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Île-De-France, France

Montrouge, Fr

TDF helps media, technology and industrial enterprises tackle their mission-critical connectivity challenges in Metropolitan France and overseas territories. Whether it's ensuring radio or DTT broadcasting, providing mobile ultra-fast broadband service, or deploying fiber networks, TDF provides its customers with industry expertise, innovative technology solutions, and strong local support. For over four decades, through its extensive network of 18,600 sites, TDF has helped connect enterprises, territories and people across France more effectively.

Bellevue, Wa, Us

Nucamp is disrupting the learning industry with an innovative approach to software development education. Bringing together a community-based model, a state of the art e-learning platform and years of domain expertise through its leadership, Nucamp offers a unique alternative to e-learning courses and physical bootcamps, allowing career shifters to successfully start a software developer career at an affordable cost.

Bellevue, Wa, Us

Raised capital and scaled-up EdTech industry’s first affordable coding bootcamp, delivering high-quality classes in 30 cities across the US based on an innovative software platform and a disruptive hybrid online & in-person model.- Deployed an advanced proprietary software platform supporting large-scalable operations across the US within one year- In 2 years, grew registrations and revenue by 20x- Outranked competition on student satisfaction with 4.75/5.00 rating over 800+ reviews on top 2 bootcamp directories

Charlotte, North Carolina, Us

Led a business providing industry-leading Software Solutions and Services for Process Industries, reporting directly to the President of Honeywell Process Solutions, with full P&L responsibility. Drove Honeywell’s overall Industrial IoT strategy, product marketing, SaaS software development, sales, professional services, and customer support.- Re-organized Honeywell’s Connected Plant activities into a SaaS software development and delivery organization. - Shaped Honeywell’s ‘Connected’ Strategy and positioned company as an Industrial-IoT leader for process industries.

Boston, Ma, Us

Reporting directly to President & CEO of Grid Solutions with full P&L responsibility and leading the integration of Alstom & GE Grid Software Businesses. $700M+ orders / $500M+ revenue / 2000 people. Drove strategy, product marketing, R&D, sales, professional services, and customer support. Digital Transformation leader for the Grid Solutions division.- Delivered double-digit growth on orders, revenue and margin, reduced cost by 10% and tripled operating profit in the first year of combined operations, in a flat market.- Successfully integrated 2 competitors into one-team with a strong culture in a year - less than 5% attrition.- Achieved 100% customer retention through convincing customer-centric portfolio rationalization strategy.- Surpassed synergy targets on commercial, engineering and administrative costs.- Took-on additional Chief Digital Officer role, leading the broader Energy Connections IoT Strategy - Realigned roadmaps to GE’s Digital Industrial strategy and was among first internal GE businesses to offer commercial cloud micro-services.

Reported to Senior Vice President with full P&L responsibility. Led strategy, product marketing, R&D, sales, operations, and customer support. $350M orders / $250M revenue / 1400 people.Product portfolio included Energy Management, Distribution Management, Distributed Energy Management and Smart Grid solutions.- Designed and executed transformation programs to re-ignite growth, reduce costs and establish ‘Smart Grid’ leadership in the electricity transmission and distribution market.- Rejuvenated management team and established a highly scalable global organization- Accelerated innovation investment to capture Smart Grid market growth, including 3 acquisitions, all of which were successfully integrated in the existing organization, retaining key talent & management.- Successfully penetrated the Distribution market segment and established strong position within 2 years.- In 4 years, doubled the order volume and turned around the business to make it profitable in a highly competitive flat market.

Espoo, Southern Finland, Fi

General management for Wimax business (4th generation wireless networks supporting IoT applications). Directed marketing, business development, sales forces support, product management, R&D and operations support. - Grew business from 0 to $100M orders in 2 years.- Moved Wimax business unit from early stage business development to securing 35 contracts for regional and national deployments in Europe, Asia-Pacific, North America, Latin-America Middle-East.- Positioned Alcatel-Lucent as one of the leading vendors in Wimax thanks to powerful product positioning, successful mobilization of sales forces, tight roadmap control, and successful operational scale-up.- Achieved objectives of market share capture, devices eco-system build-up & launch of 10 commercial networks.

Espoo, Southern Finland, Fi

GM for Mobile Circuit Core Switching business. In charge of marketing, business development, product management, R&D and operations support. Directed headcount of 350 in France, China, Germany, and Russia.- Beat sales budget by 12% (+18% increase year-on-year).- Secured operating profit in price-war environment by rationalizing products & optimizing operations.- Designed and led technology transition to Next-Generation Networks (NGN) products in key accounts- Increased R&D productivity and implemented unprecedented 3-months software delivery cycle.

Espoo, Southern Finland, Fi

Led Mobile Core Switching product strategy & product portfolio management.Product range included traditional mobile circuit switching (MSC,HLR...), Packet-Switching (GPRS, UMTS) and Next Generation Networks.Activities covered the complete product life cycle: opportunity identification, business case elaboration, R&D project definition, field introduction, maintenance and phase-out.- Re-energized aging Circuit Core product line and launched a new software release in 6 months - from feature definition to customer delivery (down from a standard of 18 months).- Introduced new pay-as-you grow commercial schemes, based on standard products, to improve business unit’s long-term profitability.

Espoo, Southern Finland, Fi

Rolled-out a 100M€ full turnkey contract for 3rd mobile operator in the Philippines. Led an organization of 200 people and managed 7 subcontractors nationwide.Scope covered Technical Project Management, Field Operations, Engineering, Subcontracting Management, Information Systems and Processes.- In 10 months, successfully completed property acquisition for 200 sites across the Philippines and started construction of 150 sites, of which 100 were placed in commercial service within schedule and budget.- Reengineered project operations, implemented processes and tools to accelerate and optimize rollout.

Espoo, Southern Finland, Fi

Directed a 300M€ industrial plan and accountable for 60M€ inventory. - Re-engineered sales forecast analysis process and industrial plan building, including risk evaluation tools.- Set up new product introduction team. Developed global on-line tool and led worldwide deployment process.

Espoo, Southern Finland, Fi

Drove information systems and business processes for the division supply chain (Planning, Order Processing and Logistics).Led design and implementation of end-to-end supply chain information system carrying 1b€ yearly sales within one year. Achieved 50% order processing lead-time reduction and reduced shipment errors by 90%.

Led local technical support team. Operated and maintained radio network of #1 mobile operator in Egypt.- Set up technical support team, designed operating procedures and executed succession plan in one year.

Master Of Business Administration (M.B.A.)

Masters, Engineering