Laurent Demierre

Experience

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  Orange

  Feb 1999 - Mar 2000

  Network controller

  Monitoring, maintenance and extension of the Swiss mobile cellular network• Monitoring of the cellular network• Coordination of on-site interventions in case of breakdown, maintenance or network extension• Implementation and maintenance of the graphical representation of the cellular network

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  Hexagon Manufacturing Intelligence

  Jun 2000 - Sept 2020

  Board member participating with the development of the company’s strategy and roadmapManagement of R&D and Advanced Engineering departments (up to 40 direct reports)• Hiring and people performance management• Development of an appropriate R&D strategy to reach the company’s objectives• Projects portfolio management according HIP (HEXAGON Innovation Process) and IPMA standard• Intellectual property management (support of one specialized employee)• Innovation management (internships, CTI projects, collaboration with high schools such as EPFL, HEIG-VD/VS and institutes (CSEM)Steering of technical support activities for our factories in Renens and JMTC (Jingjiang, China)• Optimization of production tooling as well as assembly processes• « Root cause analysis » and deployment of appropriate solutions• Production yield optimization and scrap reduction• Optimization of manufacturing costsHIP Owner (Hexagon Innovation Process) for Renens’s site and member of HEXAGON’s HIP committee Show less Software Team Leader (6 direct reports)• Hiring and performance management of the software development team• Implementation of new processes and software management tools (SVN, Git, SharePoint, JIRA)• Training and implementation of Agile methodology• Resources allocation according to priorities, coaching and follow upManagement of high complexity projects 9+ Mio CHF 100+ stakeholders Core team of more than 30 employees (various trades), worldwide distributed (USA, China, Switzerland, Germany, Italy, France), with different cultures and languages Technical Leader for CMMs (Coordinate Measuring Machines), vision and scanning machines• Machine’s roadmap definition (in conjunction with marketing)• Coaching of the project managers assigned to the machines• Life cycle management of the machines and maintenance of the end user and service software Show less Management of medium complexity projects <2 Mio CHF 10-30 stakeholders Core team of 5 to 15 employees• Project scope definition• Identification of required resources and team building• Project scheduling (human and financial resources, planning game, …)• Execution and project follow up (costs, schedule, quality, risks, engagement/motivation of the team)• Stakeholders management and reporting• LCM (Life Cycle Management)Elaboration and deployment of a new and global project management methodology• Update of current process• Writing of an internal project management booklet as well as projects follow up documents• Training of the management team and other relevant employeesAccomplishments (among others)New product: MH3D Recorder (hybrid CMM)New product: CMM control panel with embedded 3 axes controllerNew product: Software and DLL to interface up to 64 wired, wireless or linearized 1D probesLCM: High accuracy probe (opto-electronic encoder) for gages measuring bench LCM: Addition of new functionalities and optimization of a CMM control software Show less Development of new products and maintenance of existing products and tooling• Development of analog and digital electronic boards• PCB layout under PCAD• Embedded software development in C and C#, hardware description in VHDLProject management under supervision of a senior project manager (TT20-TT90)• Complete electronic and software development• Supplier benchmark and selection, industrialization• Management of all aspects of the projectREFLEX II Software Leader• Project scheduling and coordination of the team’s activities (firmware and software)• Steering of the external development resources (consulting) • Participation to the development and validation of the softwareAccomplishments• Re-design of the TT20, TT60, TT80 and addition of the TT90. TT stands for Tesa Tronic and allows to interface 1D probes, display their values and realize various operations based on these values• Development of a 3 axes controller (stepper motors) with RCU (Remote Control Unit) for CMMs.• « REFLEX II » software development in C#. This software is the end user interface allowing to control TESA’s CMM (Coordinate Measuring Machines) • Hardware and software development of a TESA CMM axis simulator based on a TESA optical encoder Show less

  • Executive R&D Manager

    Sept 2015 - Sept 2020

  • Team Leader & Project Manager (IPMA-B)

    Oct 2011 - Sept 2015

  • R&D Project Manager

    Aug 2010 - Oct 2011

  • R&D Engineer

    Jan 2006 - Aug 2010

  • R&D lab assistant

    Jun 2000 - Jan 2006
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  Logitech G

  Nov 2020 - now

  Gaming Technical Innovation Project Leader