Experience

Senior Portfolio Manager (People Manager in R&D)

Dassault Systemes

• Manage team of 10 engineers (mix of direct and dotted line reports) driving GPU acceleration and AI workflow integration across the fluids portfolio

• Responsible for the 3-year strategy of the full fluids portfolio across 6 CFD products including the transformation through integration to the 3DEXPERIENCE Platform and portfolio consolidation

• Redefining productization of fluid solutions: persona-based pricing (role, compute on CPU or GPU, cloud vs on premise) and a revised licensing model reducing the number of orderable items to simplify the offer

• Own the AI/ML transformation of the fluids portfolio taking validated surrogate models toward integration in 3 flagship products, while building foundation models, and introducing agentic AI into 1 product

Application Manager AI for CFD (Secondary Role in R&D, 20% of the time)

Dassault Systemes

• Led AI product strategy for fluids simulation by translating requirements from 3 different segments (automotive, aerospace, and industrial equipment) into an initial roadmap covering surrogate modeling, foundation models and agentic AI over a 3 year timeline

• Validated AI-enabled simulation workflows with 3 global automotive customers by running pilots inside their actual product development cycles achieving drag predictions within 1% of the CFD reference cases

• Worked with R&D teams to build a plan to integrate ML training, inference and automation into 3 of the flagship CFD products

Worlwide Industry Process Consultant Manager (People Manager in Technical Sales)

Dassault Systemes

• Led a team of 6 engineers delivering high-performance computing (HPC) type CFD simulation solutions to global customers to drive engineering decision across all industries

• Served as technical account leader for strategic multi million dollar customers across automotive, aerospace, and industrial equipment customers, sustaining engagement through governance spanning weekly touchpoints to quarterly executive reviews

• Led technical demonstrations and proof-of-concept initiatives to drive adoption of advanced CFD and GPU-accelerated simulation solutions, directly contributing to year-over-year revenue growth

• Directed simulation services engagements end-to-end including proposal, resource alignment and delivery oversight

• Fed field experience and customer requirements into R&D roadmap decisions for PowerFLOW and the Navier-Stokes solver on the 3DEXPERIENCE Platform

• Mentored emerging leaders through the Rise Up program, supporting the development of future people managers while contributing to inclusive leadership and organizational capability building

Industry Process Consultant (Technical Sales)

Dassault Systemes

Title change due to acquisition of Exa Corporation by Dassault Systèmes (see job description as Senior Application Engineer for Exa Corporation)

Senior Application Engineer (Technical Sales)

Exa Corporation

• Led high fidelity CFD analysis for automotive OEMs, using large scale HPC simulation to inform design decisions based on aerodynamics, aeroacoustics, soiling and thermal performances

• Supported pre-sales and customer adoption by leading demonstrations and proof of concept initiatives enabling customers to assess and integrate PowerFLOW into their engineering workflows

• Delivered end-to-end CFD simulation workflows from model preparation to analysis, translating physical results into actionable engineering insights that guided product design decisions

Application Engineer (Application Management)

Exa Corporation

• Leveraged high-fidelity CFD, mesh morphing, and response surface modeling (RSM) to optimize vehicle aerodynamics as part of DesignGUIDE product definition to enable more efficient design exploration and supporting data driven product development decisions

Research Fellow

University of Michigan

• Collaborated with ROSINA and VIRTIS instrument teams to analyze mission data and contributed to coordinated decision making aimed at maximizing the overall return of the European Space Agency’s Rosetta mission

• Developed and ran parallel DSMC simulations on HPC systems to model gas and dust dynamics in the cometary atmosphere to inform mission operations and science planning as part of the Science Working Team meetings

• Integrated simulation outputs with in-situ and remote sensing data using optimization techniques, improving model accuracy for local density and brightness synthetic images agreement with measurements

• Published research findings and presented results contributing to the scientific community’s understanding of cometary environments and mission data interpretation

Graduate Student Research Assistant

University of Michigan

• Developed a parallel 3D DSMC simulation framework using C++ and OpenMPI to model rarefied gas and dust environments around comets, providing predictive capabilities that supported analysis and interpretation efforts for the Rosetta mission

• Validated simulation models through comparison with ground based observational data, strengthening confidence in predictive results used for scientific analysis and mission related decision support

• Designed and deployed a database on a web based platform to provide the global scientific community with access to simulation results, enabling broader collaboration and data sharing

• Published and presented research findings at international conferences (such as the American Geophysical Union, the European Geophysical Union, the American Astronomical Society, or the Europlanet Science Congress) engaging with the scientific community on advances in simulation and modeling approaches

Education

PhD Space Sciences

University of Michigan

Thesis on advanced kinetic simulation with DSMC to model the rarefied atmosphere of comets in the context of the European Space Agency (ESA)’s Rosetta mission.

MSE Industrial and Operations Engineering

University of Michigan

MSE Aeronautial and Aerospace Engineering

ISAE-Supaero

MSE Space Sciences

University of Michigan

Awards
Group Achievement Award
National Aeronautics and Space Administration ∙ 2017
Awarded for developing data analysis and modeling tools that merged data from many instruments on the Rosetta mission.
Award
European Space Agency ∙ 2017
Awarded in recognition of outstanding contribution to the ESA Rosetta Mission.
Languages
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French Native
100%
English Fluent