Alban Rampon - 冉昂理

Current

Web Relaunch Project Leader at ARM
Connected Community Specialist at ARM

Past

Senior Applications Engineer at ON Semiconductor
Product Applications Engineer at AMI Semiconductor
Managing Director & Consultant at K-Noo Ltd

Applications Engineer at Freescale Semiconductor
Applications Engineer at Freescale
Community Project Leader at Freescale Semiconductor
Applications Engineer at Motorola
Software Tester & Quality Controller at Colin Ross Malone Ltd
Software Engineer at Nextream
Quality Controller at ETDE
President at Synergie Ouest

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Education

Institut national des Sciences appliquées de Lyon
Institut national des Sciences appliquées de Rennes
University of Strathclyde

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Industry

Semiconductors

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Alban Rampon - 冉昂理’s Summary

Hello,
I'm a passionated dedicated engineer who is implicated to the maximum.
A lot of my time is spent helping worldwide engineers in the field with deep technical specialist questions.
I give straight and understandable answers and always thrive to the highest standard of quality.
A significant amount of my time is spent thinking of how I can improve the services my department is providing to make us even more efficient.

Alban Rampon - 冉昂理’s Specialties:

- Protocols: CAN, LIN, SCI, SPI...
- Digital & analog electronics (extensive in µc and oscillators)
- PCB layout,
- Expert in embedded C,
- Networks design, realisation and maintenance: routing (NAT/PAT), VPN clients, servers and clients, Windows (all versions)...
- Bilingual English and French.
- Excellent people skills, used in crisis resolution, trainings and other assistance.
- Project management with planning and realization.
- Reliable, never promise what I cannot keep.

Alban Rampon - 冉昂理’s Experience

Web Relaunch Project Leader

ARM

(Public Company; ARM; Semiconductors industry)

June 2009 — Present (6 months)

ARM website is totally changing to be more user friendly and more to the point.
In this role, I keep all actions and interact with all parties to ensure project progress. I also define content and advise on ergonomy.
Reporting to the Marketing Manager, I have daily contacts with business units as well as the graphics and web development team.
My previous web development experience as well as organisation skills allow me to set achievable goals. Furthermore, very tight deadlines and taking the project on the run really help developping my project leading skills.
I do not deal with the budget of the project.

This role is in addition to the partnership responsibilities I also carry out daily.
Connected Community Specialist

ARM

(Public Company; ARM; Semiconductors industry)

May 2009 — Present (7 months)

I joined ARM as a Technical Marketer to look after ARM Connected Community in EMEA and India.
As only technical person in a small dynamic department with substantial knowledge in both electronics and web development, I am also involved in our online presence on Facebook, Twitter, blogs and other media to come.
Other main activities include looking at all the new great electronics products and show how the ARM Connected Community successfully participated to them...You'd be surprised by where ARM is.
Furthermore, I am now working on the Web Strategy of the company, trying to get it more user friendly and bringing pertinent information to our visitors.
Senior Applications Engineer

ON Semiconductor

(Public Company; Semiconductors industry)

May 2008 — January 2009 (9 months)

In Vehicle Networks (IVN) specialist.
I was the worldwide contact for all applications technical support enquiries for In-Vehicle Network (IVN) transceivers (CAN, LIN & FlexRay) addressing FAE & customers wonders with technical explanations, bench measurements... I also implemented the new technical support and documentation processes and was their knowledge champion for the automotive business unit. Responsible for all transceivers datasheet, all other public (Application Notes) and PPAP supporting (Conformance certification, EMC tests...) documentation, I was reviewing these for correctness before promoting them.(from µc, firmware, hardware, protocols, physical layer).
Following delighting appraisals, I was let go for economical reasons.
Product Applications Engineer

AMI Semiconductor

(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; ONNN; Semiconductors industry)

May 2008 — January 2009 (9 months)

In Vehicle Networks (IVN) specialist.
Supporting new and legacy products for CAN, LIN and FlexRay transceivers.
A change from former digital experience as I now work in the analogue world. A perfect position to increase my Applications knowledge as I now have a full system deep view and understanding.
Company now fully acquired by ON Semiconductor
Managing Director & Consultant

K-Noo Ltd

(Computer Networking industry)

April 2003 — February 2008 (4 years 11 months)

I have created and ran this limited company. K-Noo main activities were computer network (wireless, servers, ADSL…) & website (graphic creation, web-based applications with PHP, mySQL and JavaScript…) design and maintenance. K-Noo Ltd was closed when I expatriated to Belgium.
Applications Engineer

Freescale Semiconductor

(Privately Held; Semiconductors industry)

September 2003 — November 2007 (4 years 3 months)

I integrated the use of Siebel CRM in the department and I managed enquiries for applications support covering EMEA-AP. Interface between Quality department and Customer Support Management, my general work additionally went from new microcontroller evaluation to provide support to our FAEs. Evaluation included EMC performance with design of the TEM Cell boards, result interpretation and customer advice. My expertise was in Serial/Packet protocols (CAN, LIN, I²C...), PLL tuning and clock generation, PCB layout for mixed signals and troubleshooting (hardware/software).
I validated 5 NPI (new product line introduction) before mass production, I created ROM code automated testing software (first S12 ROM of the company and an 8-bit microcontroller) used as reference for test and Application validation including C/C++ header files creation, module-cycling to test their interaction and errata/bug fix verification or discovery, customer errata wording and customer communication presentations.
Applications Engineer

Freescale

(Privately Held; 10,001 or more employees; FSL; Semiconductors industry)

September 2003 — November 2007 (4 years 3 months)

http://www.freescale.com
Community Project Leader

Freescale Semiconductor

(Privately Held; Semiconductors industry)

January 2005 — October 2007 (2 years 10 months)

http://forums.freescale.com/
Finally, I led and managed the introduction of Freescale Communities, an online Forum that support all our Customers worldwide, not only doing contribution to technical subjects and moderating threads but also implementing new features and answering all customer technical inquiries which were critical to Freescale image and customer experience. There were 9000+ members when I passed the project over and growing by over 300 members monthly.
This was a great opportunity for me to show project leading skills and dedication to work well done.
Applications Engineer

Motorola

(Public Company; NYSE:MOT; Semiconductors industry)

2003 — 2004 (1 year )

http://www.motorola.com
Software Tester & Quality Controller

Colin Ross Malone Ltd

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)

May 2002 — May 2003 (1 year 1 month)

This company is developing software for the NHS Scotland to manage their buildings. I was hired as a quality controller to assess software. I also designed, implement and maintain their network internal and external, liaising and managing the relationship with broadband provider to set up and maintain secured external network.
Software Engineer

Nextream

(Public Company; 201-500 employees; NYSE:TMS; Broadcast Media industry)

May 2002 — September 2002 (5 months)

http://www.thomsongrassvalley.com/products_broadcast/
http://www.thomson.net/EN/Home/Products/ForTVNetworks.htm

I had to design and program a Borland C++ Builder application to test Digital TV broadcasting equipment.
The software I wrote changes (via TCP/IP network) broadcast system configurations (MPEG encoders, switching grid, MUX...) and extracts every single field in tables and descriptors from a Transport Stream (acquisition board or file). It then compares data with expected stream and generates reports in different formats (.txt, .xls, graph...). This tool is now used to validate each new software version (new features and compatibility with old ones).
Quality Controller

ETDE

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Civil Engineering industry)

June 2000 — September 2000 (4 months)

http://www.bouygues-construction.com/en/entites/ETDE/index.shtml

Electrical Validation for 2 Tramway lines of Lyon (France).
High Voltage (20kVAC down to 750VDC), Safety Assurance (Tag out)...
The company had to provide new tramway lines with electricity. (high and low power supply: 20kV, 750V, 220V…). Worked with the Quality Control team, checking all installations before switching them on. Learnt to be very diligent as any short-circuit would have meant an explosion and death of workers…
President

Synergie Ouest

(Privately Held; Human Resources industry)

February 1998 — March 1999 (1 year 2 months)

At University, I took the duty of secretary in Synergie Ouest, a student association organising companies-student networking meetings. The following year, I became the President and managed a team of twenty people as well as our £36k (55k€) budget. More than 3000 visitors came to this one-day event.
http://www.ForumDuGrandOuest.com

Alban Rampon - 冉昂理’s Education

Institut national des Sciences appliquées de Lyon

M.Eng , Electronics, Maths, Control, Embedded Software , 1996 — 2002
Institut national des Sciences appliquées de Rennes

M.Eng, Electronics, Embedded Software , Electronics Engineering and Computer Sciences , 1996 — 2002

http://www.insa-rennes.fr
http://www.ForumDuGrandOuest.com
http://www.ouest-insa.fr

Activities and Societies:

Student Association,
Forum du Grand Ouest, Synergie Ouest,
Junior Enteprise Member
Radio Club,
Student associations webmaster,
University of Strathclyde

M.Eng , EEE & CS , 2000 — 2001

http://www.strath.ac.uk

Activities and Societies:

Erasmus

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Alban Rampon - 冉昂理’s Interests:

Hiking, cycling, Tai Chi and cooking

Alban Rampon - 冉昂理’s Groups:

IET (The Institution of Engineering and Technology), http://www.theiet.org

AIIR (Association des Ingénieurs de l'INSA de Rennes), http://aiir.insa-rennes.fr

STEM Cambridgeshire - Educational charity (No. 291332) working with schools in Cambridgeshire to deliver Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) activities to enhance the delivery of primary and secondary curricula and support the 14-19 strategy.

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