Tucson, AZ

PHILIPPE FAUCON
(602)481-8412 ↈ philfaucon@hotmail.com
https://www.linkedin.com/in/philippefaucon

FPGA D E V E L O P M E N T ↈ INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LAW SP E C I AL I S T ↈ EM BE DD E D SYS TE M

Software Development ↈ System Design ↈ IOT, Big Data
Dynamic, detail-oriented, multilingual, entrepreneurial, multi-talented Engineering Manager with more than 20 years
of
experience and a focus on software engineering and delivering software products. Strong and decisive leader with
excellent analytical, organizational, team building and planning skills . Maintains uncompromising focus on high quality
standards and bottom-line profit improvement. Innovative, experienced designer, and developer experienced at
working on projects from initial idea and development phase (vision/analysis), performing all design/architecture work
and delivering the completed product. Outstanding presentation and communication skills. Excels at building teams that
work efficiently and exceed all expectations. Exceptional academic qualifications, including a Master of Business
Administration in Intellectual and Industrial Property Rights from Escuela de Administración de Empresas (EAE) Business
School (2015), and number of courses in genomics, big data and cybersecurity.

SE L E C TE D HIG H L IG H TS
 Utilized extensive project management skills to provide complex project timeline management.
 Delivered hands-on field-programmable gate array (FPGA) design for board level products as well as
operating system drivers and other software closely linked to hardware.
 Played a key role on the IT strategic leadership team skillfully providing departmental structure, focus
and alignment to support the vision and mission of the company.
 Led the efforts to define, analyze and implement technical and functional improvements.
 Managed the process of establishing the scope of projects, business and technology analysis, development
and testing requirements throughout software development life cycle.

CO RE COM P E TE N C IE S
 Entrepreneurial  Intellectual Property Rights  Application Testing

 High-performance FPGA systems  Software Analysis and Design  Lean/Agile

 Team Building/Training  Team Leadership/Management  Patent Law

 Software Development Life Cycle  Database Design/Development  Process Improvement

 Project/Program Management  Sensors and Data Collection  Internet Of Things

 Strategic/Tactical Planning  Web Deployment and Security  Logistics Coordination

 ISO 9001/ AS9100 environment  Hardware and Software  Matlab, R, NumPy

 Budget Management  Operations Development  Employee Relations

 Company Growth  MapReduce, Hadoop  Customer Service

EDUC ATION
Escuela de Administración de Empresas (EAE) Business School, Barcelona, Spain: 2015
Master of Business Administration –Intellectual and Industrial Property Rights
 intellectual property law, utility patents, design patents, information technology law, trademarks, Copyright
law, unfair competition, Cultural industries, sport, information technology, marketing.

Université des Sciences et Techniques du Languedoc, Montpellier, France:

Diplôme Universitaire Technologique – Computer Science applied to Business Management
(equivalent to a US bachelor degree)
 PR OF E S S I O N AL EX P E R I E N C E
Alphi Technology Corporation ↈ Tempe, AZ ↈ May 2020 - now
Sr Principal Project Manager
• Designing the FPGA logic on a line of PCIe interfaces boards, including an ARINC-429, a CAN bus, and a
synchro resolver module.
• Writing the driver interface as well as the test programs

Rain Bird Corporation ↈ Tucson, AZ ↈ 2019 – April 2020 Sr

Firmware Engineer
Rain Bird is a world leader in the irrigation business. It is known for the excellent quality of its products. The software I
was working on is a complex software, written in C++ and using a variety of threads and interrupts.
• Ported the standard software on several investigative hardware platforms using various types of ST micro
controllers, displays, and wireless communications.
• Worked on concurrency problems and thread-safe code
• Wrote register level drivers for ST micro-controllers, including I2C, SPI, quad SPI, with or without DMA. Build
class structure in C++ to eliminate duplicate code and speed up testing.
• Wrote unit test routines under Windows 10, connecting the software through sockets to a simulated user
interface and simulated hardware written in C#.
• Interfaced with the marketing department and test.

Alphi Technology Corporation ↈ Tempe, AZ ↈ 2006 – 2018 Sr

Principal Project Manager
Alphi Technology is a small design company providing board-level products for high-performance communications and
acquisition systems. A large part of Alphi business is to provide alternatives to electronic products that have been
obsoleted by their original manufacturer but still needed by the customer. This is a common situation in military
products but also in large manufacturing plants. Alphi is ISO 9001 and AS9100 certified.

 Participated in analyzing the customer needs and the different resources available on the market to provide
a solution, estimating the costs and schedules while coordinating with the customer for an optimal solution.
 Directly involved in the design from reviewing the specifications for the product and the testing
methodology, Specifying the architecture of the product while participating in the design of the board logic
and firmware.
 Implemented cost effective engineering designs through an emphasis on simplicity and testability.
 Promoted the use of reusable well tested software modules to improve reliability and documentation.
 Coordinated with the user software teams and QA, to provide engineering verification and field validation.
 Managed quality improvement and functionality increase of existing products. In some case the goal was not to
change the functionality but modifying the design to use newly available components or removing obsolete
ones
 Provided complex project timeline management, using extensive project management skills.
 Worked on maintaining appropriate design and user documentation to comply with ISO9001
 Implemented software development tools to improve departmental operations and safeguard assets.
 Improved accountability for all application projects and services including delivery, performance and functionality.
ADS Communication, Inc. ↈ Scottsdale, AZ ↈ 1999 – 2006 Vice
President of Engineering
ADS, later bought by Electronics for Imaging Inc., was a company providing SaaS type software to manage the activity of
Office Equipment Techs. The reliability of the system was vital, and was guaranteed by the quality of the software as well
as its maintainability

 Managed a team of more than 25 persons providing software development, testing, deployment
and documentation while interfacing with the large support and training departments.
 Utilized extensive skills to lead ongoing software development and to plan future development patterns.
 Effectively delegated programming tasks and trained programmers in software development technologies.
 Successfully analyzed, coded and tested applications to efficiently meet specific business needs of customers.
 Developed strategic plans to ensure departmental and company goals were surpassed.
 Semy Engineering , Inc. ↈ Phoenix, AZ ↈ 1981 – 1999
Vice President of Engineering
Semy Engineering was designing data collection systems and recipe management interfaces used in the
Semiconductor Industry; it was also producing diffusion furnace temperature controllers. A very successful company, it
was eventually absorbed by Applied Materials, Inc.
 TE C HN I C AL SK I L LS
PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES/ LANGUAGES C, C++, Java, C#, Python, HTML, CSS, Assembly, Verilog, XML,
HTML, CSS, JQuery, Java, JavaScript, TSQL, C++, C#, PHP, Ruby, Unix
Shell Scripting, SQL, R, Matlab, MapReduce, Labview, NumPy
OPERATING SYSTEMS/PLATFORMS RTOS, VxWorks, MicroC/OS-II, QNX, SharePoint Server, Web API,
Windows Services and Web Services, IIS
METHODOLOGIES Agile, SCRUM
PROJECT MANAGEMENT MS Project 2013
DATABASES Microsoft SQL Server 2000/2005, Oracle 10g

SOFTWARE Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Power Point, Outlook)

HARDWARE FPGA, ARM, NIOS, Power QUICC, SystemVerilog, Avalon bus
NETWORKING REST, JSON, XML
OTHER Windows and Linux Drivers, Web deployment and security

ADD I T I O N A L CR E D E N T I A L S
CITIZENSHIP LANGUAGES Dual US and French citizenship
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT Fluent in English, French and Spanish
Recent Courses on the Coursera, StanfordX and EdX platforms
 Project Planning:
Agile and Scrum Training, Organizational Analysis (Stanford University), Healthcare
Innovation and Entrepreneurship (Duke University), International Organizations
Management (University of Geneva), Rethinking International Tax Law (Universiteit
Leiden)
 Genomics/Pharmacology:
Drug Discovery, Development & Commercialization (University of California, San
Diego), Bioinformatics, Statistical Reasoning for Public Health, Introduction to
Genomic Technologies (Johns Hopkins University), Genomic and Precision Medicine
(UC San Francisco), Epigenetic Control of Gene Expression (The University of
Melbourne), Programmed cell death (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München),
Exploring Neural Data (Brown University), Mining Massive Datasets (Stanford
University), ChIP-seq data analysis (HarvardX), Genomic Medicine (GeorgetownX),
Experimental Methods in Systems Biology (Icahn School of Medicine)
 Cybersecurity:
Cryptography I (Stanford University), Cryptography, Software Security, Usable
Security, Hardware Security (University of Maryland, College Park), Surveillance Law
(Stanford University), Malicious Software and its Underground Economy (University
of London) , Building an Information Risk Management Toolkit, Designing and
Executing Information Security Strategie, Information Security and Risk
Management in Context (University of Washington)
ORGANIZATION
 IEEE
 Mensa
INTERESTS
Studying, Gardening, Traveling, Reading, Cooking, Family Time

Detailed Professional References Available upon Request

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