Gilles Dumortier

Current
  • R&D Software Manager at SAGEM Mobiles
  • Chairman of the Board at NOVARIS EQUITY
Past
  • R&D Team Manager at SAGEM Communication
  • COO & Shareholder at ARKALIS SCI
  • Founder and Principal Adviser at InSeal SAS
  • R&D Java Team Leader at SAGEM
  • R&D Manager at Oberthur
  • Freelance (Self-employed)
  • CTO and Shareholder at ERIS AUTOMATION
  • Project Manager at SONERIA
Education
  • Institut Français de Gestion (IFG) (ongoing)
  • Université Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris VI)
  • Université Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris VI)
  • Université Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris VI)
Connections
500+ connections
Industry
Telecommunications
Websites

Gilles Dumortier’s Summary

R&D Manager, Business Angel

Gilles Dumortier’s Specialties:

R&D Management : subcontracting and technology purchasing, intellectual property, software architecture & security, embedded development, technology surveys, telecommunication applications and markets, industrial automation&supervision application software, computer languages, near/off-shore deployement

Start-up : brainstorming, strategic development, advising, funding, entrepreneur, coaching, business angel, teambuilding, hiring, out of the box projects


Gilles Dumortier’s Experience

  • R&D Software Manager

    SAGEM Mobiles

    (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; SAF; Telecommunications industry)

    January 2007Present (1 year 5 months)

    Manage Software Teams for the 3G Mobile Phones activities (110+ engineers and many subcontracts to near/off-shore centers)

  • Chairman of the Board

    NOVARIS EQUITY

    (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Venture Capital & Private Equity industry)

    July 2006Present (1 year 11 months)

    Shareholder (Founder), Chairman of the board and Principal Partner.

    NOVARIS EQUITY is a french venture capital firm composed of Business Angels with the main mission to invest money in french startups. Jump to http://www.novaris.fr

  • R&D Team Manager

    SAGEM Communication

    (Privately Held; 10,001 or more employees; SAF; Telecommunications industry)

    October 2004December 2006 (2 years 3 months)

    Lead of Third Parties Application software development teams (Messaging, Browser, Java, Imode) for Mobile Phones (55 engineers)

    Manage subcontracts to software companies (15 persons full time in France and some more in US, Deutchland, India, Serbia, Israel, UK)

  • COO & Shareholder

    ARKALIS SCI

    (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

    May 1999November 2006 (7 years 7 months)

    Information-management and real estate for offices

    on november 2006, all the offices held by the company were sold successfully. The company will be dissolved at the end of the operation.

  • Founder and Principal Adviser

    InSeal SAS

    (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Wireless industry)

    October 2003May 2006 (2 years 8 months)

    Shareholder (Founder) and Principal Adviser.

    on May 2006, On Track Innovations Ltd. (NASDAQ:OTIV) announced that it has acquired 100% of InSeal SAS share capital for an aggregate of 243,800 of its ordinary shares and 180,000 warrants.

    InSeal's revenues for 2005, the first year in which their product was sold, were approximately $560,000 with about breakeven operating results. InSeal's revenues, which are expected to grow rapidly, are derived mainly from licensing and engineering fees.

    InSeal SAS is a Marseille, France based company presently providing an operating system for contactless applications to a variety of customers in the payments market. InSeal's JayCOS is presently in use in contactless payments programs in the U.S.

  • R&D Java Team Leader

    SAGEM

    (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; SAF; Telecommunications industry)

    January 2003September 2004 (1 year 9 months)

    Build then Lead the Java team for Mobile Phones (up to 16 engineers)

    Develop the MIDP/JTWI and DOJA technologies. First worldwide certified MIDP 2.0 handset (myV65). First european-build Imode handset.

    Manage subcontracts to one biggest software company (US and Israel)

  • R&D Manager

    Oberthur

    (Privately Held; 1001-5000 employees; OCS; Telecommunications industry)

    August 2001January 2003 (1 year 6 months)

    Contactless (RFID, ISO/IEC 14443, ISO/IEC 15693) technology

    Many prototypes developed for the emerging markets of transportation, payment and identity using contactless technology. IDOne, European Citizen Card (experimental norm AFNOR), using RSA and key generation, nominated to Sesam Card Exhibition'2002.

  • Freelance

    Self-employed

    (Self-Employed; Myself Only; Computer Software industry)

    June 2000July 2001 (1 year 2 months)

    NewtGames (setup technical part of the project)
    Bayside Interactive, Inc. Miami (HMS)
    PriceWaterhouseCoopers and Lybrand (technical audits)

  • CTO and Shareholder

    ERIS AUTOMATION

    (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Industrial Automation industry)

    January 1994May 2000 (6 years 5 months)

  • Project Manager

    SONERIA

    (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Mechanical or Industrial Engineering industry)

    July 1987July 1992 (5 years 1 month)


Gilles Dumortier’s Education

  • Institut Français de Gestion (IFG) (ongoing)

    Master, Strategic Management and Business Administration ICG, 20082010 (expected)

    Activities and Societies:
    Promotion 52 D3 Paris - Master expected June 2009
  • Université Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris VI)

    Master (D.E.A.), Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, 19911992

  • Université Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris VI)

    Master, Computer Science, Micro-electronics, 19901991

    Activities and Societies:
    During internship, developed Yet Another Graphic Layout Extractor then reverse the layout of the R3000 core.
  • Université Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris VI)

    Licence, Computer Science, Software Engineering, 19891990


Additional Information

Gilles Dumortier’s Websites:

Gilles Dumortier’s Interests:

financial investment, management, entrepreneurship, computer science, python, AI, sci-fi, the next big thing

Gilles Dumortier’s Groups:

IEEE, LinkedInnovators, Advogato

  •    French Web 2.0 member
  •    LinkedHR member
  •    Python Community member
  •    Wireless Jobs member
  •    Private Equity and Venture Capital Group member
  •    IEEE UNIVERSE member
  •    Private Equity Investment Group member
  •    IEEE Computer Society Members member
  •    Startup Specialists member
  •    VENTURE CAPITAL EUROPE member
  •    Mobile Content member
  •    Meet the Investors member
  •    France Business and Professional Network member

Gilles Dumortier’s Honors:

Patents : 2 international patents
Publications : 3 (IEEE)


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