Responsible for everything related to technology at Wizper and Lanla, I had to play multiple roles (PO, Support, Scrum Master, QA) within a small but very result driven team of developers, business analysts and IT technician.- Lead the development of a classifier for social media and survey data;- Lead the development of a PubSub AWS environment using lambdas (using Serverless and SAM frameworks) and CloudFormation that produce a saving of 90% of overall hosting costs;- Structured… Show more Responsible for everything related to technology at Wizper and Lanla, I had to play multiple roles (PO, Support, Scrum Master, QA) within a small but very result driven team of developers, business analysts and IT technician.- Lead the development of a classifier for social media and survey data;- Lead the development of a PubSub AWS environment using lambdas (using Serverless and SAM frameworks) and CloudFormation that produce a saving of 90% of overall hosting costs;- Structured the ITSM and SDLC value chains across the organization;- Supported the development of new revenue streams for Wizper (gyms and social media); - Cut the time for the onboarding of Wizper and VOC customers by 80%; Show less

Reporting to the SVP, lead the business process reengineering to prepare for growth round of investments.• Introduced ITIL and its concept of Service as a way to abstract business from components. This reduced administrative overhead, stress on operation staff and friction across the company.• Took over the management of Salesforce which had become unusable and created significant overhead, duplications and errors, and achieved the goal of having one clean customer… Show more Reporting to the SVP, lead the business process reengineering to prepare for growth round of investments.• Introduced ITIL and its concept of Service as a way to abstract business from components. This reduced administrative overhead, stress on operation staff and friction across the company.• Took over the management of Salesforce which had become unusable and created significant overhead, duplications and errors, and achieved the goal of having one clean customer dataset.• Rewrote the billing system in force.com, clarified responsibilities across the value chain and reduced billing time from one month to one week. Show less

Reporting to the CTO, manage the technical teams for 4 product lines as well as integrate the Mauritius support team and South Africa development teams into our main support/development teams.• Partnered with human resources to manage a very significant restructuration of compensation program for employees which resolved tensions caused by different salary schemes, and increased trust between teams and management.• Unified the work force while keeping the product focus: the net gain… Show more Reporting to the CTO, manage the technical teams for 4 product lines as well as integrate the Mauritius support team and South Africa development teams into our main support/development teams.• Partnered with human resources to manage a very significant restructuration of compensation program for employees which resolved tensions caused by different salary schemes, and increased trust between teams and management.• Unified the work force while keeping the product focus: the net gain is a more efficient technology group, reduced «bus-factor» and increased visibility by the business on staffing constraints Show less

Reporting to the CTO, manage the technical team for the business line and partner with CCO and Measurement Operations director to maintain Triton’s MRC accreditation.• Following the decision to move from waterfall to agile, managed the transition by creating the measurement product line development team and the integration of QA, sys admins, developers into a cohesive multidisciplinary team. • Introduced Cynefin as a framework to understand and manage decision making in a complex… Show more Reporting to the CTO, manage the technical team for the business line and partner with CCO and Measurement Operations director to maintain Triton’s MRC accreditation.• Following the decision to move from waterfall to agile, managed the transition by creating the measurement product line development team and the integration of QA, sys admins, developers into a cohesive multidisciplinary team. • Introduced Cynefin as a framework to understand and manage decision making in a complex environment. Show less

Reporting to the EVP Engineering, managed the quality assurance teams and clarified the value chain and improve the lead time and rework.- Clarified the transitions between engineering and development teams- Supported EVP, director of development and director of engineering in their analysis of the efficiency of the value chain. -

Reporting to the Director, Client Solution Delivery, managed the QA team for Ubik project. • Introduced automated acceptance testing and exploratory testing as mean of complementing the scripted, manual testing, thus significantly reducing the wasted effort and the number of bug in production. • Took over the Scrum Master role for the 4 development teams on the project. The net gain was an increase focus on engineering practices to support agile development.• Successfully… Show more Reporting to the Director, Client Solution Delivery, managed the QA team for Ubik project. • Introduced automated acceptance testing and exploratory testing as mean of complementing the scripted, manual testing, thus significantly reducing the wasted effort and the number of bug in production. • Took over the Scrum Master role for the 4 development teams on the project. The net gain was an increase focus on engineering practices to support agile development.• Successfully managed the Alberta, Nova Scotia, Newfoundland and Quebec (DSQ) accreditation projects - all accreditations were successful. Show less

Reporting to VP Centre de développement, I managed the product and project development teams for Nexio’s Development Center. I was also IS/IT Director.• Delivered multiple projects for customers in Java, C# and HP Tandem’s NonStop• Developped and maintained Nexio’s product portfolio (E-Learning platform TrainingOffice, requirement management Nucleus); • Developped and structured a new service offering for Nexio (CMS with SiteCore, Sharepoint);• Managed SR&DE tax credid and… Show more Reporting to VP Centre de développement, I managed the product and project development teams for Nexio’s Development Center. I was also IS/IT Director.• Delivered multiple projects for customers in Java, C# and HP Tandem’s NonStop• Developped and maintained Nexio’s product portfolio (E-Learning platform TrainingOffice, requirement management Nucleus); • Developped and structured a new service offering for Nexio (CMS with SiteCore, Sharepoint);• Managed SR&DE tax credid and defended Nexio’s claim in an audit Show less

I manage technical and product teams, build a R&D team on machine learning and signal processing and prepare and defend SR&ED tax credit• Grew team to 45 developers and 15 consultants;• Developed a music recommendation engine using supervised and unsupervised approaches;• Developed a mp3 fingerprinting engine to manage royalties on large music inventory;• Managed >$1M web projects.

Software architect and senior developper (DBA).J2EE, SQLServer, PostgreSQL

Programmer-analyst (asp2 and asp3); junior dba