Personal Profile

Date Of Birth	December 25th 1967
Marital Status	Married, 2 childs
Hobbies and Interests	Tennis, Squash, Music (Passed with distinction Grade 5 Theory of Music of The Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music, Piano playing, Internet. Self-taught. Curious and inquisitive about how things work.

Contact Information

Name	Frédéric Avertin
Snail Mail	2 Rue des Mimosas 65320 Bordères sur L'Echez France.
E-mail	Fred@chez-fred.net
Tel / Fax	05 62 37 55 32
Mobile	06 62 01 96 14
Web Page	http://www.chez-fred.net

Education

C.N.A.M. of  TOURS	November 1996  Electronics Engineer Diploma (with honours).  Diplôme du Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers.
C.N.A.M. of  TOURS	1991-1995 (evening classes)  D.E.S.T Measurement and Industrial Controls  Diplôme d'Etudes Supérieures Techniques.
I.U.T. of  TOURS	1988-1990  D.U.T. Electrical Engineering and Applied Computer Studies  Diplôme Universitaire de Technologie.

Employment History

ALSTOM Transport SEMEAC		February 2006 up to today. R&D Electronics Engineer. Mission : 1st mission (from 01/2006 to 11/2007) : Development of an IGBT-based static switch and circuit breaker for 6600Vac medium grid voltage. 2nd mission (since 11/2007) : Railenergy European project http://www.railenergy.org : - global wiew of the different sub-programs and work packages, - provide synthesis on essential informations for the ALSTOM TRANSPORT teams, - coordinate actions within the teams, - involvement in simulation models specifications and applications, - technology watch.
General Electric HealthCare BUC		May to December 2005. Semiconductor Devices Reliability Expert. Mission : Semiconductor devices qualification and validation for high voltage generators for X-rays tubes.
RENAULT TRAPPES		From November 2004 to April 2005. Semiconductor Devices Reliability and Technology Expert. Mission : As an external contractor within the framework of a hybrid car pre design project, I played the role of technical expert in the selection of power semiconductor devices.
AL TAIF  CKING FAHD CULTURAL CENTER RIYADH Kingdom of Saudi Arabia		From January 2002 to June 2003. Maintenance Manager. Mission : Management of the electronic team in order to ensure optimal operation of all the electronic equipments (stage machinery, planetarium, Audio/Video equipments, fire detection installations, telephone installations, computers...). Project manager for updating the center with new multimedia technologies.
DYNEX Semiconductor Ltd  LINCOLN  UNITED KINGDOM.		From August 1998 to August 2002. Senior Engineer R&D. High Power IGBT modules development. I acted as an interface between silicon designers and application engineers and provided a technical support with regard to electrical tests performed in production and ratings. I was also involved in providing new products technical support for customers as well as for DYNEX business unit.
MITEL Semiconductor CHAMBRAY lès TOURS  FRANCE		From August 1996 to July 1998.  Maintenance and Calibration Technician.  In the MITEL Semiconductor company (formerly MARCONI Electronic Devices, subsidiary of the GEC PLESSEY Semiconductors  group), I dealt with maintenance and calibration on fast power semiconductor testing devices.
ALPHATEST  LARCAY  FRANCE		From October 1995 to August 1996.  Trainee for the preparation of a C.N.A.M. thesis. Assignment : Design and construction of a close looped surge generator for crowbar devices. This equipment was PC-controlled via Windows 3.11.
MARCONI ELECTRONIC DEVICES  CHAMBRAY lès TOURS  FRANCE		From September 1993 to September 1995.  Maintenance and Calibration Technician.  In the MARCONI company, subsidiary of the GEC PLESSEY Semiconductors group, I dealt with maintenance and calibration on fast power semiconductor testing devices.
SAFT Power Systems   CHAMBRAY lès TOURS  FRANCE		From October 1991 to September 1993.  Electronics Technician. I was in charge of tests in plant, installation and troubleshooting for high power UPS systems all over the world.

Internship

Behavioural Average Modelling and SPICE Simulation of PWM and Resonant Converters	From 04/06 to 05/06/2000 PCIM 2000 Seminar. Nuremberg. Click here for an overview of the contents (PDF Document).
Presentation of a technical report	C.N.A.M. oral examination stated on 09/1995 at the C.N.A.M. of TOURS. Subject : Limits and performances for high power thyristors in switching mode operation. This subject has been dealt with a semiconductor physics point of view.
Microsoft ACCESS master level	ADHARA INFORMATIQUE 05/95. 36 hours.
Quality, Safety, nuclear plant service supplier	E.D.F. Paris From 28/06 to 02/07/1993. 35 hours.
Electromagnetic compatibility	A.E.M.C. 01/12-04/12/1992 32 hours.
Microprocessors, microcontrollers	G.R.E.T.A. TOURAINE 15/01-20/05/1992 60 hours.
Industrial training period	E.D.F. TOURS 09/05-22/06/1990. Assignment : program development in advanced language (Pascal) for active protections for medium voltage transformers.

Computer Skills

Operating Systems	Windows 95, 98, NT, 2000, XP Windows 3.x (all versions)  MS-Dos (all versions)  A smattering of UNIX.
Languages	Pascal, C, C++, Visual Basic  Assembler x86 and 68HC11.  HTML.
Packages	Microsoft Exchange, Mail, Office,  ACCESS, Microsoft Publisher. PSPICE, ATLAS.

Publications

International Conference Power Conversion / Intelligent Motion / Power Quality Nuremberg, June 6th 2000

Ratings of High Power IGBT Modules for PWM Inverters for Traction Applications. Frédéric Avertin, Dinesh Chamund, Bill Findlay.

This paper I presented during the conference, has been voted best publication and presentation of the PCIM EUROPE 2000 conference by the chairman committee.

Linguistic Ability

French	:	Fluent
English	:	Fluent
Spanish	:	Basic

References

Written references are available upon request.