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CAREER HISTORY / 16 years
From01/2002to 12/2003
EnterpriseManteia Switzerland
SectorBiotechnology
TitleBioinformaticsInstrumentation Director
FunctionDirection R & D
Managementof 15people on a total of50 people
Missions• Re-motivated the instrumentation team.
• Re-focused team setting project deadlines for deliverables.
•Re-organised staff creating a matrix organisational structure driven by
multi disciplinary key task forces subsequently promoted to direct report
to the Chief Executive Officer.
•Identified and managed Project risks.
•Liased with key stakeholders on project progress.
•Delivered Project both on time and on budget.
•Managed 15 direct and 3 indirect reports.
•Realization in 3 months of fully automated new instruments.
•Project resulted in M$ deal.
•Developed an internal customer approach between teams creating an
understanding of the broader implications of their roles.
•Designed and implemented an internal information management
system.
From 01/1995 to 12/2001
EnterpriseIBMUSA
SectorComputer
TitleResearch Staff Member & Team Leader
FunctionProject manager/Engineering
Managementof 6 peopleon a total of 350.000 people
Missions•Focused the ViaVoice (Automatic Speech Recognition) Telephony team
through the effective management of internal and external
communication.
•Liased globally with research, development testing and speech experts.
•Analysed the multi -functional, -location and -tasks development
process implementing a "one-click" system with which a coherent system
could be installed for test or ship.
•Created an automated system for daily regression testing of IBM's
speech recognition engine for 125 global users.
•Realization of a fully packaged simplified, easy to use, customer
oriented toolkit.
•Highly involved in the debugging phase of a high volume software
product (ViaVoice).
•Developed and improved algorithms in all modules of the engine
including front-end, fast-match, detailed-match, language model and
hyper-search.
•Optimized the training process from speed and memory perspectives.
•Worked on multiple Operating Systems (AIX, Linux, Solaris, Unix,
Windows) and languages.
From 10/1989 to 12/1994
EnterpriseMatra France
SectorTelecommunication
TitleResearch Engineerin Signal Processing
FunctionEngineer R & D/Researcher
Managementof3 peopleon a total of 8200 people
Missions•Combined Wavelets and CELP decoder to improve speech quality.
•Developed echo cancellation algorithm based on wavelets and sub-band
decomposition.
•Combined automatic and signal processing domains to develop a robust
technique for noise filtering with solution ultimately integrated in a
commercial cellular phone.
•Participated in European project as Deputy Project Manager collating
and analysing worldwide data and subsequently presenting findings.
01/2004 - 09/2004International Institute for Management Development IMD Suisse
Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne EPFL
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich ETHZ
Diploma : MBA, Specialty : Mastering Technology Enterprise
01/2001 - 01/2001The George Washington University USA
Diploma: Certificate, Specialty: Project Manager
10/1991 - 12/1994University Pierre et Marie CurieUPMC Paris VI France
Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications de Bretagne ENSTB
Diploma: PhD, Specialty: Physics, Option: Electronics
09/1989 - 06/1990University Pierre et Marie CurieUPMC Paris VI France
Ecole Supérieure de Physique et Chimie Industrielle de Paris ESPCI
Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications de Paris ENST
Diploma: DEA, Specialty: Electronics, Option: Instrumentation
09/1988 - 06/1989University Pierre et Marie CurieUPMC Paris VI France
Diploma: Master. Specialty: Electronics, ElectrotechnicsControl
LanguagesFrench : Mother tongue, English : Bilingual
InternationalUSA : 78 months, Canada : 6 months, Suisse : 24 months
ComputerOffice : Excel, Freelance, Lotus 1-2-3, Lotus Notes, PowerPoint,
Project Manager, Word, WordPro
Languages : Basic, C, C++, HTML, Pascal, Perl, SVG, Turbobasic,
TurboPascal, Tcl/Tk, XML, XSL, XSLT
Operating System: Aix, Dos, Linux, Macintosh, Solaris, Unix, Windows
Technical software: Goldwave, Matlab, Simulink, Spice
Looking forComputer science management, Scientific management
MobilityInternational
AchievementsWho's Who in Science and Engineering, 2005
Research Division Award, I.B.M., 2000
IBM Honors, I.B.M., 1999
Outstanding Technical Achievement Award, I.B.M., 1996
First Patent Application Invention Achievement Award, I.B.M., 1996
Médaille du Conseil Général du Val d'Oise, May 1988
MembershipsConnexio, Elec’6, IEEE, IMD Alumni, AIC of Geneva