2020 – An eye blinking year

2020… If a bad year had a name it would be this number. The pandemic alone launched changes at an unprecedented pace in a lot of organisations, redefining the way we work. Remote is the new norm, adapt or die. In line with the new normal and personal choices, I decided to resign from my…

2019 – PMP certification

As many Project Manager, I decided to challenge my knowledge and my practices with the Project Management Institute certification PMP (Project Management Professional). The registration part was the easiest part, as I followed during my engineer school a project management specialisation (more than 35 hours of PM course), and almost all my professional experiences was…

2018 – PVIP

PVIP aka Project for Visually Impaired People, one of my most rewarding and challenging project I managed. Let’s put things in context: Create a solution for blind and visually impaired people to make them able to scan QR codes. Yes you read well, make blind people being able to find and scan QR codes. It…

2016 – QRT official app

As written in the previous slide, QR Translator won several innovation prices back in 2015-2016, so we launched new projects in order to keep innovation at its highest level. One of the most interesting way to materialise this goal was to create a mobile application and get better data. I was the project manager on…

2014 – EXJ

I got hired by Export Japan in November 2014 as a business developer on a newly launched solution called QR Translator. To paraphrase the official website: Make a Sign Speak Any Language QR Translator issues a special QR code that bridges the language barrier. Scanning the QRT Code – a combination of a QR code…

2014 – FTJ

The “French Tech”, not yet a label but more an open book idea back at the time, was pushed by the French minister Fleur Pellerin in 2013. A friend of mine who met her in Vietnam was seduced by the idea and started to speak about possibilities around. I get then introduced to one of…

2013 – Japan

I came back to Japan in November 2013 with a working holiday visa. I was part of a business delegation from France, organised by the “Val d’Oise” department. I had the opportunity to meet several government and companies actors especially in the Kansai area. I decided to create my own company there with a local…

2012 – Back2Basics

I left Logica in 2012, just before the acquisition by CGI, another big consulting firm, and dedicated myself 100% to my former company, now 5 years old. Big baby. I worked hard to improve all business processes, lower costs, maximise revenues and teams satisfaction. We fought to get bigger projects, we restructured to gain efficiency,…

2011 – La Poste

Another big project with a big impact, as we were in charge of the migration of the HR system of La Poste Courrier, employing 170,000 agents in France. I was firstly assigned to the QA team, writing test scenarii, participating to the overall QA strategy, as the scope of the project covered very different solutions…

2011 – Allianz

I participated to a small user acceptance testing project for Allianz. I was in charge of the planning and supervision of user acceptance tests on the brand new AriaWebR solution, using the testing automation software HPQC. I wrote and executed tests, reporting anomalies to the technical support and monitoring evolutions. AriaWebR is a web interface…