Flo, to most people.
I lead R&D on industrial communication at Schneider Electric, in Boston: the networks that let controllers, drives and devices on a factory floor exchange data in real time. Outside work, I build systems of AI agents, starting with my own second brain.
I have spent eight years in Schneider Electric's Industrial Automation business. I started by writing firmware, then built and led the connectivity R&D team, and today I run, from the CTO Office, the program behind its next generation of open, real-time industrial networks: OPC UA FX over Time-Sensitive Networking.
The direction I am working toward is a converged, deterministic network that AI agents help configure, diagnose and operate. I sit on the OPC Foundation's Field Level Communication steering committee and its Marketing Control Board, and I started Schneider's Connectivity Community, which now has more than 800 members.
I am French, from Brittany. I studied in Angers and Hong Kong, then worked for Schneider in Boston and Nice; I have been back in Boston since 2021.
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Schneider Electric, Industrial Automation CTO Office, Boston
Leading the open, real-time connectivity program (OPC UA FX and TSN) from research to integration, with teams in the US, France, Germany and India, and the partners who build it with us.
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Schneider Electric, Innovation and Technology, Boston
Built the connectivity R&D team and delivered key pieces of Schneider's first OPC UA FX and TSN platform: device discovery, network provisioning and real-time data exchange.
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Schneider Electric, Innovation and Technology, Boston and Nice
Built one of the industry's first OPC UA PubSub prototypes, shown at Hannover Messe, and worked on real-time systems for industrial controllers.
Also: a provisional patent application on using large language models in industrial control systems (2025). Studies in software engineering for embedded real-time systems (ESEO, Angers) and engineering management (City University of Hong Kong).
My second brain. My notes live in Obsidian on Google Drive; a team of AI agents files what I capture, compiles what I read into a wiki and checks the whole thing every week. An always-on engine I built with Claude keeps a history of every change, and a dashboard shows me the state of it all.
An AI investment-intelligence app I am building: a brief on long-term positions, and reviews of event-driven trades.
What I have been reading, watching and taking notes on lately.
Short pieces on AI, agents and industrial systems, posted on LinkedIn.
Music first: guitar, bass, piano, saxophone and some sound engineering. Then basketball, rugby, volleyball and scuba diving, history and other cultures, science fiction, and Tolkien.