Expert Quality/Safety Assurance in highly regulated industries (Aeronautics, Automotive, Space, Rail, Aviation, Defence...)

Main actor (Quality Officer) of the first successful CMMi L2 evaluation in the french industry in Valeo in 2007 in a tough competition with Alstom Transport and other Tier-1 manufacturers based in France (see special results).

Quality/Safety Auditor-Assessor recognized by numerous Top/Senior Managers who trusted me over BIG consultancies (see testimonials, awards, feedback below)

Certified ISO26262 Functional Safety Engineer (TÜV SÜD) and ASPICE/ISO15504 Provisional Assessor (VDA-QMC) & former CMMI Appraisal Team Member (SEI-CMMI Institute) - Click here

Led or participated/supported more than 60 large audits/assessments/appraisals against CMMI, ISO26262, DO178B, ASPICE/ISO15504, ISO9001, EN9100, EN50126/8, ISO 27001/2...

Successful Management experience including strong communication skills with internal and external stakeholders (certified PMP known as the most challenging Management exam with concrete results on profesionnal career)

"Exceeding of role and objectives" mindset and strong ethics to satisfy both end-clients and internal staff.

International career with 4 years in London, 4 years in Paris, 4 years in Lyon, 4 years in Barcelona, 4 years in Murcia/Cartagena area, 3 years in Angers and intensive daily remote work with colleagues and/or suppliers in New York, Atlanta, Düsseldorf, Cairo, Bangalore and Hanoi.

Main soft skills: Rigorous, Ethical, Empathetic, Easy-to-communicate with, Natural Born Leader (see section below), Continuous Improvement Culture (see below button), Quality/Safety First Mindset for total end-client satisfaction

I used to perform the ISO9001/CMMI audits on 20 automotive and industrial projects in RENESAS Electronics Europe for almost 2 years. I was also PMO Planner on an AUTOSAR MCAL Verification project using Ms Project Server.

Most important, I spontaneously took the responsibility to perform the ISO26262 Safety Audit (raised as the main strength by the external assessor) on an ASILB AUTOSAR  MCAL and I initiated and executed the SW Lifecycle Transformation project from the proposal to the Automotive BU Manager to the presentation to the REE Managers.

I performed the EN50126/8 SW Safety Assessment on the CROSSRAIL Communication & Control Systems (Elizabeth Line), including offline rating of the standard clauses, reviews of the available evidence, onsite interviews/demo, interim onsite conclusion meeting, post-rating of late evidence, final presentation of the results to Senior Management, support to corrective action plan. See feedback from my Manager (K. Toon, now retired, so not visible on LinkedIn anymore but extracted from my ltd company website) in section below.

I performed 2 ASPICE/ISO15504 Assessments on a Volvo Electric Truck Battery Sensor, supported by another ASPICE Provisional Assessor (The Group Safety & SWQA Manager M. Quaglia - See his recommendation below): The VP Quality of LEM group (see his recommendation extracted from LinkedIn in below section) during the concluding meeting of my first ASPICE Assessment at LEM Tech France said, "With Antoine, we do not need a large external agency."

My second ASPICE assessment at LEM tech France led to a major initiative approved by the CTO regarding Configuration Management and Documentation Management processes due to the critical non-conformities I identified both at the low SW level (in particular, polyspace automatic code analyses deactivated in CI/CB process for a while causing huge bottleneck of defects to analyse just before PPAP/SOP milestones) and the high level of documentation management (no use of the available state of the art configuration/documentation tools like Sharepoint and Confluence, and still storing/archiving project documentation on a project server without versioning tool like SVN leading to a very chaotic CM/DM process leading to a huge loss of time/money and a poor quality).

I defined the roadmap of this initiative in 7 WPs/phases that were implemented by an external consultant specifically hired for this topic. More than 2Meuros to save per year after implementation (#500keuros/year/site + huge improvement in quality/safety/reliability due to automation of the versioning and configuration management practices).

I performed about 50 ATM/Aviation project audits against the internal QMS to renew the certification CMMI Level 3 and show our compliance with the FULL Agile SCRUM methodology (and not just a subset). The audit used to lasts 5 days including 3 days of evidence review and checklist rating, 1 day of interviews of the PM and Test Manager/Lead and 1 day of Audit report documentation, reporting to Senior Management and formal publication. This has been a very intensive 15 months Delivery Assurance Program that led to the renewal of the CMMI L3 certification so important for SITA.

I also performed a Cybersecurity Audit on an ATM system during 2 days against the internal CSMS (compliant with ISO27001/2) whose main work product is the Security Workbook including the testing of the security requirements which has then been the main topic of the results of the audit shared with the architect of the product.

You can find in the last section of this page, an excellent recommendation from the Senior Legal & Quality Operations Manager who hired me.

I found a free and very good Quality/Safety ALM to prepare, perform and report audit activities: SafetyCulture.com

It embed hundreds of predefined templates of audit checklits for very well-known standards like ISO 9001, ISO 27001, ISO13485, ISO14001, IATF 16949, AS9102 (Form 1-2-3), GDPR compliance and many others, as well as many training courses and templates on cybersecurity, risk management, safety, etc.. Unfortunately, there are still some missing audit/assessment checklists missing: ISO15504/ASPICE, CMMI, ISO26262, ISO25010, IEC 12207, NIST, DO178, EN9100, EN5012x, ECSS... maybe in a future version, I will contact the support team.

In this case, I manually configured it for one of the ECSS standard, in particular the SW Product Assurance one (ECSS-Q-ST-80C Rev.1).

It is much more convenient for all phases of the audit, from the preparation, execution, consolidation of the rating and interviews, and reporting of the results (You can add Notes, attach evidence / links / other media and create preventive / corrective actions that you'll collect automatically in the report of the audit.

I'm in touch with a spanish startup specialized in AI (https://buho.framer.ai/) to collaborate at one point and use their AI tool to "digest" all main missing quality / safety / security / management standards and automatically fill in DO178C, EN9100, ECSS, ISO26262, PMBoK, EN50126/8... templates that, for the moment I can only document manually (by copy-paste), which is very time-consuming (and a boring job).

As a natural leader, I like to:

• work with state-of-the-art processes and tools and encourage my colleagues to do the same by showing them the gains in efficiency and quality/reliability of the work done

• work with online ALMs/PLMs (CodeBeamer, TuleAp, Polarion, HPQC, SharePoint, Ms Project Server, JIRA, SafetyCulture, etc.) and store/manage in configuration the bare minimum work products (xls, doc, pdf, ppt, etc.) in adequate versioning / configuration mgt tools (SharePoint, Confluence, Tortoise SVN, GIT, etc.)

In this perspective, I found that in all the roles of auditors/assessors that I have had (except in Valeo in the first successful SCAMPI CMMI L2 Appraisal in the French industry where ALL4TEC consultant offered us to work with "Appraisal Assistant" tool, a free rich client PC-based SW tool developed by Griffith University-Software Quality Institute, it covers the needs to perform ISO15504/ASPICE Assessments and CMMI Appraisals, it is not web-based but you can easily merge the work from the different co-auditors at the end of each day, I liked it, you can download it here), there was a real lack of interactive Quality/Safety audit ALM allowing for the reduction of all traditional documentation (xls, doc, ppt, pdf, Google suite, etc.), to work online and collaboratively, and to simplify all phases of an audit, from preparation, review of evidence, execution of interviews, participation in demonstrations, association of evidence (links, documents, videos, etc.), intermediate and final phases of results consolidation, automation of reporting and communication of audit results, publication of the reports...

Quality/Safety Assurance Expertise + Experience in highly regulated industries + Tailored Process for all kinds of SMEs

Audit Checklist templates list currently available for free in the ALM "SafetyCulture": the very deployed ISO9001, IATF16949, ISO27001, ISO14001, ISO13485 standards are there, but a lot of SYS/SW Engineering standards are missing. See collaboration with Buho AI startup to fill in new templates automatically.

I ensured the full compliance with DO178B DAL A, CMMI L3 and ISO9001/EN9100 on the Inertial Reference Software of the Airbus A400M Navigation System, deploying the entire SAGEM Defense A400M SW Process from the traceability of the SW requirements to the implementation of the unit and SW/SW integration testing in an offshore supplier in India. Autonomously supported Customer Audit for DO178B DAL A compliance. I hired 2 SWQA Engineers, setup from scratch and managed 3 offshore test suppliers until delivery acceptance and warranty phase.

A Leadership Mindset, fixing issues on the field (GEMBA) with humility, rigor and ethics

A leader shares his/her knowledge, does not withhold information or engage in politics, initiates change on the field, uses state-of-the-art tools and processes, and encourages his/her colleagues to do the same by demonstrating the gains in efficiency, quality, reliability, safety, and costs for his/her team and company.

Program Manager (& hierarchical manager) in a small "projectized" organization (where PMs are both responsible for resources & budgets) as opposed to matrix (strong/weak) and functional organizations (where Discipline Managers are both responsible for resources and budgets): see interesting article on this topic

Scope: Develop and Maintain 3 Automotive SW Products for an OEM (PSA/Stellantis): DIAMUX products which are used by PSA to upgrade, calibrate & configure all ECUs on their vehicles in all manufacturing sites (HUGE PRESSION)

- Management of 6 on-site PM, Architects/Engineers and 6 offshore Engineers based in Vietnam
- Project Estimates and Scheduling, Project Tracking (see extract of Program & Workload Plan below - no ALM available, so created a fully automated plan in excel)
- Creation of the first Project Dashboard (Top Risks/Issues, Progress, status)
- Customer facing in a contentious context (very aggressive customer PM => 3 different PMs in 1 year only on our side), problems solving, reporting to our Management
- Delivery of the Product releases (DIAMUX, OTTOMAN, ORUS DIAG + Evolutive & Corrective Maintenance Releases => 2-3 formal SW Product Releases per month)
- Change Management and bugs tracking (Mantis Bug Tracker)
- Improvement of the quality of the SW releases thanks to the hiring of a SW Requirement Engineer in charge of setting up a SW specification including tagged / labeled SW requirements with all required quality criteria (unique ID, atomic, verifiable, clear and non ambiguous, etc.) that are then traced to source code and test cases using state-of-the-art tool called Reqtify to manage all traceability and consistency metrics of our product development lifecycle
- Significant increase of the agility and productivity of the Project Team via the hiring of an Open Source technologies (SVN) and Configuration/Build/Release Expert (Time needed to build a full SW release decreased from 1/1.5 days to approx. 4 hours)
- Produced one of the key assets for our Technical and Financial offer (see below the entire workload plan including all team resources and all requirement, architecture, coding, testing, release tasks and covering all 3 SW tools/projects and evolutive and corrective maintenance WPs) that allowed the company to demonstrate our capability to achieve the program objectives and to be awarded on this DIAMUX program again (although there was a very contentious context between PSA (Stellantis) Project Manager and See4Sys SW Team)
- I've been rewarded with a brand-new smartphone offered by the company
See feedback from Luis below, the Open source expert and Release Manager I hired, and from the Senior Business Manager in charge of the client PSA/Stellantis, Frank Buridan

With this fully automated workload plan, we take into account all the available human resources for the DIAMUX program (in France and Vietnam), their leave and potential absences, all activities in the lifecycle of the 3 DIAMUX products, OTTOMAN, and ORUS DIAG along with the various Work Packages and the lots for evolutive and corrective maintenance, and the various/cross-functional assignments within the company. By assigning different loads to within 2 hours for different resources across the various products and lots, totals by resource and by country (France / Vietnam) are calculated automatically, and if the resources are underloaded or overloaded, the corresponding cells appear very visibly in green or red, which allows the Program Manager to smooth resources over time and make realistic estimates and plans to provide the best visibility to the client PSA and the internal Management.

This automated plan was a MAJOR ASSET (according to the Business Manager himself) during the presentation of our small Parisian site’s offer to PSA to obtain the new award for the DIAMUX program that saved the Paris offices which would have disappeared without this project, as Luis also indicated in his feedback.

I've had Program/Project/Team Management-Lead or PMO Planner responsibilities in very different environments:

Program/Project Manager in a  very "projectized" structure (Automotive small engineering company) in a chaotic environment with (see details in section below):

- the responsibility for both the budget and the resources

- very high pressure from both the customer (OEM PSA/Stellantis) and the internal senior management

- no support from independent quality assurance or similar team

- no processes/tools in place, whatever the topic is: Project Management, Requirement Traceability & Consistency, V&V Automation, Build& Release, Quality Assurance, Agility, etc.

- a customer PM with mechanical background so no understanding of modern SW methods which constantly leads to a contentious context between the OEM and our SW team

- a Technical Director (my Line Manager) in place thanks to nepotism and consequently not ensuring his responsibilities (2 weeks off during CRITICAL RFQ phase, he used to frequently bypass me and go against my discussion with the client about establishing stronger processes, the list of incompetencies is too long...)

SW Project Lead and Firefighter in a matrix Tier-1 organization (LEM) in an environment still growing between chaotic and mature (not yet ASPICE Level 1 in all processes):

- the responsibility for coordinating all SW activities for each SW Release with the TPL, the System Engineer, the Head of SW, the SW Team and the V&V Manager

- very high pressure from both the customer and the internal senior management since I replaced a suddenly unavailable SWPL when we were about to deliver PPAP and SOP

- 2 years of Joint Reviews between Volvo and LEM were not done, therefore I had a HUGE work to catch up everything for the PPAP milestone

- the PM was totally disconnected from the reality of the SW domain, consequently there was a lot of support to bring to him to help him communicate properly with the customer

-  BTW, I received written congratulations from the Component Owner of Volvo Trucks for the PPAP milestone :)

Powertrain SW Project Lead in a strong matrix OEM organization in a very structured context (CMMI L3, MBD):

- Initially in charge of 1 SW project for an Engine Management System ECU
- On the field learning of the Diesel and Gasoline Powertrain Motors (Combustion Cycle, Intake, Compression, Power, Exhaust, Cylinder, Pistons, injectors, etc.) directly used to properly design the application layer of the Powertrain Control SW by working with the different SW Function Leads to integrate the relevant version of each SW function into the Application SW (Model Based Design in Simulink)
- Management of a Team of 2 on-site engineers (Build/Configuration and Calibration Engineers)
- Interface with all required SW Function Leads to design the Application SW of 2 Diesel Engine Management Systems

- One of my main objectives was to design the Application SW so that the overall Powertrain complies with Euro 5 norm
- Monitoring of the ECU and Basic SW supplier (BOSCH).
- Interface with PMO for the monthly update of the SW Dashboard, KPIs and Risks & Issues.
- Clear and concise reporting to the Program Manager in Monthly Steering committee, always in line with Quality, Costs, Timing and Scope objectives.
- Mission unfortunately stopped due to serious physical health issue (recurrence of pneumothorax/lung collapse) requiring huge pleura surgery and long term recovery.

Supposed to take the lead of this SW project in 6 months, I have been very proactive and autonomous after 3 months only.
Therefore my Line Manager assigned a new Diesel Powertrain ECU project to me very shortly. He said I was the best external SW Lead he hired during his time at Renault.

Quality & Validation Testing Team Lead in a mature Tier-1 organization (achieving CMMI L2): follow the link

PMO Planner in RENESAS Electronics Europe in a very structured environment (CMMI L3, ISO9001, Ms Project Server, AUTOSAR):

-Scope: Estimating, Planning and tracking of AUTOSAR Verification projects
Duration: 12 months
Resources: 1 PMO Project Planner, 1 AUTOSAR Verification Manager, ~6 Verification Engineers (on-site & offshore)

- Established WBS (Work Breakdown Structure) and Estimation Forms with AUTOSAR Verification Manager (3 points estimates: Triangular & PERT distributions)
- Established Project Schedule in Microsoft Project Server and baselined these as required
- Regular Leveling of the Project Resources in Microsoft Project Server + use of project web app
- Tracked project progress with AUTOSAR Verification Manager in weekly meeting
- Closed Project (Closed Project schedule, identified Lessons Learned, organized project closure review)

See the very good feedback from the Expert Planner (Joanne) and the AUTOSAR Verification Manager (Meena) regarding my PMO skills (scroll a little bit down after clicking)

Quality/Safety First Mindset for Total Customer Satisfaction

20 years working for well-known local or international names where I initiated, executed, improved programs / projects / products / processes always with the Quality/Safety First Mindset:

ÉCOLE CENTRALE DE LYON - CNRS Labs (Top#10 Generalist Engineer School - National Research Labs)

MOTOROLA Semiconductors (Freescale/NXP)

ALCATEL Space Industries (Thales Alenia Space)

VALEO Vision

ALSTOM Transport

AUSY (for SAGEM Defense A400M Navigation System)

See4Sys (for PSA DIAMUX product line)

Renault (Diesel Powertrain Control SW)

RENESAS Electronics Europe

SITA (Société Internationale de Télécommunications Aéronautiques) - Air Transport Management / Aviation

SIEMENS Mobility (Crossrail - Elizabeth Line)

LEM Tech France

QEV Technologies (Hybrid Electric/Hydrogen Powertrain, Electric Racing/Motor Sport)

Main domains of expertise:

PC-based and Embedded Systems from requirements management to design, V&V automation and certification

Factory Automation, ALMs/PLMs, MBSE/MBSA (SysML), MBD (UML)

Quality/Safety Assurance in highly regulated industries

Program/Project Management with several production releases per month

Agile SCRUM: Product Breakdown/Backlog, Epics, User Stories Grooming, Definition of Done, Sprint Planning, Burndown Chart, Scrum ceremonies, etc.

I always worked hard for the World Citizen wellness, safety, quality of life, and health since my very first occupations. A partial summary of my accomplishments that demonstrate my humanism principles is shown below:

Enhancing and automating a test bench to characterize the "false brinelling effect" that could result in safety-critical flaws in ball bearing-based systems utilized in the transportation sector as a whole,

Participation to the development of a fully automated characterization flow for Radiofrequency receivers (Integrated Circuits - RF ICs) used in medical and automotive safety applications including insulin pumps and Tyre Pressure Monitoring Systems,

Design and Development of an innovative, reliable, performant and cost-effective automated BER measurement system (Bit Error Rate used to evaluate the quality of RF ICs like the medical ones referenced in the previous achievement). This system has been validated by a giant semiconductor group which then used it for the characterization of RF ICs planned to be released for mass production. This system has been published via a technical contribution presented at the IEEE Conference in Toronto - 2005,

Model Based Design with automatic C source code generation, development, testing and quality assurance of Automotive Dynamic Exterior Lighting Systems (Automatic Dynamic Levelling, Dynamic Bending Light, Fixed Bending Light) providing the end-users with a better, safer and reliable vision experience,

Main actor of the FIRST SUCCESSFUL CMMI L2 certification in the French Industry, in this case an Automotive Tier-1, demonstrating we used to implement the best-in-class processes and tools to develop our safety critical Exterior Lighting Systems, thus drastically reducing the risks of car crash during night drive,

Product Validation Manager on the highest safety critical (SIL 4) Interlocking Gateway (Smart I/O) deployed in several Rail tracks all over the world,

Diesel Powertrain Control SW Lead whose one of the main objectives was to build a Powertrain Control Software compliant with EURO5 norm,

Functional Safety Auditor for Renesas UK Microcontrollers Basic Software used in safety critical applications in the Automotive industry,

Software Safety Assessor for the CROSSRAIL program (Elizabeth Line in London),

System/SW Quality and Safety Engineer on safety critical RCD Class B/B+ (New generation of Residual Current Detection sensor avoiding serious electric shock and the destruction of home electric/electronic devices during the charging phase of the vehicle) and Battery Sensors for electric vehicles,

Functional Safety & Quality Manager for the development and production of ZERO EMISSION hybrid hydrogen/Electric vehicles,

RFQ for a safety critical SIL4 Interlocking gateway for a major Rail Industry Leader: Tendering process including Technical and Financial Offer for the Safety SW Assessor role and documentation of a Technical Proof of Concept defining the System/Software requirements and architectural design (supported by the relevant SysML diagrams thanks to our very good business relationship with the SW company ENCO SOX that offers us a free license of "System Design & Safety/Security tool"- see picture on the left and below) of a generic safety critical SIL 4 IXL gateway that could communicate with another IXL gateway using 2 specific protocols based on TCP/IP stack on the Ethernet bus.

Quality/Safety First Mindset for the World Citizen safety & wellness

An International Mindset and a passion for geography since I'm 6 years old

Expatriations:

London, UK, from Jan. 2014 to Nov. 2017 (almost 4 years)

Tarragona 5 months

Barcelona 3 years,

Murcia 4 years

Spain, from Nov. 2017 to today (almost 8 years…)

From an educational & professional point of view, after studying for 4 years in Bordeaux with 8-month internships in Toulouse, Cannes, and Lyon, I worked 4 years in Paris, 4 years in Lyon, 3 years in Angers, 4 years in London, 4 years in Barcelona, and 4 years in Murcia/Cartagena. However, during my time in London at SITA, I worked 80% of the time for 15 months with colleagues based in New York and Atlanta. At Renesas, I worked at least 50% of the time with colleagues based in Düsseldorf and Tokyo. Finally, at Valeo, I worked for over a year with a VALEO Engineer Offshore Egypt based in Cairo.

I am not in a hurry to return to France, so I am still involved in recruitment processes for positions in Edinburgh, Malmö, and Frankfurt, among other potential destinations since I can also stay in Spain or go to Italy. Moreover, my job as Auditor gets me work online a lot so I can be based from different countries.

From a personal point of view, since I was 5-6 yo, I have been passionate about atlases, world maps, globes, illustrated dictionaries with maps of the world, continents, countries, cities, etc., the series of encyclopedias, etc. I could draw the map of the world freehand and I knew the capitals of the whole world. I was interested in different climates, local languages, populations of major cities, customs, cultures, etc.

After devouring my parents' encyclopedias series, I would order the new Larousse Illustrated every year for Christmas, on which I spent hours reading articles about different countries, cities, etc., and observing the corresponding maps in detail. I also traveled a lot with my parents between the ages of 6 and 14, especially in Europe, taking long road trips, and now there are very few countries in Europe that I haven't visited. See below:

Road Trips:

Italy/Pisa/Vesuvius/Pompeii/Sicily/Palermo/Etna/Lipari Volcanic Islands/Stromboli - 3 weeks (1986: Photo in front of a wall tagged MARADONA, who was my favorite player with Platini, in a campsite in the suburbs of Naples, Catacombs of Palermo, Ruins of Pompeii, partial climbs of Vesuvius and Etna but too young for Stromboli so slept on the beach with my mom)

Northern Italy (The lakes, Milan, Venice) - 1 week

Italy from Nice to Pisa, Siena, Florence, Chianti, Lake Como - 1 week

Southern Italy: Bari, Bitonto, Matera, Alberobello, The Apulia - 1 week

Andalusia: Seville, Granada, Cordoba - 1 week

Germany West/East Berlin (broke off and took a piece of the Berlin Wall the year it fell), Poland/Krakow and guided tour of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration/extermination camp, Czechoslovakia (especially Prague, a beautiful city, staying with a former professional football player and national team member who played against Michel Platini and France), Austria - 2 weeks

Northern Germany, Denmark, Copenhagen, Big House in Danish Countryside - 10 days

England: London, Sutton-on-Sea, Leeds, Lake District - 10 days

Ireland: Calais-Cork by ferry, Dublin, Connemara, Galway, Ballina - 10 days (in Ireland of the 1990s)

Scotland: Edinburgh, the Highlands, the Isle of Skye (Guided tour of the Talisker Whisky Distillery) - 1 week

Andalusia/Portugal-Algarve: Ronda, Tavira, Fishing port of Octopuses with delicious restaurants - 1 week

Spain/France: Murcia, Tarragona, Banyuls, Collioure, Uzès, Lyon (4 days)

Catalonia/Catalan Country: Barcelona (Sagrada Familia, Park Güell, Montjuïc), Figueres (Dali Museum), Besalú, Cadaqués, Banyuls (4 days)

France: Lyon, Avignon, Luberon, Gordes, Isle-sur-la-Sorgue, Saint Rémy de Provence, Aix-en-Provence (1 week)

France: Bordeaux, Basque Country, Saint Jean de Luz, Béarn, huge 2 days/2 nights festival in the middle of the Pyrénées (4 days)

France: Bordeaux, Lacanau Ocean, Lacanau Lake, Arcachon Basin, Cap Ferret (5 days)

Occasional trips with little to no major traveling by car:

USA: New York (6 days, hotel with a view of Times Square, a gift from my wife for my 30th birthday)

Italy: Roma, Venice (x2)

England: London, Windsor Castle / Long Walk, Reading, Dorset/Weymouth (Olympic site for the water events of the London Olympics), Brighton, Oxford, Cambridge

Scotland: Edinburgh (x2)

Spain: Madrid (x2), Barcelona, Valencia, Granada (x2), Almeria, Alicante, Elche (beautiful hotel in the middle of a huge palm grove in the city center), Figueres and its region (x2)

Greece: Athens, Mykonos (renting a Quad for great rides on the almost-deserted island outside the city of Mykonos)

Portugal: Lisbon (a favorite especially for the extremely warm welcome, but also for the atmosphere, beauty of the city, and quality of the cuisine and wines)

Corsica: Porto-Vecchio, Bonifacio, Santa Giulia (sublime beach, sensational homemade charcuterie and terrines)

Belgium: Brussels / Netherlands: Amsterdam (x2)

Hungary: Budapest

Austria: Vienna

Switzerland: Lausanne, Geneva, Bern

France: Marseille, Cavalaire, Deauville, Gorges du Tarn, Paris, Château de Versailles, Nîmes, Saint Emilion, Biscarrosse, Brest / Nord Finistère, Annecy, Nice/Villefranche-sur-Mer, Cannes/Le Cannet, Antibes, Arcachon, Dune of Pyla, Courchevel, Serres Chevalier, Auron, Chamonix, Lannemezan, Strasbourg, Besançon, Toulouse, Andorra, Lodève, Lake Salagou, Cirque de Navacelles, Chassagne-Montrachet, Jura (Lake Vouglans, Lake Chalain, Les Rousses, Crêt de la Neige, Hérisson Falls), Royal Saltworks of Arc-et-Senans (Doubs), Les Gorges du Loup, Saint Paul de Vence, etc.

Awards / Recommendations / Testimonials

from Clients, hiring managers, colleagues, subcontractors and reports

We took on Antoine to specifically address software safety assurance for a large rail project. The software development was already reasonably progressed, but in need of independent software assurance and EN50128 compliance demonstration. Antoine demonstrated great ability to able join an established project (with existing working practices and procedures) and bolster the processes, plan and conduct audits and produce recommendations effectively, where others may easily have disrupted on-going work. Antoine was an effective software processes assessor and auditor. Antoine is able to progress issues effectively, with minimal supervision. Similarly, his knowledge of, and ability to pick support tools and working environment with minimal input was most welcome at such a critical stage of the project.

Kevin Toon (retired) - Engineering Safety Manager - CROSSRAIL Siemens C660 Project (Communication & Control Systems)

I worked closely with Antoine for over one year on an intensive and complex delivery assurance program. Antoine reviewed high profile projects, focusing on project management, supplier management and product development. Antoine brings strong and current engineering skills: software development lifecycle, testing, configuration management, agile methods. He has deep knowledge of project management and is an expert in MS Project. I’d say the characteristic that made Antoine successful is his ability to apply deep knowledge practically in an imperfect world. He demonstrated pragmatism and adaptability and always engaged constructively with stakeholders. I'm pleased to give this personal recommendation and would welcome working together again. I would be happy to evidence Antoine’s suitability in specific written reference or via phone call. My contact details are available on request."

Confidential - Senior Legal and Quality Operations Manager in the Air Transport Industry (UK)

Whether I am a permanent staff member or an external freelance, I strive to maintain high-quality relationships with the various stakeholders. Below are some feedback from former managers & colleagues. You'll also find the proof of my double award in PM and QA, which will be officially published on the SME News website in June.