Nicolas Quendez Age : 30 23 cité Basselart 59260 Hellemmes nicolas.quendez@tremplin-utc.net Technical Director Mechanical Design - Fluid Dynamics - Flight Mechanics Work Experience Since 2007 Technical Director OXELO (Oxylane brand, ex-Décathlon) Project and team management 4 engineers hierarchic management, 450 k€ budget management, products design for more than 60 millions € of annual turnover 2006 (1 year) Product Engineer - OXELO Design and development, industrialisation and production follow-up - Inline skates, skateboards, scooters, ice skates, bags Designer of the "diabolo" braking system - Patents FR2927261 (worldwide extension EP2090340 & WO2009101308) and FR2927545 Development and industrialisation of the DIABOLO inline skate iF Design Award & reddot Design Award 2010 2007 to 2009 2003 to 2005 (2 years) Aeronautical Engineer- Aeronautics and Space Centre of SUPAERO (today ISAE) Miniature Unmanned Air Vehicle design - Project management: system requirement definition, tasks definition ans planning, laboratories ans workshops coordination, resource management (5 laboratories, 28 people, material budget: 40 000 €).
- Air Vehicle design: global optimisationfor matching the mission requirements (propulsion, aerodynamics, flight mechanics, command systems, mass, structure). theoretical, numerical and experimental tools (wind-tunnel and flight campaigns). 2002 Post-graduate research training period Aerodynamics and Propulsion Laboratory, SUPAERO (today ISAE) Investigation into rotor shroud aerodynamics for VTOL Micro Air Vehicle applications (5 months) Analytical and numerical approach: shroud aerodynamic behaviour under rotor influence 2001 Mechanical Engineering Final project ONERA (French national aeronautics and space research centre) Aerodynamic Optimisation of Flying Wing Concept (6 months) - Vortex Lattice Software programming for aerodynamic modelisation of swept back wings, design methodology development for Flying Wing Aircrafts
- Validated on a scale model prototype
- Standart class flying wing sailplane design study: Elia project
- Publication: International Council of Aeronautical Sciences (ICAS 2004)
"An analytical approach to trimming and performance coupling on flying wings"
M. Scherrer, N.Quendez, C. Döll. Personal Projects 2010 - 2011 The Nut Tree: Latin America nature conservation & public awareness project (1 year) Work in collaboration with ParksWatch (USA) and the Yasuni Research Station (Ecuador). Partners : Naturimages photography agency, VIZADA (satellite communication systems), Global Solar Energy (USA, solar panel systems) and me2solar (Germany) 2003 Inline speed skate frames design - Finite elements study (Catia V5), 5-axes CNC mill tooling
- Used in 2004 inline speed skate France Championships 2002 KIOOL Micro Air Vehicle design, team work (3 students) - 19 cm, 56 grams, onboard video camera
- Winner of the first European MAV Competition (2002, Toulouse, France)
- Innovative aerodynamic design, protected by an industrial design registration at INPI (French National Intelectual Property Institute), model 032858-001 Education 2003 SUPAERO (today ISAE : Institut Supérieur de l'Aéronautique et de l'Espace), Toulouse - French "Grande Ecole", training engineers in aeronautics and space - "Diplôme d'Etudes Approfondies (DEA)" in Fluid Dynamics (post-graduate diploma) Compiègne University of Technology (UTC), French "Grande Ecole" - Master's degree in mechanical engineering (5 years formation), major in mechanical design 2002 2001 Concordia University, Montreal, Canada - Faculty of Engineering and Computer Science - Student exchange, fall term, specialisation in aerodynamics and flight mechanics 1997 Baccalaureate with majors in mathematics and physics (French final examination in secondary education) - First class honours Computer skills Languages Matlab, C, Fortran, Assembleur, TurboPascal, Basic CFD Fluent, Numeca, Icem, Xfoil, Mses, Xrotor, ligne et surface portante CAO Catia V5, PRO/Engineer, Solidedge, Euclid, Adams Graphism & Web Photoshop, Illustrator, html, CSS Foreign languages & culture French Mother tongue English Fluent, daily use Spanish Beginner China Daily work with China, good knowledge of chinese culture (more than 20 trips to China) Hobbies and Interests Gliding Glider pilot licence, 300 flight hours, cross-country qualification, FAI silver badge Sport Inline speed skating (competition) ; backpacking ; biking ; skiing ; badminton ; salsa Photography Working for Naturimages agency Music Recorder player (final studies diploma)