Nice, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France
Experience: Instilling quality principles at the corporate level; simplified and applicable business processes and policies and their management; web and IT governance; establishment of research strategy & coordination of research activities; elaboration & development of service offers emanating out of research in leading edge technologies; leadership of large collaborative cross-national research projects; technical counseling; proposals. Operational software development for turnkey applications. Principal subjects/keywords: business processes, web governance, IT governance, business modeling & knowledge asset management, software engineering, knowledge engineering, information technology, knowledge based systems, corporate quality, corporate policy, real-time systems engineering. Specialties: Contacts throughout the European & North American information technologies communities, both research & industrial. Bi-cultural/bi-lingual American/French; complete understanding of both Anglo-Saxon & Latin cultures.
Following ILOG integration into IBM, the Lab Operations Office was established in order to interpret IBM corporate requirements into an organization, processes and practice that would continue to permit the ILOG Lab workforce to create value.
The goal of corporate quality is to instill quality practice throughout the company in order to assure compliance to imposed requirements concerning corporate governance. This is turn serves as leverage to enhance process and operational excellence, for reasons of performance & risk management.
Built up the Engineering Department from start to 40+ staff. Included creation & deployment of ILOG's software product life cycle: planning, production, quality, rollout, maintenance. Covered documentation & localization, second level technical support activities, tools & methods for R&D, & control of research project activities. Instigated & refined cross-functional process refinement, application, & coordination.
Responsible for research strategy, proposals, & promotion/integration of research vision & results. Coordination of projects, ranging from locally-financed pilot experimentations to coordination of large, international collaborative research projects.