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Product Owner / Scrum Master at Vaudoise Assurances (consultant)

Lausanne, Switzerland / April 2024 - Current

Creating a Cloud Service Center (called the “Cloud Assembly Factory”) to provide the IT infrastructure and Microsoft Azure environments necessary for the new products of the Digital Transformation. I am also responsible for coaching, eventulizing and implementing agility within my two multidisciplinary teams by assuming the role of Scrum Master.

Product manager at Powens (freelance)

Paris, France / Jan 2022 - Nov 2022 (11 months)

Managed the Bank API that allows end users to connect their banking data instantly in order for businesses to access detailed balances, transactions and historical data from current accounts – fully normalized for a seamless integration.

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Main objectives and achievements:

  • Set up agile rituals in my team of 5 to 10 developers
  • Set up analytics tools in order to be able to take data driven decisions
  • Migrated Powens’s french connectors to integrate all the available PSD2 APIs of the french market which included putting in place a roll out strategy a communication plan and support to clients
  • Set up app to app authentication on the migrated PSD2 connectors in order to increase end users conversion rates thanks to an improved user experience
  • Delivered new connectors to business and enterprise banks in oder to increase the market coverage for the business services client segment (accounting, ERP, payroll) and consolidate the leading position of Powers in the french market

Powens is providing an Open Finance API to allow businesses to create superior embedded finance and payment experiences.

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Lean startup Design thinking Agile development Scrum / Kanban Continuous integration Figma Postman Github Google office applications Asana Notion.so Element / Slack Linux Python REST API

 

Product manager at Adeo (freelance)

Lille, France / Jan 2021 - Sep 2021 (9 months)

Managed the Data Finder internal product offering a portal for employees and an API for applications of the group to allow them to share, manage accesses and search all the data of the group. Mainly BigQuery hosted on the Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and Kafka Topics.

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Main objectives and achievements:

  • Redesign of the access management module of the Data Finder to allow any product team of the group manage several GCP projects
  • Design and deliver an orchestrator to automate the subscription of the Data Finder services in order to increase the user experience and reduce the work load of the support team
  • Create efficient onboarding workflows to allow non tech users to easily share their data through the portal instead of the API thanks to a design driven approach
  • Managed requirements, backlog and roadmap of the product with a cross functional team including 5 developers (2 front-ends, 2 back-ends and 1 devops), 2 technical account managers and 1 UX/UI designer.

Adeo is one of the world leaders in the home improvement business for individuals and housing professionals. The group has 32 brands including Leroy Merlin, Weldom, Bricocenter, Zodiac…), operates in 15 countries and hires 150,000 employees.

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Lean startup Design thinking Agile development Scrum Kanban Continuous integration Google Cloud Platform Figma Miro Postman Github go.hugo.io Google office applications Slack Vue.js Node.js REST API

 

API Product manager at Allianz Trade (ex-Euler Hermes) (freelance)

Paris, France / Apr 2018 - Dec 2019 (1 year 8 months)

Managed Single Invoice Cover (SIC), the first B2B API in the market allowing Factoring client mainly, to request EH to cover invoices in real-time. I was part of a cross-functional team based in Paris that allowed me to own the product and manage it end to end, with sales teams located globally.

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Main objectives and achievements:

  • Increase revenus thanks to higher volumes of invoices covered but contained loss ratio
  • Strengthen the relationship with the main customer of the API, Cash in Time, a factoring product developed by the bank Crédit Agricole
  • Make changes to the product to open it to new promising markets (Germany, Belgium, US, Asia)
  • As the first point of contact, manage effeciently the on-boarding of new clients
  • Continuous improvement of the product, such as process automation and the delivery of a client portal to improve the claim and collection process

The Euler Hermes Digital Agency (EHDA) is a service of Euler Hermes, the french credit insurance leader, that was created to facilitate the creation of new innovative products in relation to credit insurance, the core business of EH. It’s therefore organized to give as much autonomy as possible to the products managers in order to allow quick iterations.

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Lean startup Design thinking Agile development Scrum Continuous integration Axure (prototyping) Postman Readme Microsoft Visual Studio Team Services Microsoft Dev Ops SQL Operations Studio Jupyter Google office tools Slack Microsoft Azure C# PHP Python REST API

 

Product manager at Geniac (freelance)

London, UK; Madrid, Spain / May 2014 - Aug 2017 (> 3 years)

Managed the GENIAC platform, simplifying the operations of 1000+ small business in the UK by enabling owners to spend their time on growth - not managing business administration and compliance.

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Main objectives and achievements:

May 2014 - July 2015 (London)

Created and delivered the minimum viable GENIAC platform to start serving customers and secure a series A investment (see http://techcitynews.com/2015/07/02/grant-thornton-pumps-22m-into-geniac/). GENIAC is 2 products combined:

  • A website for entrepreneurs to have visibility, keep control over their business, interact with the GENIAC service team and know what’s the status of his business
  • An internal platform for the GENIAC service team to manage the companies admin effectively

July 2015 - July 2016 (London)

Following the investment, I worked on the 3 main priorities of the road map:

  • Migration of the platform to move from a monolithic Symfony application to a distributed micro services application, API based in order to scale
  • Shift the product from a desktop application to a responsive mobile first application
  • Offer services to a new segment of customer, through HR and payroll services

July 2015 - Aug 2017 (Madrid)

Work on delivering a new strategic pivot feature for GENIAC, and learned spanish.

GENIAC simplifies the operating of small business in the UK, enabling owners to spend their time on growth - not managing business administration and compliance.

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Lean startup Design thinking Agile development Scrum Continuous integration Test Driven Development Axure Jira Confluence Selenium Jenkins Testlodge Google Analytics Google office tools Slack AngularJS PHP Java Symfony Salesforce Twinfield Hotdocs Duedil MongoDB MySQL NodeJS Docker AmazonWS Segment

 

Product owner at The Business of Fashion (freelance)

London, UK / Dec 2013 - May 2014 (6 months)

Managed BoF’s new career platform from defining the product to its launch.

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Main objectives and achievements:

  • Work in agile as the product owner with a development team in Slovakia
  • Work closely with various stakeholders to gather requirements
  • Write user stories and test acceptance criteria
  • Draw wireframes and flow diagrams
  • Define backlog priorities
  • User Acceptance Testing
  • Define launch strategy
  • Define KPIs to track trough DB queries and google analysics

The Business of Fashion is a website providing daily updates on fashion for fashion creators, executives and entrepreneurs.

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Lean startup Agile development Scrum Continuous integration Behavior Driven Development Jira Google Analytics Google office tools PHP WordPress MySQL AmazonWS

 

IT Consultant at Accenture (freelance)

Paris, France / Jan 2006 - Apr 2013 (7 years 4 months)

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IT project manager for Société Générale (2 ans)

Managed a team of 10 developers and a budget of €4.5M to deliver a new banking professional loan branch platform for two retail banks of the group.

Main objectives and achievements:

  • Planned and followed the delivery of applications
  • Budgeted new applications, features or change requests
  • Communicated on the progress of projects to management boards
  • Identified critical dependencies of projects to follow them closely
  • Trained teams on new development and application frameworks

Digital product manager for Crédit du Nord (10 months)

Delivered a €0.8M budget new SEPA wire transfer application from design to launch for the retail customers.

Main objectives and achievements:

  • Defined the product vision and convinced the stakeholders to adhere to it
  • Gathered, wrote and prioritised product and customer requirements (user stories, wireframes, flow diagrams)
  • Conducted user acceptance tests
  • Communicated to customers on the product during the launch of the product
  • Used analytics to create reports in order to improve the application

IT Project manager for Crédit du Nord (2 years)

Managed a team of 4 developers and a budget of €1M to deliver successfully a new life insurance e-banking application for customers to manage online their insurance contracts.

Main objectives and achievements:

  • Manage a team of 4 Java developers
  • Delivered the application on time and budget
  • Business team’s single point of contact for all technical aspects of the application
  • Conducted change management workshops with new users of the product

Java Developer and Application Integrator for Crédit du Nord (1 year 4 months)

Managed the release of a €8M budget new banking professional loan branch application and a team of 15 developers.

Java Developer for Banque Populaire (9 months)

Built the front-end of the new new customer’s e-banking application following the model driven development methodology.

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Waterfall project delivery Continuous integration Model Driven DevelopmentMSProject MSOffice QualityCenter Eclipse Selenium UML Design Patterns J2EE Spring Web Flow Oracle Weblogic Portal/Server Jenkins CSS Javascript JQuery HTML XML JSP Perl