Profession: Examiner and Project Manager at the European Patent Office (EPO)
Professional experience and career objectives: Professional goal: Programme management, within EPO's Strategic Renewal Process (SRP), for rethinking and restructuring the classification (including pre-classification) and documentation business at the EPO.
Skills and areas of expertise: PRINCE2 Foundation
Current Employment
Examiner and Project Manager
the European Patent Office (EPO)
(Legal Services) - Germany
Currently working to get classification (incl. pre-classification) and documentation matters on board the Strategic Renewal Process (possible sponsors: Vice-President Peter Vermeij, Principal Directors François Knauer, John Bambridge and Karin Seegert).
Former Employment
Project Manager
at the European Southern Observatory (ESO)
(Environment) - Germany
I was based in Garching, near Munich, in charge of contracts for the procurement of opto-mechanical assemblies for the Very Large Telescope (VLT) and Interferometer (VLTI) Programme managed by M.Tarenghi. I also worked on the Paranal astronomical observatory in Chile, near Antofagasta, AIT Engineer.
Young Graduate
at the European Space Agency (ESA/ESTEC)
(Aeronautics) - Netherlands
At the ESTEC (European Space Technology Centre of the ESA, Noordwijk, The Netherlands), author of "Influence d'une Atmosphère Turbulente sur les Télécommunications Lidar", supervised by P.Kremer and H.Lutz. I was in charge of the interpretations of the IMOCE measurement campain (SILEX project).
Assistant to Project Manager of the MERIS (Medium Resolution Infrared Spectrometer, on board the ENVISAT platform) camera for Aérospatiale/SNIAS (now EADS Astrium) and ESA/ESTEC.
Education
École Supérieure d'Optique France
, september 1988 - february 1991
Ingénieur physicien, Optics, physics
Université de Nantes France
, september 1983 - september 1988
Master Degree (Maîtrise), Electronics, electrotechnics and automatics
About me
Interests:
Activities: Golf Interests: Hermetism, Alchemy, esoteric subjects, real history, management techniques Favorite Music: Elton John (all... with excess!), Jacques Brel (all), Michael Mallon (all), Farm Dogs (most things), Johannes-Sebastian Bach (all), Serge Lama (Napoléon), George Gershwin (all).
Other:
I am quite open minded; the following quotes may sum up the way I think: "Common sense is not common at all" Mark Twain "We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them" Albert Einstein "Plans are useless but planning is essential" Dwight D. Eisenhower "Elke nadeel heeft zijn voordeel" Johan Cruijff "True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision" Edith Wharton "We go where our vision is" Joseph Murphy.
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