Joel LUCCHESE

Automotive Electronic Control Unit development for a world wide Ford and PSA diesel engine. Company key project. In progress.
Based on new 32 bits platform.
One of the first project complying with new EU lead free norm.
4M€ development budget. 300M€ turnover.
Managing a project team of 7 people.
Technical and qualification specification negotiation with customers.
Unique electronic customer interface for Ford Europe.

Junior project manager in Powertrain Electronic division
Electronic Control Unit development for European customer applications based on 32 bits (Oak family) and 16 bits (C167 family) microcontrollers :
• Electronic control units for gasoline engines on the new Ford Mondeo and Fiesta,
• Electronic control unit for diesel engines on the new Ford Mondeo, Fiesta, CMax and Transit Connect,
• Electronic control unit for gasoline engine on the BMW MINI.
Developed designs using Company designed Asics chip set.
Negociated environment and electromagnetic compatibility test specifications.
Managed customer audits based on international and customer standards.
Design to cost, target costing and design for manufacturing methods conducted.

Managed a team of 12 people.
Responsible for application support of ECU and TCU (Automatic gear box units) projects.
Technical customer interface (RENAULT, PSA, FORD).
Field quality level significantly improved via technical interface with major electronic devices suppliers (INFINEON, FREESCALE, ST).

Responsible for ABS and TCU (Automatic gear box units) projects.
Technical and quality customer interface (AP KONGSBERG, BOSCH-BENDIX, RENAULT).

Test engineer at Toulouse plant (Responsible for ABS and TCU production line test operation.

Feasibility and technical analysis.
Wrote up a specification book for a production toolings management software.