EGSE - AIT/AIV Engineer

Since April 2008

ASTRIUM – IOV AIT/AIV Integrated Team

In the frame of phase C/D of Galileo IOV ;

·       EGSE Front End test and integration ; TMTC FEE, RF FEE, Power SCOEs, SCOS2000 setup, EDEN protocol, service 128 implementation, test configuration management (CVS), definition of rules of test.

·       Procedure redaction and execution on the electrical model of flight units on bench (Sat-EGSE) during the Early Interface Testing ;

· Test of Transponder, PCDU CM, NSGU, RTU, PFSU (security unit)

· Team leading

·       Validating the electrical model and establishing the ground test meaning for the 4 next satellites.

·       Authentication and COPE tests redaction and execution on the FM ICDU. Test results redaction.

·       Supporting PFSU secured tests (NATO accreditation), using ASPROGen with the Secured SRDB.

·       Development and configuration management of the AIT safety monitoring for Ambient and TVT campaigns ;

· Specification of Critical TM list, thresholds, reconfiguration procedures in cooperation with engineering.

· Automation of the MIB files generation and TclTk reconfiguration sequences (ASPROGen)

·       Creation, developing, and supporting ASPROGen tool (Procedure Automation with strong Database interface) to generate automatically AIT TclTk procedures matching with the DB, patch DB, manage HK/DIAG packet definitions and generate limits.

·       Test analysis in order to validate the TM/TC coverage status

·       Support of AIT team in Portsmouth (Payload support) and in Roma (Full satellites integration).

·       Collaboration with Thales AIT and with ESA

·       Overall Test Specification review for Acoustic and TVAC testing; responsible of the EGSE preparation, S/C safety aspects and data retrieval process.

·       AIV process to allow acceptance from ESA;

·         Analyse and Verification of the RF Galileo Signal (L1/E5/E6) 

·         Verification of the battery cell balancing

·         TMTC coverage status verification

·         Test results analysis during test campaigns for PFM, FM2 (TVAC, IST2)

October 2004 until April 2008

ASTRIUM Space Transportation – ATV AIT Team

•                  In the frame of conception and development phase of the first ATV (Automated Transfer Vehicle) ;

·       Flight model electrical and fluidic acceptance redaction of the flight model and test procedures redaction (UCL), based on design documentation (my concern was the Propulsion subsystem).

·       Procedures validation on test facilities and execution on the flight model (Jules Verne)

·       TVT and Acoustic campaign support.

·       AIV using hand made tools (Excel, VBA, Unix Shell). This task was helped by knowledges acquired during EGSE setup.

·       Configuration management of test procedures; Procedures, test reports, TMTC coverage status, NCR associated using (Access VBA).

·       Validation campaign of the vehicle (Moscow, Bremen, Amsterdam)

·       Launch campaign and final countdown at Kourou

·       Post launch analysis

May 2002 to October 2004

ASTRIUM Space Transportation – EGSE Team

In the frame of ground meanings delivery, needed for the ATV acceptance campaign and the ATV Control Center ;

·       Specification, development and test of elementary libraries (Pascal within Unix solaris) to provide powerful instructions and gainful test environment in the CGS system. The goal was to interface libraries with a code generator.

·       Specification, development and validation of the Front End Equipment by creation of UCL libraries and synoptics, in order to stimulate and drive the ATV EM (MIL1553 FEE, Power SCOE, TMTC FEE)

·       Strong interface with the Oracle MDB

·       Development of a sequence generator based on Excel structure, to generate countdown sequence (ancestor of ASPROGen)

·       Development and documentation of toolbox to ease the test processes (Loading procedure into CGS, message events extraction and analysis, TMTC extraction), using various languages (VBA, Shell scripts, awk,  Pascal)

·       Specification, development and test of FTC simulator (fault tolerant computer) in charge of interfacing the ISS module (located in Moscow)

·       Delivery and Training of AIT team (Alenia) in Moscow, Bremen and at ESA Test Center

·       AIT Team Support (CGS support, UCL debug, Database patch, etc…)

March 2001 to May 2002

CLEMESSY – Industrial computer science technician

In the frame of Clemessy projects, managed in Mulhouse

Conception and development of the Ariane 5 Battery Maintenance Bench (BCN).

·       Specification redaction, user interface development (VB)

·       Software Development (VB6) interfacing GPIB boards

·       Tests, validation and documentation in laboratory

·       Support to Arianespace

·       Harness and power aspects of the bench were driven by the project manager

Ariane 5 flight software validation on VAX-VMS (OTAP)

• Test of ADA Ariane 5 software using home made software
• OTAP training manager

from October 2000 à March 2001

IFS – Industrial computer science technician

·         Development of C++ library for company software (stock managing, Input/output managing…)

·         On call support, remote monitoring, companies networks

2001 (Clemessy)

Stage of C++ at Learning Tree (Paris - Levallois) done in the frame of my Clemessy contract

2000 (HEI)

Automatism of a tenometer (Delphi) (Stage done at Institut Textile de France)

2000 (HEI)

Project based on robotic arm (C program driving step by step motors).

1999 (LLA)

Automatism of a device checker with Telemecanic (keywords : GRAFCET, MAGELIS, network UNITELWAY, FIPWAY, PL7 PRO).

1998 (LLA)

Automatism of Aluminium recovery garbage (Stage done at the main foundry of the Peugeot Production Center in Mulhouse).

In the run

Science Project Manager (Bac+4)

Validation of experience acquired – French Job Ministry

2000 :

BTS Industrial Computer Science – H.E.I. (Lille)

Stage done at  the French Textil Institut

1999 :

BTS Electrotechnic – Lycée Louis Armand (Mulhouse)

Stage  of automatism done at Peugeot

1997 :

Baccalaurean STI (Electrotechnic)