Continental Automotive
Lindau, Germany
Oct 2009 - Mar 2011
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Work History
Regensburg, Germany
Feb 2008 - Sep 2009
R&D Engineer
Powertrain, Engine System; Engineering; Advanced Development, Alternative Combustion
Closed-loop Combustion Control (CLCC) for Diesel Engine.
Siemens VDO Automotive
Regensburg, Germany
Mar 2002 - Jan 2008
R&D Engineer
Department Powertrain, Test Center, Engine Test Bench.
Worldwide technical responsible for Gasoline Engine Test Automation.
Worldwide technical responsible for advanced automation technology like model-based application,
online controllers, online-optimization, Design of Experiments, Dynamic/ Rapid Measurement methodology.
Siemens Automotive
Regensburg, Germany
Sep 2000 - Feb 2002
R&D Engineer
Powertrain, Engine Systems, Calibration Methods and Tools
Development of Tools for engine calibration support. Offline Optimization and Online Optimization.
Renault
Graz, Austria
Mar 1999 - Jun 2000
R&D Engineer
National Service as an engineer for a cooperation project.
Main actor of an R&D project. Cooperation with AVL Graz and TU-Graz, Institue for Automatics.
Topic : dynamic optimization of engine calibrations at cold-start.
Development of a program for automatic engine tuning of dynamic calibrations at the engine test bench.
Paris, France
Nov 1998 - Feb 1999
R&D Engineer
Preliminary study at test center and research center to National Service work about actual engine tuning
methods for the cold-start dynamic engine calibration problem.
Nov 1997 - Jul 1998
Part-time assistant work
HiWi (assistant work at university institute)
Subject : Synthesis on nonlinear optimization methods applied to Automatics
Education
Paris, France
Sep 1995 - Sep 1998
Engineer (ENSTA), General Engineering Studies
Aachen, Germany
Sep 1997 - Sep 1998
Applied Mathematics, Automatics
Last ENSTA Enginneering Study Year as ERASMUS Exchange Program at the RWTH-Aachen.
Specialization in Applied Mathematics (Optimization, Operations Research) and Automatics.
Skills
International Experience
(Advanced)10+ Years Experience, (Last Used 10+ years ago)
Languages: French, German, English
born in France.
1 year study in Aachen, Germany
16 months work in Graz, Austria
since Sept. 2000 living in Regensburg, Germany
Process Management
(Beginner)1-2 Years Experience, (Currently in use)
Automotive SPICE Provisional Assessor.
Process Manager for Test Management and Requirement Management.
R&D International Projects
(Advanced)10+ Years Experience, (Last Used 10+ years ago)
Strong Experience in international Research and Development Projects.
Focus on improving productivity using better Methods and Tools.
Automotive Engine Knowledge
(Advanced)7-9 Years Experience, (Last Used 7-9 years ago)
Engine Calibration: Tools and Methods
Engine Test Bench Automation
ECU function development, Engine Control
Engine Modeling and Simulation
MATLAB/Simulink
(Expert)7-9 Years Experience, (Last Used <1 year ago)
Software Development under MATLAB:
- development of tools for engine calibration (alike MathWorks Model-Based Calibration Toolbox)
- optimization (alike MathWorks GADS Toolbox)
- modeling (Response Surfaces, neural nets, statistics)
Engine function development under Simulink
including Rapid Prototyping
Engine Modeling for cold-start emissions using Fuzzy Logic/Neural Nets
Applied Mathematics
(Advanced)7-9 Years Experience, (Last Used <1 year ago)
Optimization: non-linear programming, global optimization, multi-objective optimization, surrogate-based optimization, generalized pattern search, optimal control
Operations Research
Modeling:
- Fuzzy Logic, Neural Nets
- Response Surface Methodology, Polynomial
- DACE, kriging
- dynamic modeling: NARX
Statistics: Design of Experiments
Automatics
Interests
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