è Vocational training offered by DaimlerChrysler:
· «Introduction to Databases» course as auditor (DB Management Systems, SQL) Stanford University (USA)
· Database Associate Certification (DB2 Universal Database V8.1 Family)
Project Management and Logistics forMercedes-Benz TeleDiagnostics Pilot project:
è Participated in the business case validation of an innovative prototype system:
· Presentation of the system to end-users (at MB Technical Center and dealerships) Los Angeles, California
· Assessment of system’s benefits (reductions of costs and times, quality level) Laguna Niguel, California
· Prototype’s operational deployment: technical and logistics support to field tests
at Mercedes USA Headquarters in Montvale, New Jersey
July-August 2004 Thales Avionics London (UK)
« Improvement of company’s internal Quality Audits’ performances » at Quality Assurance Department
- Set up and lead project’s meetings to analyse and follow up with users’ requirements
- Design, Development and Test of a Microsoft Access database monitoring company’s Internal Quality Audits
EDUCATION
2003 – 2007 Ecole Nationale Supérieure de l’Aéronautique et de l’Espace (SUPAERO)
Master of Science in Aerospace Engineering Toulouse (France)
2006 – 2007 Technische Universität München (TUM)
Exchange Semester - Major: Space Systems Engineering Munich (Germany)
2001- 2003 Lycée "Louis-Le-Grand" Paris (France)
Two-year Maths/Physics-preparation for entrance examination to French engineering schools
2001 Scientific High School leaving certificate in Maths and Physics with A level (“Congratulations from the jury”)
RESEARCH AND ACADEMIC PROJECTS
2008 ESTEC Internal Course «Advanced Strategies and Techniques for Business Negotiations» (start in April)
2008 ESTEC Internal Course «Space Systems Engineering»
2008 Paper selected for the IAA 1st Symposium on Private Manned Access to Space (May 28th to 30th, 2008)
«Analysis of the Futron Survey Conclusions and Forecast»
2006 – 2007 Projects at TUMSpace Department Munich (Germany)
- «Moon Mission Design and Analysis validating In-Situ Resource Utilization concept»
- Systems Analysis for the «Space Elevator Prototype» to be presented at the 2007 X-Prize Competition
2006 Final Studies Project at SUPAERO (Toulouse, FRANCE) with DCRTNA (Palo Alto, USA)
«Statistical analysis of fault codes triggered by the on-board diagnostics system (OBD II) in Chrysler pre-production vehicles» at DaimlerChrysler Research and Technology Centre (DCRTNA)
under the supervision of Michel BOUSQUET, Professor at SUPAERO, Aerospace Electronics and Communications
2004 – 2006 Projects at SUPAERO Toulouse (France)
- «Complete Design Study of a Launcher with payload requirements» under EADS–Space Transportation supervision
- «Rocket Building»: project planning, sponsorship, design and building of experiment’s electronics under CNES supervision
- Organization of SUPAERO Airshow (sponsorship, events planning and logistics, aerobatics’ referee)
2001-2003 Project at Lycee ''Louis-le-Grand'' (Paris, FRANCE)
«Trajectory study of Cassini-Huygens Mission to Saturn» under the supervision of Jean-Pierre LEBRETON, Huygens Mission Manager in ESA
LANGUAGES
French Mother Tongue
English Fluent
2006 Course of Business English “Persuasion and Negotiation”, Grade: A-level Stanford University (USA)
2005 Cambridge Certificate of Proficiency in English
German Good Working Knowledge
2006-2007 2 weeks intensive course and 1-semester German course (Total: 80 h) TUM, Munich
Italian Conversational
COMPUTER LANGUAGES
Software: Microsoft Office, Microsoft Access, Matlab/Simulink, Maple
Systems: Windows (XP, 2000, 98), Unix
Database Management System: IBM Db2: Database Associate Certification (DB2 Universal Database V8.1 Family)
Programming and Development: C, Java, SQL, Delphi, Borland Together ControlCenter, IBM WebSphere
PERSONAL INTERESTS AND ACTIVITIES
· Football: Member of the ESTEC Football Club, I play every week in the ESTEC Football League
· Basketball: Training at the University and competition: in 2001, I participated in the National High School Final in
Reims, France
· Climbing and alpinism: In 2005, I did four 4000m summits with a French Alpine Club team in the Alps near Zermatt, Switzerland
· Reading in four languages: French, English, German and Italian |