Nabil Bouzerna

Head of Solution & Project Management @ Bertin Technologies

Versailles AreaÎle-de-France - France

12+ years of experience in IT and related industry including 10 years around Java/JEE technologies, where I was responsible for the development and delivery of projects of varying duration, size and complexity.

> Managing the execution of software development from conception through delivery and ongoing maintenance, including requirements/scope development, project scheduling and management, budget tracking, quality management, risk management to ensure that projects are completed on time and on budget.

> Design solutions founded on Staged event-driven architecture (SEDA), Resource Oriented Architecture and Service Oriented Architecture : UML, EIP, Design Patterns.

> Ensure technology transfer from governmental research teams to enterprises.

> Lead design, architecture and the implementation of the MediaCentric® OSINT solution.

> Involved in the design and the implementation of the MediaCentric® COMINT solution.

Nabil Bouzerna
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Since 2008

As Solution Manager, I provide presale supports including bidding, system design, technical proposal, price quote, presentations, presale testing and others.

I lead planning and design of several solutions for intelligence purposes :

- MediaCentric® : Middleware & Data Exchange Architecture to provide scalable and cutting edge solutions based on the latest advances in open software design and integration,

- MediaView® : Multimodal Interfaces for ease accessing multimedia information.



As Senior Project Manager, I'm in charge of advanced Research and Development programs and projects around multimodal & multilingual analysis :

- Advanced study programs for French MoD / Direction Générale de l'Armement (PEAs) :
> Large scale platform dedicated to the processing of audio flows of all kinds, from open sources (radio, television, podcast, etc...) to informal conversation, for monitoring and alert purposes ;

> HERISSON a platform for assessment and experimentation of information processing technologies where Bertin provides processing services for video, audio and text translation : Data Acquisition (SAT & OTA), Video Summarization, Face Recognition, OCR, Spoken Language Identification, Speaker Identification, Automatic Speech Recognition and Machine Translation. In charge of software assessment and benchmarking according to technical factors ( > 50 COTS & Open Sources).


- QUAERO (European R&D program / OSEO Innovation). Innovative developments with laboratories (RWTH, LIMSI/CNRS, KIT, ...) in particular for the translation of vocal data. Provider of processing services for video, audio and text :
> Multimedia Data Acquisition (Web Mining),
> Face Detection & Recognition,
> Automatic Speech Recognition,
> Machine Translation.


- VIRTUOSO (European Union FP7 Security project). Provider of processing services for video, audio and text for an OSINT platform :
> Multimedia Data Acquisition Systems (Web & SAT),
> Automatic Speech Recognition,
> Machine Translation.

Aeronautic - Navy - Space - Armament
Professional experience
2007 - 2008

In charge of all factors that govern projects success to ensure delivery within time, cost, quality and risk parameters.

Collaborative work with R&D laboratories to improve AdvestiSEARCH™ features :
- monitor and control circulation of a copyrighted video without consent on UGC platforms
- detect plagiarism of a copyrighted text without consent over the web

Involved into R&D projects around multimedia processing :
- ANR PIITHIE (plagiarism detection),
- ANR RAFFUT (Automatic detection of infringing files on UGC sites),...

Software publishers
2006 - 2007

Innovative solution design to track piracy on video website sharing (UGC) such as YouTube, Dailymotion, MySpace, MetaCafe… based on Genetics Algorithm (GA) and Natural Language Processing (NLP) techniques.

New features of AdvestiSEARCH™ an automated copyright protection service that enables digital content providers to monitor, assess and combat the unlawful distribution of protected content over networks.

Software publishers
2005 - 2006

Design & development of system to detect and prevent the unauthorized use and transmission of sensitive and confidential information in several fields such as :
- Payment accreditation / Credit card numbers : Visa, American Express, MasterCard, IBAN, SWIFT-ABA routing,
- Health : Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), Medical result,
- Privacy information (PII, NPI) : Social Security Number, National identification number, Passport number,

Improvement of techniques for identifying confidential or sensitive information ranging from keywords, dictionaries, regular expressions and fingerprinting.

New features of AdvestiGUARD™ DLP system which allows :
- to protect intellectual and industrial property through the application of internal security measures,
- to conform with government security standards, whether international (Sarbanes-Oxley, ISO 17799) or national (Gramm-Leach-Bliley, HIPAA, Financial Security Law), PCI DSS (GIE Credit Card), Bale II, Directive UE 95/46/CE, CNIL,...

Software publishers
2004 - 2005

Define functional & technical specification of Infocenter BCI : data warehouse / datamining technologies.

System allows to reconciliate CRM data (Peregrine ARS on Oracle DB) with Nortel Networks PABX Telephony data from Sybase DB.

Training in Business Intelligence at Business Objects Center Training (ROLAP).

Sport - Leisure - Tourism
2001 - 2002

Design & development of statistical analysis software (decision support),data mining features and maintenance intervention manager (predictive analytics on breakdowns)

MS VB6 & MS Access

Sport - Leisure - Tourism
1999 - 2008

Founder and owner of an international firm specialized in sourcing of computing and consumables products in China.

TechniDesk is based on a unique concept : critical functions such as product development, tool design, production supervision, quality control, and logistics, are handled by TechniDesk's internal experts.

Production takes place at selected, certified Chinese factories, which provide machine capacity, operators, and shop-floor supervision.

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