General Engineer with dominant mechanics

To bring innovation in processes and technologies by combining my creative skills and turning challenges into opportunities that ultimately add value to the company.

 September 2004 – November 2005: Research Engineer at Partnership between Inria-Rhônes Alpes and Schneider Electric – Grenoble(France)
Modelling and simulation of concurrent multiple impacts in Circuit breaking mechanism
• Development of a model to simulate the impact and propagation of collisions
•Comparison and demonstration of the limits of the existing model
• Programming and simulation of the new impact law in Scilab environment

 March - August 2004: Design engineer - AtoFina (Chemical branch of TOTAL) –Serquigny(France)
Modelling of damaging of PVDF (polyvinylidene fluoride) : Application to moulding process of the pressure sheath in pipeline.
• Conducting mechanical tests on samples
• Measure of the damaging parameter (porosity)
• Simulation of the mechanical tests on Finite Element Code called Zebulon
• Rescaling of the mechanical parameter by optimisation method for the numerical results to fit the experimental data
• Use of Scanning Electron Microscopy, Analysis (image processing) ….

 September 2003-Mars 2004: Final engineering year project: EGIM – Marseille (France)
Feasibility of the prismatic caisson
• Calculation of the dimensions of the structure
• Suggestion of quality solutions to meet with the requirements
• Simulation of the caisson with ABAQUS
• Demonstration of the performance of such caisson and its weaknesses
 June – August 2003: Internship in the US - ESM department (Engineering Sciences Mechanics)-Virginia Tech
Analysis of the failure mode transition of 12 materials resulting from the impact of and object at different velocities
• Simulation of impact for finding the transition velocity of the rupture toughness
• Correlation between the rupture toughness (brittle/ductile) and the thermo mechanical parameters
• Use of Tecplot to view the results

 July 2001: First-hand experience - PSA Peugeot Citroën - Sochaux (FRANCE)
Operative on the assembly line of shock absorber.
• Sound knowledge of production, social and technical realities in a company,
• Sound knowledge of automotive industry.

•2003- 2004: Pre-Doctorate degree in Physics and Complex System Modelling at IRPHE(Research Institute for Non Equilibrium Phenomena). It's specialized stream are: Physics: Statistical physics, Experimentation Methods, Image and signal processing, study of semiconductors, etc. Fluid Mechanics: instabilities and turbulence in structure, Instabilities and Mixing of Fluids, combustion, etc.
•2001-2004: Engineering degree courses at the EGIM (Ecole Généraliste des Ingenieurs de Marseille) a French “Grande Ecole” competitive entrance higher education establishment situated in Marseille (France) .I did a Solids Major: Materials, Structures and Process simulation. This program extensively covers all aspects of engineering subjects and is spread over three years of intensive education which also incorporates Projects, Experimentation and internships.

2005 : Author an article published in international conference: V. Acary and D.-E. Taha (2005).
Concurrent Multiple impacts in rigid bodies_ Formulation and simulation.
In: D. H. van Campen (ed.), ENOC 2005, Fifth Euromech Nonlinear Dynamics conference. Eindhoven University of Technology.
2005 : writing of a technical report for Scheneider Electric
2004 : Writing of a technical report for ATOFINA( Chemical Branch of the Oil company TOTAL)

I have traveled extensively and enjoy reading, writing.
Among hobbies, I like playing badminton, football. Information Technology related magazines also interests me. Also, I like to watch movies in my leisure time.
French is my mother tonue. I'm fluent in English. Basic knowledge in German.