Damien CREVAT

En résumé

Entreprises

• ALSTOM Transport - Product Architect (Product & Team Manager) - Train Control Monitoring System + Remote IO products

  2014 - maintenant Purpose of the Job
  Develop and deliver the product in line with the product roadmap and as agreed with the Program Manager - In charge of the definition of the technical answer to the need expressed by the Solution Director and the specific user project needs
  
  Key Responsibilities
  • Manage the product development team for both internal (Products Engineering) and external (buy) developments, ensuring respect of QCD commitments - around 15 people
  • With the product Program Manager, define and agree on the product development roadmap that he commits to deliver
  • Provide QCD estimation on bids and user projects requests and support system application architects in gap analysis/QCD quotation
  • Ensure technical coordination, arbitrate design choice
  • Apply and contribute to improvement of the product development processes, methods & tools as defined by the Methods and Tools organization
  • Specify the product characteristics and ensure that the product delivers the performance levels expected as defined in the product roadmap and meet systems and platforms expectations
  • Organize the product design reviews
  • Support make or buy analysis and arbitration
  • Develop design-to-cost approach in developments to decrease unit cost of solutions
  • Support product program V&V manager to define the best product validation policy and strategy
  • Contribute to the definition of the Product Quality Plan
  • Alert the reporting structure for any event that could impact product development QCD commitments
  • Manage product requirements: ensure the traceability of the product requirements (from product level down to software and hardware level) and ensure that each product requirement has been addressed by V&V through the whole development cycle
  • Manage product configuration, change management and deliveries: establish and maintain the configuration baselines, perform configuration reviews, lead the Change Control Board (CCB)

• ALSTOM Transport - Product Designer – DMI solutions – part of TCMS platform (Train Control & Monitoring System)

  2013 - 2014 Key responsibilities
  • Management of the system team activities
  • Responsible of DMI (Driver Machine Interface) sub-system platform design including following activities
  o Capture customer needs
  o Specify products & architectures including nominal and degraded modes, functions and performances, maintenance and configuration tools & functions, management plans…
  o Conduct of product performance assessment and simulation
  o Set design constraints for industrialization, reliability and safety
  o Ensure Hardware & Software technical coherency throughout the development
  o Provide technical expertise and support to product users and debug, validation & integration activities
  o Support reliability, availability, maintainability and safety analysis
  o Responsible of the requirement management activities (at engineering development scope)
  o Delivery of the Product Baseline - Change Control Board activities
  
  Key achievements
  • Defined DMI TCMS generic platform: functional breakdown, specification documents, requirements to products allocation, traceability, performances clarification and improvement, roadmaps etc.
  o Restored good visibility to project management
  o Defined, proposed and led strategic activities to improve generic platform and products
  • Defined new DMI SIL2 product and led of the project team (safety, HW and SW experts and supplier)
  • Led of the system team including budget management and overall efficiency improvement

• Volvo Trucks - Infotainment sub-system SW architect

  saint priest 2011 - 2012 Scope:
  Infotainment technologies, concepts, and solutions (display, graphical engine, dedicated protocols …)
  Mission:
  • Secure Infotainment sub-system (display, radio, telematics, ….) deliveries, HW, SW and SW Architecture, …
  • Management of a team of 4 people
  • Provide technical expertise and support
  • Responsible of concepts, technologies, SW architecture, consistency with Vehicle System Specifications…
  • Secure: Robustness, Maintainability, Evolution and overall performance.
  
  Interfaces and close cooperation with following actors:
  • HW & SW component owners of Infotainment ECUs (display, radio, telematics…)
  • Vehicle and infotainment Function Owners
  • Sub-System Technical Leader & System Test Engineers
  • Suppliers
  Activities
  • Perform & lead Advanced Engineering Activities
  • Participate to earlier project steps for concepts, architecture and technology selection
  • Infotainment related Specification writing and maintenance
  • Review of Vehicle Functions, System and Infotainment Component specifications
  • Performance Analysis & Measures
  • Maintainability Analysis & tests with process definition
  • Evolution Analysis & tests
  • Robustness Analysis & tests
  • Define pre-integration test plan in relation with Component Owners & System Test
  • Pre-Integration and specific tests and report writing
  • Lead corrective actions in case of deviations
  • Support for trouble shooting during integration and verification

• THALES - System Engineer

  Courbevoie 2008 - 2011 Key responsibilities
  • In charge of innovative aeronautical and GNSS R&D technical studies
  • In charge of system definition, development of real time embedded software components and VHDL digital FPGA embedded functions
  • Participation to all phases of product development as specifications, architecture studies, integration, testing...
  • Contribute to the technologies survey
  
  Key achievements
  • Contribute to the design of the processing unit of an integrated ASIC receiver – Signal processing and hardware functions definitions - In charge of the ASIC integration and verification plans
  • Development and integration of a multi-constellation (GPS/Galileo/Glonass) receiver signal processing embedded software with the Russian partner
  o Participation to the technical part of the project including functional, software development, frequency plan, RF automatic gain control loop, digital signal processing functions integration.
  • Participation to the SESAR European project, work package 9.27
  o Definition of the future civil Multi-Constellation Receiver in partnership with Honeywell, according to the Thales product roadmap and future Airbus architectures requirements
  o Participation to a EUROCAE WorkGroup (European commission)
  • Development of digital electronics funtions of a GPS anti-jamming active antennae for a military receiver – simulation, integration and tests of the VHDL functions
  • Development and integration of a system on chip for an HMI with touch screen and Ethernet interfaces to display and broadcast GPS constellation data
  • Presentation of THALES GNSS products to Eurocopter
  • Significant contribution to the customer satisfaction
  • Application of the THALES SysEM systems engineering project management methodology

• Sanofi Pasteur USA, Swiftwater - Project leader / Business Analyst

  2006 - 2007 Key responsibilities
  • In charge of information solutions projects, from the user requirements to the final deployment and support to the customers
  • Responsible of the means, technical solutions, budgets, costs and project planning
  • Team and resources management composed of the customers, data bases experts, web designers and developers.
  • Suppliers negotiations – Team building
  
  Key achievements
  • Several Web applications projects as carpooling web site, vehicle fleet management tool, vaccination campain tool, visitor security system (site with 3000 people)...
  o Globalisation for France and Canada
  • Network infrastructure for a new building under construction
  • Applied the Project Management Institute (PMI) methodology
  • Received the IS Star Award from the Sanofi Pasteur North America Information Solutions VP

Formations

• Chimie Physique Electronique De Lyon

  Villeurbanne 2004 - 2008 ElectronicsTélécommunications and Computer Sciences

• Université Lyon 1 Claude Bernard IUT B GEII

  Villeurbanne 2002 - 2004 Technical University Diploma in Electronics and Computer sciences (2 years after high school )

Réseau

• Alexandre SAVALLI

• Alexis ROCHE

• Cécile BRUNET PETIT

• Emmanuel DUBUIS

• Hugues LE BARS

• Jean-Baptiste PIGNAL

• Sandrine AVAKIAN

• Sophie MASSOLA

• Thibaud CHALMIN

• William PAULE