Olivier Lafontan

Current

• CTO at Exoftware

Past

• Director at The Agile Company
• Project Manager/Agile (XP - extreme programming) Coach at egg plc
• EMEA CRM Manager at lexmark

• Project Manager at graham technology

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Education

• IMEA
• University of Northumbria at Newcastle (UK)
• IDRAC

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Industry

Information Technology and Services

Olivier Lafontan’s Summary

Confirmed Agile Coach as well as Programme and Project manager (in Agile environment), with Telco, Banking, Manufacturing background. Participating member of the Agile community and highly involved in making Agile methodologies part of the mainstream "business change toolset".

Olivier Lafontan’s Specialties:

Agile Mehodologies (XP, DSDM, Scrum), Companies Transformation, Programme and Project Management, Business Value as opposed to IT Product

Olivier Lafontan’s Experience

• CTO

  Exoftware

  (Privately Held; Computer Software industry)

  March 2007 — Present (2 years 5 months)

  Exoftware (www.exoftware.com) is a specialist in delivering business value through Agile software development methods such as Extreme Programming (XP), DSDM, and Scrum.
  Headquartered in Dublin, Ireland with offices in London, Paris and Amsterdam, Exoftware's goal is to help organisations deliver software that has real business value – consistently, quickly and predictably.

• Director

  The Agile Company

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Management Consulting industry)

  September 2005 — March 2007 (1 year 7 months)

  The Agile Company provides your organisation with the guidance and expertise to transform your delivery teams into agile delivery teams.
  
  We assess your current context and work with you to define the state to which you wish to move.
  We then work with you to produce a plan for transition from current state to the desired state.
  We ensure that your outcomes are met by the change implemented.
  We guide your development teams through the process of understanding and implementing agile management and technical techniques, tailoring, enhancing and adapting them as needed.
  Typically, we carry out this enablement while working with your people to deliver quality, working software.

• Project Manager/Agile (XP - extreme programming) Coach

  egg plc

  (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Banking industry)

  September 2002 — September 2005 (3 years 1 month)

  - Multi million pound budget management;
  - Third party management;
  - Presented and co-animated an XP Game at London XPDAY03 (http://xpday3.xpday.org/index.php), also co-submitted this session for XP2004 in Germany (http://www.xp2004.de/xp2004/organization.htm). Also presented egg’s transformation at the first French XP Day in June 2004;
  - Implementation and running of “Agile Egg Game” sessions (Variation of the XP Game). Coached more than 200 people within egg so far;
  - Successfully used and deployed Agile managerial practices on projects up to 25 software engineers;
  - Successfully proved that Agile practices can be deployed outside the IT function (Experimented on Business Analysis and Process Architects team of 17 people);
  - Successfully proved tha systematic use of Business Value is possible as the driver for Agile Planning, both at Project and Programme Level;
  - Project managed the internal delivery of the first Automated Testing Framework for Flash in the industry

• EMEA CRM Manager

  lexmark

  (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Consumer Electronics industry)

  March 2000 — August 2002 (2 years 6 months)

  Implementation of CRM capability across the entire EMEA zone for Lexmark.
  - Direct line management for 4 Project Managers;
  - Set-up and running of the EMEA CRM Board, whose role is to monitor and prioritise projects;
  - Functional architecture design for all Lexmark front-end systems;
  - Participation in quaterly worldwide CRM steering committees in Lexington, Kentucky;
  - Functional and technical consultant in EMEA marketing segmentation initiative

• Project Manager

  graham technology

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  June 1998 — March 2000 (1 year 10 months)

  CRM Front-end, back office and integration - application roll-out
  Customers and projects delivered:
  - Egg:| (Dudley, UK): e-Banking
  Conception and delivery of the Bank's call-centre using GT-X. In charge of the “unsecured lending" module.
  Customer target: General public
  Time spent: 9 months
  - British Telecom (Bristol, UK)
  Call-centre solution design and delivery
  Customer target: General public
  Time spent: 4 months
  - Freesbee (Paris, France): Internet Service Provider
  Conception and delivery of call-centre using GT-X
  Customer targets: General public and Businesses
  Time spent: 6 months
  - Unipart (Oxford, UK): Automobile spare parts
  Order and Return management application design and delivery
  Customer targets: authorised dealers and garages
  Time spent: 2 months