Experience

SPACEBEL

• Belgium
• Defense and Space Manufacturing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Consultant senior

  • May 2018 - Present

  Responsible for the writing of the System and Software Specifications and the Validation specifications of the Govsatcom PACIS-1 Precursor, as Consultant for Redu Space Services located in the Spatial Center of Redu (Belgium)Govsatcom PACIS-1 Precursor is a first step defined by ESA to demonstrate what the European space industry can do to support the EU’s Govsatcom programme, an initiative designed to pool and share relevant governmental and commercial satellite solutions to provide secure and guaranteed access to satellite communications. Typical mission types are Border Surveillance, Maritime Community, Police Missions, Civil Protection, Humanitarian Aid, EU External Action, RPAS communications, EU institutional communications.The Prime is the satellite operator SES, together with industrial partners Redu Space Services, LuxGovSat, Newtec, QinetiQ and Tekever.

• Technical Manager

  • 2013 - May 2018

  - Technical manager for the Automation sub-system of ISIS: ISIS is a CNES standard line of products to build a generic Control Command Centre where communications between components are based on the MAL CCSDS standards (CNES). A set of system components which provide ISIS services for a dedicated mission or in a multi-mission context. These components include at least the platform in the space segment and the control ground segment. Automation is the subsystem that provides all functions related to Control Centre operations automation: procedures and sequence of operations preparation and execution.

• Technical Manager

  • 2000 - 2013

  Technical Manager for the CGCU SPOT-5: Payload management of the SPOT-5 satelliteTechnical Manager for the PLUTO-TK project: Development of a platform to build and execute procedures in the PLUTO language, that has been designed to decrease the complexity of TC (telecommands), TM (telemesures) and Events management both for operationnal Automated Procedures and for Validation Procedures. PLUTO-TK is integrated in SCOS-2000, the ESA Mission Control System frameworkTechnical Manager for the BUSOC project: Development of a web-based system allowing Internet access to a database containing information about all space projects financed by Belgium. Depending on privileges, the user can access or modify existing information. Search functions are available, and various financial and budget reports can be generated. The system was implemented using only open-source products: Apache, Python, mod-pythonTechnical Manager for the Payload PLEIADES project: PLEIADES is a large project for future High Resolution Earth Observation Satellite currently developed by the CNES agency. The Payload Management is a sub-system of the Pleiades programming chain. This sub-system is mainly responsible for the management of the technological operations on the payload and of the conversion in binary format and uploading of the dual (civilian and military) programming plan of the payload activities

• Architecte

  • 1998 - 2000

  Architecture, design, team leading and participation in the development of the CGCU prototype (Payload Management Centre) for SPOT-5.Design, team leading and participation in the development of UCL (Embedded Automated Procedure Execution) in the COF program (Columbus - International Space Station) which deals with the interpretation of automated procedures and the corresponding call to services

• Software Engineer

  • 1995 - 1998

  Detailed design and development in the context of the CPV: Development of the Planning Control Centre for the Vegetation instrument (CNES). My participation was the scheduling of image making activities on-board depending on a set of constraints (user demands, storage limits, geographic elements...)



Da Vinci Consulting, Belgium

• Software Engineer

  • 1993 - 1995



Informabel

• Consultant

  • 1984 - 1995