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Suresnes, Fr

Paris, Île-De-France, France

Ramping-up on Bare Metal group in charge of datacenter operations, network connectivity and hardware equipment.

Paris, Île-De-France, France

Overseen projects/programs of 270 people across Platform/Infrastructure/Security in R&D, involved in additional initiatives such Privacy SandBox and the integration of ex-IOWebians. Contributed to Hosting Strategy by working closely with CTO and his VPs.Heavily involved on the HR side (performance calibration, Hybrid Work guide, performance matrices, manager CoDevs). Actively managed Krypton EPM team (scope distribution, perf & promo). Recruited a Technical Product Manager to consolidate all the Identity related initiatives under one single person. Became an CTI certified internal coach and CliftonStrengths champion. Coached people across Criteo on Career Management, Professional Effectiveness and Work-life Balance.

Paris, Île-De-France, France

Stepped up as the Lead of my own team of EPMs and now covering projects/programs of Platform, Infrastructure, and Security departments. Kept driving large projects such as the adoption of Aerospike caching solution at Criteo and migrating our stack from Windows hosts to Mesos scheduled environment.Owner of SOX compliancy for R&D for 18 months. Fostered collaboration within R&D by disseminating additional Product Management practices. Mentored individual contributors and first-timer DevLeads. Staffed my team back to 7 people as well as recruiting for other part of R&D (Trust & Compliance). Coached some of my team members to rise from low-performance.

Paris, Île-De-France, France

Focused on broader activities by collaborating closely with HR (work culture) and TA (recruitment of senior profiles), fostered alignment within R&D (Technical Roadmaps initiative). Kept a foot in daily SCRUM by helping my teams to boost their efficiency in and out. Killing technical debt still being one my favorite hobby.Teams: Observability, NoSQL, DBA (MSSQL, MariaDB), Build Services (Jenkins builders and pipelines, Gerrit, Docker)

Paris, Île-De-France, France

Drove complex cross-functional projects within the Site Reliability Engineering and Infrastructure areas. This covered coaching engineers with their Agile practices to planning the right Objectives and Key Results. Product management wise, this role extended even beyond with building long-term visions and translating them into actionable roadmaps.Teams: Observability (Prometheus, Graphite, Grafana), NoSQL (Kubernetes, Memcached, Couchbase, Cassandra, Elasticsearch), System Services (Chef, DNS, DHCP, Server Provisioning).

Vélizy-Villacoublay, Île-De-France, France

Part of the Quintiq's Business Unit Manufacturing, in charge of delivering large and complex ERP projects for worldwide customers. In this fully international environment, I led and looked after the Project Managers team. This included people and project portfolios management, as well as streamlining processes to boost efficiency and driving KPIs attainment for the company.On top of these responsibilities, I also personally directed several projects with key customers. Using SCRUM methodology, I delivered a strategic high-profile software project for Airbus. A first move towards more agility within the department, more efficient software development processes and better value delivered to the customer.

Kuala Lumpur, Malaisie

Based in Quintiq's offshore development center, started as Team Manager in the Metals group and quickly became Director of the Logistics Delivery Center. Was responsible for both strategic and operational management of the department, managed up to 60 developers including 3 managers, was accountable for the delivery of 40 software projects and many pre-sales proof of concepts for 5 Business Units worldwide.Strived for operational excellence and built up team strategies to fulfil company objectives. Fostered the right behaviour to drive the required KPIs (profitability, customer satisfaction, quality). Was a servant leader for the team and empowered each individual to do their best. Infused the entrepreneurial spirit and delivered the impossible every day.

London, Royaume-Uni

Within Microsoft Operating System Group, engaged with mobile operators in the UK and Ireland, collaborated with them on landing new technologies, provided platform features expertise (Technical Sales), identified gaps and consolidated business requirements (Product Management), supported 3rd party OEMs and partners, deeply involved on Cortana and Windows 10 platforms.Led WP Technical Solutions Professional team, looked after the UK's largest operator (EE) and drastically improved satisfaction (89% uplift in positive opinion in only 6 months), delivered briefings and demonstrations during press releases/partners events (Windows Phone 8.1). Was an active member of most internal beta communities (Cortana, Windows 10, Office, Xbox, etc.).

Issy-Les-Moulineaux, Île-De-France, France

Worked as part of the Orange Devices team in charge of customising and validating mobile handsets for the entire EMEA area. Was responsible of a cross-department program to promote Windows Phone ecosystem. This included supporting countries at a technical level, anticipating technology trends, developing business opportunities and securing time-to-market projects.Go-to person leading all Windows Phone related activities, coordinating with business units and stakeholders in order to plan/build/run projects, bringing the best experience by leveraging platform assets. Daily collaboration with Microsoft engineering teams (Paris and Redmond).

Caen, Normandy, France

Within Orange Labs in Caen, managed strategic delivery projects, from improving quality of service of Orange applications and lowering the congestion of mobile network cells to turning Android and Windows Phone devices into a payment, transport and loyalty cards using SIMs and NFC technology (preloaded onto more than 2.5 million devices).Directed those projects, fully accountable for budget, quality of the deliveries, roadmap alignment and maintenance activities. Interacted with Orange business units in Europe and vendors in China, USA, Finland, UK, Taiwan and France. Has been living for 3 months in Tokyo (Japan) to complete one of those missions as mobile device expert.

Caen, Normandy, France

Worked in one of the R&D teams that design future-proof solutions for the Orange innovation department. Built various cutting-edge user experience applications for both home and mobile environments. Principal go-to technical person within that team for all the architecture and quality reviews within our software factory team.Main responsibilities were coaching a team of 15 people, switching methodology to Agile and continuous integration using Jenkins, setting up quality standards and improving build processes, planning development roadmaps, managing team resources and delivering software projects.

Caen, Normandy, France

Delivered evolutions of micro-payment and content billing platforms operated by wHA inside Orange Group. This included expertise on platform Valista's technology, support to business developers (Orange UK, Wanadoo Spain and FT Poland) and support to Orange’s strategy department on eCommerce.

Caen, Normandy, France

During a 9 months internship, gathered requirements among the various teams of the company (marketing, services, R&D), audited all the existing platforms already in place, designed the architecture of the new system and built the very first version of Highdeal extranet portal.