French engineer, new expatriation ?         

Etienne Castay 114, rue de Mezu 78450 Chavenay +33 1.30.54.99.45 etienne.castay@gmail.com
Engineer, Project manager

INTERVENTION LEVEL


ACTIVITY AREA


GOALS


QUALIFICATIONS & SKILLS


OTHERS



PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE




Alten technologies since July 1, 1998

Sagem Communication - Cergy Saint Christophe (since August 2005)
  • Project manager assistant on the first Sagem 3G handset.
Indian off-shoring follow-up.
Technical negociations with Vodafone group about the add-ons they wish for this mobile phone.

Alten technologies since July 1, 1998

TCL & Alcatel Mobile Phones - Colombes / Shanghai since September 2002

  • Outsourcing management :  Technologies suppliers evaluations and audits.
    Project manager for some selected  subcontractors (Sun, Aplix, Zi Corp, Tegic, Texas Instruments).

  • Advanced studies / prototyping : Handset embedding new software technologies prototyping.

  • Transfer in China of the embedded software maintenance activity for mobile handsets.
    Project manager. Coordination of the competences
    transfer, means, knowledge and processes. Management of the Shanghai team (8 people) during all the ramp up of the activity. Interface between Alcatel Colombes and Bell Shanghai, reporting.

Orange - Business to Business Division - Montrouge (12 month)

  • VPN Orange France.
  • Transverse follow-up of the project, technical consulting for the marketing department to study the offers technical feasibility. Improvement of the processes and tools used by the various contributors associated with the project. Project manager on specific developments.

ALCATEL Network Application Division - Intelligent Network Development Center - Vélizy / Pristina (7 month)

  •  Mobile service of prepaid telephony in the UNMIK framework in Kosovo.
  • Technical project manager since the study of the existing infrastructure and set up of the solution until the commercial start-up at  Pristina on 31/07/2001.

As expat at  ALCATEL Network Systems India - New Delhi (5 month)

  • Assistance in the starting of a 25 people development center in intelligent networks (photo).
  • Support for the project leaders.
    Technical help for the developers.
    Quality system set up contributor.
    Technical interface with Alcatel France.











Alten technologies  since July 1, 1998

 ALCATEL Network Application Division - Intelligent Network Development Center - Vélizy (24 months)

  • Intelligent networks infrastructures projects :
    Mobistar. IN exploitation service for the mobile network. Integration and validation engineer.
    Cable and Wireless. Control and filtering service for the Panama. Development engineer.
    CNET, IN Service for R&D testing purpose. Developmeent engineer.
    Generic prepaid service on Camel phase 1. Specifications, development and integration.  

X Log Ingénierie from mars 1996 until september 1998


De La Rue Card Systems - Gentilly (6 month)

  •  SIMphonIC : Creation of a dummy GSM sim card emulator for the test and the validation of the network mobile simulator and the mobile handset emulator (NT,  Java, C).
  • Copac : (Visa card for emerging countries) : Test of the EMV sim cards expertise software  under NT.
  • Internal development for  X Log Ingenierie - Versailles (4 months)

    • For the application generator "Campuce" : Development of new functionalities in Forth and C++.

    Gemplus - Sarcelles (18 months)

    • TOTAL, BP and Shell/Casino : Development of the payment sim cards personalization chain for the lorry drivers and the consumer loyalty cards (OS/2, Windev, Oracle, Datacard 9000).  
    • Societe Generale Bank : Development of the credit cards personalization chain. (OS/2, DBASE, Datacard 9000). 


    Divers


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