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Paris, Fr

Indianapolis, Us

🚀 Leading the Smart Energy Revolution | Innovating for Resilience and SustainabilityI am at the forefront of transforming how we power and build our world. My focus is on integrating our cutting-edge energy platform into construction projects, making buildings smarter and more resilient.What I do:💵 Fundraising: Structuring company strategy, market positioning, differentiated entry, finances and admin and running a well-executed fundraise. ⛰️ Strategic Planning: Develop strategies that position LumenCache as a leader in renewable energy, including solar, storage, and decentralized systems.🌎 Go To Market: Develop a differentiated market positioning and deploy communication strategies to build long term brand recognition and sustainable sales growth.🚀 Tech Deployment: Oversee the implementation of advanced technology, enabling buildings to generate their own energy and reduce grid dependence.🏗️ Innovative Construction: Partner with builders and developers to enhance construction processes, cut costs, and promote sustainable practices.🤝 Building Alliances: Forge key partnerships to drive adoption and expand LumenCache’s impact globally.📈 Market Growth: Identify and seize new market opportunities, increasing LumenCache’s global footprint.🔧 Executive Leadership: Lead strategic execution together with the CEO including best practices, communication and tools to achieve operational excellence. Our Impact:Proven Technology: LumenCache powers diverse environments, from homes in the US to communities in South Africa and Tibet, showcasing reliability and adaptability.Sustainability: We enable buildings to become self-sufficient energy hubs, advancing the shift towards renewable energy.Why this matters:With rising construction costs, unaffordable housing, and increasing interest rates, the need for smart, resilient energy solutions is urgent. LumenCache empowers buildings to become energy self-sufficient, addressing these critical challenges.

• Lead Customer Discovery for building product manufacturers and industrialized offsite construction.• Secured the first 3 Design Partner Customers with a total potential for $250K+ ARR post Beta, establishing a path to multiple Revenue Streams and Market Penetration.• Developed and executed a comprehensive B2B go-to-market strategy.• Business model validation and unit economics.• Financial Planning to understand the levers of our usage-based SaaS Business Model.• Building relationships with Corporate Venture Capital arms across the industry.• Product Management including discovery, prototyping, validation and Agile Product Development.

http://aera.green

New York City, New York, Us

• Strategy Mapping of market shifts to identify go to market strategy for the 4D/5D cost management solutions• Working with cross-functional teams and Executive Leadership in translating vision into execution, with the goal of informing decision-making by empowering field and product teams.• Guided cross-functional teams in Customer Discovery to generate insights for a data-driven product execution• Promoted a culture of empathy and collaboration• Launched and managed the Labs Consulting business, focusing on and setting new industry standards.• Directed product design and development for the 4D/5D offering, leading to the successful execution of alpha pilots with top industry players like DPR Construction and Kaiser Permanente, resulting in $1M+ in ACV.

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Autodesk Cloud Platform running 100 apps deployed by 4K developers used by 10M users in 3 global industries.• Oversaw the Autodesk Cloud Platform, enhancing deployment, runtime, databases, and observability for over 100 apps, directly contributing to the platform’s success among 10M+ global users.• Improving operational execution of teams-of-teams by balancing collaboration and autonomy in complex organizations and dynamic environments.• Enabled significant improvements to infrastructure robustness and developer experience through a composable architecture and an Inner Sourcing program, markedly boosting adoption and trust.• In just 6 months, significantly improved our Execution, Operations and Culture leading a team of team of over 150 engineers, product managers, product owners, designers, researchers, scrum masters, technical product managers and architects• Established new Inner Sourcing co-creation Practices and Standards within the company across Platform and Solutions organizations including Construction, Product Engineering and Media and Entertainment

Palo Alto, Ca, Us

• Successfully exceeded all financial targets (avg. 114%) during preparations for VMware acquisition.• Surpassed quarterly quotas reaching $8M annual revenue.• Recruited Product Management and User-Centered Design roles for achieving business targets. • Created and led training workshop and process improvement initiatives to enable world-class delivery of innovative solutions synthesizing customer needs, business requirements and achieving outcomes in complex organizational environments and in the face of complex business challenges.

San Francisco, California, Us

Promoted twice after highly successful tenures to oversee all aspects of Product Delivery Management including people development, revenue generation, and financial oversight while realizing successful outcomes for clients.Some of my key contributions in this market include:• Successfully exceeded all financial targets (avg. 114%) during preparations for VMware acquisition. Surpassed quarterly quotas reaching $8M annual revenue.• Recruited Product Management and User-Centered Design roles for achieving business targets. • Designed and led training workshop and process improvement initiatives to enable world-class delivery of innovative solutions synthesizing customer needs, business requirements and achieving outcomes in complex organizational environments and in the face of complex business challenges.

San Francisco, California, Us

Led the foundation of Paris Labs to penetrate markets in France and South EMEA including directing operations and collaborating with sales, partner, and consulting teams to design and execute a strategic go-to-market strategy. Some of my key contributions included: • Growth of a Book of Business of €12M annual revenue by delivering successful products and market outcomes for Orange and Renault in their digital transformation journeys. • Developed a cross-functional team of consultants and employees in User-Centered Design, Lean Product Management, Agile Software Development and Cloud technologies to design innovative solutions to meet clients’ complex business challenges and digital transformations of software organizations. • Improved clients Portfolio Management by developing a Market Strategy and using a Growth Board approach with OKRs & KPIs enabling outcome-based decision-making for budgeting and resource allocations. • Closed additional deals with Thales, Santander, Siemens & Pôle Emploi, hired my replacement to head services engagement delivery.

San Francisco, California, Us

My key projects included:• IPO Finance & HR Functional Migration:Managed the Pivotal Finance and HR functional transition in preparation for the IPO, leveraging organizational design thinking to work backwards from set deadlines and support company-wide communication plans. Directed implementation experts to meet the needs of 100s of end users in Finance, HR, Procurement and Business Ops.• Volkswagen Group Mobility Services: Leader at Digi:lab responsible for rolling out Volkswagen ID to all Group brands by building out shared core services adaptable to specific customer needs.

San Francisco, Ca, Us

I created and launched new mobile apps for Toyota, Macy’s, TravelZoo and Steelcase.Some of my key contributions included:- Facilitated workshops to define project scope in collaboration with team members, staff and client stakeholders to synthesize business constraints, define business goals, success criteria and KPIs. - Identified market opportunities using Lean experiments, prototyping, Business Model Canvas techniques.- Shaped features and identify opportunities to improve user experience through User Research and running Lean Experiments for refined understanding user needs and new Customer Development.

San Francisco, California, Us

My key contributions to the founding team:- Developed and launched the MVP- Facilitated shaping the go-to-market strategy and business model- Solidified partnerships to drive initial traction

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Full-stack Test-Driven Development of 12-factor web and mobile apps in Ruby/Rails, Node.js and Obj-C/Swift.

- Hired team of developers and UX designer- Launched micro-blogging app for local businesses- Developed IP

Arnhem, Gelderland, Nl

Media Theory class given bi-weekly to a group of about 50 students from multiple classes, addressing the impacts of the Internet on society incl. introductions to social network analysis, information networks and the foundation enabling technologies.

https://archello.com/project/voidhouse-brussels

• Lead Web Interaction/UX Design• 3D CAD Modeling, Animation and Game Interaction• Social Network Analysis (with Xiangdong Zhou, Fudan University)• Talks/Lectures• Teaching and WorkshopsPartners/Clients: Amsterdam Zuidas District, Architecture Association, Netherlands Architecture Institute, utrechtmanifest.nl, World Information Institute, International Symposium on Electronic Art and the Lab for Media and Search (National University of Singapore).

Singapore, Sg

Co-developed an innovative approach to Information Retrieval, supervised by Prof. Tat-Seng Chua at the Lab for Media Search.Key collaborator: Xiangdong Zhou from Fudan University, China.

Rotterdam, Zuid Holland, Nl

Developed a parametric 3D CAD model for Nesselande, a multi-stakeholder real estate and industrial development in Rotterdam.

Ba, Industrial Design

Post-Grad, Research In Design And Public Space