Managing Principal, Technology Innovation - specialist in R&D transfer
Grenoble Area, France
- Current
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- Managing Principal, Technology Innovation at Xerox Global Services
- Past
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- Program Manager at XRCE
- Senior Project Leader at XRCE
- Centre Planner at XRCE
- Showroom Engineer at Xerox Research Centre Europe
- Research Scientist at NIST
- Education
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- Institut national des Télécommunications
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Francois Ragnet’s Summary
13 years in R&D and successful transfer of innovation into Business.
More recently, pre-sales and technology evangelist, as well as managing a R&D group within Xerox Global Services in charge of transferring breakthrough innovation.
Francois Ragnet’s Specialties:
R&D transfer
Francois Ragnet’s Experience
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Managing Principal, Technology Innovation
Xerox Global Services
(Public Company; Computer Software industry)
2006 — Present (3 years )
Manager of a group in charge of R&D transfer into Xerox Global Services offerings
Pre-sales and evangelism for state-of-the-art document processing technologies
Xerox Thought Leader for the "Future of Documents". -
Program Manager
XRCE
(Research industry)
2003 — 2006 (3 years )
- Alignment and delivery of XRCE and Xerox research with Xerox « Office » Business Groups
- Management, development and diversification of technology and research work in support of Office Groups at Xerox
- Definition of a coherent and evergreen vision, including other XIG research centres
- Communication, pre-sales and delivery of research technologies, «Customer-to-Technology» roadmaps
=> « contracting » multiplied by 5 over 4 years, two first XRCE technologies delivered into Xerox Office products -
Senior Project Leader
XRCE
(Research industry)
2002 — 2006 (4 years )
- Project Management and research technology transfer into Xerox Business Groups
- Internal sales of technology concepts; reactivity to internal and external customer requirements, strong Project Management, Intellectual Property protection (10 patents filed in 4 years)
- Topics spanning mobility and wireless (Bluetooth), content management, security, print infrastructure management
effective pre-sales, development and delivery of projects in adequation with Business Groups needs -
Centre Planner
XRCE
(Computer Software industry)
2000 — 2003 (3 years )
- Deployment and adaptation of portfolio management / R&T planning process (aka « contracting »)
- Technology inventory, resource allocation, reporting; Planning, sstrategic preparation, communication
=> Much stronger XRCE alignment with Xerox BGs, increased visibility of research and better planning proces -
Showroom Engineer
Xerox Research Centre Europe
(Public Company; Computer Software industry)
1995 — 2000 (5 years )
- Creation of the first customer technology showcase for Xerox worldwide research
- Technology “retrieval”: integration / ad-hoc developments / collaterals, customer demos and events, Tech watch
=> XRCE TeXnology Showroom has become key to Xerox communication in Europe and has spawned sister facilities throughout the world -
Research Scientist
NIST
(Government Agency; 1001-5000 employees; Research industry)
1992 — 1995 (3 years )
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Francois Ragnet’s Interests:
Innovation adn R&D transfer
