
Passionate about using the internet (mainly Web 2.0 and derivatives) for business
Madagascar

Passionate about using the internet (mainly Web 2.0 and derivatives) for business
Madagascar
- Excellent at playing the gateway between marketing and technical part of an ICT-based business.
- Client-focused whether it is for internal or external clients
- Good understanding of Small and medium enterprises challenges
- A long career within the internet field in Madagascar through different experiences:launch of the activities of a new internet service provider, setup a team for managing corporate clients within another Internet service provider.
- passionate about how new technologies (mobile communications, Web 2.0, social networks, blogging, ...) reshape businesses in a marketing point of view
- Consultant in the IT/internet field for major companies in Madagascar (major mobile phone operator, ICT off-shore companies ).
- Trainer on open source/Linux systems.Practical experience on open source content management systems (joomla and wordpress)
- Blogger on http://www.madafan.com, http://saveoursmile.wordpress.com, http://telomiova.org; http://malagasymiray.net
- fluency in English, French and Malagasy languages
- comfortable in working within international and multi-cultural/multi-language environment
Web 2.0 usage with a business-oriented perspective, open source content management systems, linkage between marketing and technical, conception of added-value products,
(Government Agency; 1001-5000 employees; IFC; Financial Services industry)
June 2004 — Present (5 years 6 months)
- roll-out and management of www.accessmadagascar.mg: a toolkit portal for Small and Medium Enterprise managers to help them with their day-to-day operations
- trainer for setting up an electronic leasing registry system in Madagascar
- Information Technology coordinator supporting different platforms (VPN, Lotus Notes applications, WI-FI, ...)
(Civil Engineering industry)
April 2004 — May 2004 (2 months)
Agetipa is a worldbank funded project managing urban civil construction.
I was hired to train professional civil engineering people through a postgraduate curriculum. The module I was animating was about how to better use the internet for seeking information, as well as for collaboration purposes.
(Food Production industry)
April 2004 — April 2004 (1 month)
Tiko is one of the main agribusiness unit in Madagascar. They have different plants and point of sales all around the country. The IT department was challenged to network the different locations. My job was about:
- training the staff of the IT department on networking tools and configurations
- assisting them to setup the networking of the different locations
(Telecommunications industry)
January 1998 — April 2004 (6 years 4 months)
Zain Madagascar (AKA Madacom, Celtel Madagascar)
- ad hoc support to IT functions since Madacom's inception in Madagascar
- roll-out of the deployment of a in-house application for managing different within city point of sales activities
- organized and animated knowledge sharing sessions within the IT department
(Internet industry)
March 2000 — December 2003 (3 years 10 months)
Simicro Internet is now known as Capintel (www.capintel.mg)
- Setup and coach the corporate-clients unit on the different products developed
- Conceive/test and market new internet products
- manage relations with international/local providers as well as customers
(Information Technology and Services industry)
February 2000 — February 2000 (1 month)
Maky Engineering is an offshore IT company mainly working for european customers. At that time, Maky Engineering's management wanted to initiate their core staff to open source systems in order for the company to add this competency to their asset. I came to conceive and provide a training to those staff so that they are able to have their own intranet system
(Internet industry)
September 1997 — December 1999 (2 years 4 months)
CréaPro was an Internet service provider in Madagascar
- Develop and maintain internet services. Contributed to the setup and roll-out of the ISP activity
- trainer
- client-support
(Government Administration industry)
September 1999 — September 1999 (1 month)
Transfer 1999 is part of a yearly series of international training sessions organized by INTIF for linux system and network administrators. This session was held in Madagascar and I delivered, as part of a team of international professionals, some training modules.
prepared an MBA , major in marketing , 2000 — 2003
MGA 6 promotion
Certificate , ISO 9000-2001 , 2001 — 2001
This training was part of a process whereby Simicro wanted to be certified ISO9001-2000
Certificat , Technologie d’interconnexion et d’administration des réseaux , 1997 — 1997
This training was co-organised by INTIF (http://intif.francophonie.org) and the Internet Society (http://www.isoc.org)
Engineer , Computer Science , 1993 — 1997
web 2.0 business application, marketing, open source, IT for non-techies, travel, entrepreneurship
AMUL Malagasy Linux and Open Source User Group (www.amul.mg), Telomiova (www.telomiova.org), Malagasy Miray (www.malagasymiray.net)