Philippe T.

Sr Engineer-MTS, Electrical @ MDA Space

About

I gradued first as Physical Measurements Technician, then as Electronics Engineer with Microwave specialization. After working three years in the ENSEEIHT Electronics Lab, and one year for the Directorate General of Armaments (National Service as scientist), I was hired by Alcatel Espace (now Thales Alenia Space) as Test Engineer. I worked there for nine years, with different activities, responsibilities and functions. Then I chose to apply for a Test Bench Responsible job, which is a polyvalent job, mixing technical responsabilities, project management, and transverse activities for the department. I had these functions working both for internal customers, and external customers such as Airbus Defense & Space, or the French Spatial Agency. Becoming next Operations Support for the department allowed me to share my experience with my colleagues, and to use my communication and analytical skills to centralize the department information , to collect and compile it, participating to its improvement. I left Thales Alenia Space for a family expatriation toward Canada (Toronto, Ontario); we were delayed by Covid-19 pandemic, but the great Canadian adventure has begun... ...to GEO and beyond (around the moon), after the satellite industry, I am now thrilling in Canadarm3 Ground Segment activities, part of a great team in a huge project.

Country

Canada

City

Toronto

Industry

Aviation & Aerospace

Skill

Test Requirements, Risk Analysis, Testing, Test Planning, Test Engineering, Critical Thinking, Project Documentation, Presentations, Analytical Skills, Electronique - Hyperfrèquences, Work Package management, Mesures RF et test équipement, MS Office Suite, Gestion de projet, Banc de test - EGSE, Decision-Making, Microsoft Excel, Statistics, Allyship, Diversity & Inclusion

Experience

Sr Engineer-MTS, Electrical

MDA Space

2023-4 - Present · 3 yrs 6 mos

Brampton, Ontario, Canada

Operations Support

Thales Alenia Space

2018-1 - 2020-8 · 2 yrs 8 mos

Greater Toulouse Metropolitan Area

Support Operations & transverse activities for the department - information collection and systhesis for KPI such as punctuality, workload adequacy, risk analyses - Generic Technical Requirement document creation for EGSE (from Microwave Integrated Circuit to Payload) - test of a Requirement Management Tool : RMsis - mapping of the department activities informations - support engineers on projects, mainly for reviews, documentation, certification files Added AIV Responsibility for the department on 2020 : centralization of the Assembly-Integration-Verification activities of the department, for better synergy; supervised a team of 3 people

Test Bench Responsible Engineer - Project Engineer

Thales Alenia Space

2006-1 - 2017-12 · 12 yrs

Toulouse

In charge of activity of test benches/EGSE (Electrical Ground Segment Equipment), for microwave and digital equipment ; for internal production lines, or external customers • Technical Responsible : definition, design, development, IVVQ of test benches, team management • Project manager : Workpackage management, costing, reviews, road map, … • Transverse activities for the department : Ponctuality, workload, generic documentation… Image Telemetry EGSE Line Product Responsible from 2010 to 2019.

Test Engineer

Alcatel Space

1997-7 - 2005-12 · 8 yrs 6 mos

Toulouse

Supervision / Tests In charge of the following activities Ku band receivers activity 1997-1999 internal modules actibity (VCO, PLL,…) 1999-2001 X and Ka band complex equipments 2002-2005 Functions for these activities - Supervised the tuning & test teams (4 to 20 technicians), - Led the Qualification and Acceptance tests of spatial equipment - Test definition and strategy, procedures, test bench specification - Improvement program with design team, testability, reparability - Liaise with stakeholders (studies, development, production, …) - Test equipment definition

Test Engineer

Adecco

1997-2 - 1997-7 · 6 mos

Toulouse, Occitanie, France

Test Engineer on space Ku-band receivers for Alcatel Espace

Doctorate student

Toulouse INP

1992-11 - 1996-11 · 4 yrs 1 mo

Toulouse

Microwave planar circuits Modelization by combination of quasistatic approach with an Integral Method with sources. Use of Fortran for developing planar structures software.

scientist

DGA - Direction générale de l'armement

1994-11 - 1995-10 · 1 yr

Gramat

Military Conscription as scientist in the Electromagnetism & Weapons systems department of Directorate General of Armaments,

Internship

Matra Marconi Space

1992-4 - 1992-9 · 6 mos

Toulouse

Development in of a Fortran software for the calculus of microwave multiconductors planar structures, followed by the realization and characterization of an interdigited RF filter.