Jan 2025 – Present · 1 yr 4 mos

Apr 2024 – Present · 2 yrs 1 mo · Rennes, Brittany, France · On-site

Jul 2022 – Present · 3 yrs 10 mos · Greater Rennes Metropolitan Area

• Creation of cool islands, through the vegetalisation of biomimetic complex wooden structures.
• Local authorities: adaptation to climate change, resilience of Urban Heat Islands (UHI)
• Companies: conviviality areas, greening of buildings
• Individuals: Original shading and tailor-made shelters. Integration of fine ironwork, artistic stained glass and bespoke linen curtains.
• Use of noble, ecological and local materials: chestnut wood, reused pure iron (17th and 19th century) and infinitely reusable, organic linen curtains, plants adapted to each configuration...
• Academic partnerships and applied R&D to meet customer's needs, 3D design, prototyping, series manufacturing, and installation

Apr 2021 – Apr 2022 · 1 yr

• Leading a team of passionate engineers and designers to invent, design and implement innovative technologies that impacts quality, efficiency and safety of our pharmaceutical plant (circa. 300 FTE).
• Bringing disruptive innovations on the shop floor with smart human-machine interaction.
• Combining high and low tech for resilient systems.
• Computer vision (visible and invisible), manufacturing equipment, data analysis, automatic decision making systems, traceability... all cGMP.

Mar 2020 – Apr 2021 · 1 yr 1 mo

Jul 2017 – Feb 2020 · 2 yrs 7 mos

• Integration of Legacy Capsugel into the Lonza Pharma & Biotech.
• Synergies in Technology Transfer programs within Lonza network through the Healthcare continuum to provide broader services to our clients (from API to distribution).

Dec 2017 – Jan 2023 · 5 yrs 1 mo · Greater Bordeaux Metropolitan Area

• Speaker at the University of Bordeaux - Master degree in pharmaceutical development.
• Teaching Quality by Design, process scaling-up, design of experiments... on a yearly basis.

Aug 2015 – Jul 2017 · 1 yr 11 mos · Greater Rennes Metropolitan Area

• Leading a Team of 30 engineers and scientists as solution providers, to bring to the market New Chemical Entities (NCEs) from the clinical stages or transfer existing molecules on a fast track. Oral dosage forms including high potent drugs, micro-dosed Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients (APIs), hormones, antibiotics and sterile ophthalmic ointments.
• To support formulation challenges or customers’ needs, the Team also designs and
• implements innovative technologies into the GMP manufacturing area, such as Xcelodose®
• dosing platform, Lipid Multiparticulates, enTRinsic™ drug delivery technology or Spray Dry Dispersion. The Team is guided by the QbD approach for the entire project lifecycle.

May 2010 – Jul 2015 · 5 yrs 2 mos · Greater Rennes Metropolitan Area

• Management of the site's Maintenance (process and process equipment, buildings, utilities), Automation, Industrial IT and Calibration.
• Team management (15 colleagues), budgets and investments 3M€+/y.
• Implementation of a CMMS for efficiency follow-up, improvement of line reliability by lowering by 50% the technical-related stoppages, energy consumption reduction by 15%, integration of new equipment (PW station, mixers, isolator, printing, encapsulation…), preventive maintenance optimization by condition-based maintenance deployment and risk analysis

Nov 2009 – Apr 2010 · 5 mos · Greater Rennes Metropolitan Area

• Team management: automation, industrial IT and calibration.
• FDA inspection preparation and successful achievement of approval, with complete new design of the documentation and procedures architecture.
• Implementation of production supervision SCADAs, networking all PLCs with web-based supervision for real-time production management and OEE overview.

Aug 2007 – Oct 2009 · 2 yrs 2 mos · Greater Rennes Metropolitan Area

• In the Project Engineering Team, design and implementation of all utilities (10+ different energies), HVACs (35+ HVACs) and a fully validated GMP Environmental Monitoring System in two new pharmaceutical areas (4,500 m²).
• Project and timelines management, contractor coordination, investment budgets management, GMP documentation creation until Qualification and system release for production.

Feb 2007 – Jun 2007 · 4 mos · Greater Paris Metropolitan Region

• Research lab in the CNRS – National Center for Scientific Research (public organization under responsibility of the French Ministry of Higher Education and Research). Research report on the opening of the European gas and electricity market to competition. Mechanisms, opportunities, strategies.
• The lab is located and under functional responsibility of the ENPC engineering school.

May 2001 – Aug 2001 · 3 mos · Greater Cleveland

• Mission abroad during general engineering studies. Member of the engineering department, design and implementation of pollution reduction systems, optimization of energy loops.

Aug 1999 – Oct 2006 · 7 yrs 2 mos · Greater Strasbourg Metropolitan Area

• SME specialized in engineering services for different industries: energy and clean room. Engineering of technical installation for pharmaceuticals, fine chemistry, automotive, plastics…: defining the customer’s needs, detailed engineering, negotiations, sourcing, follow-up, commissioning.
• Examples: HVACs, purified water loops, purified steam boilers and networks, reactors, open cooling towers, various utilities, clean room, energy recovery systems.