Mathieu Horras

Problem-solving and crisis management
• Successfully led a task force and solved a major crisis in engine development: quickly restarted production within 7 days in a high pressure context (the company was losing US$150k/hour during production stoppage)
• Analyzed and addressed quality issues, reducing client's complaints by 80% in 2 years (for 70% of the units sold)

Team Leadership and analytical skills
• Supervised 8 full-time R&D engineers tasked with tuning the electronic control engine ($500k operating budget / 220,000 engines produced and sold in America). Reorganized the emissions tests team, generating 30% savings in emissions tests, and US$250k reduction in operating costs
• Managed 16 engine development projects, all delivered on time. Optimized 6,000 parameters per project by combining model simulations and tests results. Consistently optimized prototypes usage, reducing prototype costs by US$2.5M (25%). Conducted initiative to integrate locally-produced-parts, reducing engine costs by 5%

Teamwork, communication and ability to synthesize
• Reorganized, as a technical leader, a 7 R&D engineers team activity. Leveraged know-how of the team by pioneering the development of technical policy. Then persuasively disseminated technical policy to worldwide R&D centers, leading to a 30% productivity gain
• Diagnosed and developed abilities of peers and immediate reports. Developed a training session combining mathematics, mechanical and combustion sciences, internally awarded as "Best 2007 Training Session"

Quantitative analysis and modeling
• Designed modeling and simulation software, improving efficiency of emission analysis (shortened analysis time by 3 hours/day/analyst and reduced required tests by 20%)
• Demonstrated the feasibility to substitute expensive embedded anti-emission component for a lean set of electronic engine parameters. Reduced engine production costs by 9%