Ateliere Creative Technologies

Director of Product Management

Senior Product Manager

Dalet Digital Media Systems

- Conduct workshops to gather and document workflows and business requirements (from content acquisition to delivery to consumers)
- Present and demonstrate products to executives,
- identify areas of improvements, priorities and risks, 
- Communicate with product management on business needs, opportunities and features
- Oversee the delivery team and collaborate with the client to lead the change,

Lead Presales & Solution Architect Western US

Responsible for business development and Pre-sales operations in APAC
- Deliver business proposals, demos on Media Asset Management, Cloud architectures, BPM Orchestration and Artificial Intelligence services
- Participate in Marketing actions and Market trends gathering (including participation to trade-shows and conferences)
- Project direction and Solution design  

Sales activities Area: Japan, Singapore, South Korea, Australia, New Zealand, India, Vietnam, Philippines, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, etc.
Solution Architect activities: Fuji TV, Disney Japan, Abema TV, TV Asahi, TV Tokyo

Lead Presales & Solution Architect Asia Pacific

Managing sales and business development activities for the Western US (CA, WA, NV, UT, AZ, NM, TX) and Canada (AB, BC)
- Account Manager for FOX group, NBC Universal group, MGM, Warner Bros, TMZ, Deluxe, Paramount, KEXP, CBS, TransPerfect, NASA
- Provided presentations, business proposals and answers to RFI and RFPs, to CxO / VP level
- Co-management of the Los Angeles Office (Solution Architects, Project Managers and Engineers)

Head of Solution Design - Western US

- Conduct workflow analysis and solution design sessions with customers' SVP, VP and Directors
- Write solution design, business requirements, system specifications and product features
- Communication with local and offshore Sales, Project, Support, QA and R&D teams
- Support to sales team in technical design, product demonstrations, POC and responses to RFPs
- Liaison with technology partners such as Amazon Web Services, Tableau, HP, NetApp, Quantum, etc.

Environment: Workflow Orchestration, ECM, BPM, SOA, Web Services, Business analysis, Data analysis, AWS, Web Streaming and Video servers, Storage and Archiving systems

Sr Solution Architect

Managed technical relationships, provided technical support and prevention plans to successfully improve customers satisfaction (Microsoft Studios, Time Warner Cable News and Sports stations, NBC news stations, Fox Sports, PAC-12, Comcast, TMZ, HBO, Starz, etc.).
- Manage technical communications with customers during weekly reviews and crises,
- Work closely with Dalet top management, sales, product management and development for escalation, software & tools improvement,
- Participate in Dalet software Virtualization and Cloud strategy, pre-sales and Proof of concepts,
- Troubleshoot and improve customers’ workflow, software, system, database and storage.

Environment: Windows 2008/2012 Servers, clustered SQL 2008/2012 Servers, Web and Video servers, EMC and NetApp SAN / NAS.

Technical Account Manager

Sogeti

Project Manager and Architect (Dec 2011/Oct 2013)
Client : SNCF, French National Railway Company employing 160,000 people
Budget $500k 100+ man-day
- Designed performant, resilient and secured hosting architectures for critical and high traffic web applications (100,000 sessions/day) in agreement with the customer's SLA. 
- Managed the full project lifecycle.
- Oversaw architecture and software deployment, load and full Disaster recovery plan testing.
Windows 2008 / IIS / clustered SQL 2008, RedHat / Apache / MySQL, Brocade and F5 Load balancers

Virtualization Consultant (Oct 2010/Oct 2013)
- Risk assessment and mitigation in a Datacenter migration’s project, the scope included the Citrix and VMware architectures. FIDUCIAL (October 2012).
- Designed and led the implementation of a secured Terminal Server 2003 architecture; Handled the presales and Proof of Concept on Citrix XenApp6, CIRRA MONECAM (November 2011).
- Installed and stabilized XenApp6 templates’ servers with Citrix PVS; documented the procedure to publish businesses’ applications, CANAL+ (October 2011).
- Answered the RFP for a migration project to Citrix XenApp5, GIPS (June 2011).
- Troubleshot Citrix XenApp 5 farm and Access Gateway issues, IMPLEX (October 2010).

System and Network Engineer (Jun 2011/Sept 2011)
Client : Rhodia, Chemistry company employing 15,000 people worldwide
- Designed the deployment plan to migrate VMware VCB to VDR,
- Designed the disaster recovery plan for VMware ESX servers,
- Coordinated remotely the deployment of Windows servers,
- Administered Active Directory, ARCServe Backup, SCOM and SCCM 2007 servers.

Project Manager / System Engineer (Oct 2010/May 2011)
Client : Ville de Lyon, Public administration
- Managed the schedule, the scope and collaborated with business users, application vendors and engineers to deliver eligible business applications through Citrix PS4.5,  
- Designed, implemented and documented business applications hosting architecture,

Consultant

SB2I

SB2I is an IT services provider for small to medium sized companies, hospitals, public administration, education centers (maximum 10 servers / 100 desktops).

Responsible for functional and technical solutions, project management and 3 system and network administrators.
- Handled presales, design, scope, scheduling, reporting and delivery for the following projects:
- Servers consolidation with VMWare ESX3 or Microsoft Hyper-V,
- Interconnection of remote sites using Citrix XenApp5, Microsoft RDS, IPSEC VPN, etc.
- Full information systems to enhance customers’ workflows and information sharing, using Windows 2003 Servers, Active Directory GPOs and user rights management, File sharing, Exchange 2003/2007, LTO based backup, etc.
- Secured the Information system for education centers to decrease their desktops supporting costs using L2 Switch and VLAN, Firewall, Proxy, Desktop Image management with Windows Deployment Services, Active Directory GPOs and right management, Antivirus, etc.
- Central Antivirus management solutions: Bit Defender, Symantec, TrendMicro,
- Mobile devices management with Windows SBS2003 for iPhone 3 and Windows mobile 6,
- Wi-Fi roaming solution for hospitals using Terminal servers, HP thin clients, PDA, 
- Audited Information systems organization and security to provide recommendations,
- Evaluated new products and technologies to offer new services to our customers,
- Managed clients and third party suppliers’ relationships,
- Managed 3 administrators’ schedules and the needs in trainings.

Technical Leader

International business and technology professional with 15+ years of experience in cross-cultural sales, product and team management.

I have designed, led the development and deployment of Media Asset Management and end-to-end Media Supply Chain products for the leaders of the Media and Entertainment industry in Americas, EMEA and APAC: Disney, NBC Universal, Warner Bros, MGM Studios, NASA, Spectrum Sportsnet, Fuji TV, Abema TV, Mediacorp, National Archives of Singapore, SBS Australia.

I thrive in solving the most complex problems with the simplest products.

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