Deliver consulting service to growing software businesses.Management of Innovation, from business planning to financing.Management of Industrialization, from prototypes and Proof of Concepts to industrial-grade, agile software production organization and processes.Management of Deployment, from Statement of Work and SLA negotiation to delivery.

Co-founder and CEO of Mancala Networks, provider of an innovative software solution for enterprise network security. Developed the Business Plan, raised 750K€ seed funding, developed the company, 12 employees.Managed R&D, agile processes, and technology partnerships.Laureate, Grand Prize, Tremplin Entreprise 2010.Won French Ministry of Research R&D Funding Contest 2011 (70 laureates over 1200 applications).

Member of the Board of Directors and Executive Staff, managed the development of the wireless networks roaming platform and associated seamless WiFi connectivity products, as well as the delivery of their integration within worldwide operator’ networks, such as British Telecom, AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile, Tata, SFR.Accountable for technology and product roadmap, technical pre-sales and services delivery. 18 engineers, France/UK. 30 interconnected operators, roaming platform 100% available for 2 consecutive years.Company delegate in industry forums. Contributor to WiMAX Forum Specifications and Fixed-Mobile Convergence Alliance architecture.

Recruited and managed international, distributed, cross-functional software product development organisations.Delivered multiple products, for Data Center Management and Automation, Carrier-grade High Availability and Clustering, IP Networking, Embedded Operating Systems.Managed P&L structures, developped business plans, product strategies and roadmaps.Contributed to management and technology VP level boards.Managed re-organizations, including downsizing processes.

Member of the Board of Directors and Executive Staff, directed Chorus Systems Engineering (Products & Services, 45 engineers).Delivered multiple product lines (including the first Java-enabled Realtime OS product).Directed the international team of experts that implemented the Chorus technology at the heart of key products of leading computer and telecom makers such as Unisys, Cray Research, ICL, Lucent, Ericsson, Alcatel, Nokia, Siemens. Managed R&D contribution to 4 multi-partner international projects (European ESPRIT projects).Contributed to standardization bodies (POSIX).

Co-founder, designed and implemented the first commercial portable micro-kernel (Chorus OS), pioneer of virtualization and cloud computing technologies — 40 million units deployed.Lead the architecture and development of multiple OS personalities, ranging from deeply embedded RTOS’s to « single system image » UNIX systems exploiting clusters of 100’s of computers.Contributed to the technology awareness through publications, lectures, pre-sales seminars and workshops.

At « Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et Automatique », my research in Distributed Operating Systems contributed to the development of the Chorus technology and the creation of the first INRIA spin-off, the Chorus Systems startup.Contributed to the design of the CHORUS distributed operating system, and its prototype implementation over an Ethernet network of multi-processor computers.Ph. D. thesis: developed a model, language and runtime to express, control and support the execution of distributed computations, based on roaming active agents. International publications, patent.Lecturer at Paris VI University, Telecom ParisTech, Telecom SudParis, ENSTA ParisTech.