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France

Conduct anti-piracy actions for beIN SPORTS France.

Doha, Qatar

Manage anti-piracy program and strategy for beIN Media Group in the MENA region. beIN Media Group is the largest sports rights holder worldwide with exclusive rights in MENA for FIFA, EPL, UEFA, AFCON, CONMEBOL, NBA, IPL, Grand-slam Tennis etc., entertainment rights including among others Warner Bros., Miramax etc. and own production of kids, drama and sports content.Responsibilities include- Monitoring and takedown open and closed IPTV services through technology-driven forensics and open-source intelligence (hosting providers, ISPs)- Social media discovery and takedown of infringing posts and profiles- Online brand protection in social media and e-commerce platforms- App stores delisting of pirate applications- Target investigation and litigation support- Satellite piracy monitoring and removal through satellite operators- Manage anti-piracy service providersInvolved in fight against largest satellite and online state-sponsored piracy ever.

Doha, Qatar

Nice Area, France

Set up an ecosystem to enable nearshore IT outsourcing between France (consumers) and Tunisia (producers).Studied several company acquisition projects to the point of legal proposal.

Nice Area, France

AirTies is a leading supplier of advanced wireless (Wi-Fi) and OTT/IPTV STBs to the broadcast and broadband industry. Managed Tier-1 operators such as Orange and Sky. Achieved a greater than $10 m target.Opened a considerable number of tier-1 opportunities and shortlisted in two when left.

Nice Area, France

Cofounded company for online booking software.Raised public funds from two different sources (IASA, France and ESIA, EU). Acquired two customers and signed one partner in 3 months.

Provence-Alpes-Cote D'Azur, France

Engaged prospects and partners in protecting digital assets in mobile devices and home entertainment networks using Cloakware’s whitebox, obfuscation and code transformation cryptography.

Introduced multiple-product solutions including digital asset protection, content management, customer care and billing and STB middleware.

Grew sales revenues from US$ 5 million to US$ 11 million in 2 years.Achieved over 200% of target twice.Managed one account manager as part of the regional sales team.Won 2 new large opportunities per year and 3 small opportunities in the region.“Signed” 3 new distributors locally in the region.

Grew revenues generated by existing accounts from approximately US$1 million to over US$ 5 million.Chaired on a quarterly basis a customer usergroup for the regional customers creating true customer loyalty.

Acted as the first dedicated pre-sales engineer in the company.Set initial procedures and templates for successor.Managed bids.Presented and defended technical solutions before prospects.

Managed worldwide team of 15 support engineers.Ensured last-step quality checks for new products before release to the customer baseEnsured seamless customer site installations and upgradesRan anti-piracy programs.

Conducted customer site installations and upgrades. Liaised with R&D for the resolution of functional or performance defects. Performed final product tests prior to release to customer base.

Developed and tested new functions of the first digital conditional access system.Performed system installations and upgrades at customer sitesAnalyzed defects and tested remedies.Tested new products prior to release to customer base.Set up a web-based system for the customes to log defects and trace their resolutions.

Developed and tested parts of the X.25 Network Management Unit within Alcatel Data Networks (now a subsidiary of Alcatel-Lucent).

Designed, developed and marketed pharmacy-management software from scratch.Performed customer training on Microsoft FoxPro database management system.

Research for the Massive Scalar Compilers group as part of Master's thesis.

Developed for the company a software system for managing customer incidents and engineers interventions at customer sites for computers and printers.

Master Of Science, Computer Science

Activities and Societies: Rice Grads Soccer Team (Calzones) "Improving data locality for caches." Master's thesis, Dept. of Computer.

Principal Engineer, Computer Systems

Graduated top of class. Conducted end-of-studies project in the Computer Science Research Center in Nancy, France, obtaining high praises.

Dues, Maths And Physics

DUES: Diplôme Universitaire d'Etudes Spécialisées