Physics, Optical instrumentation

Eudhes MOUNKALA

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Montreal, (QC) H3L 2N5

Tel.: 418-***-****

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Professional profile

• Optical Instrumentation Engineer, Lab & field operations (implementation of optical sorting systems, vision & automatic detection & testing, light wave guiding)

• Seventeen months experienced as electrical draftman-designer

• Ease in communication, accuracy and powers of observation

• Adaptable, cross-functional capacities and knowledge with various scientific jobs

• IT tools: AutoCAD / SEE / PL7 Pro / Matlab / C - C++ / Labview / Microsoft Office / Python, TeamViewer

• Languages: Very comfortable communicating in French and full professional English Skill fields

• Sizing and implementation of optical systems for automatic detection and automatic control.

• Light sources development.

• Assembly and test computers, test hardware, software testing.

• Troubleshooting optical equipment.

• Acquisition software parts writing using Python for JSON & CSV formats.

• Use of lasers for measurement, metrology, non-destructive testing by interferometry & microscopy.

• Apply laws of geometrical and undulatory optics in interactions light-material and light source development

• Images and signals processing using Matlab / C++

• Sizing of facilities in Electrotechnics, Digital Electronics and Analog, CAD, PLC programming : monitoring and control systems

• Reports drafting and results presentation

Work experiences

Optical systems engineer – field operations March - Oct. 2017 Resson Aerospace (Fredericton NB, Canada)

• Testing USB camera cables (testing data transmission attenuation over long distance)

• Camera and lenses testing

• Embedded software acquisition testing

• Assembly and test custom computers for data acquisition

• Images acquisition system testing (cameras, custom computer and embedded software) before deployment

• Assembly and test custom computer for data post processing

• Install and operate optical system in field for data acquisition

• Data acquisition monitoring on team viewer and post recorded data extracting

• Troubleshoot and debug hardware in filed (camera focus adjustment, camera f stop adjustment, camera cables replacement)

• Multispectral cameras selection for green house application

• Python script writing to interpolate distances for camera auto focusing for embedded software improvement

• Write python script to manipulate CSV files for GPS data fixing

• Technologies used: Python, Labview, Windows, Atlassian JIRA Eudhes Mounkala, tel. : 418-***-**** Page 2

Research engineer (internship) April – Sept. 2015

Veolia Recherche & Innovation (VERI), (Limay, France)

• State of the art of hyperspectral cameras (literature review)

• Selecting one technology (between grating and prism) for material sorting in waste stream

• Define trial protocol

• Perform trials at lab scale and hyperspectral data acquisition

• Write Matlab script for hyperspectral data extracting

• Write Matlab script for image processing (thresholding, segmentation, statistical classification)

• Results qualitative analysis

• Draft reports and present results

• Technologies used: Matlab, PLS toolbox, Windows, Microsoft office, Unix (Exceed) Research Assistant (internship) April – July 2013

Hubert Curien laboratory (St-Etienne, France)

• Plasmon-triggered free-space wave switch using the coupled modes method : Literature review

Development of phenomenological model of the trigger’s characteristics Integral calculation for coupling coefficients

Draft reports and present results

Technology used: Microsoft office

Electrical Designer June 11 – Nov. 2012

Design office - Prismaflex (Saint-Clément Les places, France)

• Preparation of embedded wiring diagrams

• Modify and update of embedded existing components

• Development and assembly of components

• Technology used: AutoCAD

Additional experience

Assistant manager Jan. 2006 – April 2007

La Boite à Pizza – Orléans La Source (Loiret 45 – France)

• Management of the schedule and stocks

• Supervise deliveries and team members

Education

Master’s degree 2 in Optics (micro & nano systems photonics) 2015 University Jean Monnet & IOGS (Institut d’Optique Graduate School), St-Etienne (France)

(Integrated optics, Micro photonic, Physics of Semiconductors, Microscopy/Spectroscopy, model and numeral methods, nonlinear optics, Project management, Light-material interaction) Technologies used: Matlab, Zemax, Microscopes, Lasers, Spectral analyzers Eudhes Mounkala, tel. : 418-***-**** Page 3

Master’s degree 1 in Optics (micro & nano systems photonics) 2014 University Jean Monnet & IOGS (Institut d’Optique Graduate School), St-Etienne (France)

(Fourier Optics, Vision 2D-3D, Image processing, Lasers and applications, Sources and detectors in Radiometry, optical design, Biophotonics) Technologies used: Matlab, Zemax, C++

Bachelor’s degree in Physics Engineering 2011

University Jean Monnet, St-Etienne (France)

(Mechanics of fluid, Thermodynamics, Industrial Vision 2D – 3D, Electronics, treatment of deterministic signals, Interferences and Diffraction, thermal transfer) Technologies used: C, Oscilloscopes

High school degree (BTS) in Electrotechnics

Benjamin Franklin high school, Orleans (France) 2007

(Electricity, Physics, Mechanics, Automation, Digital and analog electrocnics) Technologies used: Oscilloscopes, SEE, PL7 Pro, Ladder, Siemens Activities and interests

-Soccer: University championship & intercommunity every summer from 2005 till 2013

-Travels, Cinema, Reading

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