Étienne Labaume London, United Kingdom

Optical Engineer

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Applied physics and engineering education with optics and lasers specialization Experience mainly acquired in aerospace industry and research institutes Organized, highly motivated, and detail-directed problem solver International prole, open to a move to a new country

Professional Experience Nov. 2006 -

Optical engineer. Hamilton Sundstrand, Sunbury-on-Thames (London).

today

Design of the optical aspects of equipments embedded on military and commercial aircrafts. . Lighting, innovative concepts, massive use of LEDs, optical CAD (Zemax). . Photometry, colours and spectral analysis, human eye physiology. . Production support, test processes denition, quality implementation, documentation.

May 2006 -

Optical engineer. Airbus France, Toulouse (Midi-Pyrénées).

Nov. 2006

Cockpit lighting (ATA33) for the A400M (European military transport aircraft project). . Requirements denition, tracking of supplier activities, prototypes evaluation. . Version control, integration with other cockpit entities, NVIS compliance.

2002-2004

Optronics engineer. Onera (French National Institute for Aerospace Research),

May 2001 -

Physics measurements technician. Cpmoh (Molecular, optical and

(9 months)

Palaiseau (Île de France) and Toulouse (Midi-Pyrénées). High-resolution spectrometry project applied on atmosphere analysis and pollution tracking. . Tunable LIDARs based on laser diodes or Nd : YaG lasers, and a parametric oscillator. . Numerical simulation with Matlab and Hitran database.

July 2001

hertzian physics research center), Bordeaux (Gironde). Hardening of an interferometry experiment dedicated to electronic component analysis. . Shock-proof design using a feeback loop, system on piezoelectric oscillators. . Experiment allowing to spot femtometric variations in components.

May 2000 -

Physics measurements technician. Cea (french national Nuclear Energy

Aug. 2000

Commission), Saclay (Île de France). Spectrometry experiment applied to photosynthesis set up and automation. . Fourier transform spectroscopy in infra-red band, with variable pH and illumination. . Experiment lasting for 200 hours. . Writing and test of the automation software.

Apr. 1999 -

Physics

measurements

technician. Thalès-Avionics, Le Haillan

July 1999

(Gironde). Design of an innovative backlighting system for cockpit display. . One of the rst cockpit system using white LEDs. . Photometry study, optical, electronical and mechanical design.

Various

Maths and Physics personal teaching, ...

Education 2004

Enseirb. National Superior School of Electronics, Computer sciences and Radio-

2002

Dess Lasers & Procédés . (Laser and optics design engineering degree) Uni-

2001

Maîtrise Physique & Applications. (Applied physics mastership) Uni-

1999

Dut Mesures Physiques . (Physics measurement technician degree) Université Bordeaux I. . Metrology - Sensors - Instrumentation - Statistics - Electronics - Optics.

Languages

Computer sciences

engineering of Bordeaux. . Registered to attend on lectures of 2nd years electronics channel. . Improvement on electronics and computer sciences.

versité Bordeaux I. . Laser design - Optical bers - Non-linear optics - Interferometry - Spectral analysis.

versité Bordeaux I. . Optics - Electromagnetism - Nuclear physics - Numerical simulation.

French : mother tongue. English : uent, living in London since November 2006. German : college level. Operating systems : Unix (Linux, *BSD, Solaris, AIX, Irix), MS Windows. Languages : Fluent in Matlab, shell, SQL. Good knowledge of C, Labview, Python, VB. Other packages : Zemax, SolidWorks, Maple, MS Oce

Activities Sports

: Sailing, racing as part of a team in Melges24 class. : Climbing and hiking. Danse : Intensive practice of latin and caribbean dances. Sea sports

Mountain sports