IBM
- Commercial Marketing
Bois-Colombes
1969 - 1995
Date: January 1992-June 1995
Company: International Business Machines, IBM
Location: Nice, France
Position: Manager of Advanced Health Applications
Description: Promotion and development of the use of Picture Archiving and Communication Systems for Hospitals, of Speech Recognition technology for dictation and automatic transcription of medical reports.
Date: End 1989-December 1991
Location: IBM La Gaude, Alpes-Maritimes, France
Position: Speaker at the International Executive Briefing Center. Director: Mr. Commagnac
Description: Conferences on Systems Network Architecture, NetView Network Management System, Tangora speach recognition prototype, IBM 8750 PBX given to international executives.
Date: January 1986-End 1988
Location: IBM Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Position: Manager of the Emirate Branch
Description Management of an overseas branch. Contact with local personalities. Main customers: banks, oil companies, distribution, aircraft maintenance, etc...
Date: End 1983-1985
Location: IBM Rouen, France
Position: Marketing Manager, Normandy
Description: Management of sales and marketing organizations.
Date: Beginning 1980-End 1983
Location: IBM Saint-Denis, Island of Réunion, Indian Ocean
Position: Director of IBM Indian Southern Indian Ocean Branch
Description: Management of an overseas subsidiary, responsible for three countries: Mauritius, Island of Réunion, the Seychelles.
Management of a profit center: people, operations, sales and after-sales.
Date: Mid 1977-End 1979
Location: IBM World Trade Corporation, White Plains, New York, USA
Position: International Sales Office Program Manager
Description: Public Relations. Contact with high level executives from French customers sent to the U.S. to visit IBM facilities as well as advanced U.S. customers.
Main visitors: Jacques Attali, Special Advisor to François Mitterrand, Ambassador Charles Lucet, French Inspecteurs des Finances, Ecole Nationale d’Administration students, CEO’s of several large French corporations, etc...
Date: January 1975-mid 1977
Location: IBM Libreville, Gabonese Republic
Position: Branch Manager
Description: Creation of a new IBM branch in a developing country. Responsibility of a profit center, including people management, operations follow-up.
Date: January 1973-December 1974
Location: IBM Douala, United Republic of Cameroon
Description: Sales to customers in Douala, Yaoundé, Garoua: banks, breweries, public utilities, distribution, services in a newly computerized country.
Position: Sales Representative
Date and Location: 1969-1972: IBM Lille, France
Position: Sales Representative
Description: Main customers: Port of Dunkirk Authority, Société Française de Mécanique, Unilever detergent manufacturing plant,
Publications and Conferences
Several publications in medical information system magazines during the IBM period:
• “Saisie vocale en langage naturel”, Informatique et Santé n°14, 1993
• “Système de gestion d’images médicales”, Technologies Hospitalières, 1994
• “MedRX, Système de gestion d’images radiologiques” 01 Informatique, 1994
• “Le poste de travail informatique du médecin” CNEH, 1994
Speaker in many medical and I.T. conferences:
• e-Business Forum; Commerce with Internet; CNIT Paris-la Défense; june 1997
• European Medical Informatics Conference IBM, Stockholm, Sweden, january 1995
• Journées Technologies Nouvelles Hospitalières, Paris, Aquaboulevard, june 1994
• EuroPACS, Geneva, Switzerland, Hôpital Cantonal Universitaire, september 1994
• Congrès vétérinaire GECOV, Nantes, march 1994
• Journées Françaises de Radiologie, Paris, Palais des Congrès, october 1993
• Conférence Plan Médicalisation Système d’Information, Hôpital de Montauban, january 1994
• Rencontre “Informatique et Psychiatrie”, Nice, Faculté de Médecine, december 1992
• Colloque “la Voix, l’Informatique et les Médecins”, Hôtel-Dieu, Toulouse, november 1993
• Colloque “Communication et Société”, Nice, Hôtel Plaza, 1990
