Product Manager, Communities at Bestofmedia Group
Paris Area, France
Product Manager, Communities at Bestofmedia Group
Paris Area, France
For 7 years at AOL France, I managed the launch, promotion and support of multiple internationalized products and services.
These included the AOL flagship software (with mail, IM and search functionalities), but also
- security services (Parental Controls, Pop-up Blocker, Spam filtering...)
- media services (Online Radio, Photo Albums...)
- community-oriented services (Blogs, Chat, Message Boards...)
The job implied high-level project and program management, with tech, design, localization, QA, and beta strong ties, plus product management, from concept to promotion (through specs, design and launch), not forgetting Communities management and monitoring.
Over the years, as the company growed from 30 to 350 people, I set up and organized the product management team & activity, until a Product Department was finally created (early 2004).
Growing insight into web technologies/services led to interest into the potential of such technologies as p2p, RSS, geolocalization, and social bookmarking.
- Internet product marketing
• Market studies, strategic planning; roadmaps; dashboards
• Product definition - marketing, technical & design requirement documents
• Animation of online services; preventing & solving rights, moderation and abuse issues
- Tech & market watch
- Project management
- Team management
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Internet industry)
June 2008 — Present (1 year 6 months)
Community development at Bestofmedia
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Telecommunications industry)
June 2006 — February 2008 (1 year 9 months)
In charge of the www.qipit.com mobile/web service. Metrics gathering & analysis, Roadmap definition, Planning management, Feature specification, Design, Internal documentation (wiki-based), Emails, Customer support, contributions to Strategy (Priorization, Pricing definition, Concepts definition). Defined a complete in-house billing system.
(Privately Held; 1001-5000 employees; Internet industry)
January 2006 — May 2006 (5 months)
Market studies for integration of additional web services (travel, jobs) to www.pagesjaunes.fr. Market studies, integration model proposals, integration drafts.
(Public Company; Internet industry)
2004 — 2005 (1 year )
(Public Company; Internet industry)
2000 — 2004 (4 years )
(Public Company; Internet industry)
1998 — 2000 (2 years )
Master Degreee of Science , Multi-Languages Engineering , 1989 — 1990
(not validated)
Bachelor's Degree of Sciences , Linguistics , 1987 — 1989
Trends & innovation in IP technologies and services. Experimental music. Modern Art. Archeology. Artificial intelligence/neural networks. Blog: http://www.findapath.org Organizer of an informal RSS/del.icio.us discussion group (previously on meetup.com).