Sebastien Fremont

As ATE-EE manager, I'm leading a team of Electronic Engineers and Technicians that are developing and building our Test Systems.
My responsibilities include test specification documentation, PCBA design (schematics and layout) review and validation, tester design (HW selection), as well as mentoring the team on debug/validation process, in order to deliver in a timely manner the equipment to production.

As part of the ATE team, my role was to develop various functional testers for reliability testing and manufacturing, My role implied to select off the shelf hardware as well as designing custom interfaces and to develop/debug drivers and test sequences on most of the Power Electronic Systems.

Manager of a team of 11 engineers and technicians, I was the point of contact for existing and new customers. I was reporting directly to the plant manager to provide weekly status updates on different open items, create budget proposals (CapEx), and oversee the installation of all new processes and equipment

Project: Smart Sprinkler Management tester development

I was in charge of the definition, design and setup of the entire testing process for a new production line of Smart Sprinkler Management devices in our Mexico facility for a customer located in Denver, Colorado

Based on the high volume forecast,3 fully automated functional testers were developed allowing a production of more than60 units per hour

Project: Smart Air Quality Sensor tester development

I was in charge of developing and implementing a tester for a high-volume product in our facility in California

The tester has to be able to test16 units in parallel in a really short time

Project: LTE and WiFi device tester development

In cooperation with a New-Zealand based customer, I developed a fully automatic test fixture and test order to test and validate its new product using LTE and WiFi technologies

The fixture embeds automatic plungers (RJ45 / SFP / USB-C / RF probes), cameras, USB-C testers, RF switches and Arduino device

My role was to provide a functional hardware to the customer associated with all the drivers required (Arduino, relay boards, barcode scanner)

I also managed the development of an In-Circuit Test interface for the same product

Project: TALIOS Tester development for TOSA (THALES Optronics S.A.)

As a project leader for the development of2 generic automated test benches with23 specific interfaces for TALIOS boards (electronic warfare module), I had to manage a group of3 developers/technicians to specify, realize, and validate these equipment

I was in charge of the budget, the planning, and technical choices

I also realized the electronic schematics for each test interface for these testers, using Cadence Capture

I directly referred to the customer and the plant manager

Project: Internal development of automated ESD Testers

I had to co-develop an automated ESD Testers, based on existing manual ESD Testers

The main objective was to develop a low-cost product

I had to choose the architecture, and decided to use a Raspberry PI, linked to an I2C RFID reader (compatible with employees ID cards), and to develop the user interface in Python

This system is implemented in different facilities of The Asteelflash group (France, UK, USA)

Project: ESTA Test benches development for TUS (THALES Underwater Systems)

I had to develop different testers (manual and semi-automated) for THALES electronic boards

I had to co-design the architecture of these testers with the customer to meet its requirements

I was in charge to write test procedures, reports, and to train operators and technicians to test, to analyze the defaults of each tested equipment

All these electronic boards are assembled in a torpedo sub-system

To validate the integration, THALES provided us a semi-automated test bench

I was also in charge to install, validate, and train operators and technicians on this equipment

Project: BMU/SMU Test benches development for SAFT

I had to develop different fully automated testers for battery monitoring systems

I had to design the architecture of the testers (choice of test equipment, wiring, test fixture design) to meet the requirements of the customer and respect safety procedures (high voltage [1000V] and current [50 Amps])

I was in charge to develop the different test sequences based on National Instruments products (TestStand, Labview, Labwindows/CVI)

All these testers were deployed in other Asteelflash & SAFT plants (U.S.A – Mexico – France)

Project: EMTI Test benches transfer for TSA (THALES Airborn System)

I had to manage the transfer and the setup of testers (In-Circuit Test and JTAG test) for THALES equipment

I was in charge to write test procedures and reports

Project: CATS/KRP Test benches development for TSA (THALES Airborn System)

I had to develop different testers (manual and semi-automated) for THALES equipment

I had to co-design the architecture of testers with the customer to meet its requirements

I was in charge to write test procedures and reports, and to train operators and technician to test, to analyze defaults of equipments

Project: RGW Test benches development

I had to develop different low-cost automated testers for RGW (Residential GateWays) to test WiFi or to download customer firmware

These testers were located in the French and Tunisian plants

Project: Test on new equipments

I had to write test procedures to test new equipments dedicated to French army and develop test software according to these procedures

The goal was to verify that no compromising signals could be intercepting by emission