Alex Villard

Ø Involvement in the strategic development of Matis Technologies:
- Seeking economical opportunities for the company growth and participating in the recruitment of key talents
- Development of a partnership with an Engineering School on European Projets
- Monthly follow-up of actions with the Executive management and the Automotive department head manager

Since october 2008 - in progress:
Response to AMOA regarding car's handling development and evolution (3 years Project):
- Schedules definition: step by step, milestones and global planning
- Required budget preparation (prototypes, logistics, IT...)
- Team roles and responsibilities definition
- Collaboration to the complete presentation to the customer

Ø Senior Project consultant posted in the following missions:

2008 – in progress: PSA – La Garenne Colombes
ABS and ESP systems manager for current development (all Platforms) including China and Mercosur
- Team management: tasks scheduling and dispatching, milestones reviews
- Taking into account the experience feedback: from technical requirements updates to customer incidents status
- Roadmap and planning of the Product and Process evolutions ensuring Projects milestones
- Global follow-up, from supplier request for quotation to overall industrialization, after development on vehicules

2003 – 2008 : Renault Sport Technologies – Les Ulis
Braking Systems manager in the Technical Division, from conception to industrialization, including Quality, Cost, Delivery and Requirements:
- Technical targets Lead: definition of the goals, writting and deploying technical requirements
- Follow-up of the Regulations upon Safety and Security for all braking systems parts
- Leading the suppliers: technical and economical convergence with the overall planning
- Leading the resolution of all the encountered engineering problems
- Planning and driving the action plans
- Organizing the validations and characterization tests of the braking systems parts
- Responsible of nomenclature for all braking systems projects (with the Technical Documentation department)
- Management of the engineering changes and impacts on all the other technical perimeters
- Supplying management of prototype or semi-prototype parts
- Participating into the pre-production audits of the suppliers (France, Romania, Czech Republic, Germany)
- Leading the introduction of the parts into the plants with process engineering and quality departments
- Centralizing and sharing all the related knowledge and information for the braking systems function

Studies engineer consultant posted in:
Continental Teves – Francfort (Germany)

Development Engineer on ABS and ESP systems, into the testing department for French customers:
- Links between French manufacturers (Renaul/PSA) and software computing department of Continental Teves
- Car dynamic analysis: use of data acquisition system and simulation of the behaviour on track or road (Germany, France, Spain, Italia, Sweden)
- Test sessions management on track or road
- Validation of developed systems

Since April 2001, Renault Resident Engineer for Continental Teves located in the technical center of Aubevoye:
- Follow-up of the electronic braking systems projects and set up of these systems
- Onsite Interface between the Renault technical center and Continental Teves for braking systems products

2002 Measurements and Setting up Sportscar manager
- Measurements engineer: development / set up of the Courage C60 Sportscar, and analysis programs creation
- Design of the electrical system for the Courage C65 Sportscar chassis
- Management and coordination of test track sessions including logistical organization
- Management of race strategies (FIA Championship)

2000 – 2001 Data analysis enginner
- Data analysis engineer for all testing sessions and 24 Hours of Le Mans races
- Development of a program focusing on live strategic analysis during races

1998 – 2000 Measurements manager and Sportscar development engineer
- Participation into the development of the Courage C52 Sportscar : tests on tracks (Barcelone, Paul Ricard, Lurcy Lévis, Bugatti, Le Mans), dynamic test bench (Dynamic UK), 24 Hours of Le Mans (Nissan official Team)
- Data analysis programs development
- Follow-up of the Courage C52 Sportscar on-board electrical system, and design of the electrical system for the Courage C60 Sportscar chassis, including the data acquisition system
- Crash test session Management: tool definition, and static tests (pre-tests sessions, and official sessions with FIA)

R&D engineer in Formula 3 department

Global project management: defining equivalence for two different types of front suspensions on the Martini MK73

Technical Research Department

Understanding and solving customers incidents on vehicules

Shift mechanism workshop : operator on several production machine tools.