Jean Cadou

Current

Chief Project Manager at Volvo 3P

Past

Design Senior Manager at Sony Electronics
Project Manager (mission) at Sony Ericsson
Set Top Box Business manager at Sony Electronics

Project Manager at Sony Electronics
Export Marketing Engineer at Schlumberger

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Education

École Supérieure d'Électricité

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Industry

Automotive

Jean Cadou’s Summary

Broad engineering background, with strong project and group management skills in international environment.
Responsible for products or solutions design with significant experience in marketing and industrialization. Commercially astute, with high technical background.

Jean Cadou’s Specialties:

English/French/Japanese (fluent), Spanish (average), Italian (school basis)

Jean Cadou’s Experience

Chief Project Manager

Volvo 3P

(Public Company; Automotive industry)

September 2008 — Present (1 year 3 months)
Design Senior Manager

Sony Electronics

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; SNE; Consumer Electronics industry)

April 2005 — August 2008 (3 years 5 months)

I am in charge of electronic products design and development activities in Sony France Alsace engineering centre. I manage a team made up of approx 60 engineers covering Software and Electronic Hardware full design solutions or products development including Mechanics.
Project Manager (mission)

Sony Ericsson

(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; ERICY; Telecommunications industry)

June 2004 — April 2005 (11 months)

Based in Tokyo Japan. In charge of industrialisation of a SonyEricsson Mobile phone. Coordination of project in relation with Tokyo and North Carolina Design centres with the three production plants in Malaysia, Japan and France.
Set Top Box Business manager

Sony Electronics

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; SNE; Consumer Electronics industry)

January 1999 — March 2002 (3 years 3 months)

• Responsibility of whole business in Alsace production plant of Set Top Box Production for Italian, French and Spanish market (Canal+, Sogecable, Tele+) with design centre support in UK (T/O 80 M€, 600 k.units).
• Co-ordination of production facility, sales, purchasing, QA with design (electrical and mechanical), software and the customer to ensure on time introduction to desired specification at lowest price.
• People management experience for a team of 100 operators and 5 engineers, for assessments and budgetary control (470k€ capital expenditure).
Project Manager

Sony Electronics

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; SNE; Consumer Electronics industry)

October 1991 — December 1998 (7 years 3 months)

• Responsible for electronic consumer devices industrialization ( at first VHS video deck mobile telephone production then GSM industrialization with worldwide design centres.)
• Varied technical background from structured problem solving, project management, design qualification, mechanical tooling, PCB layout, safety applications, BOM definition and control, EMC, ISO9001: 2000, and DFM for consumer mass production.
• Hands on approach to the practical problems of mass production consumer product and exposure to 8D and SPC tools to solve market quality problems.
Export Marketing Engineer

Schlumberger

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; SLB; Oil & Energy industry)

1987 — 1991 (4 years )

I acted in the company as export marketing engineer and did many promotional activities for High Voltage Network protection relays all around the world (Asia, Africa, Europe, America)
I later took responsibility of simulation laboratory for on field problem investigation and simulations.

Jean Cadou’s Education

École Supérieure d'Électricité

Engineer , Electronics, Electricity, Data processing, Software programming , 1983 — 1986

Higher National Diploma in Electrical & Electronic Engineering.
In Ecole Superieure d’Electricite (Paris) – rank A in French Engineers schools
(main fields : Electronics, Electricity, Automation, Hard/software, Energies...)