Stéphane G.
Section manager, Calsonic Kansei FBO
Section manager within the R&D department of Calsonic Kansei (Equipment supplier of Rank 1, main supplier of Nissan) since 6 years.
My job consists in ensuring the follow-up of the software and electronic developments (follow-up of services software firm, of the suppliers) and to defer the advance of the project to the head office based in Japan.
Responsible of the air conditionning ECU for a Renault car.
This project was co-developped in France, Japan, India, and Luxemburg.
=> Scheduling
- Estimation of the man-power (Management of a 5 design engineers team)
- Support for making the planning
- Introducing the XP method to the software team
- Writing reports to Japan headquarter
=> Technical follow-up
- Checking change requests and problem reports (hard and soft)
- Support to the manufacturing (design of the line)
- Diagnosis tools' follow-up
- Support for the Testing and Quality departments by making Remote Control tools
- Tests coverage definition for the validation (validation plan & tools definition)
- Improvment of the developement's processes (CMMi, TMMi)
=> Customer interface
- Definition with Renault of the delivery content (Especially in term of Quality)
- Window person for failures analysis
- Answer to RFQ (Requests For Quotations)
=> Window person for european and indian teams
- Management of our outsourcing compagny (TATA ELXSI)
- Software analysis for sensors (especially for the physical layer)
- Toxicity sensor follow-up
2000 - 2005> Technical leader, software architect, for the automotive department (2y1/2)
For a German&French project, technical leader for a software development.
The project was a car radio integrated in a multimedia system and was used for the Audi A6 and Opel Astra.
- Technical leader for the software team (7 engineers)
- Window person for the teams located in Germany and France
> Developer for a CD Reader's driver
- Design of the software for a CD driver
- Coding the physical layer of this driver
> Consultant for Powerline networks (2y1/2)
- Design, coding and validation for applications using powerline communications.
- Delivery of electronic products
- Participation of all parts of V cycles for european customers:
- Development of applications
- Purchasing electronic parts
- Presentation of technical demonstrators
- Stocks management
- ...
2000 - 2002> Development of a software for Invoces/Bills management for the accounting department
- Development in SQL/VBA
- Bill management
- Links to CCMX
> IT engineer
1999 - 1999Development of an automatic (re)generation of documents.
Using the designs under Rational Rose, this tool is able to make most of the documents required by the DMR process.
1998 - 1998Design and maintenance of a database for the quality department.
This tool is able to follow up all quality concerns regarding suppliers:
- Send requests to suppliers
- Follow the status of issues (analysed, under analysis,...)
- Monitor quality matters and report automatically to Peugeot managers (weekly issues, progress of the week,...)
1995 - 1995Design of a database to follow up the air quality in the plant.