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Mex, Vaud, Switzerland

St.-Fons, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France

Managing Director of Symbio Hydrogen Academy, a subsidiary of Symbio, a fuel cell manufacturer, focusing on hydrogen up and cross skilling to support the industry growth. Set up the business and learning model for Symbio academy, with the ambition to serve as well external learners.Run the P&L, partnered, with other industrial, consulting and education to.

Paris Area, France

• Supporting the business transformation from automotive to carbon free mobility, for the 33k employees, in 38 sites worldwide.
• Scouting state of the art approaches to close skill gaps based on loss analysis in engineering and operations.
• Expanded the learning ecosystem through partnerships with academics and public funding. Contributed to circular economy campus project with Renault and Veolia.
• Awarded a silver trophy in digital learning by U Spring (National event for corporate universities) for reducing training time by 13% while increasing trainees by 26% and content by trainee by 46%.

La Verrière, 78351 France

• Started up from scratch the department to transform the organization into an innovative tech company (20k people, € 4 billion of turnover). Responsible for the worldwide upskilling of 6 k engineers to achieve the.
• Valeo HR award for On the Job development strategy fostering lifelong learning.
• Upskilling of Technical Centers in India and China. Competence based hiring, onboarding and tutorship.
• Yearly doubled the people trained while reducing time spent by 20% (7,800 people trained in 2015).

Munich Area, Germany

• Corporate academy, focusing on Operational Excellence and Employee Engagement: lean and agile mindset, continuous learning and improvement (kaizen).
• Designed and performed blended training seminars for site leadership (Poland, Mexico, India, Japan)
• Internal consulting on employee engagement and well-being (Brazil, Spain, Italy, and India).

Issoire, France

Led daily a production unit of 170 operators, 100,000 wiper blades per day, € 120 million of revenue in 2007. Deployed an ergonomics preventive program and reorganized maintenance. Improved operational availability of equipment (+6%) and reduced yearly the non-quality by 30%.

Issoire, France

Designed the safety management system under Occupational Health and Safety Assessment System 18001. Set up safety standard operational procedures to prevent risks & accidents.

Greater Boston Area

Master in Business Administration. Elective curriculum focusing on Innovation and Leadership Development: managing innovation and creativity, new product development, entrepreneurial marketing, compensations and benefit, self assessment and career development.

Pleasanton, CA

Audited the development process to transform toward customer centricity an independent CAD software vendor ($27 Million sales) using the Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI).

Tours Area, France

• Combat Leadership project manager reporting to the Commanding General, Army Training Command.
• Following the switch to professional army, designed the strategy for 11 special warfare training centers worldwide (€5 Million budget, 5,000 trainees per year). Implemented a 50% headcount downsizing.Talent manager.
• Defined the career paths, and formal legal requirements in cooperation with ministry of sports.

Chambéry Area, France

1997- 1999 Company CommanderStarted up a new combat unit of 120 professional riflemen, prepared them for action in the Balkans and Africa. Developed ethics and behavioral trainings for recruits.1995-1997 Collective training manager. Designed and led combat readiness trainings and rescue courses. Tested company-size units in winter and mountain warfare.

Master Of Business Administration, Business Administration And Management, General

Master Of Arts, Foreign Affairs

Activities and Societies: Elected section president for 2 years

Bachelor'S Degree, History

Chef D'Unité De Haute Montagne