Executive

I am a seasoned technology professional with over a decade of experience in the industry. I started my career as a software engineer and have since climbed the ranks to become CTO and CIO.

I have sharpened my technical and leadership skills through challenging experiences and transformational changes initiation and leading up to completion always in international and hybrid remote environment.

My passion for technology and my drive to continuously learn and improve have helped me become a well-rounded and versatile executive, capable of leading teams and driving growth in the ever-evolving tech landscape.

I worked in France from 2010 to 2015 and am now based in Portugal since 2015, always working for international groups.

“Being a student is easy. Learning requires actual work.”

— William Crawford

Positions

La Redoute Transformation

I had the opportunity to be part of the transformation of La Redoute through three main phases of evolution and business cycles:

1. “Decline” from 2010 to 2014 : the company was moving out of the group Redcats itself part of the holding PPR that became Kering. Cost cutting initiatives, politics, complex governance between brands existed, ultimately leading La Redoute to live outside of the group with significant debts of all types such as fincancial, organizational, and technical.
2. “Rebirth” from 2014 to 2019 : the company was now by itself with about 600m€ of annual turnover but -50m€ of negative EBITDA, with 4 years to transform or die. Significant transformation took place like the unification of International & French IS organizations, new warehouses, rebuild of the core Product, OMS, and payment systems, an accelerated transition out of Mainframe systems, and adoption of Agile, Lean and DevOps practices. A key result was moving from less than 50% to 96% of e-commerce sales.
3. “Growth” from 2019 : La Redoute was back go a financial equilibrium and from there with positive EBITDA of multiple millions. New products, services, and customer renewal took place with initiatives such furnitures with internal brand weighting to more than 50% of the sales volume and profits, B2B selling, reopen more than 50 stores, drop-shipping and on-demand production models.

The continuous dynamic of transformation of La Redoute kept my interests over-time with a start-up environment of low politics, intrapreneurship, and opportunities to growth as a technology professional.

I was part of the leadership team since 2018, contributing as key technology stakeholders jointly with the CIO of business transformation. I was also naturally acting as technology ambassador of the company.

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• Digital Platform Deployment: lead as Chief Architect and CTO of key transformation initiatives with transversal team setting the Digital platform, Payment Platform.
• Digital Platform Integration: oversee and ensure the integration of key verticals on the Digital Platform for an express checkout with 8% conversion improvement, and Stripe as Unified PSP.
• Infrastructure Cloud Transformation: RFI and RFP for overall Cloud perimeter to evolve from 20% of 80% of workloads to the Cloud. Organize the program for the evaluation and scalable team for foundations and migration waves.
• Platform Team & Develpper Enablement: maturity evolution from a siloed “kubernetes team” to a platform team focusing on developer enablement with technology, improving patterns, standards, metrics and value-stream analysis.
• Continuous Architecture Practice: evolution of architecture practices to have direct integration with business and infrastructure teams, pushing for incremental valuable short-steps aligned with continuous architecture.
• Technology Architecture Practice: definition and implementation of technology practice focusing on aligninig solution architecture across the different engineering perimeters, cloud evolution aligned with DevOps and DataOps.
• Infrastructure Architecture Practice: took over the leadership and management of Cloud teams with cloud architects, infrastructure architects, cloud engineers setting up transversal processs and Center of Excellence (CoE) model.

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• Digital Platform Blueprint: lead and co-construction with business, technology teams and a consulting firm of the target IS vision aligned on business stakes and strategy, aligning investments.
• Digital Platform Foundations: lead as Chief Architect and CTO of key transformation initiatives with transversal team setting the platform of Order Platform and Fulfillment Platform.
• Digital Platform Integration: oversee and ensure the integration of key verticals on the Product Platform, namely Semarchy as MDM and Mirakl for Marketplace, impacting the end-to-end product and offering flow.
• IS Cartography: cartography of the entire IS on functions, 450+ applications, 3500+ flows, and data building a central referential maintained by teams with regular process and shared web interface.
• Architecture Practice: recreation of architecture from scratch, staffing enterprise architects, setting up architecture reviews, ADRs, architecture frameworks, patterns, portal allowing to align decisions on trajectory and target.

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• Technology Strategy: definition and aligment of entire technology strategy and transformation on API, event-driven, modular services, and cloud with presentation up to 400+ persons and executive committee.
• Lean & DevOps Transformation: evolution from High to Elite-performance adressing the entire software production systen improving lead-time and availability with MTTA and MTTR in target KPIs.
• API & EDA Transformation: distributed architecture with reduced dependencies enabling to speed by x20 the lead-time of deliveries, from 1 to 2 times a week, to more than 10 times a day (REST & Apache Kafka).
• Cloud-native Transformation: evolution from IaaS model to PaaS on Kubernetes following 12-factor app, CNCF, security, and scalability practices (Google Cloud Platform, GitLab, HashiCorp Vault, GKE)
• Technology brand: definition and implementation of the technology brand “laredoute.io” recognizing the technology-driven evolution needs for the company and creating global community, animation talks, blog, communities of practices.
• Continuous Talent Pipeline: implementation of HR and Talent Acquisiton practices to streamline processes with continuous pool, reactive feedback, automated evaluation, with management training and HR profile staffing.
• Universities partnership: deployment of formal and official partnerships with 3 key universities in Portugal with internships, co-build projects, innovation.
• GDPR Compliance: ensure IS compliance with GDPR compliance sharp deadline.

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• DevOps Vision Alignment: definition, co-construction and sharing of the target DevOps culture and processes to build with the team.
• Lean & DevOps Transformation: evolution from Medium to High-performance adressing the entire software production systen improving lead-time and availability with MTTA and MTTR in target KPIs.
• Business SLIs & SLOs: definition and industrialization of SLIs and SLOs across entire scope of engineering applications with automated alerting and error-budgets.
• Project to Product team: transformation from a project managers and develop pool to a cross-functional team organization on value-stream.
• Middleware team: move from France to Portugal of critical middleware team of 6 persons working on API, ESB, ETL, and CEP technologies in 6 months for 500+ components.
• Management team: evolution from a team of project managers to engineering managers, adapting existing roles, creation of managerial, technology leading, and expertise tracks.
• Engineering consolidation: incorporation of 2 engineering teams based in foreign locations in Portugal to consolidate teams, migration of critical components in 3 months each.

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• Engineering Program Transformation Lead: lead program manager for 50+ engineering team of the core transformation changing the OMS, TMS, Stock Management, WMS with 3 new warehouses with real-time interactions.
• IT Infrastructure Team Transformation: lead transition program director for multiple changes involving creation of a database administrator of critical systems, migrating to private Cloud critical back-office infrastructure, evolve monitoring architecture to industrialized 24/7 support.
• Nordics & Switzerland IS Isolation: study of the IS integration in the standards group IS for Sweden and Norway countries using a frozen partner IS. Similar separation studies and implemented for Switzerland.
• Russian IS Compliance: implementation of the local datacenter to deploy the entire IS from web, back to data perimeters in Russia due to legislation evolution.

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• VC IT Investment Plan
• Digital Channels Deployment Plan
• ERP Securization
• IT Infrastructure & Network Foundations & DRP
• Team Rotation & Staffing
• Office Move

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• Continuous Deployment: implementation of core DevOps processes and practices such as automated build, deployments, tests, standard code bootstraps, remote development environment, central logging – accelerating from cycles of 6-8 weeks to 2 weeks release.
• Stack modernization: evolution of the stack to open standards in Java with Spring framework, unit tests, with standards patterns avoiding the use of costly middleware solutions.
• Project governance: securisation of project governance and project management practices to limit WIP, prioritize, reports.
• Budget controlling: consolidation of overall IS budgets with optimizations in complex financial pressure.
• Security audits : implementation of multiple security audits on organizational and technology layers to consolidate improvements across the group.

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• Reverse Marketplace: End-to-end from business to technology of reverse marketplace allowing to sell on amazon, ebay, and other platforms.
• Credit ERP: Integration project manager for the integration of the UK Credit ERP as replacement of mainframe legacy.
• Data & Credit team: Implementation and training of a team in the UK working for all countries on Data and Credit perimeters.

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• Datawarehouse: contribution as data engineer to the implementation of international datawarehouse with datamarts.
• Product Engineering: creation of internal test automation framework to accelerate software delivery open-sourced as Cerberus Testing since 2013.