Leading all development workforce (300+ software engineers) and architecture, leveraging agile at scale concepts.

My team (30 people - 70 contractors - 12M€ budget) builds the data platform (Big Data, Data Lake, Analytics, etc.) enabling Skywise, in partnership with Palantir.

Skywise Platform Chief Architect

Manager of a 60+ team and a 4M€ budget, I am accountable of:• Cdiscount Global IT architecture (France, Thailand, Vietnam, Columbia)• Key events management (Sale and Christmas seasons)• Core platform (see below) availability and performance• Technical frameworks development• IT Research and DevelopmentI am also chairman of the Architecture Committee, aiming at validate the architecture solution of each IT project at Cdiscount, and member of the CIO's board.

Manager of a 50+ people team, I lead the Cdiscount Core Platform (development, strategy, transformation projects).From the IT perspective, I’m especially in charge of:• Cdiscount search engine migration from Exalead to Solr• Catalogue publication to Cassandra• Catalogue replication to allow multi tenancy• Deployment of a real time tracker (CANDDi) coupled with the Cdiscount Big Data platform• Search engine relevancy optimization based on Big Data analysis• Customer personalization of the website• Deployment of Couchbase as a distributed cache• Cdiscount migration to Unicode to allow Thailand and Vietnam deploymentTechnical environment & accountability:• Search engine (Solr, MongoDB, .Net): updates, parametrization, relevancy, scalability, high availability• Big Data (MaprFS - 3.0TB RAM, 300 cores, 70TB storage, Hadoop MapReduce, Talend Big Data, Hive, Spark, Drill, Qlikview, HUE): real time analytics, data science algorithms, and real time big data• Catalogue (Cassandra, Kafka, SQLServer, .Net, Talend): administration, master data publication (offers and products), scalability, high availability• Order management (.Net, SQLServer): Order management process, Shipping, CRM• CMS (Silverlight, .Net, SQLServer): Content management system of the Cdiscount website

As Director of Consulting Services:• I am accountable for business development: 1M+ € of turnover generated• I supervise all consulting missions• I am in charge of staffing and recruitmentI mainly work with two major accounts:• Cdiscount (Bordeaux) - Program Management / Enterprise Architecture Consulting - Drive the Front Office Transformation Program (Catalog & Search Engine) with Open Source scalable technologies (Kafka, Cassandra, CouchBase, RabbitMQ, Solr, Drools, Storm)• Keolis (Paris, Rennes, Bordeaux) - Enterprise Architecture and SOA Consulting - Support design of the Group target Enterprise Architecture and Roadmap with TOGAF

I have led several consulting missions:• AXA Group (Paris) - IS Strategy Consulting - Define the AXA Group Digital Strategy• Mutualité Sociale Agricole - Enterprise Architecture Consulting - Design the Enterprise Multicanal Platform• Mutualité Sociale Agricole - Enterprise Architecture Consulting - Lead architecture workpackages on a software integration project (14M€)• Sanofi (Lyon) - Enterprise Architecture Consulting - Design the Enterprise Big Data Strategy• Stade Toulousain - Enterprise Architecture Consulting - Drive the IS transformation to an Events Driven Architecture• Airbus - Enterprise Architecture Consulting - Drive the transformation of A350 follow up to Real Time Analytics• INSA Toulouse - Lecturer - Cloud Computing courses

Within the architecture team of the IT Department (4000+ people), my role was to define the Target Operating Model of the technical architecture both based on reference framework management (standards & cartographies) and support to projects, by:• Defining a governance and communicating it to the top management• Setting up and coordinating architects communities to define the strategy, the target and the associated roadmap of technical domains (Applications Integration, Security, Business Intelligence, Database, BPM, BRMS, CEP, Real Time Monitoring, …)• Leading technical studies to assess business issues or opportunities• Supporting strategic projects to design and control their architectureIn this transformation context, I was particularly involved in Business Intelligence, Database, BPM, Integration and Monitoring communities and I supported the Program Directors of two major programs:• Deploy SG CIB Platform in Korea• Production Improvement Program (12 M€)

Head of 3 Competency Centers (15 people) within the central architecture team of the IT department, my role was to build and enhance platforms and to propose expertise on three Technical Domains : Business Intelligence (SAP Business Objects and Oracle BIEE), Business Process Management (Tibco iProcess and jBPM) and Monitoring.• Platform Design• Technical Architecture Definition• Technical Expertise• Project Management

Leader of a developers team (3 to 8 people), I was in charge of enhancing the SG CIB standard framework for real time monitoring (developed in Java) by:• Checking the suitability between business requirements and system functionalities• Organizing development life cycle of the application (development, tests, releases)• Ensuring technological watch to make sure that this in house solution would remain competitive with respect to market solutionsAs a project manager, I was in charge of deploying this real time monitoring solution on the 80 most critical applications by:• Building a project proposal (2M€): stakes, scope, risks, planning, financials, stakeholders, governance• Rolling out this project on the entire organization through steering and operational committees• Reporting the project activity to the sponsor and escalating the alerts

Within the technical architecture team of an important redesign program (180 persons during 8 years), I had the opportunity to develop or enhance:• A web application (PHP, MySQL) allowing to analyse code quality• A solution based on worldwide distributed caches (GigaSpaces in a Java J2EE application) to deal with international low latency messaging• A framework allowing to expose Java services in C, C++ and C#