Sébastien Garreau

Project management, Philips, the Netherlands

Sector: Organization and Strategy

This institution from the Ministry of Agriculture includes a high school, an adult training center and an apprenticeship school.

I taught physics and chemistry and mathematics to every level of apprentices (apprentices from 15 to 23 years old ) and to A-Level "academic" students.

To reach the goals (pass A-level, or professional diplomas), I put in practice and developed these personal skills:

- Adapt the available media and the way of teaching to the audiences.
- Management of groups (different sizes), conflict resolution, goals achievement.

I was also involved in the management of the institution.

Sector: Professional training

Novo Nordisk is an international Danish company, specialised in diabetes care. The French site produces insulin injecting pens.

My cross-functional project within the Quality required the following main skills:

- Logistics, quality tools and approaches: optimization of the flows through the site, continuous improvement, LEAN management, PDCA, VSM, 5S, 5M, Ishikawa, SMED, Kaizen, TPM.

- Study of standards and regulations (cGMP, pharmacopoeias, FDA, ISO, AFSSAPS)

- Implementatin of action plans and indicators, modification of the documentation system.

- Communication with other Novo Nordisk sites, the executive committee, the other departments, suppliers; management of the resistance to change.

- Pilot studies (feasability, business case, choice of the supplier) concerning a new analytical device.

Sector: Health and pharmaceutical

I "taught" (as a visiting coach) mathematics, physics and chemistry to students from junior school to A-Level.

Thus, I put my communication and pedagogy skills in practice for a while...

Sector: Primary and secondary

This research center is located in the Laval university, in Quebec City. My project funded by pharmaceutical partners consisted in developing new polymeric materials for industrial application in the short term.

*Technical achievements

- Organics syntheses, polymerizations.

- Tests and validations.

- Materials characterization : 1D and 2D NMR, X-Ray diffraction, chromatographies (HPLC, SEC), spectrométries (Raman, IR, UV-Visible), thermal analyses (TGA, DSC), electrochemistry...

*Management

- Quality approach
Synthesis optimization: 50% reduction of synthesis time, yield increaesd tenfold.

- Daily management of the laboratory (initiation of worldwide collaborations, relationship with suppliers, security and environment standards).

- Management of a small team.

- Writing of reports, patents and scientific publications, participation to conferences.

Sector: Teaching - Research

I worked in the Crystal Physics Laboratory, which research projects focused on conducting polymers and carbon nanotubes.

I synthesized and studied new conducting polymers of industrial interest.

Achievements:

- Organic syntheses, polymerizations (bulk, thin films and nanofibers).

- Characterization(NMR, Raman, IR, UV-Visible, thermal analyses, electron microscopy, X-Ray diffraction, magnetic and electrical studies).

- Modeling.

- Writing of reports and scientific publications, participation in international conmferences.

- Supervision of trainees projects

- Teaching: practical works "Polymers and composites" (engineering school), lectures in physics.

Sector: Research and development