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Google
- Enterprise Manager of Search Partner Operation - EMEA
Paris
2012 - maintenant
Management of the EMEA team of Partner Operations Manager for Enterprise Search. Prioritization of projects and resources, balancing business needs vs technical constraints, and driving successful Enterprise Search customer deployments while working with Google Partners in UK, Ireland & France.
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Hudson Global Inc (UK/global)
- Chief Architect
2011 - 2012
Chief Architect, Hudson Global Inc., worldwide leader in permanent recruitment, contracting and talent management services, www.hudson.com.
Responsible of the architecture, infrastructure, and research & development in new technologies for the Hudson’s evolving global IT platform. This platform brings together Hudson’s current regional applications and technologies into the next generation of web services and products, primarily focused on a mix of in-house developed and externally-delivered technology components.
Key projects include the design and deployment of a single interface for a global job search available externally from web and mobile platforms, internal global client search, redesign of the corporate sites using DotNetNuke technology.
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Working by Design (Lille - France)
- Solutions Architect
2003 - 2011
Solutions Architect, freelance IT Consultant, Lille – France
Main projects for Hudson Global Inc:(UK/Global)
Leading of the architecture, prototyping, design and implementation of the ‘TalentDesk’ front-office system of Hudson for EMEA and Asia.
The SOA-based application developed with Microsoft.Net technologies is integrated with back-end financial packages (Exact, Tempest, Oracle Financials, Peoplesoft) and front-end 3rd party solutions: Google Search Appliance (indexing & searching for candidates, clients and jobs), Capscan geo-location, Daxtra CV parsing technology. From 2005 in Ukraine, the project has evolved thru incremental releases and data migration (Oracle, SQL Server, SyBase, FileMaker) for 18 countries across EMEA and Asia.
Other projects for the Hudson Highland Group:
- team support & mentoring with teams based in London, Prague and Ghent.
- re-design and development of the corporate intranet.
- design and development of a secured/encrypted document management platform.
Projects for Spring Group PLC (UK leading technology staffing company, www.spring.com):
- team management & mentoring,
- code auditing and optimisation for the London-based development team.
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Spring Group PLC (UK)
- Design and development Director
2000 - 2003
Design and development Director for Spring Group PLC, in London – UK.
- restructuring of the development team.
- design and development of online staffing tools integrated with an AS/400 back-office.
- leading of the design and development team for the ‘Hyphen’ solution, Spring’s Workforce Management solution (www.hyphen.com); the solution was successfully implemented at Barclays, National Grid, Royal Mail and Thalès, as one of the first Microsoft.Net-based application.
- design of the interfaces with the customer back-ends (Oracle, Ariba).
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Magenta.com Ltd (UK)
- IT Director
1999 - 2000
IT Director of Magenta.com Ltd, a start-up based in London – UK, specialized in the design of e-business solutions for the recruitment industry.
- in charge of the R&D and management of the development team.
- definition of the technical strategy for the company.
- providing design, development and presentation of prototypes for customers.
- building of the ‘Koosmos’ platform, leading to the take-over of Magenta by Spring (using Microsoft ASP and COM technologies)
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Manpower Inc (BE)
- Technical Director
1998 - 1999
Technical Director of the Knowledge Management Department of Manpower Inc., Brussels – Belgium, world leader in the recruitment industry (www.manpower.com).
- Leading of the technical design, development and implementation of the internet sites for 22 countries in EMEA, as well as intranet and extranet applications.
- Design and development of an application for remote offices to post job adverts online (VisualBasic application using XML-like documents and email communication)
- Participation in the design of the Master Vendor solution, and design of the interfaces with blue-chip customers’ back-office systems (Xerox, NCR).
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Chen, Richard & Cie (Caen)
- CO-Founder, CEO
1993 - 1998
Co-founder, CEO of Chen, Richard & Cie, Caen – France, a start-up company specialized in multimedia communication. Many productions: institutional digital communication, e-Learning tools, CD-ROMs for artists, mass-produced edutainment CD-ROMs for the Nathan Editions, Liris Interactive, Retz & Atlas Multimedia Editions.
- Co-founder in a start-up of 4, the company grew to 14.
- Went from the role of a single technical designer and developer to managing the production and project team, sales and customers’ relationships, until taking over the company management, before the sell-out in 1998 (production for Philips CDi in C, and CD-Rom using Macromedia Lingo)
- Awarded the Jury Special Prize at the Festival de Biarritz in 1997 for a kiosk application for Manpower Inc (client/server distributed application for online job ads)
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IN Concept (Cairon)
- Analyst-Programmer
1991 - 1993
Analyst-programmer for IN Concept, Caen – France, a software house specialized in accounting and retail packages for the AS/400 platform.
- Started as junior application developer for the new AS/400 platform, using RPG III
- Evolved to R&D developer specialized in user-interface and code generation.
