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C2m Group
- Business Unit & Development Director
Issy-les-Moulineaux
2011 - maintenant
- Business development & Key Account Management: sales & new market prospecting, strategic consulting, development strategy including regional and international expansion of the company, customer portfolio enrichment and follow-up...
- People management : from development to Program/Project management engineers working for C2m within companies/groups which are leading the “Media & Innovation” World Market (including TV/Mobile Operators, Content Editors, Manufacturers…)
- Missions follow-up including transfer and inter-contract management.
- Coaching on Program Management topics (Program Strategy, reporting, risk management, customer relationships…)
- Recruitment/Retention: management of the Technologies BU’s workload plan according to company’s strategy, hiring & retention programs for each employee with customized training, workshop organization…
- Talent Sourcing : Job Description, talent identification, assessment and engagement of skilled candidates through C2m recruiting techniques.
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Technicolor
- Head Of IPTV STB R&D
Issy-les-Moulineaux
2009 - 2010
- Management of R&D Product Line (100+ engineers), divided in 2 continents (Europe & Asia), providing complete solutions for IPTV Set Top Boxes.
- Management of more than 8 programs including Key customer ones for Technicolor Business; from HD zapper/DVR products to end-to-end solutions (IPTV live, VOD, HomeNetworking, web portals & services…).
- Deliveries of Maintenance Programs with specific customer support group managing different Middleware and OS,
- Management of R&D workload plan, hiring, planning, coordination, tracking, reporting, priorities...
- Partners / Contractors management and follow up.
- Final Technical choice decisions.
- Follow up consistency, quality, KPI and milestones of IPTV Program deliveries.
- Involvement in customer product definition, acceptance phases…
- Actor in the development process definition and setup with an active implication in process improvement workshops CMMI (in several KPAs).
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Technicolor
- R&D Manager
Issy-les-Moulineaux
2007 - 2009
In Beijing (China)
- International management of a R&D Product Line, developing a complete generic Middleware for Set Top Boxes with more than 60 engineers divided in 2 continents.
- Roadmap definition, development strategy, hiring & retention plan.
- Developments, evolutions, reuse and maintenance of Software Techno-Bricks for Set Top Boxes.
- Worldwide roll out of a complete Set Top Box Middleware reaching dozens of customers over than 3 million units. From SD/HD zapper/DVR products (all types of network) to end-to-end solutions (IPTV live, VOD, Push VOD…), each product is strongly customized (Set of features, Network adaptations, User interface)
- Planning, coordination and tracking of Middleware and UI developments & integrations (including external bricks integration as Web Browsers, Flash Players, web portals) on different OS and platforms.
- Follow up consistency, quality and milestones of Software deliveries.
- Partners / Contractors management and follow up.
- Involvement in customer product definition.
- Actor in the development process definition and setup. Active implication in process improvement workshops CMM (in several KPAs).
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Thomson Multimedia
- Senior Project Manager
2003 - 2006
- Program/Project Management of a generic DVB Software for Set Top Boxes, answering needs of 3 Business Units.
- More than 1 million STBs deployed at the end of 2006 with this software stack.
- R&D team setup in France and in China reaching 20+ engineers.
- Put in place strong development processes based on CMM with high level of visibility.
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Thomson
- Project Manager
Courbevoie
2002 - 2003
- STB Project management for Retail Market.
- From the specifications to the acceptance, management of complete software stack developed by a Software partner (more than 20 engineers) in order to reach a worldwide STB Retail market deployment on several platforms.
- Complete a product range to address main price segment through several distribution channels.
- Define then develop new references for very low cost market.
- Integration of several Conditional Access stacks.
- 2 products were awarded “test winners” by two magazines in Germany.
