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Launched a new Business Consulting services for the Land Seismic through collaborative approach. Developed Marketing kits and followed more than 70 leads (150 M$) over 2 years, built 5 new partnerships. CGG’s Business Consulting & Licensing offer can help regional onshore seismic acquisition players wanting to increase their commercial success, gain a competitive advantage and improve their performance, through special access to unique expertise and advanced technologies including but not limited to:- Recognised experience in survey feasibility, planning and design to make better informed acquisition decisions - 80- year operational excellence and infield technical expertise allowing for the optimization of field operations - Latest proprietary technologies and developments ensuring the delivery of reliable and high-quality seismic data.

Responsible for the technical development of new reservoir monitoring solutions for the Land Seismic Acquisition Business lineManaged a team of up to 22 personsProjects all around the world: Brazil, Canada, Oman, Europe, Saudi Arabia, USATechnical skills: 4D seismic, Microseismic, PRM, 3D Land Design, Product Management, IP Management, Technical marketingDedicate some time to the technical review of the SEG Geoscientist Without Border (GWB) program since 2014Member of the organizing committee of the 2015 and 2017 SES (Sustainable Earth Sciences EAGE symposium

Deputy Manager responsible of the technology development for the Land Seismic Acquisition Business lineManaged a team of up to 31 personsTechnical skills: 4D seismic, Vibroseis, 3D Land Design, Technical marketing, Team Management

In charge of developing and promoting new technologies for imaging the tertiary subsalt plays in the Gulf of MexicoI put in place workgroups across the company (Multi-Client New Ventures, Equipment manufacturer, Marine acquisition and Seismic imaging Research teams)Papers presented at congress and workshop (SEG 2007, 2009, EAGE 2007)Technical skills: 3D Wide-Azimuth Design, OBC, Streamer, Airgun, Depth imaging, Seismic Modeling, salt tectonicsLaunched, found sponsorship and managed Wide Azimuth Towed Streamer tests in Gulf of Mexico; Submitted papers to EAGE + SEG + SBGF to promote Waz processing technologyPerformed illumination studies, modeling and signal processing works to evaluate benefits of Low frequencies and Long Offset for imaging deep plays in Western part of GoM.Designed and launched Low Frequency Acquisition and Long Offsets streamer acquisition tests in Deep GoMExternal publications: 2006 “Processing solutions for Wide Azimuth data: Outcome from a WATS field experiment in deep water Gulf of Mexico, M.Magesan, JC.Ferran*, S. Kaculini, J.Faulkner, P. Herrmann, A. Pica, G. Poole and S. Le Roy, CGGVeritas / EAGE 2007, SEG 2007, SBGF 2007 2008 “Shot decimation experiment on Wide Azimuth streamer datasets from Gulf of Mexico” SEG Forum in Napa Valley “New Angles on Azimuth” JC Ferran

I proposed to open a new position aiming at analyzing seismic crew productivity, improving field methods, deploying new methods and capitalizing field experienceSmall team of 3 senior field persons working with all the operational entitiesDeveloped tools and standards to collect and analyze crew productivity data, put in place post-mortem crew performance analysisManaged various projects:Joint work with a manufacturer to design a new generation of Ocean Bottom CableNew OBC deployment modular systems and field procedures standardization, supervised field installation on supply vessels, training of on-board personnel and supervision of first weeks of operationsTrainer for seismic acquisition session at CGG University: CGG field crew personnel (Party Manager, Observer, Field geophysicist)Developed new commercial offer for shallow marine areas mixing short streamer and OBCPlayed a role of Technical manager on complex shallow marine seismic projects period; OBC fleets with modular equipments in Iran (2000-2001), Shallow marine Caspian sea projects in 2003.Project manager Equipment in 2003 as Specialist of shallow marine seismic acquisition, I worked with a manufacturer in how redesigning the existing shallow marine ocean bottom cable into a more adapted cable for shallow marine operations. I performed field test implementation with 1.2 km to validate the product in real field condition. 1 OBC crew to be equipped with 70km the following year

Responsible for preparing the technical offer for seismic acquisition projects, performing feasibility studies for clients and assisting seismic crews in performing the geophysical start-up tests for the Land and Shallow Marine Acquisition Business lineFor each seismic crew start-up, I was in charge of defining the start-up parameters tests, supervising the test with the seismic crew, process the data and define the most adapted parameters with the clientVisited crews and clients all around the world: Tunisia, Egypt, Gabon, Iran, Nigeria, Indonesia, Mexico, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Greece, Great Britain, and United StatesAirgun source technical referent for shallow marine operations: I used Nucleus™ to generate Far-Field (FF) signatures and Drop-Outs for shallow marine sources. I made a real in-sea FF measurement campaign in India in 1999 for a shallow marine source array and processed the FF data. I put in place the standard acceptance test program of new airgun source for shallow marine in 20003D design study specialist for Land, Transition zones and Shallow Marine acquisition projects: By using Mesa™, Geoland™ and Seisgrid, I prepared technical offers for more than 50 bids with adapted 3D designs (as part of the biding process) and push to generalize alternative designs to be included to the commercial offer. I performed a Feasibility study for a major land-Tz-OBC project in 2000.Performed some R&D works: Fidelity evaluation of a prototype of vibratory source, Explosive test quantitative evaluationExternal publications: 2001 “OBC versus streamer acquisitions: benefits and drawbacks” J.-J. Postel, J.Meunier, J.-C. Ferran / NAPE 2001, ETAP 2001

In charge of operations planning and execution, seismic crew rotation management, relations with local communities, local authorities, etc.Performed seismic acquisition in various environment and got specialized in complex crews mixing OBC / Shallow Marine and Transition zone acquisitionHave used all type of seismic source: Explosives, Airgun, and VibroseisPakistan: Explosive crew in mountainous area close to AfghanistanTunisia: Mixed Vibroseis and Explosive crew in urban area close to TunisThe Netherlands: Mixed Explosive and Airgun Shallow marine crews in tidal areas (Waddenzee)Great-Britain: Mixed Explosive, Vibroseis and Shallow marine operations in a Natural reserve AreaFrance: Shallow Marine in oyster basin of ArcachonVenezuela: Various crews with mixed heliportable crew and Shallow marine crew in Maracaibo lake, and south Trinidad areaIndonesia: Various crews, Offshore OBC in Java, Shallow Marine in Borneo,…Singapore: Mobilization, rigging and demobilization of support accommodation barges and air gun vessels

After 6 months training in France, I moved to Ankara in Turkey and participated in the opening and development of a new processing center in the nice city of Ankara. I was first in charge of training the young Geophysicists (as young as I was) to the processing software and then was in charge of testing and setting up new processing sequence for production.

6 months internship in seismic interpretation.I used seismic data and well data from Offshore West Africa to define seismic facies related to turbidites deposits and performed mapping of the seismic facies for successive stratigraphical sequences

Seismic processing of 2D lines and testing of new method to tackle long wavelength static anomalies in sedimentary Paris basin context

Interpretation of Vertical Time profile at the scale of the Paris Basin and calibration of a static correction model based on the geologyThis great internship gave me the opportunity to discover the Geophysics discipline in the real life and its strong connection with Geology. This experience decided me to specialize in Geophysics and to pursue a Master Degree in Applied Geophysics