Sullens, Vaud, Switzerland
R&D Manager, specialized in leading engineers (up to 40 people), projects and programs (IPMA B) - 20+ years of experience in R&D, in a pluricultural context (China - USA - Europe), fluent in English (C1-C2) - Experienced in innovation and products development process - Result oriented, natural leader, engaged, proactive and enjoy challenges
Board member participating with the development of the company’s strategy and roadmap Management of R&D and Advanced Engineering departments (up to 40 direct reports) • Hiring and people performance management • Development of an appropriate R&D strategy to reach the company’s objectives • Projects portfolio management according HIP (HEXAGON Innovation Process) and IPMA standard • Intellectual property management (support of one specialized employee) • Innovation management (internships, CTI projects, collaboration with high schools such as EPFL, HEIG-VD/VS and institutes (CSEM) Steering of technical support activities for our factories in Renens and JMTC (Jingjiang, China) • Optimization of production tooling as well as assembly processes • « Root cause analysis » and deployment of appropriate solutions • Production yield optimization and scrap reduction • Optimization of manufacturing costs HIP Owner (Hexagon Innovation Process) for Renens’s site and member of HEXAGON’s HIP committee
Software Team Leader (6 direct reports) • Hiring and performance management of the software development team • Implementation of new processes and software management tools (SVN, Git, SharePoint, JIRA) • Training and implementation of Agile methodology • Resources allocation according to priorities, coaching and follow up Management of high complexity projects 9+ Mio CHF 100+ stakeholders Core team of more than 30 employees (various trades), worldwide distributed (USA, China, Switzerland, Germany, Italy, France), with different cultures and languages Technical Leader for CMMs (Coordinate Measuring Machines), vision and scanning machines • Machine’s roadmap definition (in conjunction with marketing) • Coaching of the project managers assigned to the machines • Life cycle management of the machines and maintenance of the end user and service software
Management of medium complexity projects <2 Mio CHF 10-30 stakeholders Core team of 5 to 15 employees • Project scope definition • Identification of required resources and team building • Project scheduling (human and financial resources, planning game, …) • Execution and project follow up (costs, schedule, quality, risks, engagement/motivation of the team) • Stakeholders management and reporting • LCM (Life Cycle Management) Elaboration and deployment of a new and global project management methodology • Update of current process • Writing of an internal project management booklet as well as projects follow up documents • Training of the management team and other relevant employees Accomplishments (among others) New product: MH3D Recorder (hybrid CMM) New product: CMM control panel with embedded 3 axes controller New product: Software and DLL to interface up to 64 wired, wireless or linearized 1D probes LCM: High accuracy probe (opto-electronic encoder) for gages measuring bench LCM: Addition of new functionalities and optimization of a CMM control software
Monitoring, maintenance and extension of the Swiss mobile cellular network • Monitoring of the cellular network • Coordination of on-site interventions in case of breakdown, maintenance or network extension • Implementation and maintenance of the graphical representation of the cellular network