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Code and Theory
- Head of Engineering
2014 - maintenant
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Digitas
- Head of PHP/Flash/HTML Development
2010 - 2014
Within the Technology Department:
- As Head of the PHP Department, I am managing a team of 30 to 50 people, composed of project directors, project managers, inshore and offshore BackOffice developers (PHP).
- As Head of the Creative Technology Department, I am managing a team of 20 to 30 people, composed of project managers and FrontOffice developers (Flash / HTML).
Main projects:
- Renault (Automotive Sector): Delivery of high traffic promotional websites for the release of the new models.
- Total (Energy Sector): Delivery of the group communication website (www.total.com)
- Hennessy (LVMH Group): Delivery of www.hennessy.com for this global luxury group
- Nissan (Automotive Sector): Delivery of a social and content platform to promote electric cars: www.the-big-turn-on.co.uk. Over 1 million social activations.
- La Poste (French Postal Service): Delivery of www.laposte.fr, the group communication website
- Strategy and development of a new CMS. The new architecture of the tool includes a complete MVC model, heavy use of OOP, data abstraction, etc. within the Symfony2 framework
Technical environment:
- BackOffice : PHP5, Symfony2, MySQL, MongoDB, Magento, POO, Waterfall and Agile (SCRUM) project methodologies
- FrontOffice : HTML5, CSS3, NodeJS, Less, Express, Responsive Design
- Accessibility, SEO, Tagging/Tracking, SSO, Cloud technologies (Amazon), Hosting infrastructure design, etc.
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Neoma Interactive
- Chef de projet
2008 - 2010
Independant consultant working on :
- IT strategy consultancy,
- Project management.
Example of project : delivery of an intranet for Fiat France.
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Pixmania
- Head of Technology
Gennevilliers
2006 - 2008
Directly reporting to the CEO, I had the responsibility of all the websites owned by Fotovista, the most important being www.pixmania.com (leading European e-commerce website, with approx. 800M€ turnover last year).
The IT Department at Fotovista is 120 people strong (10% of the company). It develops in-house the e-commerce websites, as well as the internal business tools (product management, finance, warehouse management) using Opensource technologies.
Main missions:
- Structure the IT Department to develop a real “project management” culture,
- Guarantee the availability 24x7 of pixmania.com and the other websites owned by Fotovista, as well as websites hosted for external clients (www.laboutique.bouyguestelecom.fr, www.thelink.co.uk)
- Manage all of the HR aspects of the IT team (budget of approx. 4M€),
- Manage the rewriting and hosting by Fotovista of all the DSGi websites (Dixons, Curry’s, and PC World).
Main achievements:
- Delivery of Pixplace, the marketplace that allows third party vendors to sell their products on pixmania.com (similar to Amazon Marketplace),
- Setup of two new redundant and load-balanced locations to host the company's servers, providing a much higher availability,
- Setup of new processes for the management of projects using agile methodologies,
- Modification of the structure of the IT Department, with the addition of Project Directors (process management, liaison with some business departments) and Lead Developers (peer reviewing and testing).
About Pixmania.com:
- Over 500 000 unique visitors per day,
- Over 400 servers and over 200 network appliances, dispatched over 3 locations around Paris,
- Technical environment : PHP4/PHP5, MySQL 4, Oracle 10g, Linux, Apache, Nagios, Cacti, Dell servers, HP network appliances, Netapp filers
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LINAGORA
- Project Director
Puteaux
2004 - 2006
Directly attached to the CTO, I was in charge of half of the pre-sales activity, and of managing a 30-people project team.
Main missions:
- Define projects (consulting),
- Write proposals, define architectures, plan projects, personnel resources, costs.
- Define specifications,
- Lead project management teams (each project being handled by a project manager),
- Miscellaneous HR tasks including allocation of personnel resources to projects.
Main projects:
- Monitoring projects for industrial companies (NDA, projects from 30 000Euro to 200 000 Euro): Monitoring of European or worldwide architectures, including servers, services, and network appliances.
Technical environments: Nagios, Cacti, Perfparse, Oreon, Nareto, Snmptt, Linux, Windows, AIX, HP-UX, CISCO, 3COM
- Development of a generic tool to offer online administrative procedures for a French administration (120 000 Euro),
Technical environment: PHP, Apache, MySQL
- Development of a generic tool to build several websites for a French administration (250 000 Euro).
Technical environment: PHP, MySQL, EZPublish, SPIP, OpenLDAP, Active Directory
- Development of a groupware tool for a French ministry (200 000 Euro, 55 000 users).
Technical environment: OpenGroupware.org, Objective-C, OpenLDAP, Postfix, Cyrus-IMAP
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Alcôve
- Pre-sales Manager / Head of Technology
SAINT-THIBAULT-DES-VIGNES
2000 - 2004
Alcôve was the first French company dealing only with free software. I was at first a pre-sales engineer, then manager of the pre-sales department (3 people), and then CTO (20 people).
Main missions:
- Write proposals, define architectures, plan projects, personnel resources allocation, costs.
- Define specifications,
- Project management, resource planning, and various HR tasks.
Main projects:
- Setup of a Linux distribution for a specific telecom appliance (Alcatel, budget 30 000 Euro).
Technical environment: Mandriva Linux
- Setup of proxies and reverse proxies for the French Ministry of Finance (50 000 Euro).
Technical environment: Squid, Squint, Squidguard, Apache,
- Development of the website allowing the Orange group to sell Internet and phone contracts (100 000Euro).
Technical environment: Apache, PHP, and PostgreSQL
- Setup of a monitoring platform for a French bank (50 000Euro).
Technical environment: Nagios, Cacti, BBReport, SNMP
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ESR
- Consultant
Courbevoie
1999 - 1999
In the consulting department:
- Pre-sales activity on Linux and Open source software,
- Definition and setup of the company internal website.
Technical environment: Debian GNU/Linux, Mandriva Linux, Apache, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, and PHP
