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Description

Graduate engineer from Centrale Nantes with 10 years of industrial experience (including 5 years of apprenticeship), I work as a Study Lead and Technical Project Manager in the Defense and Aeronautics sectors (OCCAR, VBAE, ECOPROP programs).

Key Expertise:

Leadership & Management: Design team management, Scrum methodology, supplier management, and direct client interface.

Technical & System: Body, chassis, and equipment architecture, multi-disciplinary interface management, and design under constraints.

Tools: CATIA V5, 3DExperience, MATLAB, ABAQUS, ANSYS.

Immediately available for your pre-study and system development projects in the Île-de-France region.

Languages

English
Native or bilingual
Spanish
Conversational

Workplace preferences

Can work on-site

Versailles (up to 20km)

ARQUUS
Study Lead – CEC Department (Chassis, Equipment, Cabin)
DEFENSE AND MILITARY
September 2025 - Today (10 months)
Versailles, France
• • Led the CEC (Chassis, Equipment, Cabin) design team (3 development engineers) dedicated to the pre-study phases of the VBAE armored vehicle program for OCCAR.
• • Ensured the overall architecture, definition, and integration of the vehicle's body, chassis, and equipment (seats, harnesses, doors, winches, wiper systems).
• • Directed monthly sprints using Agile/Scrum methodology to ensure technical convergence against client specifications.
• • Arbitrated and optimized QCD (Mass, Cost, Delivery) trade-offs: guided technological choices and negotiated infeasibilities or technical difficulties with the client.
• • Managed complex multi-disciplinary technical interfaces (EMC, Architecture, Electrical, Ergonomics, Structural Analysis, Protection, Drivetrain) to ensure the viability and manufacturability of concepts.
• • Served as the primary technical contact for the internal Project Manager and client technical representatives (OCCAR).
KNDS FRANCE –
Technical Purchasing Manager – Fire Protection
DEFENSE AND MILITARY
July 2023 - August 2025 (2 years and 1 month)
Versailles, France
• • Responsible for fire protection equipment purchased for the KNDS FRANCE vehicle portfolio.
• • Managed the project-based development of the fire protection scope for new programs.
• • Monitored project KPIs to ensure QCDP (Quality, Cost, Delivery, Performance) objectives were met.
• • Studied and managed the resolution of in-service technical issues.
• • Architect for fire protection equipment - Supplier management.
SENIOR AEROSPACE ERMETO
R&T Project Manager – Aeronautics
AVIATION AND AEROSPACE
July 2021 - May 2023 (1 year and 10 months)
41000 Blois, France
• • Planned, organized, coordinated, and supervised the R&T project in accordance with client objectives. Defined action plans, deadlines, and development strategy in collaboration with technical teams and management.
• • Risk Management: Facilitated FMEA meetings. Compiled data and performed DFMEA and PFMEA.
• • Budget tracking, project hour monitoring to enable proactive proposals on economic strategy.
• • Direct liaison with the client. Frequent site visits for technical meetings.
• • Research: Participated in design activities. Performed calculation reports, test reports on prototypes. Coordinated work teams and monitored the development progress of various technical concepts.
• • Quality: Monitored client milestones, drafted project deliverables according to TRL (Technology Readiness Level) expectations.
• • Technological watch. Participation in EUROSATORY trade show. Prepared tenders and selected suppliers. Identified and audited potential partners.
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