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Challenge2Media / C2M
- Business Development Director
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...
- Management of dozen of Program/Project Directors working for C2M within companies/groups which are leading the “Media” World Market (including TV/Mobile Operators, Content Editors, Manufacturers…)
- Missions follow-up including transfer and inter-contract.
- 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…
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Technicolor
- Head of IPTV STB R&D
Issy-les-Moulineaux
2009 - 2010
- Management of R&D Product Line providing complete products for IPTV Set Top Boxes with more than 100 engineers divided in 2 continents.
- 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, Push VOD, HomeNetworking with UPnP solutions, web portals & services…).
- Deliveries of Maintenance Programs with specific customer support group answering to different Middleware and OS,
- Management of R&D workload plan, hiring, planning, coordination, tracking, reporting, priority, conflicts...
- 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 CMM (in several KPAs). Reach CMM level 3.
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Thomson
- R&D Department Manager
Courbevoie
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 deployment 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
- Senior Project Manager
Courbevoie
2003 - 2006
In Rennes (France)
- Program/Project Management of a generic DVB Software for Set Top Boxes answering needs of 3 Business Units through a Steering Committee. First deployment in 2005 to reach 1 million STBs end of 2006.
- 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
In Rennes (France) for Set Top Box 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 all distribution channels.
- Define then develop new references at very low costs.
- Integration of several Conditional Access stacks.
- 2 products were awarded “test winners” by two magazines in Germany.
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Thomson
- Software Engineer
Courbevoie
1996 - 2001
In Rennes (France)
-As software engineer in a driver team, develop and maintain driver stacks and protocols for Set Top Box based on Mediahighway Middleware.
- Join a UI team in 1997 to develop some user interfaces based on OpenTV for several European products.
- Becoming Work Package Leader by end of 1997, organize User Interface then UI/Middleware developments, interfacing with STB Project Managers.
- Acting as integrator, integrate UI/Middleware developments under a strong SCM, perform integration tests before delivering to Validation.
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Thomson / Université de Rennes I / Enst Bretagne
- Intern
1993 - 1996
In Rennes (France)
PHD internship: « The Turbo-Codes »
- State of the art analysis concerning channel coding and signal processing systems.
- Programming of Turbo-codes in simulated digital broadcast software.
- Benchmark with the existing systems of coding in term of performances and cost.
