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Copernicus SolutionsCIO and Founder
Jul. 2017Lyon, Auvergne-Rhone-Alpes, France
M&C IT ConsultingChief Information Technology Officer
Jan. 2023Developing state-of-the-art electronic payment reconciliation platform at scale! We bring 360 transparency to your financial journey.
Copernicus SolutionsSenior consulting for IT transformation programs
Aug. 2017FranceOwner
Cannonball Run World EventsCEO & Owner
May. 2016Dallas/Fort Worth AreaCar passionate using the infamous brand to gather and entertain a community of fast cars aficionados, innovating new car asset ownership concepts through the decentralized cryptographic ledgers.
Sopra SteriaDirecteur conseil
Jun. 2018 - May. 2020Limonest, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, FranceMerveilleuse expérience au sein d’une formidable équipe de professionnels du conseil, du commerce, et de la gestion de programmes informatiques complexes. J’ai eu l’occasion de supporter des grands comptes dans leur transformation digitales: Michelin, SNCF, CNAM, Euromaster, Renault Truck/Volvo.
Sopra Steria GroupConsulting Director
May. 2018 - May. 2020FranceDrove digital transformation consulting initiatives for large organizations.
Amadeus IT GroupHead of Architecture and Solutions Project
Apr. 2012 - Aug. 2017DallasIT R&D Director reporting to EVP of delivery for a large scale development and integration program to build the next generation Passenger Service System, PSS, for a major NORAM airline; full order to cash, and departure control business processes covered by the solution. Support the design, build and integration of the solution in close cooperation with the airline's business, marketing , operations development and architects organisations to secure a solution that is in line with the DNA of quality, speed and agility of the airline's digital services to its client. Plan, anticipate, mitigate the risks to provide a smooth landing of the business operations onto the new IT solution during the transition, migration period. Direct reporting into the steering committees to CEO, CIO and CTO levels.
• Cultivate positive and collaborative relationships with business stakeholders
• Provide high level read-out to execs to explain technical challenges • Lay-out options for discussions, steering and manage escalations. • Advise business and technology groups on future application options, outlining risks, costs, benefits, and capabilities and identifying practical trade-offs where appropriate.
• Lead and provide detailed read-out to project core team into the development of the functional and technical solution, change management through the defined governance model
• Develop, communicate, Implement and promote architecture and application change governance that is compatible with both Amadeus and Client processes, standards and policies • Serve as point of escalation and review for application architecture issues.
Amadeus IT GroupDirector IT R&D
Apr. 2012 - Jul. 2017Dallas/Fort Worth AreaIT R&D Director reporting to EVP of delivery responsible of the implementation of the change of PSS systems of a large north american airline. Supervising the development and deployment cycles; high level business requirement, product specifications, development and end to end architecture coherence, quality assurance and delivery. Guarantee the success of the integration of the Amadeus suite into the client's ecosystem within scope, schedule and budget. Define QA strategies to maximize user acceptance sand box quality and reduce functional validation cycles. Put in place the Dallas regional site, propose a complete resource based organization, including functional and technical teams, screen and propose functional and technical leads and functional analists staff. Present and implement the organization chart. The responsibilities were broad and required hands on support to the EVP in the following:
Run down on work done: • Implement delivery of highly complex and strategic client projects.
• Leadership for project development and optimization across the organization
• Drive initiatives for the Delivery organization: test and production system quality and performances
• Facilitate executive conversations regarding budget, resources, schedule and risk. • Support sales, pre-sales and business upsell pipeline.
AmadeusAssociate Director IT R&D - Airline IT - Flights and Low Fare Search
Feb. 2008 - Jun. 2012Nice Area, FranceResponsible of the R&D organization in charge of the Flight-platform supporting all flight related business fonctions. Few examples are the following, flight shopping, availability, flight schedules, flight operational data, flight disruption and passenger reaccommodation, flight seating... Responsible for the full development life cycle across 10 software development teams. Directing and implementing strategic and financial guidelines, managing budgets, resources and operations in cooperation with the infrastructure divisions. Provides read outs for software deliverables progress and escalations. Foster bottom-up innovation incubators to support ideation, and increase delivery and patents. Define QA framework for outsourced model. Propose a framework to decouple testing activity from the functional analyst scope and optimize, automate the interface with outsourced QA organization. This model has allowed to outsource to India and other part of the world the testing of the application software. Development of large scale flight availability cache architecture providing a state of the art solution of a highly accurate content at high speed and low cost. A complex algorithm and scaled platform was defined, designed, built and delivered providing the best result in the industry. A full real-time quality monitoring framework was built around it to ensure highest flight search quality.
Amadeus IT GroupAssociate Director R&D - Distribution IT - Air Distribtution Platforms
Feb. 2008 - Apr. 2012Nice Area, FranceSenior Manager of the availability platform underlying the low fare search and the travel agent flight search. Design and delivery of the new generation shopping, flight availability platform and the transitioning from the legacy to the target open backend architecture. The new platform supports, among others, the affinity shopping business ambitions, through the pricing massive computation platform; Several patents were issued during this period. Management of several hundred engineers engaged throughout the full software development cycle. • Collaborate with the product management organization to understand and document requirements, success criteria, priorities, and processes • Create overall strategy, prioritization, communication plans, roadmaps, project plans and delivery of the needed solutions
• Report on status of development, quality, operations, and system performance to management
• Provide architecture guidance and develop in collaboration with the architecture and coding best practice board.
• Foster culture of continuous engineering improvement through mentoring, feedback, and metrics and foster innovation to propose and implement new projects or architecture and system improvements
• Work with the innovation board to develop and promote innovation culture in the department. • Hire, coach, and mentor individuals; build a strong cross-functional organization
• Set clear, measurable quality goals for an organization in a data-driven way Quote from Friedhelm Schuck VP Common IT Platform Lufthansa
"Amadeus Altéa came out as the best
solution after an exhaustive evaluation
of potential providers who could help us
to securely implement new generation
processes. It will really improve the
customer experience and ensure seamless
service within the Star Alliance."
Amadeus IT GroupSenior Manager R&D - Airline IT Schedules, Flights, Reaccom Platforms
Mar. 2003 - Jan. 2008Nice Area, FranceSenior Manager of the development and product definition teams in the area of schedule, flight date, flight disruption and seating functional domains. All part of the Amadeus Altea Inventory product line.
Teams mission are to provide state-of-the-art architecture design, product specification and software coding and delivery, on schedule and on budget.
Management of 70 to 100 engineers in the development and product analysis areas. • Collaborate with the product management organization to understand and document requirements, success criteria, priorities, and processes • Create overall strategy, prioritization, communication plans, roadmaps, project plans and delivery of the needed solutions
• Report on status of development, quality, operations, and system performance to management
• Provide architecture guidance and develop in collaboration with the architecture and coding best practice board.
• Foster culture of continuous engineering improvement through mentoring, feedback, and metrics and foster innovation to propose and implement new projects or architecture and system improvements
• Work with the innovation board to develop and promote innovation culture in the department. • Hire, coach, and mentor individuals; build a strong cross-functional organization
• Set clear, measurable quality goals for an organization in a data-driven way Quote from Jaan Albrecht CEO Star Alliance
"The STAR Alliance Common IT Platform
represents the realisation of a long-time
strategic goal, driven by the effort to
better serve the customer and
dramatically increase the speed
of delivering new products to market."
Amadeus IT GroupUnit Manager Schedule, Flight Data, Reaccommodation
Feb. 2000 - Feb. 2003Nice Area, FranceResponsible of the software development team on the Schedule, flight date, and reaccommodation platform of the new Altea Inventory product. Architecture design, C++ and Java development, testing and non-regression.
Management of 40 to 60 engineers in the development and product analysis areas. Quote from Fiona Balfour Former CIO Qantas
"The big technology change is that we
are going out of TPF structures and
constraints into modern technology,
which is robust, real-time and
leveraging all the business benefits you
can drive from a relational database."
InstiproMiddleware Technical Lead
Jan. 2000 - Dec. 2000Greater New York City AreaTechnical lead for the design and development of a middleware components to handle inter-process communication in a distributed environment using an implementation of JMS (Java Message Service). Participated to the early days of the elaboration of SWIFTMQ.
Amadeus IT GroupSoftware Engineer
Sep. 1994 - Jan. 2000Nice Area, FranceTPF expert in various PSS functional areas, PNR, Billing, TTY, Cruise Lines... Key player in the Cruise Line distribution project which intended to integrate into the Amadeus PSS the cruise line products. Took part to the complete development cycle of the software creation from business analysis and product definition to design, coding, testing and delivery. Another key project was the PNR redesign into what was called the SBR which set the path to the TPF decommissioning to open architecture. Backend software development in assembler, Sabretalk, and SPM for the IBM mainframe S/360 Transaction Processing Facility (TPF) system.
Design Passenger Name Record (PNR) backend applications.
Design Billing backend application
Design, develop and deploy cruise line distribution solution for Carnival Cruise Lines, Princess Cruises, Royal Caribbean and Disney Cruise lines.
Functional and technical design and development of the solution in assembler.
Organisation of multi disciplinary and international design workshops ( Nice and Miami).
USASOFTFounder and CEO
Dec. 1993 - Nov. 1998Nice, Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur, FranceSociété de développement informatique spécialisée dans les services en ligne, précurseur de l’internet, Minitel et buletin board plate-formes.
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