LVMH Fashion Group China

Leading the IS&T strategy and digital transformation for LVMH Fashion Group in Greater China, driving innovation across Celine, Loewe, Givenchy, Kenzo, Marc Jacobs, and Fendi.

Focused on technology-driven business growth, optimizing omnichannel experiences, ensuring cybersecurity compliance (PIPL), and strengthening data and enterprise architecture.

Partnering with global and regional teams to enhance operational efficiency, scalability, and digital acceleration in the Chinese market.

Chief Information Officer

L'Oréal

• Lead APAC digital transformation for luxury and consumer brands, managing omnichannel retail operations and technology stack.
• Drive architectural decisions for cloud infrastructure and spearhead cybersecurity initiatives.
• Implement cross-brand CRM and product management systems, enhancing customer-centric solutions.
• Collaborate with C-suite executives to develop and execute technology roadmaps aligned with business objectives.
• Spearheaded adoption of public cloud solutions, reducing infrastructure costs by 30%.
• Established robust cybersecurity frameworks, leading to a 40% reduction in security incidents.

Head of Engineering O+O (CTO)

Horizons

Make the team become better, so the teammates can grow and develop themselves.
* Create a culture of trust between the teammates and have an impact on the entire organization.
* Ensure a learning culture and allow the teammates to do mistakes and experimentations.
* Be sure that the teammates are making good use of their skills and abilities.

Make the product so easy to use, so the customers never complain.
* Drive better business values by gathering customer feedback.
* The feedback loop should be as short as possible.
* Improve productivity of the internal products.

Make the infrastructure so stable, so we never lose business opportunities.
* The deployment must be non-topic.
* You should be able to scale by a thousand at any moment.
* Create a bridge between Chinese and Western architecture.

Decathlon China 迪卡侬中国

Managing all IT systems related to retail, omni-commerce and e-commerce.
Build and Develop digital solution to enhance business values.
* Managing a 40-person team (Hire and integrate 17 newcomers)
* Create digital strategy and vision for omni-commerce and e-commerce
* Open new e-commerce channel
* In charge of product vision (POS, Wechat MP, .cn)
* Align decision with different stakeholder threw all the organization
* Guarantee the stability and delivery of system generating 1 Billion $ of turnover
* Increase team efficiency delivery by implementing agile methodology
* Implementing new tools to improve the stores efficiency
* Managing critical supplier
* Create robot inventory in store to reach stock accuracy of 98.5%

Director O+O (CTO)

PUSHTALENTS

Developing a digital interface focused on recruitment
* Referral is the most effective strategy for talents sourcing
* Gamification enables employee engagement
* Mobile uses create disruptive ways of working
* Employees become successful head hunters
* HR teams acquire the most accurate and real-time reporting

Create and promote SaaS B2B platform, manage features priority according to our market sense, manage four development project at the same time (web, android, iPhone, api)

客湖 KEHU

Shareholder of the company
* Focus on product development and delivery
* Choose the best software architecture style and technology stack
* Make tooling and framework decision
* Make things manageable, scalable and sustainable
* Budget and provide estimates for future work
* Manage the development process
* Manage the delivery process
* Meet the CTO of customers to discuss the feasibility integration of our technologies with them

Set up architecture for 1 million daily request, Hire and build an autonomous team,  Manage product priorityt, Microservice architecture with Netflix OSS

Adama Development

B2B development  web & mobile agency
* Helping the companies to improve their productivity by created tailor-made software
* Focus on retailer, trading and manufacturing
* SaaS  product
* IoT gateway development
* Wechat apps

Find clients and be sure their needs  match their expectation, Help clients to define their products, Manage project timing, Learn about IoT security and difficulties

Groupe Casaque

Quality Control / Material Sourcing / Legal Representation 
* Responsible for managing Casaque’s Inspections in China and all other Far East countries
* Optimizing inspections in consideration of suppliers characteristics and customer requirements
* Manage the team to guarantee, control integrity and maximum productivity
* Insure good communication and synergies between QA and QC
* Select and manage Third Party companies for peak seasons
* Provide regular KPI and analysis
* Achieve service by taking care of budget constraints
* Explore new potentials in accordance with group Production strategy
* Identify raw materials key suppliers and negotiate cooperation agreements
* Optimize ordered quantities and  quality, packing and transportation to production location
* Customize any group internal procedure to local obligations and/or practices
* Improve local cross functional communication to leverage productivity and performance

Prepare quarterly executive committee with the 5 directors of Casaque group, Bring vision to the company, Adapt to business difficulties

Asia Director

Shareholder of the company
* Hire, train, develop, reward and promote skilled of a 10 employees indian team
* Management of the adminstratives part: Tax, Company registration, Accounting
* Get certification ISO 9001 for Delhi office
* Manage 3 offices : Bangalore, Mumbai, Delhi

Restructuring office organization and business, Manage and hire local team, Understand business Indian culture

India Director

Design architecture / Lead the project / Shareholder of the company
* Design complex database and architecture from scratch according to the business requirements
* Hire and manage team of 6 employees (Chinese, French, American), use of SCRUM method
* Test driven development and quality of code. Weekly deployement and night build
* Set up and admin test and production server. Solve production problem 
* Design and develop mobile (phone and tablet), web and desktop applications with webServices

Create software project from scratch, Hire multicural developer team, Adapt product development priority according to business

Shareholder of the company
* Hire, train, develop, reward and promote skilled of a 40 employees chinese team
* Management of the adminstratives part : Tax, Company registration, Visa, HR, Accounting
* Adapt the procedures and the offer in order to maximise the customer satisfaction
* Customer service : issue quotation, price negociation, invoice management, question answering
* Create procedure and arrange interaction for seven kind of positions in the company

Create office from scratch, Great autonomy in company development, Hire more than 60 employees, Increased activity and rentability, Self learning in textile and quality, Travel weekly around china, Found customers (60% of the turnover),   Increase turnover 1200% since 2008

China Director

PingguoYouxi

Content Management Mobile Apps / Self develop 50 apps for IOS
* Hire and manage 4 employees: write chinese original content and graphism
* Development of web services for remote management of apps contents

First Start-up Experience, Top ten free apps in 4 countries, More than 200 000 downloads for the first 2 apps, Total of 700 000 Downloads.

CTO - Entrepreneur - Investor

With more than a decade of leadership experience, currently serving as Chief Information Officer at LVMH Fashion Group China, driving digital transformation for iconic brands like Celine, Loewe, and Givenchy. Focused on optimizing omnichannel experiences, ensuring compliance with cybersecurity regulations, and strengthening enterprise architecture to enable scalable growth in Greater China.  

Previously led APAC digital initiatives at L'Oréal, implementing cloud infrastructure and cross-brand CRM systems to enhance customer engagement. Recognized for fostering collaboration across global and regional teams, empowering sustainable, technology-driven business innovation, and aligning IT strategies with evolving market demands.

Vincent Delacourt

Spearheading the transformation of Horizons into a technology and product-driven leader in the EOR industry. Leading Engineering Department in building the SaaS platform for borderless teams.
Main achievements:
- Tripled size of the Engineering Team, revamped recruiting and talent management processes bring visibility into the career path. Implemented OKRs and KPIs at Department and Team level to drive performance and foster a culture of Engineering excellence.
- Introduced modern architecture principles including Domain-Driven Design and Service-Oriented Architecture, ensuring scalability and maintainability of the platform.
- Rolled out a more efficient and predictable Software Delivery Lifecycle, allowing the teams to continuously achieve their Sprint goals and increase the speed of features delivery without compromises on quality.
- Delivered major implementations such as Payment and Disbursement automation through Airwallex,  Payroll and Billing automation, Roll-out of a new design system on the platform.

Director of Engineering

SYSTEM in MOTION

Implemented agile methodologies to deliver high quality software solutions to customers, ensuring company revenue targets were met and growing a team of motivated result-oriented talents.
Contributed to to company strategy as part of the Leadership Team, planning yearly budget and reporting on results to other stakeholders.
Main achievements:
- Restructured scattered teams into a single Delivery Team, increasing occupancy rate from 60% to 90%
- Reduced overrun on projects under maintenance going from 150% to below 100% of budget utilization
- Implemented a culture of high performance and effective management through coaching, delegation, objective settings and performance tracking at all levels
- Delivered a clienteling mobile APP and a micro-service based CRM in 1 month to a customer in the Luxury industry
- Expanded scope of Pernod Ricard Traceability solution by adapting and rolling it out in Vietnam and Malaysia
- Lead design of a micro-service architecture back-office for Bureau Veritas and built a team of 7 from scratch working on the implementation, replacing a 15 years old legacy system

Delivery Director

Lead a team of 15, responsible for Business Plan redaction, Yearly budgeting and P&L tracking.
Created a new Supply Chain tracking business line and developed the System Integration and Consulting skillset to expand the scope of the Business Unit.
Maintained strong relationships with Fortune 500 key accounts.
Main achievements:
- Doubled the Business Unit revenue in 3 years
- Signed and delivered several 1M+ RMB contracts
- Lead successful deployment of Pernod Ricard Next Generation Traceability solution which
tracks 100 million of bottles with unique codes through the entire supply chain
- Kept employee retention rate high above market and company average

Business Unit Manager

Worked with startup to lead the design and development of a SaaS platform for connected consumer goods with a team of 5 engineers.
Delivered a production ready POC environment for 6 customers in less than 6 months.
Designed and developed the base of the SaaS platform, a micro-services architecture built with Java and Spring Cloud framework.

Acting CTO @ madeforgoods

In charge of 3 development teams working on large scale software development projects. Responsible for high quality of deliveries, solution design for new developments, coaching and training of team members.
Main achievements:
- Maintained strong long-term relationship with 3 key accounts from Finance industry
- Delivered a complete Big Data sub ledger data processing platform for major US housing loan agencies
- Designed and delivered multiple modules of Markit Loan Settlement platform, a financial application for the Loan market.
- Lead the development of a complete back-end insurance platform for BNP Paribas in Vietnam, matching BNP Paribas IT standards and supporting their aggressive growth.
- Implemented software development best practices: continuous integration, automated unit test execution and code quality tracking, code review, agile methodology

Senior Project Manager

Full Stack developer on Markit Clear, a modern Syndicated Loan settlement platform used by Investment Banks and Fund Managers to process real-time Loan Inventory and Trading data. Built a second dev team to work on Active Ledger, a Big Data Sub-ledger application allowing process of high volumes of accounting postings, and high performance in-memory data analytics.
Main achievement :
- Recruited a new dev team and successfully bootstrapped a new outsourcing project

Technical Lead

Responsible for accelerating development of both front-end and back-end of a loan market trading platform (now Markit Loan Settlement) to deliver new features faster to our customer, including GWT based user interface, message processing, rules workflow, state of the art real-time event processing engine, clustering, multi thread concurrent data processing.

Java Engineer

NETK5

Worked on Amplexio, a chat application for large corporate organizations developed in C++ using Qt framework. Developed the core system as well as a plugin system allowing to extend the application with additional features and widgets.

Software Engineer

Dassault Systemes

Joined the 3DVia team to work on the deployment of Virtools MP onto Windows Mobile. Implemented Windows Mobile and Direct3D Mobile support, and successfully completed the deployment of sample 3D animations within 6 months.

Embedded Software Developer

Shaanxi Key Lab for Data Acquisition and Management

Worked in a University lab to develop a data visualization application for 3D laser scanner to display and interact with scanned 3D models.

Software Developer

Software Engineering team leader on a mission to build value generating Enterprise Software Solutions.
15 years of experience in Enterprise Software Development and Team Management for Fortune 500 companies.
Based in Shanghai, China Permanent resident.

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