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Ville De Paris, Île-De-France, France

Counsel and support on Scientific Research and Experimental Development tax incentives• Assess the scope and eligibility of our different R&D activities to local incentives through interviews with the corresponding teams, collect the corresponding evidence, prepare the computation and write explanatory/ documentation with the assistance of an external provider• Initiate and implement relevant change projects within teams/departments to follow the recommendations and evolutions of the administrations' best practices• Act as the Finance primary point of contact for R&D to drive the eligibility assessment process and to provide the Finance department with all the elements necessary for computations, documentation, and tax control

Paris, France

Develop departmental plans, set priorities and allocate resources of a 3-member team to provide innovative, technical and operational solutions to OPS teams.Influence and make an impact on Product roadmaps while collaborating with global and field operational teams.Drive fast product roll-outs across all operations teams worldwide.

Paris Area, France

Specialised in international tax and legal strategies, Taj, a Deloitte network entity, is one of the leading French law firms.Counsel on R&D activities tax management• Evaluations of origin of technology initiatives within French and international ICT technical compagnies (3D modeling, Big Data, microelectronics, telecom...)• Technical interviews with the engineers in order to evaluate the novelty or innovation degree of their activities• Dossiers assembling for direct government incentives or grants, from a local level to the European Commission's level

BUF Compagnie is a French/American digital visual effects company, specializing in CGI for feature films, commercials, and music videos. It owns its in-house software development team. • Definition and implementation of a framework for software development projectsCreate a framework to standardize and improve the monitoring of development projectsSupport for the specifications of development projectsIn particular, supply assistance in developing a tool for managing film projects and software development• Definition and implementation of a Quality DepartmentSet up and coordinate a team responsible for User Acceptance Testing of the developments on in-house software.As such, participate in annual evaluation interviews of the development team • Knowledge ManagementCreate training materials for graphic artists and organize training schedulesUpdate the documentation of in-house software

• Meet major actors of the mobile field by myself or during events (Mobile Monday France, Launch of "Le Camping" by Silicon Sentier)• Help a start-up working on a new game for all smartphones, by providing support on good practices while developing a complex application such as a video game • Update my knowledges about human-computer interaction and development for mobile devices by meeting developers or studying Apple recommendations• Meet business incubators to survey trends leading young innovative start-ups

F4 is a European and Asian video game development company. The company is owned by a group whose activities range from software engineering to scientific research and development.• Project managerManage a 6-man team (developers, game designers, artists, interns)Monitor transverse projects by knowledge management and mediation in case of conflicts between different teams (developers, artists, designers)• Go-between for developers, game designers and the marketing teamApprove specifications produced by game designers or the marketing team and provide them to developersSupply a technical or mathematical point of view to subjects dealt by game designers or the marketing team• Worked on games such as Empire Of Sports (Multisports MMORPG - PC) and Exalight (Futuristic Racer MMORPG - PC)For the record: I will not forget the day I had to present face to face our football game to Patrick Le Lay, former CEO of TF1 (the first and oldest French television channel). A very pleasant and rewarding time.

Dassault Systèmes S.A. is a leading company specializing in 3D and Product Lifecycle Management software.• Create an interactive real-time 3D slideshow (the slideshow is played in a 3D environment and contains 3D interactive objects) under Virtools Dev environment and its user interface.

VRlab is a world leader laboratory in real-time Virtual Humans and a key player in the area of multimodal interaction, immersive Virtual Environments, and Augmented Reality.• Integrate a haptic station in a virtual reality framework in order to perform a handshake between a human in a haptic station and a virtual agent evolving in a virtual world.For the record: I had the chance to work on a machine worth more than $ 300,000 - three specimens in the world -,... and whose mode of employment had been lost.