CV: Systems Engineer and coordinator
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Candidate Profile
 Date Submitted: | 22-01-2009 |
| Last Modified: | 06-04-2010 (04:04) |
CV
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Occupational field
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Ground Segment System Engineer
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Work experience
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Dates
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From July 2008
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Occupation or position held
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Test, validation, integration and evolution ground segment system engineer at EUMETSAT
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Main activities and responsibilities
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Project review and technical document writing related to real time Earth Observation processing systems, end to end testing strategy
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PDGS integration and functional verification into validation environment
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System integration plan, test procedure and scenario specification an creation of test environment, including test data set up
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Test bed specification and supervision of their implementation
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Scheduling and coordinating test campaigns with related teams and actors
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Documentation of overall system validation plan
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Support operations and data production processes and procedures
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Process definition for satellite data production, dissemination and archiving
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Specification of test, validation and integration procedures for complex ground segment receiving and processing systems
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Anomaly and non conformance identification (AR, NCR)), analysis, severity and cause investigation, and generation of test reports
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Generation of software evolution specifications, definition of software updates and formalisation of systems requirements in view of third party implementation
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Documentation related to system improvement, harmonisation and evolution
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Liaison with industry (Astrium, TAS) and space agencies (ESA)
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Preparation and contractual meeting chairman
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Contract management
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Customer management
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Name and address of employer
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Fallourd Freelance
Blankeneser Hauptstr. 82
22587 Hamburg, Germany
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Type of business or sector
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Space
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Dates
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December 2004 - July 2008
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Occupation or position held
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Senior operational system engineer and coordinator
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Main activities and responsibilities
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Team coordination and project management support (SoW, WP, proposal writing, consortium set up, planning)
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Engineering earth observation and image processing application and service (IDEAS, ESRIN PDGS and SPPA studies)
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Creation of automated processes for SAR and optical instrument data processing including tools specification for quality assessment and visualisation
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Ground segment systems specifications (ALOS)
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Customer management (ESA/ESRIN)
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Technical documentation (Requirements, architecture and software design, evolution) and activity reporting
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Contractual meetings (international consortium including development companies, scientists and operators)
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Engineering and monitoring installation of ground segments space project across Europe (ADEN/ALOS), systems requirement evaluation
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Management of ground stations installation in foreign countries, including availability and costs of services,
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Planning and schedule mitigation: resources, budgets.
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Supporting real time processing systems operations of the MSG missions (Meteosat Second Generation 1 and 2)
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Supporting user community by selecting making available appropriate data on a short term basis including EO data catalogue usage
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Maintenance, development, integration of new functionalities for the image processing facility in accordance with ground segment processing chain constraints, technical, scientific and operational limitations.
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Studies development of new functionalities, ingestion of new missions and evolution of user requirements
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Real time operations in very high availability constraint
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Overall system understanding and cooperation with other teams, ground segments, universities and agencies to achieve our common tasks
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24/7 Call-out service
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Name and address of employer
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VEGA GmbH
Europaplatz 5,
64295 Darmstadt, Germany
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Type of business or sector
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Space
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Dates
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August 2002 - November 2004
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Occupation or position held
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Software system engineer
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Main activities and responsibilities
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Procurement test, validation and integration
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Liaison with third party companies and agencies (Infoterra, INDRA, CCRS)
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Image processing system specification, implementation and integration
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System documentation (requirements, ADD, DDD, test procedures, integration and evolution needs)
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Image processing prototyping, mapping and integration to other tools (web map server, third parties applications)
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Data catalogue extraction
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Scientific advise
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Name and address of employer
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SERCO Spa
Via Sciadonna 24,
00044 Frascati, Italy
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Type of business or sector
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Space
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Education and training
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Dates
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2000
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Title of qualification awarded
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DESS (eq: MSc)
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Principal subjects/occupational skills covered
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Remote Sensing and Image Processing
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Name and type of organisation providing education and training
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University of Toulouse III, France
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Dates
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1999
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Title of qualification awarded
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Maitrise (eq: BSc)
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Principal subjects/occupational skills covered
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Computing Science
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Name and type of organisation providing education and training
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University of Rennes I, France
University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK
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Personal skills and competences
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Mother tongue(s)
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French
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Other language(s)
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English
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Self-assessment
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Fluent
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Other language(s)
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Italian
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Self-assessment
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Fluent
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Other language(s)
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German
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Self-assessment
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Fair
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Other language(s)
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Spanish
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Self-assessment
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Fair
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Social skills and competences
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Networking gained throughout international experience and social events like Ariane’s cup
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Taste for discovery developed during several travels on different continents
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Organisational skills and competences
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Consortium set up responding to a 9 million contracts for real time quality control processing chain for ESA-ESRIN
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30 members consortium coordination for ESA-ESRIN service
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Technical skills and competences
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Test and AIV for complex ground segments
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Real time ground segments operations, system monitoring and maintenance
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System specification and evolution study for ground segment installation
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Systems and prototypes implementation (java, C++) with ECSS standards
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Computer skills and competences
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C++, Java
Javascript, HTML, HDF
Unix, Linux, Windows
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Artistic skills and competences
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Guitar
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Other skills and competences
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Triathlon and marathon
Sailing: Ariane’s cup, match racing
Paragliding
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Driving licence
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French driving licence, car, motorbike
French sailing license
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