Eric GRAND

En résumé

Entreprises

• Laval Très Haut Débit, France Telecom Group - General Manager

  2010 - maintenant Laval Très Haut Débit is a subsidary of France Telecom Group in charge of the deployement, operation and sales of the optical network of Laval agglomeration

• FCRVietnam (France Telecom Group) - COO

  2007 - 2010 My current job covers two main areas of responsibility:
  
  For Business Cooperation Contract management:
  o negotiate, plan and follow up Ho Chi Minh City telecommunication access network projects deployment
  o elaboration and management of 1MUSD/year training program
  o work in close relationship with local and foreign suppliers as well as with Vietnam Network Post and Telecom group top executives
  
  Support to the business development activities for France Telecom Group:
  o Manage Orange participation in telecommunication exhibition in Vietnam: multimedia service demonstration on mobile phone with large media coverage
  
  Key achievements:
  o more than 7MUSD savings on CAPEX achieved in 2009
  o reduction of maintenance cost by 20% in 2008 and 2009
  o organization of the participation of Orange in 4 exhibitions in Vietnam in 3 years, with high media coverage reached
  o organization of a mobile application dev camp in 2009 and 2010 in HCMC

• Orange - Team leader of local loop project managers

  Paris 2003 - 2007 Management of 22 local loop project managers:
  o group competencies management in order to increase productivity
  o work process transformation management in order to increase economic efficiency through the implementation of lean management technics
  o direct technico-economic validation of local loop projects (total 900k€/year investments)
  o negotiation with key customers and local authorities (mayor, regional authorities) to facilitate local loop project implementation and reduce cost
  o 30% team work efficiency improvement in 2 years (after lean management implementation)
  o Development of a follow up management tool used by the 7 regional teams

• Alcatel Lucent - WDM system research and design engineer

  Paris 2001 - 2003 o interface between Alcatel product development center (in France and USA), the marketing team (in Italy) and research team (in France) for terrestrial WDM system
  o follow up of the 1640 WDM system, including validation of new features, testing and validation of new network configuration and test bed management for customer visit
  o coordination of technical support for Alcatel RFP answer to very long distance WDM system
  o patents deposit (2 in 2 year)
  o presentation during scientific conference (ECOC 2002 conference in Copenhagen)

• Alcatel Lucent - WDM system design engineer

  Paris 2001 - 2003 o interface between Alcatel product development center (in France and USA), the marketing team (in Italy) and research team (in France) for terrestrial WDM system
  o follow up of the 1640 WDM system, including validation of new features, testing and validation of new network configuration and test bed management for customer visit
  o coordination of technical support for Alcatel RFP answer to very long distance WDM system
  o patents deposit (2 in 2 year)
  o presentation during scientific conference (ECOC 2002 conference in Copenhagen)

• Alcatel submarine network - International installation and commissioning manager

  1998 - 2001 o installation project manager of international submarine optical network projects covering installation and configuration of WDM system, submarine cable, SDH equipments, network management IS,LAN and WAN).
  o commissioning responsible for project up to 700M$ (South American Crossing): customer interface, team management (up to 30 people in 5 countries), 4 month per year spent abroad

Formations

• Ecole Nationale Supérieure Des Télécommunications

  Brest 1994 - 1997 micro-wave and optic for telecommunication
  
  diplôme ingénieur (equivalent to MS'c)
  
  “Diplome d’ingénieur” Telecom Bretagne (“Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications de Bretagne”) speciality: micro-wave and optic for telecommunication system (equivalent to MS’c)

• Lycée Thiers

  Marseille 1992 - 1994 classe préparatoires
  
  spe M'

Réseau

• Alexandre BARBAN

• Christine GERBOUIN

• Christophe LEBORGNE

• Jean-Paul BOISSON

• Jérémy ODOUX

• Juan CULLATI

• Pierre VARLET

• Quentin LEBEL

• Richard TOPER

• Thierry DUCHON