Gilles Bourdé

Experience

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  Thales Communications & security

  Jan 1995 - Jan 2011

  Digital Signal processing design and implementation for the portfolio of Wireless communication, Navigation, and Electronic Warfare products of the Thales Land & Joint Division90 Eng. with high level expertise in 4 labs : Multimedia, Signal Blind processing, Waveform processing, DSP Software Embedded SW development for Avionics systems in the field of Navigation (Inertial unit, GNSS, Flight Management computer)40 Eng. implementing the latest software technologies and process (OOD, Agile dev.) with high safety DO178B level A standard of development. Software development of Operating systems (and associated tooling environment) of a range of Avionic equipement (Display, Helmet mounted displays, Mission computers,...) for both military and civil aircraft application Development and Qualification of three systems for the NH90 Helicopter program (Display, Core Mission computer, Display keyboard unit), in partnership with two European companies (ALENIA, DIEHL-AVIONICS).

  • Head Signal Processing Dep., HAT/SNE Business Unit

    Jan 2007 - Jan 2011

  • Head Software Dep., Navigation Business Unit

    Jan 2003 - Jan 2007

  • Head of low level embedded Software Group, MMI Business Unit

    Jan 1999 - Jan 2003

  • NH90 System Engineering Manager

    Jan 1995 - Jan 1999
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  Thales Air Systems S.A.

  Jan 2011 - Jan 2013

  Director of Radar Processing Unit, Surface Radar Domain

  Turnover 100 M€ / 400 people, ATM Australia part of the Thales ATM business line develops Air Traffic Management systems for the Asian Pacific Area.Member of the AU/ATM EXECOM. In charge of the full development Solution / Hardware / Software of the ATM Systems proposed to our main customers: Australia, China, Singapore, Philippines, Thailand.Lead 250 Engineers organised around 3 main product lines: Legacy solution for the domestic market and China (EUROCAT X), new Medium Range solution for the emerging/upgrade market (TOPSKY HE), and High Range solution deployed in Singapore (LORADS) and base of the new Australia OneSKY ATM system.Team expertise in complex Software preponderant System development, installation, deployment, and support: Software size up to ~5M lines of code / ~45 components (Flight Plan Data processing, Man Machine Interface, Voice communication, Air-Ground Data processing, multi-sensors tracking, Network management & monitoring). Show less

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  Thales Australia

  Dec 2014 - Aug 2016

  Director Of Engineering, Thales ATM Australia

  In charge of the Engineering department of the Air Traffic Management Business unit (ATM AU) of Thales Australia (TAL). Up to 200 people covering System, Software and Hardware Engineering.

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  Thales Canada Transportation Solution

  Aug 2016 - Aug 2022

  Turnover 500 M€ / 1300 people, URS Research and Development centre (RDC) covering overall development of CBTC (Communication Based Train Control) product line solutions for worldwide customersReporting to the VP Engineering. Definition and implementation of the multi-year performance improvement plan covering processes, practices, skills, and tools. Set-up a 3-year plan accompanying URS digital transformation, improving development cycle with a new set of tooled-up practices and engineering workbenchesTeam expertise in complex Software preponderant System development, installation, deployment, and support: up to ~14K System/Subsystem requirements; Software size up to ~2M lines of code with high safety integrity level (CENELEC 50126/50128/50129 standard); extended Hardware Onboard (train), Wayside (track), Radio Communication/Network backbone and Operation control centre configurations. Show less

  • Thales GTS/URS VP Quality

    Aug 2019 - Aug 2022

  • Thales GTS/URS VP, Head of Discipline Engineering

    Aug 2016 - Aug 2019
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  THALES SIX GTS FRANCE SAS

  Aug 2022 - now

  Director of Engineering Operation and Transformation

  As part of the Radio Communication Product Business Line, in charge of Engineering Operation and Transformation of the Center of Competency “Ingénierie Radio Solution” (IRS CC)