Olivier BAELDE

En résumé

Entreprises

• Latitude 26 LTD - Solutions Architect - Project Manager

  2008 - maintenant Offices in London and Crans Montana, Mar 2008 - Current (Latitude 26 is the european subsidiary of Joomla Vertical corp - see below)
  
  Main responsibilities:
  
  • Supervise the european development team, extensively Developers and Testers, to bring commercially aware software solutions and improvements to the vertical markets line of software.
  • Excellent communicator who is capable of putting forward and justifying new ideas and development plans.
  • Direct line management responsibility within this role for Developers and Testers teams. Define requirements and pricing for custom developments requested by existing european clients.
  
  Main Achievements:
  
  • Project management of development projects in e-ecommerce and CMS from writing specifications to delivery and implementation. Managed projects and international development teams (local and remote) composed of up to 15 developers and testers.

• Joomla Vertical corp. - Social Media Manager

  2007 - 2008 Main responsibilities:
  
  • Lead the creation and definition of social networks integration concepts with the extended team of line managers, designers, developers, and crossfunctional teams that will ultimately support the APIs integration and implementation in the vertical markets solutions.
  • Lead, write and present APIs integration requirements, driven by user insights, with input from internal stakeholders and clients using the solutions.
  • Maintained the overall social networks integration and feature roadmap for everything social, managing prioritization and tradeoffs. Measured and analyzed new and existing competitors in the social space. Drived usability testing, measure and report results, track online usability bugs and define areas for constant enhancement and optimization within the social user experience.
  • Prepared effective presentations and briefs and presented results in a group setting. Communicated frequently with management and clients to clarify and resolve issues/concerns. Presented to executive staff and BoD. Discussed technical concepts, and proposed opportunistic new product ideas with non-technical and technical employees to clients.
  
  Main Achievements:
  
  • Wrote requirements for social networks integration in the vertical market solutions: (Facebook, Twitter, Picasa, Flickr, Youtube, Issuu, Docstoc, Scribd…)
  • Project manager for the integration project. Lead the development team in order to complete the APIs integration.

• Joomla Vertical corp. - Lead Web Architect - Project Manager

  2001 - 2007 Main responsibilities:
  
  • Lead architect and developer for ecommerce, social media and CMS projects: Advise clients on day-to-day e-commerce sales efforts and brand marketing initiatives by effectively managing the front-end website experience, usability, landing pages, content, product placement, overall merchandising mix and the funnel’s conversion rate.
  • Provide clients with strategies to develop and manage e-commerce store production schedules and product promotions by working in partnership with sales, marketing, product, and operations teams, internally and externally, to develop content, features, and landing pages to drive sales conversion.
  • Project manager supervising 2 teams of developers (10 developers and testers) for custom ecommerce development and CMS projects. Confers with other engineering and technical personnel to resolve questions of program intent, inaccuracy, feasibility, data input and output requirements of computer processing.
  • Supervise and work with systems analysts, engineers, programmers and others to design system and to obtain information on project limitations and capabilities, performance requirements and interface.
  
  Main Achievements:
  
  • Defined the database architecture and wrote the specifications for the vertical market solutions.
  • Lead project and development team for e-ecommerce, social media and CMS web projects from specifications to delivery.

Formations

• The University Of Dallas (Irving)

  Irving 1985 - 1988 MBA - International Management

Réseau

Pas de contact professionnel