This document provides biographical and professional details about Gilbert Brault, including his identity, goals, professional experience, educational background, competencies, and writing samples. Brault is a 60-year-old French senior system engineer currently working for Schneider Electric in Carros, France. His experience includes roles in M&A analysis, due diligence, systems engineering, project management, product management, and research.
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Gilbert Brault
Identity
Goals
Professional Experience
60, married with Catherine, 3 kids: Marie, Vincent, Mathilde, French
Value my experience in a new venture
Since 2000
Schneider Electric
Carros (Nice) (11-)
SophiaAntipolis(-11)
France
Senior System Engineer
10-Now M&A anti-trust (how to compare big conglomerates) and
due diligence. Part of Invensys Acquisition team ($3.7Bn deal -
2014). Acquisition Engineering expert: technology assessment, new
market opportunity screening (Industrial Internet of Things IIoT), List
of companies by segments. Competitive benchmark and business
intelligence. Innovative visual tools to summarize competitive
landscape (marimekko)
Advance Services setup: Make the most of your Energy: Modeling
(PSE-gPROMS), APC and Energy management and efficiency
(Heat Recovery, Waste Water), TCP/IP networking (Linux based
simulation platform) , Market studies (Worldwide Automation Market
for Process Industries)
System Platform manager
07-10 EMEA Support manager for Automation projects, coordinating
an international team of experts to facilitate customer project
execution (Lafarge, SIG Gen竪ve, Areva, Alstom)
Methods and Tools for 束 Collaboration 損
02-07 Creation and deployment of a collaboration framework for
activity oriented groups, geared at value creation for =SE=
customers at corporate level.
Community of Practice development
01-07 Building Market CoPs (Airports, Water), Coordinators
coaching
CoP-1 creation with Martin Roulleaux-Dugage: a Community of
Practice of 30+ Fortune 500 French companies (Total, Valeo,
Schlumberger, Danone)
1999-2000
Knexsis
Sophia-Antipolis
France,BostonMA-US
Internet B2B Startup
99-00 Development of a project for an intermediation place
(electronic commerce) to market experts consultations services
and animates a customer community in the industry &
infrastructure automation field (PLC, networks).
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1988-1999
Schneider
Automation
Sophia-Antipolis
France
Program Manager
98-99 New project setup: selection & technical definition of
automation components projects (annual budget of 1,5M$)
Global Product Manager
97- 98 New Information technologies integration program into
Automation components (PLC) (Setup of 20MF Research
contract)
95- 96 Automation Offer strategy for Power train Market
92- 94 Motion control PLC modules (family of 10 modules for "PLC",
20MF turnover) and Programming consoles (PC, 30MF turnover)
Software R&D
88- 92 Technical leader for development of a framework Integrating
automation tools for automation design (50.000 lines in C
language)
1987-1988
SEI
Bayonne,France
Program Manager
Automation Applications Design and Industrial IT : battery project for
SAFT Bordeaux
1983-1986
SORMEL MATRA
Besan巽on
France
Automation & Electrical design Manager
84 86 Flexible assembly lines for IBM ribbon printer, leading a team
of 25 technician and engineers
R&D Engineer
83 84 Advance R&D group (Robot development)
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Educational
Background
1982-1986 LAB / Sormel
PhD on Productique (CIFRE) Flexible Assembly Systems
1980-1982 ENSMM Besan巽on
Engineer (Automation elective), Ma樽trise de m辿canique
1975-1978 Lyc辿e Condorcet Paris
Classe Pr辿paratoire
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Competencies
Works & skill set
Technology
Information technology
o Formal languages representation and validation
o Data languages (HTML, XML, SQL (sqlite))
o Communication (client/serveur TCP/IP), Langages
JavaScript, Java, C, C++, C#, PHP
o Distributed Object Architecture (Corba, Java,
DCOM, .net)
o OS: Windows up to 7, Windows Server up to 2003,
virtualization (VMware, Microsoft) , Linux (Debian)
Internet, Cloud and IIoT
o Internet protocols (HTTP, DNS)
o Cloud: Google Compute engine, Microsoft Azure
o Embedded computing: Arduino, STM
o IoT: node.js, Node red, MQTT
o Portal (Websphere), software architecture,
component (EJB, JSP)
o Collaboration (Quickr, Quickplace, Domino,
Sharepoint)
o
Manufacturing Information System (SAP, SCADA,
automation)
Simulation Software in Physics and Chemistry (gPROMS,
Modelica)
Electrical Motor control (Servos) & Motion Control theory
PLC (Programmable Logic associated languages (IEC
1131))
Marketing
Product Plan, Development strategy for markets
Product Specification, project management and associated
development
Communication Documents about products
Product &application Support
Competitive Analysis
Project
Contracts
Project setup: Looking for people & goal specifications
Development & specifications Methods: Business
process/Functional matrix/Use cases
Animation methodology & knowledge management
Theory and application of Community of Practice
Community design
Community Coordinators Coaching / Forum design &
animation
Event design
Open Space / Creativity Methods
Industry & Applications knowledge
Automotive Industry (Powertrain focus)
Machine Builders industry for
o Food & Beverage / Assembly lines
o Electrical Industry: Electro-mechanical & automation
components
o Ceramic Industry
Economics et accounting
Knowledge of the French accounting system
Languages
ENGLISH (Schneider level 2,5)
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Writing skills
Samples
Article, notes, specification, patent & conferences writing
Specification of the expert service for the B2B place (a
collaboration with my partners)
3 patents on Internet techniques applied to automation
Competition analysis web site for small PLC
INCOM98 : full conference (IFAAC)
Promotional leaflets for Motion control PLC add-ons , Laptop
PC
Launch documents
Catalogue authoring
Product specification : Motion controller, laptop PCProject
documentation
PhD memo
Compare Epanet with Aquis (link)
Railroad Syntax Diagram, Language validation generator,
EBNF, Grammar Representation (link)