Director of GBS Cognitive Practice in France.Leader of the cognitive projects built on the IBM Watson technology for the French market.Manager of the French GBS Watson team. Hiring, Training, Knowledge sharing and development program set up.

Building and development of the IBM Watson French practice team IBM Watson evangelization, business development and project leadership. Professional Services on IBM Watson Technologies and Artificial Intelligence solutions.

As the Yseop inc. CTO, I am in a leading technical position, recognized as the technical referent on the Yseop technology. I co-created the company's US headquarter in 2012. One of my main roles is to inspire the product roadmap to fit the new usages dictated by the US market. I am also involved in customer relationship enhancement through providing a premium level of service (application building, change management, business process optimization, etc.). Lastly, I am involved in technical team management and responsible for internal knowledge exchange to enhance communication and collaboration within the international teams of engineers who work on Yseop projects.Main Responsibilities:- Define the Yseop Product Strategy ==> At the root of 75% of the Yseop product new innovations.- Contributed to sales and marketing strategy ==> Constitution of a 15 Yseop live demos bundle used by the sales team on a daily basis.- Management of around 20 pre-sales and integration projects following agile principles, code reviews, progress, projet progress follow-up, Risk identification and impact analysis.- Support technical customer meetings, training and evangelism. - Reproduce reported problems in Yseop laboratory environment before escalating to the appropriate engineering team in France.Main Achievements:- Wrote and filed 2 Patent pending on techniques for automatic generation of natural language text.- Co-founded the Yseop American subsidiary in Dallas, Texas (2012). - Creation and Management of the US Professional Services team.- Conceived technical frameworks and operational processes to allow for building quickly delivered pre-sales proofs of concept ==> Shortened the sales cycle by 30% in the US.- Built an extranet portal dedicated to Yseop training ==> Clients and partners are operational within 15 days, compared to 2+ months previously.

Roles and Responsibilities:- Responsible for Yseop integration projects management and pre-sales activities.- Responsible for Yseop product training to client and partners.- Provide technical presentations and demonstrations of Yseop products.- Perform consulting, training and implementation support activities for Yseop product.Main Achievements:- Creation of the Yseop Paris office in 2009- Creation and management of a team of 10 Professional Services engineers in charge of Yseop integration projects (Techno: Java-like, HTML, CSS, js, XSL).- Established the Yseop Worldwide Project Management Methodology, based on Scrum Agile Method ==> Delivery time reduced by 50%.

WIGHT Consulting is a strategy and management consulting firm with a sector based focus on banking and insurance.Member of the founder team in 2007. 2009 figures: 35 people / turnover: €10M.Performed various mission in the French banking and insurance sector: * Top European insurance Actor: Creation of a saving insurance product for individuals. Set up of a front-office call center platform dedicated to product information ==> doubled conversion rate* Top tier retail bank: 100% online underwriting process optimization. In charge of a feasibility study on digital signature in the banking ecosystem.* French CIB leader: Fixing of fixed income interest rates process optimization. Building of an automatic control and reconciliation tool ==> 70% reduction in fixing errors.

AGF (Group Allianz) - a french major insurance company2004/2005Process optimization for financial reporting ==> Rationalized and cleaned up the automatic production of 50 account statements in direct connection with the client.Groupama - a french major insurance company2006/2007 - Project Management.Assistance to the roll out of a sales support tool in life insurance dedicated to the Groupama trade network (from design to end-users trainings) ==> timely deployment of 3 major versions towards 70% of the sales network

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"Junior-Entreprise": IT Consulting, Project Management, Team leadership & System administration