VP Products/CTO

Apps / Web / Wireless

Drive the technology path of an innovative company focusing on advanced subjects, ideally on a brand new consumer product segment.

> BIO

OSEO expert, I am also Executive Committee Member of the ANR (National Research Agency) advanced research funding national organisation, as well as Executive Committee Member of the RIAM which supports research & development projects through joint CNC and OSEO financial support.

Since 2014, I am the Chief Product Officer and CTO of ZEENS/Presstalis — the digital subsidiary of Presstalis— working on mobile-to-store and digital newsstand which includes social networking and bringing innovative BM to the press industry (50 % discount on mags) + in-store purchase of journals & show tickets in partnership with Ville de Paris, JCDecaux, Mediakiosk, FNAC/France Billet, Logista and Presstalis) after having worked on a brand new B2C digital press service that exposes all journals and magazines published in France since 1947 via an all-you-can-eat subscription-based model on iPad (from 2014 to 2016).

Before and for about 4 years, I was the VP Products & Chief Technology Officer (CTO) where I created the first 3D newsstand in the World! This revolutionary product immediately skyrocketed as #1 grossing app in Apple App Store in France with more than 800K users (more : the first 3D newsstand in the world)

Before and for 3 yearsd, I was the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) at MobiLuck.com which is focused on geolocalized social network for mobile phones. This LBS friends finder service displays 35M pages/month and has attracted more than 1.2M users (Q2 2009) since its launch in August 2007 and currently recruits an average of 5K users per day as per the current trend and we see our traffic doubling every quarter! Our technology is carrier-independant and the service works worldwide as it is available in more than 10 languages.


Before and for about 4 years, I was the In-Fusio/MobileScope's Advanced Technology Manager where I created a mobile phone massive cross-platform multi-player technology and service for the Group and designed and developped a Google Earth-like technology for UMTS and HSDPA mobile phones for Orange.

Before, I've been in the video game industry for 10 years where I successively developed titles, created and sold realtime 3D technologies and, finally, took in charge one of the business unit of Kalisto Entertainment to handle two 4M€-budget games.

> PROFESSIONNAL EXPERIENCE

2014—today (10 years)

ZEENS Presstalis, France — digital magazines newsstand — 1500 people

• Chief Product Officer & Chief Technical Officer (CTO) — Member of the board, in charge of technology and product roadmap: Designer and product manager of the first 3D newsstand in the world available for the iPad and iOS devices; Setup and day-to-day management of the R&D/production subsidiary in Tangier, Morocco (20 fulltime engineers) closing technology partenerships HR and talent hunting; Building and monitoring of budgets and reporting to the General Management; Reporting roadmap progress to the board of directors; Management of outsouring (including offshore) and external resources, writing contracts; Design and creation of iOS and Android apps and Azure cloud-based brand new platform.

2010—2013 (4 years)

LeKiosque.fr, France — digital magazines newsstand — 35 people

• Chief Technical Officer (CTO) & VP products — Member of the board, in charge of technology and product roadmap: Designer and product manager of the first 3D newsstand in the world available for the iPad and iOS devices; Setup and day-to-day management of the R&D/production subsidiary in Tangier, Morocco (20 fulltime engineers) closing technology partenerships HR and looking for talented people; Looking for financial aids thru government and european financing vehicles; Management of outsouring (including offshore) and external resources, writing contracts; Addressing platform scalability by migrating to the cloud (storage and CPU).

2009—2010 (2 years)

Mimesis Republic, France — social network - 3D MMO — 70 people

• Acting as Senior Production Manager (COO) — 5-month freelance mission as Chief Operating Officer (COO) at mimesis republic in order to industrialize the production of the service, which step was required to raise €5M. I've installed a SCRUM-based agile methodology and stopped fuzzy management and clarified managers' roles. I've implemented a streamlined decision making process and restructured some departments and installed a simplified product roadmap strategy.

2007—2009 (3 years)

Mobiluck, France — Mobile phones and Services - Mososo — 20 people

• Chief Technology Officer — Mobiluck: Closer to my friends. Launch of a mobile service focused on geolocalization and social networking. Users are geolocalized automatically so that they benefit from advanced features such as find the nearest indian restaurant or meet handsome people close to them. Users receive SMS alerts when their friends come close. Traffic is currently 35M pages/month with 10% monthly increase with more than 1.2M users worldwide (Q2 2009). The business model relies on ad distribution based on users' profile and localization. Premium accoutns are currently being developed. Development of an iPhone app. Technical environment: Architecture and administration of a Linux cluster (Debian, Gentoo), Server-side development in LAMP : Linux, Apache, mySQL et PHP CLient-side development in xHTML and xHTML Mobile iPhone development in Objective-C/Cocoa: geolocalisation API, networking and communication with the back-office Facebook app development: enable facebook user to run mobiluck from within Facebook Many third-party interfacing through web services: Twitter, Yahoo!, Google, Maporama, SMS brokers, advertising agency, geomapping, etc.

2006—2007 (2 years)	Freelance, France — Mobile phones and Services - International Environment — 1 people
	• Free-lance Consultant — Publisher of mobilezoo.biz and Consultant for M&A operations. Provide help and advisory to companies facing changes in their business and/or for the sake of mergers & acquisition operations as a free-lance consultant.

2006—2006 (1 years)

Mobilescope (In-Fusio SA), France — Mobile phones and Services - International Environment — 200 people

• Advanced Technology Manager — Mobilescope is a commercial split from In-Fusio. In charge of the advanced technology, create and develop cutting edge technology for the mobile industrie (client and server side) and prototypes that prove them, white papers, product definition, API & marketing requirements, consulting. 2006 — Design et development of an interactive 3D video streaming technology based on satellite-based hires photographs (Google Earth™-like) for UMTS and HSDPA.

2003—2005 (3 years)	In-Fusio SA, France — Mobile phones and Video games - International Environment — 200 people
	• Advanced Technology Manager — White papers, product definition, API & marketing requirements for advanced technologies. 2005 — Design and development of Project X the massively multiplayer online (MMO) technology and hardware accelerated 3D for wireless gaming over UMTS/2G networks (Clients et servers). (See press release) (2005)
	• Consultant and Technology Project Manager — 2004 — Project director of In-Fusio cross-platform multi-player service (GPRS/UMTS, HTTP). 2003 — EGE/MIDP2 : Embedded Real time 3D engine for ARM processors for extending Java VMs. (2003—2004)

1998—2002 (5 years)	Kalisto Entertainment SA, France — Video games and hi-tech - International Environment — 350 people
	• Business Unit Manager — Management of 30 to 50 people - 3 to 4 M€ (26MF) budget per products. (See Nightmare Creatures 3) (2000—2002)
	• Technology Sales Manager — 3M€ (20MF) sales (See Press release) (1999)
	• In-House Consultant Manager — Put technical development back on its feet. Reschedule technology. Propose and adopt solid plan to complete development. Team coaching. (See Nightmare Creatures 2) (1998—1999)

1994—1998 (5 years)	Virtual Studio SA, France — Video games and hi-tech - International Environment — 100 people
	• Project Director — Budget: 1M€(6MF) - Namco Ltd / Japon (See Commando) (1997—1998)
	• Consultant — Mission consulting - Canal + Multimedia / France (1998—1998)
	• CTO & project manager — US$1,4 M / 20 people - GT Interactive / US (See Angel Quest) (1996—1997)
	• CTO & project manager — US$1M / 31 people - American Softworks Corp./US & Electronic Arts/Europe (See STORM) (1994—1996)

1994	Groupe Athéna / GPA Assurances SA, Avignon, France — Insurance — 2000 people
	• Sales representative / Enterprise — Sales - Insurance dedicated to middle/small businesses

1993	dse, Cavaillon — Software development — 5 people
	• Consultant and free lance developer — Company founder & CEO, Cavaillon, France - Development of networked application for PC for small companies (C++/DBMS Paradox for DOS & Windows)

1992	Direction Générale de l'Armement (DGA) - DCN/SDET/CERTSM, arsenal de Toulon — Contingent Scientifique — 50 people
	• Research engineer — Failure diagnostic software for nuclear submarines (SNA/SNLE) (Macintosh and engine simulation interop)

1990—1991 (2 years)	PCSoft SA, Montpellier — Software development — 50 people
	• Project manager and Software Engineer / High Screen 5 — High Screen 5 : Development of tools dedicated to application developers: HSMAQ : tools for Rapid Application Development. HSGen : source code generator for HSMAQ (Basic, C, Fortran, Cobol, etc.) (See PCSoft)

> TRAINING PERIODS

In 1989 (6 months)

Direction Générale de l'Armement DGA DCN/CERTSM, arsenal de Toulon, France R&D Software Engineer — Modeling of the behaviour of actual underwater wired-on torpedoes used in nuclear attack submarines (SNA/SNLE), — Development of the related non-linear finite-element application using FORTRAN 77 & C in conjunction of ABAQUS and EUCLID/IS (VAX VMS)

In 1987 (6 months)

CNRS, Saint-Etienne, France R&D Software Engineer — Development of a EUCLID/IS application used to set and compute mechanicals constraints on top of an automatic 3D meshing application - CAO/CFAO (FORTRAN 77/IBM)

In 1986 (6 months)

EADS, MatraDatavision, Les Ulis, France R&D Software Engineer — R&D Software Engineer Development of an application dedicated to optimizing metal cut nesting for EUCLID/IS - CAO/CFAO (FORTRAN 77/VAX 8800)