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Dr Laurent MAHE
Paris - France
(+33) 6.12.14.39.45

Project Manager - Akka Technologies Group


Employment history

From July 2004

Weight Manager
ECE ZODIAC Group - Paris, France
Aeronautical Supplier

Weight Management of Primary Electrical Power Distribution Centers for Airbus A380 and Boeing 787

  • developped a tool to manage weight,
  • mapped of the weight for structural analysis,
  • managed weight reduction actions,
  • in charge of designing weight optimization,
  • in charge of estimation of new program weight,
  • reporting to customers and program manager

October 2001 - June 2004

Project Leader
HUREL-HISPANO SNECMA Group - Paris, France
Aeronautical Supplier

Modification management during the developpement of a thrust reverser for General Electric Aircraft Engine

  • in charge of scheduling and coordinating projet actions (Design, Configuration, Stress, Materials, Certification) with a team of 30 people,
  • interfaced with Program, Manufacturing, Quality, and Product Support departements,
  • interfaced with Customer (GEAE), Airframers (DORNIER, EMBRAER), and Partner (AERMACCHI),
  • prepared and organized technical reviews with the customer,
  • organized the engineering transfer of a part of Aft Core Cowl from Burnley (UK) to Meudon,
  • organized projet platform (computers, desks, phones,…).

Responsable for coordinating of projet team in close collaboration with the program leader, information transfer to others departments, meeting customer requests, successfully managing of deadlines and priorities.

March 2001 - September 2001

Innovation Project Leader
RENAULT – Paris, France
Car conceptor

Development of a locking system, in collaboration with the supplier, for all utility vehicules

  • responsable for project management, monitoring Quality, Cost and Deadlines,
  • organized and led of a team of 15 people to define the car architecture required for the locking system (product and processes),
  • in charge of managing the supplier VALEO,
  • defined of the supplier design contract,

Technical specification of the product, cost and schedule completion

March 1997 - October 2000

Research Engineer
ATLAS COPCO CREPELLE - Lille, France
Compressors

Investigation into the wear of oil-free piston rings in reciprocating compressors
(Ph.D thesis on the "Dry Friction, Wear, and Solid Lubrication" activity - Contact Mechanics Laboratory - INSA Lyon)

  • defined the investigation strategy,
  • in charge of project management,
  • materials (filled PTFE, cast iron) analysis and characterization, and collaborated with suppliers,
  • selected, implemented and analysed compressor instrumentation and data acquisition,
  • defined and kept track of tests on tribometers and compressor, tribological expertise,
  • conducted stress and thermal analysis,
  • updated technology vigil,
  • wrought up reports and conferences.

Result : leading to better understanding of the product performance.

September 1995 - July 1996

Stress Engineer
COYARD - Angers, France
Industrial Valves

Design of a glass/epoxy composite valve

  • Modeling in order to optimize the thickness of the valve,
  • Analysis of production methods

Marketed of the valve in 1997.


Key skills

  • Project Management in international program
  • Management of a team
  • Management of cost, quality and deadlines
  • Mechanics : Solid and Fluid Mechanics, Thermal aspects, Finite Elements Method
  • Materials  : Metals, Polymers, Composites, Carbons
  • Tribology  : Dry Contacts, Solid Lubrication, Wear
  • Analysis Methods : Optical and Scanning Electronic Microscopy, X-Ray Analysis, Roughnessmeter, Mechanical Characterization
  • Systems : Unix, Windows
  • Languages : Fortran, C, Latex
  • Calculation Software : Abaqus, Matlab, Samcef, Think Composites
  • Data acquisition Software : Catman (HBM)
  • Office Software : Office, MS Project, Lotus Notes
  • Language skills : good working knowledge of english


Education

2000 - Ph.D in Mechanics - specialized in Tribology
INSA Lyon (French engineering school), France
Contact Mechanics Laboratory
1996 - Diplôme d'Etudes Approfondies - Génie Mécanique - Graduate Degree of Mechanical Engineering - specialized in Materials

1995 - Maîtrise de Mécanique - Master in Mechanics - specialized in Computer Science

1994 - License Mécanique - Bachelor in Mechanics
Ecole Centrale de Nantes (French engineering school), France
1992 - Diplôme d'Etudes Universitaires Générales - DEUG A - Post Graduate degree in Structurals and Materials Sciences - specialized in Mathematics
Université de Nantes, France
1990 - Baccalauréat C - Mathematics & Physics
Lycée La Colinière, Nantes, France


Conferences

International Tribology Conference - ITC Nagasaki 2000 (Japan) - October 29 / November 2
"The Third Body Flows Approach - Wear of Filled PTFE" by L. Mahé, Y. Berthier

26th Leeds-Lyon Symposium on Tribology - Lyon (France) - September 5-8, 2000
"The Third Body Flows Approach - Wear of PTFE" by L. Mahé, Y. Berthier

Invited to the 26th Leeds-Lyon Symposium on Tribology - Leeds (UK) - September 14-16, 1999

Member of the staff organisation at the 25th Leeds-Lyon Symposium on Tribology - Lyon (France) - September 8-11, 1998

Poster at the 3th Ph.D Students of INSA Lyon Symposium - Lyon (France) - May 5, 1998
"The Solid Third Bodies" by R. Artero, D. Clair, L. Mahé, E. Niccolini


References available upon request

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