Damien LAIGRE
Chef de Projet Professional Services, Hewlett Packard France
Being a customer program manager for several years, I am currently driving to success customer projects in delivery phase for HP Software Professional Services; controlling HP resources or partner execution, and monitoring the planning, quality and cost against customer expectations.
In charge of sales support and service delivery projects for HP Software key customer accounts from the EMEA area.
2008 - 2011• In charge of pre-sales support and project execution kick-off on new business opportunities for the Consumer market (Portable Media Player, GPS Navigation devices, eBook, Gaming...).
• Drive and be accountable for customer project execution setup
• Lead Directly a team of customer program managers
2003 - 2008• Lead complete customer project execution, from kick-off to Mass Production for key OEM Smartphone accounts.
• Work closely with all project stakeholders: sales / marketing / legal / R&D / QA
• In charge of the budget schedule - resources
• In charge of internal and external communication
• PMP Certified (Program Management Professional from Program Management Institute)
2002 - 2002System Engineer in charge of feasibility study for the usage of Direct Digital Synthesis solutions in radio communication systems for the Tetra standard (for taxi, police, fire companies…)
2001 - 2001Assistant-researcher, member of the music team. Project on musical similarity exploration for EMD applications, Ppublished several international research papers ISMIR 2002, Wedelmusic 2002