Co-lead the overall IT Team with CTO.Plus oversee:- Program Management- Incident Management- Providers Management (with a PSE(E) focus)- Office and Desktop Management

Transversal position to increase quality delivery from providers, Squads and business teams to our customers- Setup a strong providers management (Runbook, support process and maintenance workflow)- Construct and run the risk control of our PSEE, under the IGAP rules and ACPR regulations- Draw a full functional infrastructure mapping, covering middleware, clients and partners- Implement in all squads the diagram-as-a-code, to produce documentation in sync with releases- Study technical feasibility with dev and partners to deliver new services to payment institution clients- Design a multi-instances environment architecture to achieve scalability and address corporate requirement- Define an incident management process associated to KPI and controls

Rationalise the internal technology usage and leverage technology to offer new business solution- Design technical part of a European Fraud Detection solution in collaboration with a Next40 company- Setup DevSecOps (DevOps with Security by design) development guidelines to oversee and monitor external development partners - Co-lead audit of a 4-year program to setup guidelines and technical recommendations- Spread Black Swan and Anti-fragile concepts to define common rules objectives between Dev & Ops teams - Study migration solution of a Mainframe-Z / Adabas / Natural environment

Build full bank infrastructure on a Private PaaS - Manage 65+ people internal and externalManagement- Leads and coaches all technical teams: Infrastructure, QA, Architecture, Project Mgt, Development, Security- Synchronises and controls 30+ external vendors (software editors, MSP, SaaS providers)- Shares project progress and technical/process improvements with executive managers Technology- Designed Active/Passive platform model with iso DR capability within a PCI-DSS compliant environment- Developed micro-services internally with DevSecOps development guidelines - Set up Kanban predictable release management, improving quality of releases and resources usage Process- Runs an agile monthly delivery process with all vendors based on the Scrum methodology- Implemented a robust 24/7 monitoring platform associated with runbooks provided by vendors- Successfully passed first KPMG audit in June 2018 to prepare official ACPR (French Regulator) auditBusiness- Collaborates with CEO, CFO, COO and CISO to report on major incidents impacting aggressive deadlines- Defines the build and run budget for the entire IT team – 32.5 Million €- Planned the next platform Active/Active design (Microsoft Azure, GCP, AWS) to reduce costs and increase release velocity- 94 % Customer SatisfactionKey technologies or expertise:Core banking, CRM, Onboarding, Treasury, KYC, Cards, Mobile Apps, FX, SEPA, SWIFT, SDD, Ficoba, FATCA, GDPR, Anti-Money Laundering, PSD2 & Open Banking, SaaS partners.Cloud Computing, SQL AlwaysOn Availability Groups, Windows & RHEL OS, Security Operations Center, Certificate management.Micro-Services, Android and iOS, API Management.B2B, B2C, B2B2C, M&A process.

Switched to a technical ownership responsibility in addition to my global release manager role- Led the Eikon Pre-Release program – on-site testing with 150 global banks or corporates- Acted as Product Owner of the System Test tool – banks’ environment monitoring tool- Defined software release policy and managed day-to-day operation including reporting- Implement Windows 10 update tests with Microsoft QA team in Seattle to validate Eikon- Engaged security vendors to address customer’s issues – AppSense, Avecto, Symantec, Intel- Controlled contents of technical documentations across development and support teams- Increased the global application update from 10K to 55K desktops in less than 2 years

Relocated to Europe to work closely with global customers in order to finalize their migration to Thomson Reuters Eikon, allowing a quicker obsolescence of previous platform.- Regular technical engagement with Major global banks such as Blackrock, Goldman Sachs, Deutsche Bank, JPMC, BAML, UBS, RBS, Barclays, HSBC, Credit Suisse, ING, BNPP, Sociéte Générale, Crédit Agricole- Decreased maintenance operations by implementing global deployment best practice- Managed successfully to migrate 50% of the global customers in 6 months- Deployed QA experts on customer sites to validate their desktop package (30 visits)- Organized internal workshops to secure quality with functional and technical specialists- Built ad-hoc teams to resolve specific technical issues – deployment and infrastructure- Twice as many customers participated to Eikon 4.0 Beta program compared to Eikon 3.0 one

New role created to accompany key Asian customers during their migration from legacy products to Eikon, and to empower local front-line teams by helping them to become fully autonomous.- Managed first global deployment of 200 Eikon stations within 4 months at Standard Charted Bank- Set up Kanban Agile program to facilitate migration (SCB, Westpac, CBA, Fortis, HSBC, GS)- Lead ad-hoc teams to resolve specific technical issues regarding deployment and infrastructure- Organized monthly internal global testing to validate the quality of the application - Proactively ran pattern issue detections to mitigate risks and plan resolutions with stakeholders

Set up offshore development teams (65 engineers), which quickly reached the same level of quality of onshore teams. This allowed them to contribute to the definition and delivery of strategic initiatives including Eikon.- Transferred and improved Integration, Server, Citrix, Graphic, Kernel and Excel Add-ins activities- Increased the Display Templates delivery by 30% while reducing integration costs by 70%- Reduced service disruption by 60% on 3000Xtra Servers used by 80,000 users- Delegated activities to 6 team leaders with close monitoring and mentoring- Monitored budget with 1m GBP saving on MSDN licenses, and leveraged virtualization- Organized 1:1 reviews with QA, Support and HR managers to tackle quality and interaction issues

Built a new team and delivered within 1 year a .Net solution mixing CRM, Portfolio Management, News, Lipper Fund, Alert Management, Fundamental Data, Bonds, Risk Calculation and Reporting system.- Managed a team of 20 engineers, synchronized more than 10 external dependencies abroad- Clarified and proposed data content and workflows to Product Management team- Accelerated quality improvement through Agile and Test-Driven methodologies- Reached development cycle maturity within a year (1% bugs reopened)

Led a team of 4 software engineers to stabilize components and improve time-to-market.- Designed and implemented a 30-criteria search tool for Fixed Income within 6 months- Synchronised requirements between product managers and database specialists (FX, Warrants)- Reduced the memory consumption of 10 database access components by 20%- Perform the quotations, specifications, validation and planning tasks- Replace legacy data access API by the data engine ActiveX

Implemented financial real-time components for trading room professionals- Maintained a multi-OS and platform environment within a large development team (15 engineers)- Implemented best C++ practices to improve CPU performance and memory usage footprint- Migrated development environment from Solaris to IBM OS/2 within 4 months- Took ownership of internal compilation tools and process organisation