Serge Rampelbergh

Electronics engineer at Thales Defense

Luxembourg, Luxembourg, Luxembourg

About

Consultancy services in the fields of electronics hardware and software design, Complete Systems conception and design (Space, Military and Commercial) Certified IPC Specialist- IPC CID (Certified Interconnect Designer) Electronics, software, embedded firmware and mechanical design to customer specifications EMC-EMI-RFI investigation and faultfinding expertise to meet mil-grade compliance Wireless expertise: GSM, ISM band, SRD & RFID design & technology, ISM band and ultra low power Wireless communications, HF, VHF, UHF GSM, GPRS, GPS Software development expertise: .NET C#, C++, ASP.NET , C (Visual Studio 2010-2015, Eclipse) MS-SQL 2005/2008/2012 & MySQL database & software developement, Computer networking and security, Linux (debian), Apache, PHP Electronics & embedded hardware/software design expertise: Schematics Design and PCB layout (Altium Designer 9 -> 20, CadStar, Eagle) Embedded and embarked hardware conception, design & prototyping Firmware/software conception & design in C,C++ & assembler (MSP430, 80c51 family, 680XX, PIC, AVR) smartcard, prepayment systems, Robotic, Artificial Intelligence (AI), wireless/RFID parking/tolling system, Car Electronics log terminal(E-log), mobile community payphone (RSA, GSM based), Car key & security management system for car dealers (RSA)

Experience

  • SyStrata Design Partner SA (20 yrs 6 mos)
    • Managing Owner
      Jan 2006 - Present · 20 yrs 6 mos

      Systems and electronics designer for Space and Defense applications

    • Freelance - Contracting design engineer
      Jan 2006 - Present · 20 yrs 6 mos

      SyStrata provides consultancy services in electronics systems design and conception to customers specifications, including embedded software/Hardware design, Windows software developpment and design. specialized in RFID long Range, radio and wireless Telecommunications, Smart Card applications, machine automation, AI, Robotic

  • Hardware Industrialization & Design at Thales Defense & Security, Inc.
    May 2026 - Present · 2 mos

  • Senior Electronics Design engineer at Thales Alenia Space
    May 2020 - Present · 6 yrs 2 mos

    Ionic thruster Power Processing Unit (PPU) system digital control and communication design. reusable Launcher safeguard and integrity safety controller unit design. Galileo Gen 2 satellites onboard Avionics & payload communication design. New generation Space Inspire Satellites Avionics and onboard communication network systems design.

  • Senior Hardware Design Engineer / Hardware pole leader at John Cockerill Defense
    Sep 2016 - May 2020 · 3 yrs 9 mos

    design of embarked processors based electronics, Main calculator/controller rack, POC for part of Hardware design, EMC-EMI investigations, improvements and compliance on products

  • Manufacturing Quality Engineer for smartphone NFC products at NXP Semiconductors
    Jun 2014 - Aug 2016 · 2 yrs 3 mos

    supervising NFC products (for smartphone industry) production at Wafer level, liaise with overseas production subcon teams in Taiwan, Singapore and indonesia (NXP is Fabless) for production defects reduction . Analysis of big data in order to identify production line defects and corrections. Production Yield monitoring and improvement,