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Grenoble, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, Fr

Grenoble Area, France

• Develop AI strategies and roadmaps in response to customers’ business needs • Bring machine learning into products to open new markets • Identify optimization opportunities in business processes • Analyze markets, opportunities, and competition players • Conduct voice of customers studies, adjust roadmap priorities accordingly • Imagine, justify new digital services with associated business plans• Study existing data, build data driven ROI, investigate feasibility, create POC (AutoML Dataiku)• Collect and document specifications for solutions to be built• Work with partners developing custom ML solutions • Recommend SaaS solutions when appropriate (certified Dataiku partner)• Recruit and guide development teams from inception to deploying • Create metrics to track business process improvements and monitor deployed ML models• Pitch innovative solutions, motivate internal business profiles or customers adoption• Organize, animate trainings and workshops (AI acculturation, Machine Learning Canvas)• Use Net Promoter Score to track customer satisfaction• Undertake missions for BYmy)CAR, Linksium, Aryballe, Qumata, Crea Maintenance, ISKN, Cocoom

Grenoble, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France

Grenoble, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France

• Grow & lead 18 people R&D team (5 data science & machine learning, 3 mobile, 7 fullstack, QA, PO, UX)• Collaborate on building achievable roadmaps • Structure projects, plans and reporting from feature inception to deployment• Oversee ML lifecycle (data collects, annotations, model development & benchmarking, production monitoring)• Supervise SaaS product lifecycle (Agile methodology, CI/CD, MLOps, AWS Infrastructure)• Establish Scrum agile ceremonies (sprint planning, daily, demo, retrospective, backlog refinement)• Make stack choices (FastAPI, S3, Postgre, Redshift, Superset, Sagemaker, Kubernetes, Vue, NativeScript)• Optimize cost, resources, and timeline to best fit business constraints• Ensure good collaboration with partners (Valeo, Faurecia, Renault, Mauffrey)• Objectivize algorithms performance (European commission)• Assist issues investigation, root cause understanding and solutions proposals• Help team grow technical and soft skills • Conduct bi-annual performance reviews • Assure techno watch role

Grenoble Area, France

• Create product strategy and associated business plans for a secure automated KYC solution• Analyze the market, competition, players and solutions of the personal data economy• Took over CTO role for 6 months, recruited the development team, including the new CTO• Elaborate and communicate company and product presentations• Identify prospects and develop business relationships (BPCE, CA, BNP Paribas, Arkéa, La Poste)• Co-develop a POC (ideation workshops with BPCE-RA, maturity matrix)• Discuss and document the solution’s specifications (with 2 customer business profiles)• Budgetize and prioritize the roadmap (interest, accessibility, capacity matrix; quick wins)• Innovate in agile mode (2 weeks of build, measure and learn cycle in close customer interaction)• Test and prioritize ideas with prospects’ feedback (Lean startup methodology)• Oversee POC development including Mobile, WebApp, backend (blockchain & deep learning)• Evaluate, select & participate in Sovrin blockchain (Steward owning a deployment node, OVH infra)• Evaluate and select AI solutions for document information extraction (MS Form Recognizer)• Ensure GDPR compliance, security and privacy by design (e.g. leveraging ZKP zero knowledge proof)

Grenoble Area, France

• Grow business to >7M€ yearly (sensors & software royalties) • Contribute significantly to wining Logitech, growing Samsung & Qualcomm accounts• Drive the outbound marketing activities for IoT products (sensor fusion, AR/VR, Wearable, TV)• Come up with product concepts, build the business case (machine learning platform for IoT longtail)• Develop and update roadmaps, product positioning and messaging, based on customer feedbacks• Produce marketing requirement documents for new products, use cases and features• Conduct surveys, customer interviews, lead concierge service (Lean startup methodology)• Animate community of 300k registered developers (SensorStudio software and sensor development kits)• Manage the cross-functional implementation of the product development including launch plan• Oversee Product Managers delivering sensors to AR/VR and Wearable markets’ tight specifications• Build the sales tools that support the products’ selling process (US, Eur, CN, KR, JP)• Create content including product datasheets, presentations, white papers, demos• Enable successful production launch and support key customer programs

Grenoble

• Grow business to >1M€ yearly software royalties • Contribute significantly to wining Samsung TV leading daily interaction with Korea team• Develop and evolve a differentiated offering (gesture recognition ML for TV & wearables)• Oversee execution of customer deployments and R&D projects• Make priority calls, maintain attention to details and promote quality• Promote products & roadmap with key accounts and sales representatives• Create software product datasheets, document algorithms performance • Establish partnership supporting new business development activities with RF and MCU/CPU makers• Prepare for and attend key industry events communication (CES, IBC, TV Connect, CCBN, ICTC)

Grenoble

• Define technical vision, product specifications, development plans• Recruit and organize the software and algorithm development team• Create and track product schedules, functionality & quality properties to successful launch• Architect of the « gesture analysis » development platform • Lead GUI software development based on visual programming with parametric blocks • Pilot software and machine learning development processes and methodologies (CI/CD)• Oversee acquiring and annotating sensor datasets, benchmarking and productizing algorithms • Manage gesture analysis and recognition deliveries (HealthCare and Gaming market)• Interact with customers & subsidies project partners• Co-lead machine learning research programs in collaboration with the CEA Leti and CEA List

Saint-Étienne Area, France

• Oversee and motivate a team of 12 software developers• Ensure stability and performance of key software programs for our manufacturing and field service• Certify instrument specifications and customer use case verification• Build vision, product specification, development plan and tracking consistent with quality standards• Collaborate with local, remote teams and the management team in California / UK• Ensure team focus & priorities are well understood enabling customer support in record time

San Jose, California, United States

• Lead the software development of the operating system controlling an Automatic Test Equipment for microprocessors characterization and manufacturing tests.• Drive the "Timing" software subsystem developments (digital signals programming & acquisitions).• Manage 5 developers locally, establish a software team of 4 developers based in India.• Steer the introduction of UML and iterative development process (product architecture team member)• Guide a distributed team of 100 developers on 4 sites (FR, UK, IN, US).

San Jose, California, United States

• Lead the software project and handle release management for new generation Device Power Supply• Define requirements with the customer• Build and track project plan execution on time for a satisfied customer (Intel).• Architect, design & implement (UML / C + +) an instrument driver capable of multiple current and voltage generation and measurements• Create the demo and product presentation for the customer (STm).• Merge 3 development branches in daily synchronization (FR, UK, US)

St-Étienne, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France

• Design and implement the timing acquisitions and parallel device testing strategy

St-Étienne, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France

• Design and implement a real time Graphical User Interface: Gantt charts of network alarms and histograms of the number of errors

Ms, Computer Science

Automation specialization

Machine Learning In Python With Scikit-Learn, Machine Learning

Machine learning in Python with scikit-learn

Certificate, Machine Learning

Machine Learning (ML) Algorithms Supervised learning: Linear Regression, Logistic Regression, Neural Networks, SVMs Unsupervised learning.

Mit Sloan & Mit Csail Artificial Intelligence: Implications For Business Strategy Program, Artificial Intelligence

Understanding The General Data Protection Regulation (Gdpr), International Law And Legal Studies

Marketing Directors Programme, Business, Management, Marketing, And Related Support Services

Certificate In Object Oriented Programming Using C++, Computer Science

Object-Oriented Programming Using C++ Certificate

Bs, Electrical Engineering

Electronics specialization