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Cisco
- Senior Software Engineering Manager
Issy les Moulineaux
2015 - maintenant
Software engineering manager of 3 cross functional scrum teams (22 engineers) responsible for development of Cloud-based
client Products.
* People management and team leadership, performance and skills development management, resources allocation
management, recruiting and hiring management.
* Facilitate the resolution of impediment removals of the scrum teams ;
* Drive continuous improvement of team and processes (CI/CD). ;
* Synchronize with product and program management ,
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Cisco
- Software Engineering Manager
Issy les Moulineaux
2012 - 2015
Software engineering manager of 17 System engineers responsible for validation of CPE-embedded software for Pay-TV
operator's projects and automated testing of Cloud-based client Products.
* Drive system integration line strategy and continuous improvement of processes, including collaboration and alignment
with Indian site.
* Team leadership, performance and skills development management, knowledge-sharing management, facilitation.
* Resources allocation management, recruiting and hiring management.
* Operational support of projects and products development (multi-site: UK, India and Israel).
Main achievements:
* Drove the enforcement of engineering practices in system integration line: test strategy with end-to-end approach, test
design, ATDD, exploratory testing, root cause analysis.
* Agile coaching of automation/CI infrastructure team. Implementation of Kanban methodology.
* Drove Scrum agile methodology implementation in the context of a waterfall VOO-Terra Nova project (Pay-TV cable
operator in Belgium). Assumed the Scrum Master role of 10 people cross-functional team for developing VOD feature
with end to end responsibilities.
* Led the roll-off of the requirement management and traceability solution (based on Doors, Jira and HPQC tools) for
overall R&D projects and teams.
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NDS
- System Architect
2010 - 2011
UPC Horizon program
o System specifications of DOCSIS PVR Gateway, DVB-C STB and IP Client.
o Full design of installation feature for all affiliates (12 countries) and led performance requirements validation by
development and integrations teams.
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NDS
- System Architect
2008 - 2010
Sky Deutschland programs
o System specifications of DVB-S2/HD zapper, PVR & External PVR STBs.
o Requirements management for overall projects/ platforms (more than 10).
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NDS
- STB lead VOD Architect
2007 - 2008
SES Americom IPTV Program
o VOD feature design and specifications for IPTV STB.
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NDS
- System Architect
2006 - 2007
Canal+/CanalSat MediasatMax Extended program
o PSI-SI specifications of hybrid DTT/DVB-S HD External PVR.
o DVB-SSU and DVB scanning features design.
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NDS
- System Architect
2005 - 2012
System Architect on MediaHighway advanced and Fusion-based software for R&D client software projects. Multi-site
collaboration (India, Israel and UK).
* Projects follow up from requirement gathering to project delivery.
* Risk management, change request management. ;
* Customer-facing, technical workshops. ;
* System and UI specifications writing, requirement management.
* Multicultural team transversal management, technical support to development, integration and testing teams.
Main achievements:
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Canal+Technologies
- R&D Infrastructure Manager
2001 - 2005
Team leader of 5 System Engineers responsible for test bed set-up and system expertise for overall R&D MediaHighway and
MediaGuard STB projects and Head-End products.
* Drive strategy and continuous improvement of R&D test bed, new technologies migration, and scalable architecture.
* R&D Test beds management, 200k EUR annual budget. ;
* Team leadership, resources allocation management. ;
* DVB systems expertise, technical support to development, integration and testing teams.
Main achievements:
* OCAP DOCSIS reference platform for MediaHigway STB validation.
* Full IPTV platform for CanalSat over ADSL project end to end validation.
* Subscription and PPV simulcrypt platform for Sky Italia MediaGuard/ Videoguard swap project.
* Full MediaHighway/MediaGuard Head-end for Canal+ Pilotime PVR end to end validation.
* Head-End product platforms for integration and tests of SIG, PSIG, SAS, SBI, DSMCC OCG, ECMG, EMMG.
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Canal+
- System engineer
Issy-les-Moulineaux
1999 - 2000
* Managed Broadcast test bed for overall Pantalk STB projects.
* Specified and executed MediaGuard Conditional Access conformance testing on IRD.
* Led test bed management tool project: intranet tool based on HTML and php-mySQL.
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Philips
- Hardware engineer
Suresnes
1997 - 1999
* Developed the back-end PCB for Jasmin MPEG2 over ATM STB, FPGA Programing Altera/AHDL.
* Drove manufacturing and validation of overall Set Top Box hardware units: CPU, network interfaces (ATM, Ethernet,
DVB-C).
* Onsite acceptance testing at France Telecom Lagnon.
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HTS (SSII)
- Hardware engineer
1996 - 1997
Developed a PCB for replacing obsolete PLL component on communication module for SNCF.
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Schneider Electric
- Test engineer
Rueil Malmaison
1995 - 1996
Executed CEM pre-certification testing campaign (conducted and radiated) for the overall motor speed controllers range of
Schneider Electric.
