JC ESTOUP

• Chief Engineering • Entrepreunarial minded • Leads a team of engineers and manager in mechanical, software, controls, data, and electrical engineering to drive the future of sustainable energy. • Implements innovative solutions and problem solves in developing cutting-edge equipment and data systems for carbon capture technology • Implements engineering process and tools (Change Control, BOM management, Release Process)

- Expands the team from 5 to an organization of 25 professionals + 6 contractors, including Mechanical, Electrical, Structural and Thermal engineers as well as Designers, and 4 Managers. - Mentors and leads the development of a Mobile Rechargeable Energy Storage unit, maintaining hands-on involvement in the project. - Spearheads the design and engineering of the company's first mass production product, leading a team of 10 ICs. - Implements and manages KPIs across the Hardware organization. - Drives the development of next-generation products: Trades DFM, Performance, BOM cost, NRE cost

- Leads design & engineering to completes release of first Mass Production product (6ICs in 5 months) - Launches first Mass Production flagship product with skeleton team (9 ICs in 3 months)

Group Manager - Robot program, Team management and mentoring Process definition

Vehicle & Robot Program - Powertrain, Thermal, Chassis, Body/Frame

• Manages Engineering Activities for complete drive unit design (castings, rotor, stator, gearbox, lubrication) • Activities on all current drive units and future vehicle models • In production drive units technical improvements leading to a cost benefit of $XX,XXX,XXX/year for the company • Special focus on electric motor design, coordinating design reviews, reviewing DFMEA, manufacturing and design synchronization and follow-up, validation plans definition • Solve technical problems to make product comply with specification and technical requirements • Creates database for usual failures modes, their effects, and their resolutions • Runs Design Reviews for the complete drive unit system level • Manages the project reviews, consolidates actions plan and provides reporting • Support Pack Line • Support Module Line: Launched the Model 3 Module Lines; brings production from 0 to 2,500+ packs per week • Support NVH Vehicle: Coordinated Vehicle NVH activity for new program readiness (Design/Manufacturing ans Supply Chain) • Database of Failure Mode and Effect, including best practice to alleviate failure

• Acts as manufacturing engineering manager over a team of 5 engineers • Recruits, hires, trains, and mentors multidisciplinary engineering team of 5 • Increases European facility capacity by a factor 2, by implementing new equipment, standardizing jobs and decreasing cycle time • Creates a financial gain of $X.XM/quarter by decreasing vehicle manufacturing costs by ($X,XXX) improving touch time, and reallocating resources • Coordinates, monitors and manages technical cross functional team Purchasing/Manufacturing/Quality/Logistic/IT/Business System/Facilities • Transfers assembly line from Fremont facility to Netherlands (Conveyor line and End Of Line Testing) • Implements new assembly line and testing line in Europe • Manages project up to of XX,XXX,XXXUSD investments • Saves 15% of initial CapEx forecast by enforcing cost control • Defines Specifications, manufacturing/equipement validation and tuning loop for product and equipment (End Of line Equipment, Marriage systems, Tooling) • Improves equipments based on KPI line metrics (OEE, Yield, CycleTime, Availability) • Solves technical problems linked with equipment and product • Establishes and maintains timing schedule • Manages the project reviews, consolidates actions plan and provides reporting • Provides industrial plan, testing procedures, process trials & cut over schedules

Automotive Tier 1 (Temporary replacement position) • Managed various combinations of Engineering Changes: tool modification (assembly tools, molds), product modification, production assembly line move to several plants... • Coordinated and monitored Purchasing/Manufacturing/Quality/Logistic activites for each change • Managed bumpers and fenders projects (BMW (E53, E70, E71, F25) and GM) • Secured 1/2M USD • Defined a completely new process to implement, follow, track, and document input and output of a tuning. • Managed inventory of all tuned parts in accordance to customer build phases and requirements

Automotive Tier 1 Mission: • Ensures the product design and product industrialization including associated tools (molds, checking fixtures, validation equipment, etc.) within the QCT requirements (non-event launch, robust manufacturing) • Ensures cross functional management of extended team • Ensures RETEX and lessons learnt Activities: Engineering Product design & validation: • Involved in upstream phases of the project (expertise phase, acquisition phase) • Analyzes Customer Needs and Draw-up PO Specifications • Defines the concepts of the product design to meet customers specifications and GD&T and ensures that the design for manufacturing (assembly, paint & packaging) are fulfilled • Is the main technical contact with the customer during the design & tuning phases • Manages and perform risk analysis (DFMEA + Design reviews) • Manages Specifications, manufacturing and validation of the means (injection tools, checking fixtures, test jigs, End Of Arm Tooling) • Manages Product validation (functional, geometry and cosmetic quality) • Manages Product tuning (mold tuning, checking fixture tuning) • Participates to the closure of project and gives feedback regarding best practices and difficulties Project Management: • Defines initial Statement of Work of product engineering perimeter including extended team, regarding project perimeter, development budget (hours) • Defines and set up the engineering project planning • Manages the engineering project reviews, consolidates actions and provides reporting and action plans • Proposes adjustments and modifications linked to perimeter evolution during project life time Budget management: • Allocates budget to his extended team • Ensures the follow up of project budget and escalade in case of deviation • Determines internal and external perimeter versus SOW • Contribute to investment optimization through part design

Technical/Commercial package submission to customers • Analyzed customers technical needs, pre-designed and selected material regarding Quality-Cost-Delivery criteria and company strategy • Completed quotation layouts drafts • Secured 50M$ worth of new contracts Post orders engineering • Advanced design to match customer requirements • Managed drafters focused on project completion within challenging time and cost constraints Libya /Chad Base Operations Coordinator • Supported Service Activities on field • Reported issues, and improved components after feedback • Created a database recording all specific operations against each customer New product development • Developed with success worldwide retrofit key and technology advanced product • Managed project up to 3.000 engineering hours, and $200.000 investments • Managed workload for multi disciplinary and international team (up to 5 peoples)

Automotive Tier 1 Technical Engineer on programs from Request For Quotation to End Of Production • Developed technical solution in plastic moulded parts to replace metal sheets structural parts (Front End Carriers, Cockpit Carriers, etc …) • Managed projects up to 500.000€ tool investments & 15.000 engineering hours • Entered in a new strategic customer into tactical project (electric car) • Managed projects for the French car manufacturer Renault (B10, X83, H95, X85...), with high level of customer satisfaction • Specialized in Cockpit Carriers specifications (AUDI, GM Europe, Renault...) • Led Engineering/Quality/Production/Logistic teams (up to 6 peoples) • Created documentation and actions related to Product Quality Plan (ANPQP) • Monitored suppliers and industrialization • Managed and monitored projects budgets • Secured 26.9M€ worth of new contracts (12.5% of annual turnover guarantied for 6 years) Mechanical Engineering • Managed and staffed CAD/CAE activities to comply with customer mechanical behaviors specifications, with a "design to cost" orientation • Developed designs and per validated them before CAE modela via hand calcs • Created Design standard according to plastic molding operations Processes maintenance and creation • Tracked and reported European R&D projects status • Released, updated and improved Key Performance Indicators and processes FEA Analysis • Impleted FEA tools: NX Nastran and PamCrash • Performed and led CAE team efforts: static, harmonic and dynamic response load cases, and completed project reports • Integrated automated data processing for Chanal Analysis post processing to evaluate dynamic response and equivalent stiffness of front end carrier mounting points • Developed FEA model validation and FEA report internal company starndards

External lecturer for MSc Mechanical Engineering students • Finite Element Analysis, and Computer Aided Engineering - Structural, static, dynamic (explicit solvers), harmonic response

First European vehicle battery pack engineering and design for Electric Hybrid Truck

C/C++/OpenGL programming, Finite Element Analysis, Finite Differential Approximation, Computer Fluid Dynamics, Geometric Modelling and Design, Advanced Graphics

Project1&3: Finding Lane lines (Base and Advanced) Project2: Traffic Sign Classifier Project4: Behavioral Cloning Project5: Vehicle Detection & Tracking Project6&7: Kalman Filter (Extended and Unscented) Project8: Particle Filters (Localization) Project 9&10: Control (PID and MPC) Project 11: Path Planning Project 12: Functional Safety Project 13: Integration, ROS

Mechanical Engineering for Product and Process design Engineering. Technical specifications definition Computer Aided Design, Finite Element Analysis Structural and Thermal Product Lifecycle Management Creative methodology for Problem Solving Project Management Introduction to Neural Networks

Mechanical Engineering, Design and Manufacturing Production Engineering