Skills

• Product design and specification
• Synthesizers, effect processors, etc
  
• Algorithm design
• Audio & vocal signal processing, sound analysis and synthesis, etc
  
• High & low level DSP software development
• Languages: Matlab, Scilab, C/C++, assembler
• IDE: Matlab/Simulink, Visual Studio, X-Code, SAM-VS
• Processors: Atmel Dream DSP
  
• Other software
• Installers : NSIS (PC), PackageMaker (Mac)
• Web: NVU, Joomla, HTML/CSS
• Music: Keyboard (and a bit of guitar), composition

Work experience

Summary

2004 – today: Audeon – Founder & CEO / R&D engineer

2000 – 2003: TC-Helicon (TC group) – Research engineer

1996 – 2000: Dream (an Atmel division) – DSP engineer

Detailed experience

Product design & specification

• Product design & specification, GUI concept design of Audeon's software synthesizers.

• Product specification & documentation : vocal harmony processor, hardware digital musical instrument
  
• Involved in the product design process at TC-Helicon

Algorithm design:

• Full design of Transmodal Synthesis technology: the core of Audeon's UFO software synthesizer product line, based on innovative oscillator model and filters.

• In charge of improving TC-Helicon human voice modeling algorithms.
• Algorithm design for real-time DSP applications : audio pitch shifting & time-stretching, pitch detection, spoken word & singing voice processing, 3D positioning on a 4 speaker system.
• Non real-time sound analysis, manipulation and resynthesis toolbox based on a harmonic + noise model for improving Atmel Dream synthesizer soundbanks.
• Invited speaker at AES 23^rd international conference.

• PC/Mac C/C++ development

  • Contribution to Audeon's software synthesizer product line development, test, debug and installation.
  • C implementation of 3D positioning algorithms within a PC audio card driver.
• Embedded DSP & microcontroller software :
  • Full design and DSP implementation of singing voice effect processors, audio pitch shifter and Dolby Prologic decoder.
  • Development of a digital musical instrument UI microcontroller code 
• Matlab/Simulink
  • In charge of building and maintaining Simulink models of TC-Helicon products
  • Matlab applications : full sound analysis & manipulation application with graphical editing of modeled data; listening test & data analysis toolbox for validating sound quality improvements of TC-Helicon's voice processing algorithms

Hardware

• ASIC design: implementation, simulation and test of a cache memory

Management:

• Founder and CEO of Audeon. Managed UFO software projects.
• Supervision of co-op students at Dream and Audeon
• Technical lead for algorithm design and validation of their port to Motorola 56x DSP at TC-Helicon. In charge of the communication between the research team and the developers.

Graphic & web design

• UFO graphic design
• Audeon.fr website design and maintenance (as well as a few other sites)

Sound design & music composition:

• Factory preset design for Audeon UFO synthesizers and TC-Helicon products; soundbank development for the official Atmel Dream General Midi soundbank.
• Demo tracks for Audeon UFO and TC-Helicon VoicePrismPlus/VoiceCraft products.
• Composed, performed and recorded a number of children music tracks for a digital musical toy.

Education

IRCAM - Master of Science in Acoustics, Signal Processing and Computer Science Applied to Music

ISEN – Master of Electrical Engineering