Program Manager at Odyssey Financial Technologies
Paris Area, France
Program Manager at Odyssey Financial Technologies
Paris Area, France
• Change Management
• International projects definition and management (Europe – US – Asia).
• Team coordination (150 people): business, development, financial engineering, quality, services.
• Team management (30 people system and financial engineers) across several countries.
• Focused accounts management.
• Over 15 years of experience in the financial software industry.
• Languages: French, English
• Customer Management
• Technology & Architecture
• Project Management
• Team Management
(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Computer Software industry)
May 2008 — Present (1 year 3 months)
(Information Technology and Services industry)
July 2003 — May 2007 (3 years 11 months)
Job description
- Technical product strategy
- Heading products delivery committees
- Managing the relationship with the customers to identify their needs.
- « Product Roadmap » specifically in charge of the technical architecture.
- Definition of priorities in the planning of the development teams
- Commercial policy
- Negotiation of contracts with third party software vendors
Projects
- Evolution of the Product’s architecture evolution to a Services Oriented Architecture
- Validation of the data model to be able to coop with a Multi Entity.
- Unified XML design of all the data handled in the different front to back products.
- Re-engineering et re-design of the application’s front-end (light and rich client).
- Definition of a Grid architecture for the reporting module
- Interfaces and API
(Financial Services industry)
June 2000 — July 2003 (3 years 2 months)
3 Teams - 25 people – financial engineers or system administrators (2 to 10 years experience)
Job description
- Creation and set up of a 3rd level support center in New York and in Singapore
- Hiring and management of the different teams - Definitions tools processes used
- Central coordination of the activity for the Focus Group Account
Missions
- Deployment of a Focus Group Account in Boston (US) and creation of a local team.
- Evaluation of the support and consulting structure during the acquisition of the Diagram company.
- Management of the product consulting missions
- Management of the premium support missions for the Focus Group Accounts
(Financial Services industry)
April 1996 — June 2000 (4 years 3 months)
Team: 10 people – financial engineers or system administrators (2 to 10 years experience)
Job description
- Creation and set up of a 3rd level support team in charge of providing financial and technical support for the risk products (Kondor+ Forex and interfaces)
- Hiring and management of the different teams - Definitions tools processes used
- Being an interface between the development teams, the Reuters teams in the countries and the main clients.
- Packaging and delivery of Kondor+.
Missions
- Manager of the support organization for the Euro night in 1999
- Manager of the support organization for the millennium (Y2K)
- Expert support missions in big international clients and trading rooms.
(Financial Services industry)
November 1992 — April 1996 (3 years 6 months)
- Development team leader (in 1995)
- Technical specifications
- Kondor+ Fx Swap module development (deal capture / real time position windows / revaluations / reports)
Technologies used: C / C++, UNIX (SUN et IBM) X11, Sybase (SQL, dblib/ctlib)
Computer science - Electronic - Automation
1992 - Diplôme dingénieur ESIEA
Ecole Supérieure dinformatique Electronique Automatique
5, rue Vésale 75005 Paris