Language: English
Planned duration: At least 4 hours. Ideally 6 to 8 hours.
1969 to date: work with Total then TotalFinaElf’s Refining division, successively as:
– Chemical engineer,
– Project manager,
– Head of Process departments, and
– Technical manager in competitive intelligence.
Master’s degree in chemistry
Engineering degree
Doctorate in chemistry
ENSPM master of conferences
1977 to date: Uninterrupted teaching experience at universities and other leading higher-education schools (ENSPM, INSA, ISMRA, Ecole Supérieure de Chimie de Montpellier, and Rouen, Le Havre and Montpellier universities), primarily at 2nd year to 5th year level.
Uninterrupted teaching experience at CNAM (Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers) over that period of time.
Courses mainly cover:
– General chemistry
– Industrial organic and inorganic chemistry
– Industrial corrosion
– Petroleum refining (including co-authorship of two books on this topic)
– Competitive intelligence, most noticeably with a course in ‘The fundamental role of competitive intelligence for business firms’.
As chemical engineer: studies in the refining and petrochemical fields.
As project manager: responsibility for projects encompassing chemical refining, water treatment, crude recovery, desalting, corrosion and fouling.
As Process department head: chemical process assessments, improvements, and industrial unit support.
As competitive intelligence technical manager, among others:
Setting up a refining and marketing competitive intelligence division with an aim to supplying real-time information, detecting threats to company, spotting opportunities, anticipating developments and fostering innovation.
Coordinating exploratory research in the above fields, supervising around forty studies per-annum, targeting all petroleum-related processes, products, and environmental concerns.
Consultant to Le Havre Chamber of Commerce in its efforts to set up a competitive intelligence operation.
Twenty patents (basic), the last one in 2001.
Related activities: Elected member of the Le Havre University Scientific Board, and work with the Normandy Regional Economic Council in the fields of higher education, R&D and university-industry cooperation.
ACS (American Chemical Society) member from 1990 to 2000