Experience

BrightNight

• United States
• Renewables & Environment
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Principal Software Engineer

  • Jan 2021 - Present

  Simulation and Scientific Computing Simulation and Scientific Computing



SunPower Corporation

• United States
• Renewable Energy Semiconductor Manufacturing
• 700 & Above Employee

• Senior Software Engineer, Energy Analytics

  • Sep 2016 - Jan 2021

  Responsible for building the PV performance analytics platform.

• Software Engineer

  • Aug 2015 - Sep 2016

  Built a data streaming application and dashboard to detect anomalies on one of the largest fleet of solar power plants.

• SCADA Project Engineer

  • Feb 2013 - Jul 2015

  SCADA System design and project management for large Utility Power Plants (UPP).This included fiber network design, HMI specification (Wonderware), SAS (Substation Automation System) integration, OPC Servers configuration, PI Osisoft interface, Router / Firewall programming (Juniper), Data analysis, etc.Besides, helped to improve the standard design to reduce cost and improve engineering productivity / scalability.Projects work included project management tasks such as budget tracking, scheduling, resources plan, contractors management, and commissioning (several months onsite).

• Project Engineer

  • Oct 2011 - Feb 2013

  Designed off-grid photovoltaic systems (PV + batteries) for telecom and Oil&Gas applications from budget proposal to Site Acceptance Test.Optimized costs with process and design automation (Sun-shading paths algorithms on Autocad, etc.)Developed an Off-Grid Sizing Software in Python.



Energie Relais

• France
• Appliances, Electrical, and Electronics Manufacturing

• Product Engineer

  • Jul 2010 - Jun 2011

  A year working abroad helping dealers of a genset assembling company to scope client needs, adapt to local market approach (mainly telecom field), and developing a new monitoring products. In west Africa (Benin, Mali and Guinea), helping final customers to reduce OPEX energy costs using hybrid system (Genset + Battery + Solar PV) through simulation software programmed in Python. Tracking results through with a monitoring system programmed in Python / MySQL (Backend), PHP (Frontend), and GSM remote gateway to collect data. Several months in Asia (Vietnam) for market survey and suppliers / subcontractor prospect.



Thales

• United States
• Financial Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• R&D engineer

  • Jul 2009 - Feb 2010

  Creating models of a hybrid energy system using high efficiency solar panels, lithium batteries and micro wind turbines for military survey purposes. Used Matlab / Simulink where multiple blocks were implemented such as genetic algorithms for power storage optimizations, image processing for mapping extraction / visualization (gradients), probabilities for wind distribution (Weibull), and statistic for weather database (TMY). All results / user inputs were integrated and displayed to a user-friendly GUI. Prepared prototype specification and business plan for internal R&D project contest.



Eurotec BJF

• R&D engineer

  • Sep 2007 - Feb 2008

  Working on monitoring of electrical machines of different types of quarry (stone / gold / etc.) through SCADA-based software (PcVue). Creating report generation / automation and customizing template through VBA /DreamReport. Working on a R&D project to link SCADA software to a bathymetric system (C++ DLL programming). Working on monitoring of electrical machines of different types of quarry (stone / gold / etc.) through SCADA-based software (PcVue). Creating report generation / automation and customizing template through VBA /DreamReport. Working on a R&D project to link SCADA software to a bathymetric system (C++ DLL programming).