Nicolas Leroy

Current

Product Manager / UED & Web Development Manager at Kelkoo / Yahoo!

Past

Product Manager at Kelkoo / Yahoo!
Engineering Manager at Kelkoo / Yahoo!
Engineering Manager at Kelkoo

Software Engineer at Objet Direct
Engineering Project Manager at Himalaya

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Education

Université de Technologie de Belfort-Montbéliard
Gérardmer

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Industry

Internet

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Nicolas Leroy’s Summary

Product manager with an engineering background. Specialist in web products, including front-end products and back-end products.

Practical and driven project & program manager. Following waterfall or agile methodologies. Capacity to communicate with all involved teams in a web project (UED / Web development / Engineering / Security / SEO...), understand their work, and make them work together. Like to play in international environment.

Nicolas Leroy’s Specialties:

Online shopping, Agile methodology

Nicolas Leroy’s Experience

Product Manager / UED & Web Development Manager

Kelkoo / Yahoo!

(Privately Held; Internet industry)

December 2007 — Present (1 year 8 months)

Product Manager for the Kelkoo backend systems.

Lead the Kelkoo "product development team": take inputs from business teams and other teams (local teams, SEO, SEM, UED...) to define new Kelkoo products.

Lead the Kelkoo "User Experience Design" Team: competitive analysis, design of new products, production of wireframes, prototypes, visual specifications.

Lead the Kelkoo "Web Development / Front-end engineering" Team: development of the front-end code between UED and back-end engineering teams, following web standards and taking into account the constraints of modern web development (support of A-Grade browsers, non-obstrusive Javascript, clear separation between semantic and presentation, SEO...)

Managed a team of ~10 people.
Product Manager

Kelkoo / Yahoo!

(Public Company; YHOO; Internet industry)

January 2007 — December 2007 (1 year)

Product manager at Kelkoo.

Worked on a collaboration project between Kelkoo European shopping destination, Yahoo! Shopping US shopping destination, and Yahoo! Search Marketing ; the goal of this project was to establish bridges between "sponsored links" and "shopping engines" business models, easing the management of campaigns on those channels for advertisers.

Worked on the new version of Kelkoo front-end (released in Oct'07) as product manager, defining requirements, managing priorities, working collaboratively with interaction designers, web developers, engineering.
Engineering Manager

Kelkoo / Yahoo!

(Public Company; YHOO; Internet industry)

April 2004 — January 2007 (2 years 10 months)

Engineering Manager on backend systems.

Re-engineered the Kelkoo offer processing workflow, from the gathering of offers from merchants (through feeds) to the processing and enrichment of offers (including attribute extraction and matching technologies) ; acts as architect and project manager, taking into account scalability, I18N (internationalization), security aspects.

Managed a team of ~10 engineers.
Engineering Manager

Kelkoo

(Privately Held; Internet industry)

September 2003 — April 2004 (8 months)

Built a "product database" backend, including data flow to insert product from partner feeds (with de-dupe algorithms, semi-automatic translations from one country to another...), and data flow to expose those products on the Kelkoo front-end (including matching of products with merchant offers).

Managed a team of ~5 engineers
Software Engineer

Objet Direct

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)

April 2003 — September 2003 (6 months)

Worked at Kelkoo comparative shopping engine, from Apr 2003 to Sep 2003. Architecture, design and coding of a system to manage database of products: acquisition from database providers, storage, processing and display on Kelkoo front-end. Single developer, then tech leader in a team of 4 persons.
Engineering Project Manager

Himalaya

(Public Company; 201-500 employees; Internet industry)

September 2000 — July 2002 (1 year 11 months)

Specified, documented, and implemented tools to enhance productivity : website generators, generic tracking and profiling tools.

Design and implementation of "Challenge Bibendum" (Michelin) website. Technologies : Java, Websphere, Oracle. Duration : 3 months.

Design and implementation of BFMBiz.com (BFM radio), business information website. Technologies : Java, XML/XSL, PHP, Oracle, PDA. Technical design. Led a team of 5 developers. Duration : 8 months.

Design and implementation of "Localtis.fr, le Portail des Acteurs du Monde Local" (Groupe Caisse des Dépôts) website. Technologies : Java, XML (OpenMarket content management system), Oracle. Functional and technical design. Customer relationship. Led a team of 7 developers. Duration : 9 months.