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New York, Ny, Us

New York, Ny, Us

In charge of 7 engineering squads responsible for the core application and the delivery of hundreds of millions of messages every day:• 30+ engineers across multiple timezones (US, LATAM, Europe, Asia)• Direct and indirect management of ICs• Definition of multi-quarter strategic roadmaps, process alignment, enforcement of best practices• Main initiatives:o Creation of a QA Team composed of manual and automated engineerso Delivery of a new marketing channel (SMS), inclusive of event ingestion, campaign configuration, delivery, analytics, etc.o Reduction of technical debt by moving the business logic from a monolithic application to a microservice based architectureo Implementation of a new Frontend tooling/stack to power the UI• Technical stack: React.js, Typescript, Python, Golang, Kubernetes, Google Cloud Platform

New York, Ny, Us

In charge of the global engineering team:• 180+ engineers across 6 different offices and 3 different continents• Direct management of the NY team, and indirect management of the other teams• Broad range of technical stacks: o CMS: AEM, Sitecore, Drupal, WordPress, CraftCMS, various custom CMS o Ecommerce: Magento, Demandware/SFCC, Elastic Path o Frontend: React.js, Angular.js, Vue.js o Mobile apps: iOS (Objective-C, Swift), Android (Java, Kotlin) o CRM/Personalization o Data Engineering: AI/ML/NLP o Creative Technology: AR/VR), experiential, in-store o DevOps engineering: AWS, Azure, GCP Kubernetes, Terraform, Ansible• Responsible for the technical sales process across all verticals• Overall project oversight, client escalation pointMain accomplishments:• Developed the engineering team: creation of the QA department, DevOps, Data Engineering, Creative Technology• Participated in the technical architecture of all projects delivered by C&T• Grew the offshore team from 40 to 100 people• Developed knowledge sharing programs and multi-office delivery processes• Authored all of the technical content used across all RFPs• Developed a network of trusted vendors across all technical stacks• Partnered with the main solutions vendors (Adobe, Sitecore, Acquia, etc.)

New York, Ny, Us

Main accomplishments:• Management of a team of over 40 people• Complete reorganization of the frontend department: introduced new technologies, developed the team’s skills, trained and grew the project management team• Technical transition of the PHP department: training of the whole team on new frameworks and CMS, active R&D program (over 300 man-days per year)• Technical lead on more than half of the company’s pre-sale effort• Third party management (software vendors, hosting companies): RFP process, contract negotiation: management of the RFP for the hosting of Nissan Europe’s platformMain projects:• La Poste (French Postal Service): Delivery of www.laposte.fr, the group communication website, as well as other websites and mobile applications of the client’s ecosystem. Budget: 4-6M€ per year• Renault (Automotive Sector): Delivery of high traffic promotional websites for the release of the new models. Example : http://new-twingo.renault.co.uk/uk_UK/experienceBudget: 4M€ per year• Total (Energy Sector): Delivery of the group communication website (www.total.com)Budget: 1M€ per year• DPAM (Retail): E-commerce for www.dpam.com • Hennessy (LVMH Group): Delivery of www.hennessy.com• Nissan (Automotive Sector): Delivery of a social and content platform to promote electric cars: www.the-big-turn-on.co.uk Result: Over 1 million social activations.• Development of a new custom CMS leveraging an MVC model, heavy use of OOP, data abstraction, etc. within the Symfony2 frameworkTechnical environment: • BackEnd: PHP5, Symfony2, MySQL, MongoDB, Magento, OOP, Drupal, WordPress, EzPublish, Waterfall and Agile (SCRUM) project methodologies• FrontEnd: HTML5, CSS3, Node.js, Less, Sass, Grunt.js, Angular.js, Express.js, Responsive Design• Accessibility, SEO, Tagging/Tracking, SSO, Cloud technologies (Amazon), Hosting, etc.

Worked as an independent consultant for the following companies: • Neoma Interactive (www.neoma-interactive.com): involved in pre-sales, project management, and consulting activitiesExample of project: Consulting and project management of a new Intranet for Fiat.• OpenCSI (www.open-csi.com): Expertise in Open-source technologiesExample of project: Study on OpenSource CRM solutions• PCG Invest (wealth management): Consulting on behalf of PCG Invest, working with their clients, advising them the usage of open-source technologies in their IT Departments.

Fr

Directly reporting into the CEO, had the responsibility of all the websites owned by Fotovista, the most important being www.pixmania.com (leading European e-commerce website, with approx. 800M€ turnover at the time).The Engineering Department at Fotovista was 120 people strong, It was in charge of the main marquis properties, as well as the internal business tools (product management, finance, warehouse, etc.).Main missions: • Structure the Engineering Department to develop a real “project management” culture,• Guarantee the 24x7 availability of pixmania.com and the other web properties, as well as websites hosted for external clients• Manage all of the HR aspects of the Engineering team (budget of approx. 4M€),• Manage the replatforming and hosting by Fotovista of all the DSGi websites (Dixons, Curry’s, and PC World).Main achievements:• Delivery of Pixplace, the marketplace that allows third party vendors to sell their products on pixmania.com (similar to Amazon Marketplace),• Setup of two new redundant and load-balanced locations to host the company's servers, providing a much higher availability,• Setup of new processes for the management of projects using agile methodologies,• Restructuring of the department to optimize the delivery process: addition of Technical Directors and Lead developers.About Pixmania.com:• Over 500 000 unique visitors per day,• Over 400 servers and over 200 network appliances, dispatched over 3 locations around Paris,• Technical environment: PHP4/PHP5, MySQL 4, Oracle 10g, Linux, Apache, Nagios, Cacti, Dell servers, HP network appliances, Netapp filers.

Issy-Les-Moulineaux, Île-De-France, Fr

Responsible for most of the pre-sales activity, and managing a 30-people technical team.Main missions:• Define projects (consulting),• Write proposals, define architectures, plan projects, resources, costs.• Define technical specifications,• Lead project management teams, • Technical resourcing across the team. Main projects:• Monitoring of European or worldwide architectures, including servers, services, and network appliances.• Development of a generic tool to offer online administrative procedures for a French administration,• Development of a website factory for a French administration.• Development of a groupware tool for a French ministry (55 000 users).

Fr

Alcôve was the first French company dealing only with free software. Started as the first pre-sales engineer, then manager of the pre-sales department (3 people), and then Head of Technology (20 people).Main missions:• Write technical proposals, architectures, technical specifications• Plan projects, resources allocation, and costs.Main projects:• Setup of a Linux distribution for a specific telecom appliance (Alcatel).• Setup of proxies and reverse proxies for the French Ministry of Finance.• Development of the website allowing the Orange group to sell Internet and phone contracts.• Setup of a monitoring platform for a French bank.

Fr

In the consulting department:- Pre-sales activity on Linux and Open source software, - Definition and setup of the company internal website. Technical environment: Debian GNU/Linux, Mandriva Linux, Apache, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, and PHP

Masters, Computer Science

Bachelor'S Degree, Science

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