Manuel C. Email & Phone Number

Valbonne, Fr

Greater Nice Metropolitan Area

As Director of Enginnering @Cintoo, I am in charge of leading the enginerring organization to support company growth and people happiness. Teams are composed of software developers (C++, python, GO, Kotlin, Java, Javascript ...), DevOps (AWS/Azure, kubernetes ..), Product owners, QAs, Release Management and Support (1st/2nd/3rd level).List of accountabilities (non exhaustive)People :- Define organigrams, roles and responsibilities- Foster a working environment that increases happiness at work, motivation and retention (culture of feedback, excellence, trust, autonomy, learning ..)- Allow everyone to learn and grow within Cintoo teams- Develop collective intelligence- Ensure talented people are taking more and more leadership roles- Develop a fair process to ensure fair salaries, promotion, payrises … within the organisationDelivery :- Build the organization to deliver technical and product vision- Define objective et performance expectations- Drive transformations within the organization- Follow-up on key KPIs and continuously improved them within engineering (i.e: quality, performance, predictability, NPS …)- Create a culture of continuous improvement and agilityOrganisation :- Lead changes by providing the vision - Build strategy plans with teams to reach our goals- Adapt to unexpected and be an example in front of challenges- Manage budgetCollaboration :- Finance team : Budget management- Research team : Industrialize our collaboration- Program Mngt : Set-up collaboration framework to improve deliveries predictability- Product Mngt : Foster a very close collaboration between Product Managers and Product owners, prioritizing the most valuable features for Cintoo success- Chief Architect : Collaboraion during feature lifecycle in order to plan architectural changes and progress toward the vision- Customer Success : Cojointly improve quality of customer supportand NPS

Full Remote

As VP of Engineering, my role mainly consists in- Building, executing company vision and strategy- Managing engineering teams : take care/coach/energize all our tech members (>30 software developers/data manager/devOps/Engineering managers/QAs, spread over Europe)- Scaling the engineering organization by creating jib ladder, improving recruitment processes, newcomer onboarding, way of working and collaboration, internal delivery processes, knowledge management ....- Improve collaboration and communication internally and externally- Ensuring high quality and availability software deliveries- Promoting collective intelligence, agility, people empowerment and accountability

Nice, Provence-Alpes-Côte D'Azur, France

As Release Train Engineer (SAFe certified), I am leading, coaching and facilitating 10 Agile teams (80+ people in 3 continents) delivering multiple distributed applications for Airlines IT critical business. I am facilitating processes and assisting the teams in delivering value. I am communicating with stakeholders, escalating impediments, helping manage risks, and drive relentless improvement. I am also animatingregular ceremonies with all team members and stakeholders and working closely with Product Management to prioritize backlog items.Skillso Servant leadership : listen and support teams, support individual/teams'development, coach people, apply systems thinking, help teams’ commitments,positive attitude, flexibility, transparencyo Process management : Scaled Agile methodologies, continuous improvemento Presentation skillso Influencing skillso Communication : written, oral, ceremonies facilitation of 100+ people remotely

Nice Area, France

Leading a 5M€ budget department composed of 50+ people, I was coaching 4 engineering managers in order to grow the organization, deliver a large scale distributed system with high quality standards and ensure production support for a hundred of thousands customers. I led also a transformation toward cross-functional teams to scale up Agile development, increase flexibility by reducing dependencies between teams, be more customer-centric feature and better adapt to business priorities.Skillso Leadership : negotiation, strategic thinking, communication, time management, mentoring, change management, energize people, remove impedimentso People management: recruitment, retention, talent management, active listening ...o Development cycle : software craftsmanship, production support and active monitoring, customer serviceo Agile Methodologies : Scrum, Kanban, cross-functional teamTechnical environment : o Continuous Integration : Jenkins, Git, Software Workbench 2o Linux, C++/Python back-ends, software craftsmanship, Oracle and MongoDB, Business Object Modelo APIs : XML, HTTP (REST)), backward compatibility, Swagger, Micro-serviceso Data monitoring : Kafka, Kibana, Elastic search

Nice Area, France

I was managing 25 various engineers' profiles (DEV, tech leads, product definition engineers, QA, product owners, product managers, scrummasters, data managers) spread over 3 sites (Nice, Kiev and Bangalore) and simultaneously leading the transformation towards a sustainable software stability. In a scale-up environment where we were multiplying teams (from 80 to 250 people!), we faced instability and release management issues. Reporting to the director of engineering, I built a full strategy plan and a delivery program, I embarked and led people through these changes. After one year, the project got concrete operational criteria improvements and we improved developers' coding experience.Skillso People management: remote management, leadership, management 3.0o Quality and release management: CI/CD, Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC),key performance metrics/operational efficiency, test automation, configuration andreferential data management, DevSup / DevOps, defect tracking, security, scalabilityo Lean Project/Change management : planning and forecasting, roadmaps, risksmanagement, tracking and monitoring / KPIs, communication, facilitation, processmanagementTechnical environment :o Continuous Integration : Jenkins, Git, Software Workbench 2o Test Management Tools : ALM, Non-regression framework ...o Linux, C++/Python back-ends, software craftsmanship, Oracle and MongoDB, Business Object Modelo APIs : XML, HTTP (REST)), backward compatibility, Swagger, Micro-serviceso Data monitoring : Kafka, Kibana, Elastic search

Nice, Provence-Alpes-Côte D'Azur, France

Being part of a small and growing department, I was responsible of the product delivery: from product and architecture vision to the software delivery team members. My teams' mission was to define and develop the best application to book and issue major European railways' (SNCF, DB, Trenitalia...) trips by providing a set of webservices/APIs for online and offline travel agencies. Yearly product investment of 2M€ in my area of responsibility.I was leading the architecture vision of a C++ and Python distributed Open Back-End application with highly transactional flow: more than 20M tickets sold per year! As product owner of two scrum teams, I was also prioritizing and building roadmap for 100,000 European travel agencies. Moreover, I was recruiting and managing careers of 25 product definition engineers.Skills :Product management: business analysis, product vision, roadmap, requirements, MVP, Data Analytics / KPIs, OKR, customer centricitySolution Architecture: service oriented and distributed Open Back-End system, micro-services, data lake/log based data monitoring platformPeople management: leadership, recruitment, objective setting and performance review, career and talent management, conflict management, coaching and mentoringAgile MethodologiesTechnical environmento Linux, C++/Python back-ends, software craftsmanship, Oracle and MongoDB, Business Object Modelo APIs : XML, HTTP (REST)), backward compatibility, Swagger, Micro-serviceso Data monitoring : Kafka, Kibana, Elastic searcho Test and Behavior Driven Development (TDD/BDD)o Collaboration : Atlassiano Product/Agility : JIRA, JIRA portfolio, Canva.com

Nice, Provence-Alpes-Côte D'Azur, France

I was in charge of understanding customers' (railways and travelers) requirements, write high level solution overview and functional specifications documentations for software engineers. When software was delivered, I was defining test strategies, creating test plans, write automated tests an ensure application quality. My personal challenge was to be highly user-centric to ensure a user friendly and high quality application based on a distributed open back-ends architecture.Skills :o Requirements analysis, waterfall methodologyo Documentations writing (solution designs, specs, test strategy)o Communication and customer serviceo Strong analytical and problem solvingo Quality driven mindset, QATechnologies :o XML Distributed Architecture, MQHub messagingo Documentations Editor : RationalRose, Wikidoc, Wordo Version Control Systems : WinCVS, TortoiseCVSo Test Management Tools : ALMo Test Scripting : PythonTechnical: architecture design, testing environment

Nice, Provence-Alpes-Côte D’Azur, France

On top of my employee role, I was delivering online and ecommerce websites for start-ups & small companies. Using Content Management Systems technology, I created customized and easily maintainable websites, using a features-based pricing model. This technology allowed customers’ autonomy on content updates, thus removing recurring costs for them which was a real competitive asset for selling websites. My personal challenge was to find clients, sign contracts, deliver and customize websites, train website owner to ensure customers' business success and satisfaction.Skills :o Pre-sales, Sales and Negocation: 20k€ yearly revenueo Project managemento Problem solvingo Customer serviceo Technical: coding, webdesign, webmasterTechnologies :o Programming Language: CSS/HTML/JavaScript/PhP/SQLo CMS : Wordpress / Prestashopo Filezilla / 1and1 / OVH / Dreamweavero Google Adwords

Cannes Area, France

Working for high-quality standard industries, my mission was to ensure no bugs in such critical software applicationsSkills :o Requirements analysiso Documentations writing (test strategy, test plan, test reports)o Analytical thinkingo Quality driven mindseto Technical: testing environmentTools :o Documentations Editor : Wordp Version Control Systems : WinCVSo Test Management Tools

Aix-En-Provence Area, France

Working for high-quality standard industries, my mission was to ensure no bugs in such critical software applicationsSkills :o Requirements analysiso Documentations writing (test strategy, test plan, test reports)o Analytical thinkingo Quality driven mindseto Technical: testing environmentTools :o Documentations Editor : Wordp Version Control Systems : WinCVSo Test Management Tools

Engineer'S Degree, Electrical And Computer Science Engineering

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