Sophia Antipolis2006 - maintenantSales & e-commerce platform Amadeus Sophia antipolis (FR):
Head of new generation (Web Based ) front office product for Airlines software development.
Development is spread among 3 main geographical locations: France - Germany - India
AMADEUS SAS
- Senior Manager
Sophia Antipolis2003 - 2005New Generation Departure Control System - Amadeus London (UK).
In charge of software development activities arround customer management (seating, boarding, baggage, ...)
Strategic project under high pressure and visibility.
Main achievements:
• Negotiation: large exposition to customers (British Airways, Qantas, Lufthansa …).
• Recruitment: permanent recruitment effort. Project team grew from 20 to 100 in 2 years.
• Planning & Delivery: all planned software deliveries delivered on time.
AMADEUS SAS
- Senior Development Center Manager
Sophia Antipolis2000 - 2002Amadeus – Broadvision joint development center responsible - Broadvision Redwood City, (CA)
My role was to create a mixed (Amadeus/Broadvision) software development project team with the objective to deliver an e-commerce travel vertical web application that leverages Broadvision self service framework.
Main achievements:
• Close collaboration with the business leader to define the best product.
• People management: I had to learn the way to run interviews and manage people the US way.
• Delivery of the product on time with high quality standards.
This new application has been chosen as the foundation of the OPODO web site.
AMADEUS SAS
- Project Manager
Sophia Antipolis1996 - 2000Active participation in the launch of a new business unit (New Distribution Technologies). The goal of this new aMaDEUS entity is to increase the number of reservations by providing an online booking engine through the Internet network. I contributed to the success of NDT making technical choices, defining development methods and building a team in an international multi-site (France, Spain and United States) organization within an aggressive schedule.
This organization is better known now as Amadeus e-travel and grew from 3 to 250 staff and offers online booking engines for airlines (Amadeus e-Retail) and corporations (Amadeus e-Travel management).
Technical responsible of several software components: real time / multithreaded software architecture, object oriented design, code review.