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Prague, Tchéquie

Paris, France

• Responsible for the design of simulation systems for training and preparation for land forces operations.
• Analyze, reformulate and estimate user expectations with representatives of the French land forces (Army General Staff) in order to define the vision of the product to be developed.
• Identify, quantify, and anticipate risks and constraints upstream of projects (feasibility study).
• Organize and lead working groups with users and/or subcontractors.
• Write contractual deliverables for public or direct markets.
• Receive, validate, and trace discrepancies in deliverables from suppliers.

Québec, Canada

• The video game development studio of the company Ubisoft located in Quebec City, involved in the Assassin’s Creed franchise, notably responsible for the next title: RED.Manager of a team of programmers in charge of the.
• Participate in technological choices and conception during design workshops.
• Plan, estimate, organize and supervise team activities.
• Measure and anticipate teams’ capacity.
• Manage the progress and individual motivation of team members.
• Federate and motivate the various multisite, multicultural, and multidisciplinary development units to support and implement the artistic vision.

Osny, Île-de-France, France

• Responsible for the costs, milestones, and quality of our bids in response to customer requests for the Land Simulation.
• Build customer-oriented solutions and highlight their value in our proposals.
• Analyze and drive customer requirements, risks, constraints, and milestones.
• Prepare end user-oriented demonstration.
• Coordinate the different services and local and remote multidisciplinary teams.Also acting as Technical Lead on three active projects involving the integration of Bohemia Interactive Simulations products to improve the.
• Accountable for solution related issues and communication with stakeholders.

Prague, Tchéquie

• Mostly acting as single point of contact (tech) ensuring effective communication between the customers and internal teams, understanding the customer’s business and vision, while keeping aligned with the company’s.
• Support sales representatives closing deals, building demos and attending trade shows.
• Team leader of multicultural and multidisciplinary bid teams, ensuring the success of bids from opportunity to contract award.
• Manage customers’ requirements definitions for new markets, and white papers and proof of concepts development for RFIs/RFPs.
• Helped improve internal processes and took part in the on boarding process of new employees (project management, support, and sales teams).Post-Sales, focused on customer loyalty and satisfaction, building close.
• Led on-site and remote custom demonstration, on-boarding, and delivery events in EMEA.

Coquelles, Hauts-de-France, France

• Short mission as Contractor in France, for family reasons. Eurotunnel is the company running the railway tunnel that connects France to Britain, I was coordinating Freight projects (Business to Business).
• Managed a new cross functional project related to Brexit involving several internal departments.
• Coordinated the development of the new online booking web app for customers (front and back office) – two subcontractors and local teams.
• Helped supervise the Microsoft Dynamics 365 CRM deployment with a sub-contractor and local teams.

Prague, Tchéquie

• Project Manager of the French Army global license and related programs
• Scheduled the deliveries.
• Supervised the proposals, projects and acceptance tests.
• Helped in the requirements definition, priorities management, integration in larger programs (interoperability).
• Improved the customer support services and communication processes (tickets, monthly reports).
• Prepared and led the Quarterly review meetings with the procurement agency (DGA).

Prague, République Tchèque

• First Sales Engineer joining Bohemia Interactive Simulations, to develop our activity in EMEA by partnering with our Business Developers. Combined with a Project Manager role, in charge of French projects.
• Supervised EMEA pre-sales phases including requirements definition, feasibility studies, project estimates, technical and functional compliance check, proposals writing, reviews and negotiations.
• Helped define the Sales Engineer roles and design the bid processes.
• Contributed to the development of new markets, especially the French Army global license and the Swedish development program, both renewed and still active.

La Madeleine, Hauts-de-France, France

• Joined one of the maintenance teams in charge of Orange’s (French phone company) five websites (B2C & B2B).
• Team leader of five developers working on customer support tickets resolution and websites updates.
• Monitored the weekly team occupation plan and deliveries schedule.
• Managed customer expectations (requirements and period of performance).

Dunkerque Et Périphérie

• ArcelorMittal is the world's leading steel and mining company. I took part as main engineer in a re-engineering project to refactor the production monitoring software before the renewal of a physical blast furnace (two.
• Guided key users during requirements definition, test plan elaboration, acceptance tests and on-boarding.
• Contributed to the application development, all layers, from database to user interfaces, and to the ArcelorMittal’s Framework optimization and debugging.
• Took responsibility for the monthly team’s progress reports.
• Refactored from the ground up (personal initiative) an internal tool to improve the automatized data reports generation, within the original project’s time and budget, which pleased the end users of the main.

Roubaix

• ANKAMA was focusing on the design of massive multiplayer online role-playing games.Participated on the design and development of internal tools to facilitate daily routines and data management, focusing on Ankama’s.
• Key users’ requirements definition (internal teams)
• Audits, surveys, feasibility checks, impacts analysis, estimates.
• Change management control (documentation, training, presentations, workshops)
• Created new internal controls such as scenario editor, spell checker, dialog tree viewer, etc. Based on SWT components
• Developed new graphic functionalities for Ankama’s game editor.

Certification Professionnelle De Niveau I En Management Des Systèmes D’Information (Bac+5), Technologies De L'Information

Certification Professionnelle De Niveau Ii En Ingénierie Des Logiciels (Bac+4), Technologies De L'Information

Bts Informatique De Gestion (Option Développeur D’Applications), Technologies De L'Information