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Alexandre began his career in 1993 as an assistant
control engineer working in the Petrochemical and the
Oil and Gas industries. In 1995 he co-founded
Fundamental Control Engineering Ltd., a small company
specialising in the design of industrial control
hardware and software.
From 1995 to 1997 he successfully ran this company as
a Director. In 1997, after a successful sell out,
Alexandre moved to the UK to work as a control
consultant and to start a part-time PhD research on the
problem of control.
In 2001, Alexandre joined Philips Semiconductors,
Southampton, as a control-systems architect. He spent
four years at Philips where he was responsible for
developing new control technologies for laser tracking
for the optical storage business line. During this
period he developed several novel algorithms and this
has led to several international patents.
In 2005, Alexandre joined the Surrey Space Centre at
the University of Surrey. In 2007, Alexandre started
developing a new game animation software, IKinema, based
on some of his personal research on spacecraft control
and an the IP generated as a part of this research.
In
2009, IKinema was developed as a product and potential
customers were identified.
In 2010, Alexandre won the
Royal Academy of Engineering ERAF Entrepreneur Award for
2010 for his work on IKinema. He also won the Royal
Society of Edinburgh / STFC Enterprise Fellowship for
2010.
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