PIERRE ULMER
Consultant e-business & Usabilité, Ventoris Consulting
MY PROPOSAL
Creating value for my clients through digital business, by putting users and their needs in the center of the design thinking process
- Business project management support and coordination of stakeholders (architect, technical services of the Town Hall, geometer…) in a real estate project; Nexalia; Mulhouse; www.nexalia.fr
- E-business consulting to the COO of a Moroccan financial institution that projected to offer online banking and trading services for Moroccan expatriates in France; Upline Group - Groupe Banque populaire; Casablanca; www.upline.co.ma
- Conduct of a study over the potential market of e-banking for Investance, a global management consulting firm dedicated to the financial services industry; Paris; www.investance.com
> JAM Conseil is an umbrella company
FetArt is an association recognized under the French ’1901’ Law as being of public benefit. The organization was born out of the desire to meet, discuss and exchange ideas around a common point of interest - Fine Art photography.
- Treasurer & Secretary in 2008 (Funding, budget planning...)
- Support to the association in mounting the exhibitions :
> 25-28.10 2007 :"King Size l’Afrique en grand format" de Malik Nejmi ( www.fetart.org/spip.php?rubrique22 )
> 18-31.10 2007 : PHPA "Photo d’Hotel, photo d’Auteur" ( www.hotels-paris-rive-gauche.com )
> 7.07-31.08 2008 : Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie à Arles ( www.fetart.org/spip.php?article488 )
> 28.10-29.11 2008 : Mois de la Photo-OFF ( www.fetart.org/spip.php?article502 )
> 19.02-20.03 2011 : Festival Circulation(s) 2011 de la Jeune Photographie Européenne ( www.festival-circulations.com )
Organised by FetArt at european nivel to promote young photographers ( www.fetart.org/spip.php?rubrique302 )
> 25.02-25.03 2012 : Festival Circulation(s) 2012 de la Jeune Photographie Européenne ( www.festival-circulations.com ) ( www.fetart.org/spip.php?rubrique292 )
2007 - 2008SQLI agency: Digital agency, a branch from SQLI an international I.T. services company;
> Pre-sales Consultant. Responses to call for proposals from large accounts:
- AXA: Web site re-architecture and redesign of www.axa.fr
- EDF: production and update of the Web repository 2008 - 2010
- ACCOR: corporate web site redesign
- SNCF - IDTGV: Web site redesign of www.idtgv.com
- BOUYGUES IMMOBILIER: Web strategy, online marketing campaign development and web design for a real estate program.
> Trainer for SQLI Institut and Orsys, on-site training companies, on the course "Increase your web performance with fundamental e-commerce techniques"; http://formation.sqli.com ; http://www.orsys.fr
2006 - 2007Cortal Consors: savings specialist for individual investors in Europe, a subsidiary of BNP Paribas; www.cortalconsors.fr/
- Design, implementation, launching-off and follow-up of a real estate - UI (User Interaction) design of a new home-page based on Web 2.0 standards
- UI design and functional specifications of a life insurance investment based on stocks, with online subscription capabilities
- Benchmark of strong authentication solutions -by "Token"- in Europe and functional mock-up of the adopted solution
2005 - 2005Plan to create a consulting and internet services company for SMEs with the support of a franchisor
2004 - 2004Plan to buy an interior design business with my wife, an interior decorator.
The business plans of these projects were not profitable enough, so I decided not to pursue this and get back to the job market.
2003 - 2004Business project management support and e-business consulting for Orange France in support of the implementation of an address book synching tool
> Mission executed as a TEAMLOG Consultant
2002 - 2004- Preparation of the specifications of the X-Net (intranet, extranet, internet web sites) of the Conseil Général Seine St Denis (a public regional institution) to support their call for proposals;
- Requirement specifications, benchmark of existing technical solutions and preparation of the specifications of a document management tool for the Sustainable development unit of the Conseil Général Seine St Denis.
2001 - 2004Teamlog: European I.T. services company, now part of Open Group, Paris; www.open-groupe.com
2001 - 2002Business project management support and e-business consulting for the e-business branch of France Telecom who wanted to provide generic ASP/Cloud solutions to professionals
2000 - 2001Crédit du Nord: federation of seven French regional banks and a stock broker; Paris ; www.groupe-credit-du-nord.com
- Leading the integration of the stock broker Norfinance Gilbert Dupont in the technical and stock information platform shared by Crédit du Nord ; www.credit-du-nord.fr
- Implementing new processes for customer's money transfers to enhance transaction security on the web-banking's site of Crédit du Nord; www.particuliers.credit-du-nord.fr
1999 - 2000Start-up Mediapps - Ever Group: Infomediary and EMEA leader in integrated Enterprise Content Management (ECM) solutions; start-up founded in April of 1999; 13 M Euros invested by Venture Capitalists; Paris; www.mediapps.com
- Editing of customized information packages dedicated to industry branches and BtoB communities and designing them for the market
- Setting up of the documentary team in charge of updating and develop those information packages
1997 - 1999Préfix Interactif – Groupe Sopra Valoris: Digital agency, a branch of Sopra, European Consulting, Systems Integration, Application Outsourcing, and Applications Solutions company; Paris ; www.sopragroup.com
- Design and develop a business model of an online banking package for CanalSatellite's interactive television and promote it to the French banking community; Paris, www.canalsat.fr
- Design of a new brokerage service on the web for Barclays France; Paris; www.barclays.fr
- Preparation of the first specifications of Cortal’s online banking and brokerage service on the web; www.cortalconsors.fr
- Localization of the commercial web site of E*Trade’s French subsidiary; Paris; www.etrade.com
1997 - 1997EFMA (European Financial Management and Marketing Association): Promotes innovation in retail finance by fostering debate and discussion among peers; Paris; www.efma.com
> Consulting in e-business strategy: Requirements analysis, information architecture and wireframes of EFMA's website
1997 - 1997Qualisteam: Consulting and research service company; editor of a worldwide Banking & Finance portal; Paris; www.qualisteam.com
> Conducting a study about Web user’s needs in online banking and brokerage services; www.qualisteam.fr/banques/demande_des_internaut...
1987 - 1996ATOS: an international information technology services company. Serving a global client base, it delivers hi-tech transactional services, consulting, systems integration and managed services; Paris-La Défense ; www.atos.net
> Presales
Development and presentation of commercial projects to potential clients (banks, financial institutions, insurance companies, government service, public companies...)
> Usability analysis
Formalization of customer's needs and implementation with specific marketing’s rules for online services.
> User Interaction design
Design and implementation of online services’ user interaction (information architecture, navigation system…).
> Project management
Organization of all stages of the projects, subsequent contact with suppliers and billing, in order to deliver a "Full quality" service (ISO 9000 certification).
Significant References: Crédit Lyonnais, Caisse d'Epargne Ile-de-France Paris, Assistance Publique Hôpitaux de Paris, Assedic-Unedic, Carrefour - S2P, Habitat.
1985 - 1987Designer of the videotext - Minitel service of Canal+ and creation of Canal+’s telematic subsidiary
Canal+ Group : No. 1 in pay-TV in France and a major player in France and the rest of Europe in film production and distribution; Paris; http://www.canalplusgroup.com
1983 - 1985Pariscope is a popular weekly magazine available at Parisian newsstands and published by Hachette Filipacchi Médias: worldwide press group; Levallois-Perret; www.hachette.com