Didier Lapalus

Leads the various Alstom tenders relative to the complete resignaling of Danish railways.

Consolidate market needs & prices
Synthetise competition intelligence
Establish vision for a 10 year horizon
Propose R&D programs
Articulate strategy for Alstom Transport Information Solution business

Supervised the R&D programs for the Transit (urban transport) of Alstom's Information Solutions business.
Ensured the capture of customers requirements.
Synchronised the various R&D projects in this multi-national effort.
Defined and enforced creation of system lab test bench to minimize customer's site testing before delivery.

Alstom representative to European ERTMS standardization organization,
Competition intelligence collection and analysis,
Internal and external communication on projects and R&D,
Coordination of projects with respect to requirements, baselining, configuration management and change control

As part of a business incubator, started a new business in train cabin radios.
Set-up/manage multisite teams, partnership and main supplier.

Train a product-oriented organization to Systems Engineering,
Instilled formal systems engineering methodology,
Evaluated relevance of development versus off-the-shelves purchase of telecom sub-systems

Supervised staff of 80 engineers developing Control Command Communication and Intelligence (C3I) systems for the Air Force, the Navy and the Army.

Project manager for export and national fighter Aircarft Mission Planning Systems.

Project manager on the mobile ground control center of an Army drone,
Software developer on inertial navigation systems,
Developed a real time embedded monitor.