Christophe Lancastre

• Supervising of 5 Software team manager within the R&D platform
• Introduction of new 2G platform and adaptation of development rules to our ODM structure.
• Identification and externalisation of insensitive work.
• Organization of skills transfer to external partners.
• Strong implication in R&D roadmap definition.
• Mid-term and long-term workload planning.

Drive a team from 3 engineers, at the beginning, to 18 at the end of period in a high-tech environment with tight time to market constraint.

• Organizing many software drivers development for new platform chipset (Calypso+, Locoto and Neptune) till the mass production.
• Checking and fixing engineer’s specification.
• Checking and tuning unitary qualification plans to any drivers or features.
• Providing a full test reports at the end of project.
• Identifying and ordering equipments and tools.
• Planning and tracking tasks.
• Reporting to project management and then priority steering.
• Debugging and after sell follow-up.
• Hiring and driving many trainees to work new functionalities (NFC, GPS, HDD, power management gauge ..)

Designing, developing and testing many core software drivers with a new Sagem major provider TI.
The new chipset are OMAP based and dedicated to GSM market.
• Porting proprietary RTOS on ARM7, architecture
• Adaptation of L1 TI software driver on the Sagem stack and embedded environment.
• Designing and developing drivers such as SPI, I2C, UltraLowPowerDown.
• Designing and developing services such as memory allocator, real traces.
• Porting Sagem stack RLP, V110, BlueTooth.
• Initialization and electronic board starting.

Embedded and real time Software Engineer.

• Development on PC over QNX RTOS for a Home automation application.
• Develoment on a ERMES driver (Pager) and protocole stack for a PDA.
• Development of PC Software Engineer tools dedicated to automotive software engineers.

Electronic design and software tests for electronic boards.

Area : Civil and military aircraft simulators