Kinematics
Axis positions measured on the STEP file, closed-form inverse kinematics for the six axes, PTP and LIN moves with minimum-jerk profiles and a live program override.
Engineering apprentice · ESTIA · MESEA (VINCI Railways)
William Pool
Industrial automation & IT/OT convergence
From a vocational baccalaureate to an engineering degree, with four years of apprenticeship on a high-speed railway line. I bring industrial electrical engineering and networks & systems together: PLCs, robots, sensors — and the infrastructure that connects them.
NOTE 1
Available for a 12-week international internship30 Nov 2026 → 26 Feb 2027
| Apprenticeship | 4 yrs · high-speed rail |
|---|---|
| PLC | TIA Portal V16–V20 |
| Field bus | Profinet · I-Device |
| Modes | GRAFCET · GEMMA |
| IT/OT | MQTT · Proxmox · Grafana |
| DRN | W. POOL · REV. 2026 |
01Featured · Industrial robotics
A palletising cell, running live in your browser
A KUKA KR QUANTEC takes crates off an infeed conveyor and stacks them on a Euro pallet. Kinematics, program, I/O and safety are all simulated in real time. Switch to T1 to jog the axes, open the safety door, or hit the E-stop.
Preparing the 3D cell
Cell logic
Accumulating infeed with photo-eye and stopper, 3 / 4 / 3 interlocked pallet pattern, automatic pallet exchange through a muted light curtain — one state machine drives program, I/O and stack light.
Safety chain
E-stop (stop category 0) and interlocked door (protective stop) latch and need an acknowledgement. T1 lets you jog every axis at reduced speed.
CAD pipeline
39 MB STEP → OpenCascade tessellation → split per axis → glTF with meshopt compression: a 1.1 MB model the browser loads in a second.
Robot, pedestal and gripper CAD: public community model (GrabCAD). Conveyors, fence, pallet, controls and all motion / logic built for this page with three.js and TypeScript.
02Projects
Engineering work
Automation, robotics and the field systems around them. Open a project for the architecture and the details.
Personal project · 2026
Palletising robot cell — digital twin
An interactive digital twin of a KUKA palletising cell: real robot CAD, closed-form kinematics, a KRL-style program, cell I/O and a safety chain, all running in the browser.
View project02
IUT Bordeaux · BUT GEII
Automated loading / unloading station
A robotic station built around a three-axis arm, engineered end to end: from the requirements specification to a commissioned machine with a full operator HMI.
View project03
MESEA · high-speed line
Railway track temperature monitoring
Standalone rail-temperature measurement under live operating conditions, turned into real-time dashboards and alerts before thermal drift becomes a problem.
View project04
MESEA · field tool
Optoelectronic train positioning aid
A track-side optoelectronic sensor tells the driver when the train is correctly positioned, over a LoRa radio link to a receiver unit in the cab.
View project05
Infrastructure lab
Virtualised infrastructure & network security
A Proxmox VE environment hosting monitoring tools and isolated test labs — segmented, firewalled and reachable only through encrypted tunnels.
View project06
R&D · 2026
AI agent for TIA Portal — Openness + MCP
A software bridge that lets an AI agent work inside Siemens TIA Portal V20: generate SCL / LAD blocks, import them, compile and wire them into the program — validated end to end.
View project07
MESEA · technician training
Proxmox training lab — crisis simulation for technicians
A nested Proxmox environment that mirrors a production cluster: each technician gets their own three-node cluster with a backup server, crisis scenarios are injected, and a trainer tool puts every lab back to a clean state in one command.
View project03Experience
Four years on a high-speed line
Telecommunications Engineering Apprentice
MESEA (VINCI Railways) — Rail Telecom & Signalling · Villognon, France
- Design and security of critical industrial networks.
- Leading cross-functional engineering initiatives with autonomy.
- Writing technical documentation to keep the infrastructure maintainable.
- Working with field teams on the integration of new network components.
Telecommunications Technician (Apprentice)
MESEA (VINCI Railways) — Rail Telecom & Signalling · Villognon, France
- End-to-end IoT infrastructure: monitoring, data acquisition, flow integration (MQTT).
- Security: VLAN segmentation, firewalls, VPN tunnels.
- Automation and monitoring: Python, Bash, Proxmox, Prometheus, Grafana.
- Raspberry Pi edge computing for remote data acquisition.
Railway Signalling Technician (Apprentice)
MESEA (VINCI Railways) — Railway Signalling · Villognon, France
- Maintenance of safety-critical signalling systems on high-speed lines (LGV).
- Fault diagnosis and emergency call-outs under operational constraints.
- Electrical safety and schematic reading on critical infrastructure.
04Skills & education
Toolbox
Industrial automation
Electrical engineering & field work
Robotics & 3D
Embedded & IoT
Monitoring & programming
Systems & networks
Education
- ESTIA Engineering SchoolDiplôme d'Ingénieur (Master's level) — Robotics & Embedded Systems major · 2nd yearSept. 2025 – present
- BUT GEIIBachelor of Technology — Electrical Engineering & Industrial Computing, Automation2024 – 2025
- BTS Industrial MaintenanceHigher Technician Diploma — Industrial Systems Maintenance2022 – 2024
- Bac Pro MELECVocational Baccalaureate — Electrical & Connected Environments2020 – 2022
Certification
- Proxmox VE AdministrationVirtualisation & infrastructure managementJuly 2025
Languages
Bilingual English / French
Interests
Cybersecurity (Hack The Box) · 3D printing & CAD (Onshape) · Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu · hiking
05Curriculum vitae
The one-page version
Everything on this site, condensed onto one A4 sheet for recruiters and HR: experience, key projects, skills and education. Each project title in the PDF links back to its page here.
Sheet 1 / 1 · A4- Four years of apprenticeship at MESEA (VINCI Railways), role by role
- Four key projects, each linked to its page on william-pool.com
- Skills, education, certification and a QR code back to the portfolio