Guillaume THOMAS

 

( + 1 206 409 8816

 

 

* guillaumethomas@outlook.com

🌐 www.guillaumethomas.net

 

 

 

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

Technical Manager with fourteen years’ experience successfully bringing new technologies into production in demanding environments such as computer storage, aerospace, and nuclear industries. 

 

I am looking for new opportunities in the technology sector where I can combine my interest in technology and my expertise in engineering practices & development. My experience gives me the ability to understand disparate industrial sectors where security, quality, and high availability are the cornerstones of product design.

 

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Engineer Manager - Dell EMC – Storage Division – Seattle (WA, USA)

01/2017 to now

 

Managing multiple tools teams (15 engineers) for the Isilon Engineering organization (~500 engineers)

I took over several teams during a reorganization following the Dell EMC merger with low morale, a lack of common culture, and poor track record for results. My responsibilities include software development and maintenance, source code management (Github), and critical infrastructure such as the build & release tooling, the engineering computer domain, the fleet of Isilon clusters used for hosting critical data, and general “dogfooding” practices.

 

For the past 18 months I have been successful in:

·  Rebuilding the team moral and image, creating a culture of delivery and improving communication with management;

·  Instilling a DevOps culture and practice within the team;

·  Collaborating with international teams in order to improve response time and availability;

·  Improving the organization’s dogfooding practices;

·  Building a Product Roadmap with the engineering organization;

·  Rationalizing tools being maintained;

·  Developing and deploying a container-based offering (Docker / Rancher);

·  Improving the average speed of a OneFS Build by 15%;

·  Increasing the availability of the test infrastructure;

·  Automating of Build and release processes;

·  Managing the continuity of service during a planned major electrical outage in our main lab;

·  Transitioning the team to a federated model by taking advantage of Dell data centers and cloud opportunities;

·  Transitioning monolithic homemade tools toward micro-service, high-availability utilities using open source solutions;

·  Developing and deploying tooling to generate patches for OneFS, Isilon’s core OS;

·  Providing developer needs by offering solutions rather than providing infrastructure capacities.

 

Research &Technology Manager – Zodiac Aerospace – Huntington Beach (CA, USA)

03/2014 to 01/2017

 

R&T Manager working directly for the CTO on the next generation of airplane seats

·  Recruiting, hiring, and management of an R&T / R&D team working on strategic projects (11 engineers and industrial designers)

·  Determination of the technical road map for the next 5 years

·  Preparation and daily management of a $4 million budget

·  Presentation of strategic projects at the board level

·  Management and structural analysis of key structural projects (35% Weight reductions, 50% Reductions in part count, 20% cost reduction)

·  Creation of key partnerships with laboratories, suppliers and universities

·  Creation of new conception methods

·  Support to sales team for the creation of bespoke / custom products

Senior Technical expert

·  Audit and expertise missions in various Zodiac Seat Entities regarding stress activities

·  Explicit and implicit mechanical simulation of seats for dynamic events

·  Development of new simulation methods for composite materials

·  Training of new engineers

·  Formalization of stress practices

·  Supervise test plan, test campaign and test correlation

Stress Engineer IV – JAMCO America – Everett (WA, USA)

02/12 to 03/14

 

Lead Stress engineer for the A350 ACS Seat Program

·  Strength analysis, design improvement, testing of business class seat

·  Introduction of dynamic analysis at JAMCO America

·  Responsible for the test specification (static and abuse)

·  Interface loads tool creation (working for more seat configurations and automation of reporting)

·  Test conductor (static and abuse)

 

Stress Engineer for the 787 Galley Program

 

·  Certification report, strength analysis and substantiation of the galley

·  Development of automation scripts for stress analysis and FEM Post Processing (reduction by 60% of the time needed)

 

Project Engineer - JSPM (AREVA NP) - Jeumont (Nord, France)

06/09 to 01/12

 

Responsible for the manufacturing studies of KERENA™ control rod drive mechanism

·  Project management and coordination with various team and suppliers

·  Focal with the design team of the mechanism in Erlangen (Germany) with a focus on technology transfer

·  Analysis of the financial and technical risk and Design to cost analysis (make or buy)

Responsible for R&D program HIP (High Isostatic Pressing)

·  Project management and coordination with various team and suppliers

·  Analysis of the potential of the HIP technology on existing products

·  Test specifications, design of test fixtures, procurement

Responsible for the Audit of the stress team

 

Stress Engineer - Messier-Dowty (SAFRAN Group) - Seattle (WA, USA)

05/05 to 05/09

 

Development of the Main and Nose landing of the Boeing 787 “Dreamliner”

·  Analytical methods focal for the B787 program

·  Supervision of the certification documents being presented to the FAA

·  Strength sizing and non-linear finite elements analysis of structural components (static, buckling)

·  Fatigue life calculation (numerical and classical method)

·  Validation of the structural integrity of parts having manufacturing defaults

·  Definition of the repair protocol of the gears during the airplane’s life

·  Follow-up, stress prediction for the airplane full scale test at Boeing and Nose Landing Gear fatigue test

·  Scripting of stress templates and development of automation scripts for the post processing of numerical results

 

Stress Engineer - Messier-Dowty (SAFRAN Group) - Vélizy (Yvelines, France)

10/04 to 03/05

 

Development of the Main Landing Gear on the Airbus A400M Military Airplane

·  Classical strength analysis (Timoshenko) and Finite Elements analysis on primary components of the landing gear

EDUCATION

 

CERTIFICATE in Machine Learning University of Washington

https://www.pce.uw.edu/certificates/machine-learning

Starting 10/18

 

CERTIFICATE in Python Programming University of Washington

https://www.pce.uw.edu/certificates/python-programming

Expected 06/18

 

MS (with Honors) Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Saint Etienne

https://www.mines-stetienne.fr/en/formation/master-degree-in-science-and-engineering/

Mechanical Engineering, Numerical Simulations, Computer Sciences, Material Sciences

09/04

PROFESSIONAL TRAINING

 

Supervisory Training (24H Washington Employers)

10/13

 

Strategy Training (40H Stratorg  / Amicale des Mines)

10/11

 

University of Washington / Boeing “Design and Analysis of Aircraft Structure”

01/07 to 03/07

LANGUAGES

Fluent in French

CS Repositories­­­­

https://github.com/guillaumethomas/

PATENTS AND AWARDS

2 US Patents

Senior Expert in Structural Analysis from Zodiac Aerospace Scientific and Technical Council (ZSTC)

IMMIGRATION

Green Card Holder