Experience

Lesaffre International SARL

• France
• Food and Beverage Manufacturing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Technical Project Manager, Industrial Automation & Control Systems

  • Sep 2021 - Present

  Marcq-en-Barœul, Hauts-de-France, France • Leading the development of Digital and Data transformations relating to strategic projects through CAPEX investments. • Define the standards to ensure the management of industrial data (DB, MES, Historian, ERP) systems according to the strategic projects in line with global roadmap. • Carry out automation projects including the digital solutions / Industry 4.0 element from the specifications continuing through to commissioning phases for the associated production lines. • Manage a… Show more • Leading the development of Digital and Data transformations relating to strategic projects through CAPEX investments. • Define the standards to ensure the management of industrial data (DB, MES, Historian, ERP) systems according to the strategic projects in line with global roadmap. • Carry out automation projects including the digital solutions / Industry 4.0 element from the specifications continuing through to commissioning phases for the associated production lines. • Manage a digital twin project on the Spray Drying process from the P&ID in order to optimize this process. • Involvement in an alcohol measurement project linked to the fermentation process developed within a Siemens WinCC and TIA Portal environment. • Design and implementation of industrial networking architectures along with interfacing between IT and OT systems. Part of the core team providing a solution to maintain the OT side of the production line against operational vulnerabilities and cybersecurity threats. Show less



AXODYN

• France
• Engineering Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Senior Technical Consultant

  • Nov 2017 - Sep 2020

  Lezennes near Lille (North of France) • Lead a strategic and technological project, in the digital world, by applying the concepts of ‘Industry 4.0’ and ‘the Internet of Things (IoT)’ to create the Smart Factory of the Future (Cloud-Based) • Carrying out a technical analysis of Automation Projects involved in the design and control of automated Production Lines together with the different levels of the automation pyramid (Field, Control and Management).



Emerson

• United States
• Industrial Machinery Manufacturing
• 700 & Above Employee

• Engineering Project Manager, Automation Solutions, UK & Ireland

  • Apr 2015 - Jul 2017

  Telford, United Kingdom • Manage projects for the design and manufacture of electrical control panels in the automation domain. Broad range of Customers (OEM and Tier one companies) into various industries from Continuous production line/Batch process to special purpose machines. • Active participant in the technical side of the project. Lead the SW & HW design team. Involvement of technical design reviews phase taking into account SW drives, PLC and SCADA applications on one side and Power & Control circuit… Show more • Manage projects for the design and manufacture of electrical control panels in the automation domain. Broad range of Customers (OEM and Tier one companies) into various industries from Continuous production line/Batch process to special purpose machines. • Active participant in the technical side of the project. Lead the SW & HW design team. Involvement of technical design reviews phase taking into account SW drives, PLC and SCADA applications on one side and Power & Control circuit electrical design including EPLAN drawings, EMEC topic, Mass & Heat cooling panel calculation. Take decisions on the panel design including team feedbacks. Troubleshoot technical issues when the need arises, and escalating appropriately as needed. Show less



GE Measurement & Control

• Lead Software Design Engineer

  • Feb 2014 - Mar 2015

  Groby, United Kingdom • Core team member in the design and development of an embedded application to control the subsea flow meters system used in oil industry. Development under C# (Visual Studio 2012) & C++ in correlation with an Eclipse IDE and the NIOS II SBT supporting the Altera FPGA chip connected to the electronics board. • Leading the SCADA project using functional analysis and design specification approach. Including Data acquisition of multiphase flow meter devices interfaced to oil wells (Data likes… Show more • Core team member in the design and development of an embedded application to control the subsea flow meters system used in oil industry. Development under C# (Visual Studio 2012) & C++ in correlation with an Eclipse IDE and the NIOS II SBT supporting the Altera FPGA chip connected to the electronics board. • Leading the SCADA project using functional analysis and design specification approach. Including Data acquisition of multiphase flow meter devices interfaced to oil wells (Data likes the mixture and Permittivity of Gas, Oil, Water, Temperature, Pressure...). Liaison with the electronics and software engineers. Show less



Siemens

• Germany
• Automation Machinery Manufacturing
• 700 & Above Employee

• Software Project Manager

  • Aug 2007 - Feb 2014

  Lille Area, France • SAP Process Coordinator of the MM, SD and Users/Profiles administrator modules. Project coordinator of authorisation management for the User/Profiles. Defined a process to validate the management of the user accounts with their profiles. Involvement into the P2P & SOA governance. Involvement in the functional specifications of the Integrated services Department and the stock management including the « Spare parts » Logistic business into SAP. Coordination of the Integration tests and… Show more • SAP Process Coordinator of the MM, SD and Users/Profiles administrator modules. Project coordinator of authorisation management for the User/Profiles. Defined a process to validate the management of the user accounts with their profiles. Involvement into the P2P & SOA governance. Involvement in the functional specifications of the Integrated services Department and the stock management including the « Spare parts » Logistic business into SAP. Coordination of the Integration tests and validation of the Data Transfer Object for the MM & SD modules. Process coordinator for the Purchase and Sales Order migration to a new Sales organisation. Managing the relationship with the design and development teams based in Spain and Germany and ensuring project delivery within stipulated timelines. Exposure into the ABAP programs. Use of the SAP Change request management. • Administrator of the Expenses Application Define the Functional and the technical specifications with some key users (Accountant, Treasurer). Also definition of the Budget and coordinated the resource planning. Manage the development with our supplier of this software and the implementation of the software into our environment including the integration into SAP. Development of stored procedures from the SQL server 20005 DB and writing of automatic scripts to retrieve personal HR data to feed the SAP application. • Implementation of the CarlMaster MRO system (material management) connected to the Oracle 9i database. Coordination of the change requests including the internal customer specifications and the support between the technical departments using this MRO system and Carl • Participation in the Development of a technical software used in the calculation and the positioning of sensors for the Underground system ( Product VAL) Application developed under C++ and Matlab.(R2006b-Version 7.3) Show less



GE Fanuc

• Project Leader / Software Design Engineer

  • May 2005 - Jul 2007

  Milton Keynes, United Kingdom • Provide technical engineering and consulting support during all stages of the project (Customer liaison, system specification, design, deployment, installation, commissioning, integration and training) for the automotive industry more particularly - Land Rover at Solihull (UK) and Lear at Gothenburg (Sweden). Active facilitator and participant of the writing of a detailed design document for the “Body and White” project with the identification of the tracking regions, the different processes… Show more • Provide technical engineering and consulting support during all stages of the project (Customer liaison, system specification, design, deployment, installation, commissioning, integration and training) for the automotive industry more particularly - Land Rover at Solihull (UK) and Lear at Gothenburg (Sweden). Active facilitator and participant of the writing of a detailed design document for the “Body and White” project with the identification of the tracking regions, the different processes and the generations of the bodies. • Installation, configuration and testing of the Infoagent/Proficy Portal software and the Microsoft Application centre applications on both servers working in load balance. The Infoagent software is linked to the SQL server database providing data analysis and visualising in a personalised web environment. Design and development of stored procedures. • Supporting and managing the MES system controlling the car production line connected to the database and linked to the SCADA and PLC via the OPC server. Production line plan dependent on different criteria and rules. System written with Visual Basic, ASP and SQL scripts and the CIMPLICITY software Show less



CIMAC

• Project Leader / Senior Software Design Engineer

  • Aug 2002 - Apr 2005

  Stanford Le Hope, United Kingdom • Customer liaison and analysis of requirements, agreement of needs and timescales. Utilising risk assessment, Pareto analysis and project flow statement tools. Customers include the automotive industry eg Ford (UK and Germany), Land Rover (UK), Opel (Belgium and Germany), Renault (France), Visteon (UK) and Volvo (Belgium), and the carpet industry eg Brintons • Leading projects using a functional analysis and design specification approach. Co-ordination of mechanical, electrical, software… Show more • Customer liaison and analysis of requirements, agreement of needs and timescales. Utilising risk assessment, Pareto analysis and project flow statement tools. Customers include the automotive industry eg Ford (UK and Germany), Land Rover (UK), Opel (Belgium and Germany), Renault (France), Visteon (UK) and Volvo (Belgium), and the carpet industry eg Brintons • Leading projects using a functional analysis and design specification approach. Co-ordination of mechanical, electrical, software parts and the various different phases. Regular team and customer updates to review progress . Cost analysis including BOM, labour and re-evaluation of the total cost. • Theoretical, functional knowledge and elaboration of vision software application under Visual Studio collecting, processing and analysing laser data to control the gripper of a robot on a car body. Software that aids industrial robots to be guided via laser measurements. In addition, allowing the robot to react to its placement according to the position of the work piece. This improves the accuracy of the robot and reduces the overall cycle time of the process, ie insertion of windscreen. • Design, development and deployment of software using Visual Basic 6/.NET, C and ASP software in a Windows 2000 environment connected to an Access or SQL server database. Software recording product traceability, line production plans and the data warehouse control. Client/server architecture Show less



MOTOROLA AIEG (Automotive Industry)

• Senior CIM / Software Development Engineer

  • May 1998 - Jul 2002

  Stotfold, United Kingdom • Design (Functional and Module documents) and development of software using Visual Basic 3/6 and Cellworks software in a Unix environment for the user and server interface. Software recording product traceability, controlling the production routes and defect captures of the production line. Client/ server architecture connected to an Oracle database. Applications written also in ASP to display the SQL query • Meeting with the product design and test engineers to agree parameters written… Show more • Design (Functional and Module documents) and development of software using Visual Basic 3/6 and Cellworks software in a Unix environment for the user and server interface. Software recording product traceability, controlling the production routes and defect captures of the production line. Client/ server architecture connected to an Oracle database. Applications written also in ASP to display the SQL query • Meeting with the product design and test engineers to agree parameters written into the database from the Engine Management and Telematics units for the automotive industry eg Jaguar, Ford, Audi and Becker customers. Consolidation of my knowledge in embedded software. • Project planning, project reviews, reporting progress to the manager (roadblocks or issues that impact upon progress) ensuring development activities are completed according to the project schedule. Define and plan strategically the Line Control System software and hardware according to the requirement of each individual new product launch, according to automotive quality standards. • Successfully completed the transition and transfer of manufacturing facilities and software development applications over a 12 months period to Angers (France Show less



GEC Alsthom

• Senior Software Control Systems Engineer

  • Jan 1997 - May 1998

  Leicester, United Kingdom • Involved in the design, development and testing of software for a part automated cargo handling system project for British Airways at Heathrow airport. Programming executed using Siemens S5 PLC and the package Factory Link SCADA system. • Wrote design specifications for communication between PLC and the Remote Control Manual Mode to control conveyors with a strong active role in the programming

• Technical Sales Engineer

  • Apr 1995 - Dec 1996

  Rugby, United Kingdom • Promotion, sales and technical support for DC and brushless servomotors. • Responsible for commercial, technical negotiations by selecting the correct servodrives used for the application, and after sales service in the Midlands and North of England. • Provided technical support from trouble shooting, diagnostics to problem solving and agreed corrective action of system and equipment faults, using Matlab and local tool. Customers based in the food, pharmaceutical, robotic and the… Show more • Promotion, sales and technical support for DC and brushless servomotors. • Responsible for commercial, technical negotiations by selecting the correct servodrives used for the application, and after sales service in the Midlands and North of England. • Provided technical support from trouble shooting, diagnostics to problem solving and agreed corrective action of system and equipment faults, using Matlab and local tool. Customers based in the food, pharmaceutical, robotic and the automotive industries, eg Peugeot and Land Rover. • Completion of a three month training program on servosystems at the Dijon factory in France to consolidate my theory on control systems in servodrives.

• Project Engineer

  • May 1994 - Mar 1995

  Rugby, United Kingdom • Involvement from the system quotation of the electrical and hydraulic control panels to the manufacturing, control, the testing and the deployment on the sites. Generation of quality plans, Operating and Maintenance manuals and commissioning manuals, for the manufacturing of control and instrumentation panels for steam turbine assemblies. • Ensured projects delivered on time and within the budget by the creation of production plans. • Technical documentation including English-French… Show more • Involvement from the system quotation of the electrical and hydraulic control panels to the manufacturing, control, the testing and the deployment on the sites. Generation of quality plans, Operating and Maintenance manuals and commissioning manuals, for the manufacturing of control and instrumentation panels for steam turbine assemblies. • Ensured projects delivered on time and within the budget by the creation of production plans. • Technical documentation including English-French translation.