Experience

Altium®

• Software Development
• 700 & Above Employee

• Enterprise Engineering Software Lead

  • May 2023 - Present



Capgemini

• France
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 700 & Above Employee

• Engineering Unit Manager

  • Apr 2022 - Apr 2023

  Head of the Industrial Software & Tools unit (20-30 people) at Capgemini Engineering in UK.Solution architecture, bid response, capability definition, recruitment, onboarding, training, coaching, people management and development.

• Managing Solution Architect

  • Jan 2020 - Apr 2023

  - Architecture advice on the cloud migration of a Windows desktop application.- DevOps automation of the installation of 3DX PLM platforms; architecture, implementation, testing, team supervision; automated provisioning of Azure resources (Bicep, Ansible, Python, TypeScript, GitHub, HAProxy, HTTPD, TomEE, Oracle DB); deployment and configuration of Elastic Cloud for platform monitoring; coordination with operational stakeholders; flying squad to troubleshoot operational issues.- Development of engineering design & analysis tools for a major European aircraft manufacturer: software architecture and design (C++); team leadership, enablement and coaching; supplier management, transnational coordination.- Modelling of end-to-end design and sizing processes of wing aircraft components (gear rib, mid-box, spoilers) using MBSE methodology (MOFLT, Cameo Systems Modeller); business architecture; software prototyping of innovative workflow automations (3DX, python, GEMSEO); team lead (4 systems & software engineers).- Maintainer for our internal Digital Lab, a training/prototyping environment for various teams (GitHub, Gitlab, Azure, 3DX, Cameo Modeller,...). Product development of a license monitoring tool and of a media downloader to support automated PLM platform deployment (TypeScript, NodeJS, Docker, CI/CD, ElasticSearch).- Winning team of the internal 2021 Global Data Science Challenge, involving the detection of anomalies in correlated time series from various oceanographic sensors (AI/ML, neural networks, AWS, SageMaker). Show less

• Delivery Manager

  • Jan 2020 - Jul 2021

  - Oversight of project delivery within the Digital Engineering and Manufacturing Services UK unit (about 30 projects).- Coaching and supervision of project managers.- Financial reporting supervision and control (around £10M) using a bespoke reporting tool (VBA).- Responsible for various reporting processes to senior management (resource capability, client satisfaction, profitability, cash collection,...).



Sogeti

• France
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 700 & Above Employee

• Managing Solution Architect

  • Jul 2016 - Dec 2019

  - Development of web applications for the promotion and pooling of 3D-printing & test facilities within a European aerospace & defence giant: agile requirement collection and iterative design with the client; full-stack development and testing (Angular, Typescript, C#, ASP.NET Core, MS SQL, Elastic Search); application testing.- Rescue of project for the automation of an aircraft flight-physics load-calculation pipeline: discovery of in-house/legacy simulation tools to integrate, definition of interfaces, component development (Java, Matlab, Perl, Bash), analysis and correction of concurrency issues on HPC cluster, collaboration with business experts to define/run integration tests, future roadmap recommendation, capacity planning with client IT operations team. Transnational, multi-team environment with agile methodology.- Development of an aircraft-structure sizing software, integrating in-house & COTS analysis tools around optimisation drivers: team lead (7 stress & software engineers) in a transnational context; requirements capture & priority negotiation, offering out-of-the-box alternatives when better suited; project planning (Agile), work-package creation and estimation; software architecture & advice towards tool industrialisation; software development for better efficiency, parallelism, fault-tolerance, user-friendliness and code maintainability (C++, Fortran, Python, Bash, LSF, Tcl, Git); identification of performance bottlenecks in simulation codes (Fortran, C++, python); application to several aircraft programmes, reducing design lead-time and identifying weight savings; interaction with client IT operation teams for deployment on HPC cluster; risk/opportunity identification and mitigation; co-author of 3 conference papers & twice speaker to publicise project achievements; company representative in industrial research partnerships. Show less

• Innovation Lead

  • Aug 2014 - Jun 2016

  - Led a team of 7 engineers & programmers to develop, validate and utilise an optimisation software framework combining static and fatigue analyses for metallic/composite aircraft structure sizing; negotiated priorities, offering out-of-the-box alternatives when better suited, and conciliated the project research status with the end-user production-grade expectations; proposed and implemented solutions to improve efficiency, parallelism, fault-tolerance, user-friendliness and code maintainability (C++, Python, Bash, Tcl, Git); supervised its application to several aircraft programmes, reducing design lead-time and identifying weight-saving opportunities; taught scripting essentials and provided ad hoc support to team engineers to automate pre/post-processing tasks (bash, awk, sed, Python). - Line manager: trained, supported and mentored team members. Show less



Siemens PLM Software

• Software Development
• 700 & Above Employee

• Project Lead

  • Jan 2014 - Aug 2014

  - Development and test of the cosimulation between the nonlinear FE Samcef solver and Amesim/Simulink 1D-system modeller (distributed computation, C, Fortran, MPI). - TOICA: European project to consider thermal effects earlier in the airplane design process: advised on solutions for wing-pylon thermal optimisation within a multi-disciplinary workflow given high simulation costs. - Development and test of the cosimulation between the nonlinear FE Samcef solver and Amesim/Simulink 1D-system modeller (distributed computation, C, Fortran, MPI). - TOICA: European project to consider thermal effects earlier in the airplane design process: advised on solutions for wing-pylon thermal optimisation within a multi-disciplinary workflow given high simulation costs.



LMS, A Siemens Business

• Software Development
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Project Leader

  • Aug 2012 - Dec 2013

  - ACO: Advanced Composite Optimisation (Airbus UK, targeting A350-1000 program): optimisation software development for full wing box pre-sizing.- Stacking sequence table generator (Airbus France): software development to generate catalogues of blended stacking sequences satisfying design and manufacturing rules, as well as maximising buckling indicators.

• Numerical Analyst

  • Jan 2011 - Dec 2013

  - Optimisation specialist for the 'Advanced Composite Optimisation' project (Airbus UK, targeting A350-1000 program): software development for full wing box pre-sizing optimisation (advising on and implementing software numericalsolutions; integrating skill tools to the platform).- Skill tool development (metallic spar sizing for A320 NEO, Airbus France).- Image processing (NDT2DT: ’Non-Destructive Testing to evaluate Damage Tolerance’ project).



F.R.S. - FNRS

• Belgium
• Research Services
• 400 - 500 Employee

• Research Fellow

  • Oct 2006 - Sep 2010

  - Research in numerical optimization (large-scale multilevel problems with approximate derivatives; resolution of PDEs, using finite differences or finite elements); software development; international collaborations. - Teaching assistant (2008) for 'Enterprise software' course (Java, MySQL). - Scientific stay in the 'Parallel Algorithms' team at CERFACS (Toulouse, June-August 2008). - Research in numerical optimization (large-scale multilevel problems with approximate derivatives; resolution of PDEs, using finite differences or finite elements); software development; international collaborations. - Teaching assistant (2008) for 'Enterprise software' course (Java, MySQL). - Scientific stay in the 'Parallel Algorithms' team at CERFACS (Toulouse, June-August 2008).



Université de Namur

• Belgium
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Research Fellow, F.R.S.-FNRS

  • Oct 2006 - Sep 2010

  - Research in numerical optimization (large-scale multilevel problems with approximate derivatives; resolution of PDEs, using finite differences or finite elements); software development; international collaborations. - Teaching assistant (2008) for 'Enterprise software' course (Java, MySQL). - Scientific stay in the 'Parallel Algorithms' team at CERFACS (Toulouse, June-August 2008). - Research in numerical optimization (large-scale multilevel problems with approximate derivatives; resolution of PDEs, using finite differences or finite elements); software development; international collaborations. - Teaching assistant (2008) for 'Enterprise software' course (Java, MySQL). - Scientific stay in the 'Parallel Algorithms' team at CERFACS (Toulouse, June-August 2008).