May 2020 – Present · 6 yrs · Oxfordshire, England, United Kingdom

• I publish enough on LinkedIn for you to know about my interest in Automotive Industry

Jul 2018 – May 2020 · 1 yr 10 mos · United Kingdom

• Promoting our software CONVERGE CFD in the automotive industry (including Motorsport, Oil & Gas, aerospace and global Engineering (pumps, compressors, etc.)
• Key Account Manager for our customers and our partners based in Europe (mainly France, Germany, Switzerland, Belgium and the Netherlands)
• Customer Support with the help of our support team in Europe and our developers in USA
• Promoting CONVERGE capability and leadership thanks to strong technical knowledge and high visibility on LinkedIn (about 1.5 million views per year on my global content)

Jan 2017 – Jun 2018 · 1 yr 5 mos · Abingdon, UK

• Supporting and delivering proof of performance in engines to key customers including OEMs and petroleum companies.
• Technical support on engine/lubricant/fuel matching (engine tests, real life performance, engine failure analysis, etc.)
• Screener and engine test development
• Management of R&D programs (short and long terms) - technical design and program definition, customer interface, interaction with external partners (engine laboratories, suppliers, etc.), quotation, project management, reporting
• Management of Field Test Team - organization and supervision of operating Engineers (Europe and Asia)
• Diversity in project environment - global team (America, Europe, Asia), diversity in segments (small engines, passenger cars, trucks, large engines, marine, etc.), diversity in fuels (gasoline, Diesel, gas, Biofuels, etc.)

Jan 2015 – Jan 2017 · 2 yrs · Abingdon, UK

Oct 2005 – Jan 2015 · 9 yrs 3 mos · Rueil Malmaison

• Combustion model development: complex chemistry in engine software using chemistry tabulation approaches; description of flame propagation; self-ignited combustion; premixed, non-premixed and partially-premixed combustion regimes.
• Modelling tool for engine/fuel matching: accounting for fuel property influence on combustion process; real fuel emulation with surrogates.
• Engine LES (Large Eddy Simulation) in SI Engines: Cycle-to-Cycle Variation (CCV) mechanism study, development of engine LES methodology; full computations of consecutive engine cycles; application to standard SI engines, downsizing, direct injection, fast transient studies.
• 1D CCV model development: exploitation of engine LES for understanding the origins of CCVs and for supporting the development of 1D CCV models.
• Two-phase flow combustion: development and validation of models; influence of spray evaporation on auto-ignition process and impact on the modelling.

Sep 2002 – Sep 2005 · 3 yrs · Région de Rouen, France

• PhD in Combustion Modelling: "DNS study of the interactions between spray combustion and acoustic forcing", supervised by J. Reveillon and L. Vervisch, CORIA, University & INSA of Rouen, France