Consumer Electronics Director

August 2011 till now : Consumer Electronics Director,
Arctic Cooling (HK) Ltd. , Hong-Kong

Products

PC thermal solutions, PC accessories, Digital entertainement products, Earphones, Headphones, PC and Hi-Fi Speakers.

Job description

• Responsibility for ARCTIC's consumer electronics strategy and product direction. ARCTIC's consumer electronics is divided in 2 sub-brands : ARCTIC Living and ARCTIC Sound.
• Lead the product development starting from market analysis, feasibility study, design, testing, sourcing, scheduling, negotiations until series production.
• Responsibility for all HR related issues in the Consumer electronics department such as replacement, hiring, termination, additional training and educational matters and annual performance reviews. Management of 8 engineers in different fields (Industrial Designers, Mechanical and Electronics Engineers, Purchasers).
• Inform the company management of the product schedule and status .

Achievements

• Successful launch of several products (Multi-media PC, Remote App, Wireless Audio)
• Implementation of a web-based project management tool to follow the different milestones of the development. (development done by myself)

June 2010 to August 2011 : Manager Consumer Electronics,
Arctic Cooling (HK) Ltd. , Hong-Kong

Products

PC thermal solutions, PC accessories, Digital entertainement products, Earphones, Headphones, PC and Hi-Fi Speakers, Remote controlled toys.

Job description

• Responsibility for ARCTIC's consumer electronics and ARCTIC Hobby strategy and product direction.
• Lead the product development starting from market analysis, feasibility study, design, testing, sourcing, scheduling, negotiations until series production.
• Responsibility for all HR related issues in the Consumer electronics and Hobby department such as replacement, hiring, termination, additional training and educational matters and annual performance reviews. Management of 5 engineers.
• Inform the company management of the product schedule and status.

Achievements

• Successful launch of several products (earphones, headphones, RC toys)

September 2006 to June 2010 : NPI Manager,
Parrot Asia Pacific, Hong-Kong / Parrot Trading (ShenZhen) Ltd., ShenZhen, China

Products

Bluetooth electronics devices (Car Kits, Plug'n Play, Photo Frames, Speakers).

Job description

• Management of the EMS suppliers : set-up the line in partnership with EMS team, schedule the different production, solve the quality issues during production start.
• Following of the tooling development in supplier side for plastic and metal parts.
• Management of suppliers for other custom parts (cables, fastenings...)
• Synchronization of the different departments (tests, logistics, purchasing…) to ensure a smooth production beginning.
• Management of 6 Chinese engineers.

Achievements

• Creation of the ShenZhen office : from 5 french expatriates to about 50 peoples.
• Development of the team working quality : progressive transfer of the responsibilities from French team.
• Creation and Implementation of procedures to be compliant to TS16949 requirements.
• Before SZ logistics department creation, I was in charge of the whole logistics, planning, project management on one PCBA module for Japanese OEM customer. Product name : CK5050.
• Local leader for the implementation of a PLM (Product Life Management) system based on SAP.
• Creation and implementation of a project following tool : web-based tool aimed to track the open issues as well as the planning of the projects

December 2005 to September 2006 : NPI Engineer,
Parrot SA, Paris, France

Products

Bluetooth electronics devices (Car Kits, Plug'n Play, Photo Frames, Speakers).

Job description

• Following of the Chinese suppliers to ensure a smooth start of production.
• Many trip to factory to follow the different production runs.

Achievements

• Creation of an automated BOM treatment tool.(manual treatment = 4 hours, with the tool = less than 5 minutes)
• Successful start of 5 projects.

March 2005 to December 2005 : Account Manager,
Lear Automotive, Garches, France

Products

Car harnesses

Job Description

• Following of the project modification and the price impact. Discussion with customer.
• Management of the investment and in charge of claiming back to customer.

Achievements

• Decrease of the open issues (conflicts between customer and us) from more than 700000 euros to less than 100000 euros
• Implementation of an existing tool to track the commercial margin and estimate their annual impact.

June 2004 : Master Engineer Degree in Ecole Nationale Superieure d'Arts et Metiers (ENSAM). Angers/Paris, France

June 1999 : Baccalaureat, Serie S, Mention : Good (14,13/20)