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Oxfordshire, England, United Kingdom

Oxford, United Kingdom

New York, Ny

Built and presented offers and proposals. Provided consulting expertise and single point of contact for Client until project fully production ready. For special initiatives, project management responsibilities up to final delivery and client satisfaction. • Under EVP Business Development direction, helped acquire new Accounts and grow business organically from $8m in 2010 to $12m for 2012. • Built the new 'High Speed Publishing' offer from in-house technologies. Performed the first operational deployment of the offer at one of 'Big Six' publisher (6 months project). • Brought a multimillion dollar deal together for service delivery to Apple, and then worked on service offering expansions to propose to publishers in the program. Full responsibility on a related side project of 40k+ title cleaning project for Apple. • Defined answers to client needs leveraging strengths of Jouve operational sites in France and offshore for new accounts or evolutions for existing accounts (Hachette, Macmillan, HarperCollins, Zinio, …) • Involved in most eBook related project for all US, UK and Canada clients. Special focus on 'boutique projects' in trade ('Civil War', Random House; 'Roots', Vanguard), Education (Kaplan) and Professional (Elsevier) to both deliver these projects and extract experience from them to enrich the group’s offering.

Lens, France

Project manager and single point of contact for customer from contract sign-up to full production ready, responsible for building profitable solutions for Jouve meeting customer satisfaction and SLA.• Managed evolutions on existing or starting projects for a dozen of publishers and distributors, including Amazon.com, Sony, Wiley, Penguin, Perseus, Hachette and Harlequin.• Put together proposals for all clients and prospects with conversion centered needs for US and European markets. Responsible for bringing signed contracts into successful running operations, including product advice to client, defining production organization, communication protocols, reporting…New clients included Barnes&Noble.com, Constellation, MBS/Xplana, Macmillan, Avalon, Fischer Verlag. Services include ebook conversions, print on demand, SITB, conversion for online solutions, multiple input/output/distribution scenarios…• Carried over entire project from definition to closure on special cases including a 50k titles conversion project for Sony to move from proprietary format into ePub format ($1m+ project) and the digital production of the lead product 'Vade Mecum' from Saraiva Editoria (Brazil) which was critical for the publisher image and Jouve start in South America.

Paris

Senior Consultant in a specialized Data Migration & Merger department. • The nature of such projects are always as much technical as they are about human and organizational changes. Involved on an insurance merger data strategy and in the Chorus project (redesign of the Expense, Revenues and Accounting system for the French central administration)

Nice, France - Praha, Czech Republic

Senior Consultant and Project Manager roles in a dozen of projects in a variety of technologies. • Senior Consultant on a 2 years project for DHL (in France and Czech Republic). Technical role on analysis and design of data transfers between legacy systems and the new system based on FineTMS software using XML-based messaging. Communication and facilitator role between newly acquired company teams from France (Paris, Marseilles and Brest) and the DHL German management. • Managed a 6 months market study and prototype solution developments for Médiamétrie-eStat aimed at finding solutions for audience measurement on new media technologies (streaming, DSL, Mobile TV, Podcatsing…)• Other projects included migration projects, like the TeMIP client Network Alarm system from Windows to Unix environments (Hewlett Packard), development projects, like GSM equipment test tools for SNCF and the SS7 protocol SCCP-CO layer implementation (Network, for Hewlett Packard), internationalization of a website in 3 languages for the Nice Commerce Chamber, training project for a new working environment for UGAP (a government organization)…

Cupertino, Ca

Requested international exposure and moved as Team Lead on a major initiative with Hewlett Packard.Evolved into Project Manager for the maintenance and new developments of the SCSI driver subsystem on all releases of the HP-UX Operating System. Redesigned all aspects of the operations, including processes, tools, test suites and trainings in order to address the increasing number of system types and OS releases. Divided backlog by 10 in 6 months and reduced patch production cycle time by 25%. Also implemented a continuous quality improvement program. At the end of the project, designed and carried out the transition plan to HP India. I also performed as Technical Expert in other HP facilities and projects.

Rennes, France

Software Developer on a variety of projects including Digital TV Analyzer solution, Mobile backend, network backbone and dashboard to present financial and operational results. Clients included Matra Communication, Bouygues Telecom, Alcatel. Applied standard waterfall development approach as well as RAD model depending on the project type and size. Evolved into Analyst and Designer roles on some of these projects.

Rennes, France

Military service. Teacher in computer science, Object Oriented programming and design.