Frédéric - Architecte C++

I. Since 2004, Independent Consultant (ADVIC): Program Management; Infrastructure, Cloud and Enterprise Architecture; Digital Transformation – Major Contracts:

02/2017 – Present, Enterprise Solution Architect – Air France KLM (Nice, Amsterdam)
Enterprise Architect (interim position), responsible for Solutions in Sales, Marketing, CRM (Salesforce), Revenue Management and Scheduling. Management of a team of domain and technical architects.
Environment: TOGAF/Archimate modelling, Salesforce, Tibco middleware and integration components, Amadeus Airline Solutions, API and Web Service architectures, Passenger and Flight Management solutions; convergence of IT Solutions ensuing the merge of two Airlines (Air France and KLM).

10/2016 – 02/2016, API Management and Digitalization Program Coordinator - Architecture / DevOps / Deployment – Renault-Nissan (Paris FR, Newcastle UK)
Responsible for the Renault part of the Renault-Nissan API and digitalization program: Cloud and enterprise infrastructure (application services management with APIGee, Node.js), security (OAuth2, OpenID Connect), change management, agile methods, DevOps team set-up, and API governance.
Environment: APIGee, node.js, Javascript, JSON/Rest, API, SAP, application services management, DevOps.

05/2016 – 09/2016, Delivery Manager Global Core ALM/DevOps Solution, Agile/Scrum Management and Coaching - Tech Mahindra / Valeo (Paris):
Delivery Manager for Tech Mahindra, IT Services subsidiary of the Indian group Mahindra, for the Valeo Global Software Management project (Global ALM – automotive embedded software management), developed around CollabNet’s TeamForge solution: Management from Paris/Cergy of the Deployment in Germany of a customization made in Bengalore (India), on an innovative product suite developed in California, using agile methodology, and based on open source product integration. Secured delivery of first milestones, agile/scrum planning, and transition to Indian teams in Bengalore.
Environment: Automotive electric and software component supply, open source product integration, software configuration management, Amazon Cloud (AWS), node.js, Javascript.

08/2015 – 05/2016, Portfolio Project Management and Architecture – Assurances AVIVA (Paris)
Transition management of the insurance project portfolio at Aviva: Reporting, management of a team of project managers, coordination between infrastructure and operations DevOps, product owners, and upper management, in the context of a agile transformation and architectures migrations.
Environment: IBM MVS, AS/400, MQ Series, CICS, Websphere, Linux, Web Services.

04/2015 – 07/2015, Program Manager for SAP-Navision Finance Integration
BravoNext / ******** / Rumbo (Italy, UK and Spain): Assistance to the BackOffice Manager of the new ******** group (ex BravoNext – Online Travel Agency) in fast SAP to Navision migration, and definition of backoffice/accounting integrated processes, following to the acquisition of ******** by the Bravonext Rumbo Group.
Environment: SAP and Microsoft Navision.

07/2014 - 03/2015 Transition Management – Deployment and Outsourcing of HP ALM/QC Test Runs and DevOps, Agile Coach – Kanban / Scrum Master
RSI, Amadeus (Nice): Management of the Deployment and Outsourcing of HP AML/QC test campaigns (regression, automated, manual, new releases): team setup and training; testing processes, KPIs, SLA and reports design; design and setup of the automation architecture, based on Python scripting.
Environment: Quality Centre / HP ALM, Oracle, Excel.

02/2013 – 03/2014 Int’l Program Manager and Architect – Agile product development: New eCommerce platform for Air Travel
Egencia / Expedia (Paris, Seattle, New Delhi): Agile Product Development and Program management across Europe, India and North America: Product and requirements management; architecture reengineering, planning, agile management and coordination of multiple teams combining different agile methods (Kanban, Scrum). Sabre, Amadeus, Travel Fusion, Southwest. Camel and Mule middlewares, JSON/REST API design, development and deployment.
Environment:Java/J2E, Spring/Camel, middleware JSON/REST API, B2B Web Services, Agile JIRA.

04/2012 - 05/2013 SOA/API Project management and architecture infrastructure for eCommerce and B2B applications – Data Center
Crédit Agricole Assurances (Avignon): Reengineering of the cloud and middleware infrastructures; migration of IT services hosting towards a common cloud of Web Services (SOA). Architecture (security, monitoring, availability, performances, tests and benchmarks); architecture and deployment technologies; documentation, Technologies: zOS, SOA WS-I, MQ, DataPower, WebSphere/WAS, Spring, clusters, firewall, Citrix, AIX, Linux, VMWare-ESX, storage SAN, Active Directory, GED/EMC, LDAP, security; patterns architecture, management and monitoring of the SOA/API datacenter of a major French Insurance/Bank.
Environment:IBM DataPower, DB2, MQ, Websphere, zOS, VMWare, security.

01/2010 – 01/2011 Online product management applications: requirement and Implementation Management, Enterprise Architecture, and SOA/API middleware,
Givaudan (Switzerland, France, Romania, USA, Brazil): Reengineering IT Program, including SAP / Web Methods ESB Integration - Architecture, methods, organization and follow-up (offshore implementation), international coordination of 7 teams dispatched across 5 countries. Functional requirements, application architecture, master data design. Team training to new methods and technologies (API/SOA/J2EE/Spring/IoC, ERP SAP, business object modeling and use case management, Object-oriented Web Services design and application integration, UML - PowerBuilder), QualityCenter. Givaudan is 2.8 Bn € world company.
Environment: Tomcat Web Apps and Web Services, Web Methods middleware, Oracle.

08/2008 – 09/2009 PMO Application Architecture and SOA Requirement Management
Air France/KLM – Amadeus (Nice): PMO SOA Interfaces – IS reengineering and migration of Air France KLM departure control and flight management mainframe applications and services to external Amadeus Altea DC, and internal Tibco ESB solutions: design and delivery of new interface requirements for 350 interfaces to 70 applications, involving 80 application and functional expert analysts in 3 companies, distributed in 3 countries.
Environment: Proprietary airline transactional services, Amadeus ALTEA, XML Web Services, TIBCO.

01/2006 – 04/2007 Technical Program Coordinator for eCommerce applications-
Development and delivery program for the new generation of integrated e-Commerce applications (CRM, quotes, alternative offers, booking and sales).
Disneyland Resort (Paris): PMO and technical coordination for all e-Commerce development and reengineering projects: reporting, strategic negotiations and daily problem solving between the three partner companies and their subsidiaries: Accenture/Navitaire, Walt Disney World, and Disney Resort Paris. Responsible for technical committee management and technical leadership from architecture specification to delivery.
Service-oriented Architecture (SOA): Web Services, Java J2EE/Websphere MQ and .net. QA compliance to ITIL and SOX standards.
Environment: MQ, Websphere/AIX, .net/Windows 2003, Oracle, SABRE, Logitours

05/2004 – 11/2005 Architecture / Tools / Methods Consultant – eCommerce/B2B/B2C hosting
Amadeus (Nice): Reengineering of the Hotel sales and management applications; agile method deployment, CMM-I analysis, enterprise and solution architecture; middleware integration; internationalization’
Feasibility and design analyses at the inception of the new Hospitality Division at Amadeus: Design of the new multimedia/multilingual service architecture; prototype development and proofs of concept (Apache, C++). Synthesis and presentation of Agile methods impact and CMM-I compliance issues. Prototyping and RAD. UML/RUP, Apache, WebLogic, IBM transaction mainframe (TPF).
Environment: Visual C++ and Linux development environments, with continuous integration.

II. Other Contracts Since 2004: Architectures, QA, Lean/Agile Management

2012-2013 BNP Factor (Marseille) Enterprise architecture deployment / IT Transformation Program: Enterprise Architecture, business process reengineering and internationalization at an in-house software development division of a leading European factoring services provider. CMM-I 2/3, ITIL; request, feature and release management, architecture frameworks (TOGAF), Synergy (C++ / Sybase CASE)

2012 - GDF Suez, B2C Applications – Enterprise Architecture / BPM
Business process modelling, services and enterprise application architecture, project management; decision support between SAP / vendor / WebMethod workflow solutions. ARIS BPM.

2011 – Change management and deployment of lean IT Governance in a manufacturing environment, Jan – May 2011
Cenexi Phinex (Paris) – European largest pharmaceutical production site (450 employees): Process improvement, transition to lean IT management and IT outsourcing: subcontractor selection, SLA negotiations, and service management of a SAP-centric pharmaceutical manufacturing and ERP system.

2010 – Design and architecture of an open embedded ESB/EAI/Middleware – Séolane Innovation: Design of a technology-neutral open SOA architecture for multi-service fleet monitoring. – Protocol buffers, AMQP, RabbitMQ, J2EE, Twisted Python, embedded Linux.

2009 - Product Analysis and Roadmap - VULog: Product Management: product and market analysis, product development strategy and planning. VULog is a provider of lean car-sharing solutions.

2008 - Coordination and Analysis Java/J2EE Quality Tools Requirements and Design - Amadeus SEP - B2B/B2C solution services to travel companies -: Functional and technical coordination across architecture, QA, and production departments, in delegation to QA Senior Management, and as part of the overall best practice improvement effort. Support tool development. WebLogic / JMS.

2008 - Design and Specification of a High-Security Scalable Distributed J2EE/C++ Application - Mobilegov: Architecture and product engineering - Architecture design, specification and planning of a highly scalable security and access-control management application, using J2EE / EJB3 / JCA / JMS / SOA / RIA (Flex / BlazeDS / distributed events); IOC (inversion of control / dependency injection), and UML. RabbitMQ/AMQP.

2007 - Reverse Engineering and Migration of a High-Security Transactional J2EE Application - Experian SA: Acquisition, reengineering, planning and delivery of a secure internet vote application (Java/Spring/Hibernate/Tomcat/J2EE; encryption; confidentiality; audit documents); coordination between EADS Security and Experian (5 teams distributed across 5 locations).

2007 - Deployment of a Agile/SCRUM Organization - RTE Technologies: Introduction and deployment of agile product development methods into a 20-member software engineering department producing .net/Ajax B2B web applications.

2007 - External Application Support Setup - Michelin (Clermont/Ladoux) et PCO (Grenoble): Setup of external application support (TMA in French) from Michelin (SIT) to PCO Technologies, for a TeamCenter / Metadynamic / Oracle PLM application.

2004 - Technology and Product Strategy / Organization Quality, Agile Coach and Scrum Master - SLE (Nice): Product definition, architecture, roadmap, and development planning for a new generation of public transportation fleet management system, based on an in-house distributed events middleware. Introduction and follow-up of the SCRUM agile method over a 18-people C++ software department.

III. From 1999 to 2004: Software Engineering and Management - International

03/2003 – 04 2004 CTO at Infobjects – (Nice)
Chief Technical Officer at the INRIA start-up publishing ObjectDriver, a C++ object-oriented layer over relational databases (Java/JDO/JCA/JNI/J2EE, C++, .net, Web Services/XML, AspectJ).
Agile IT solution development, professional services and product management; roadmap delivery, QA. Agile coach and scrum master.

05/2001 – 02/2003 Middleware Team Manager - Accelrys (San Diego, California)
Accelrys is the world leading bio-informatics software vendor (450 employees).
Deployment of a new agile management methods (UP, then SCRUM); middleware development and support to application development teams; collaboration with product marketing and academic research (San Diego Supercomputer Center, SCRIPS). Test automation, quarterly releases. C#/.Net, XML, C++/Corba 2, Java/J2EE, Python, OpenGL, SWIG, molecular simulation, interactive 3D visualization. Wiki deployment.
Agile coaching / scrum method training and deployment.

08/1999 – 04/2001 Team Lead and DevOps - IPhrase Technologies (Boston, Mass., USA)
Sr Software Engineer, Tools and DevOps Team Lead at a MIT’s Media Lab start-up publishing a native language interactive data search and query engine.
In an agile (Extreme Programming) setup: Kernel reengineering and new feature implementation (Python wrapping over a C++ core); then responsible for QA and support tools development (test automation, multi-platform release management, continuous improvements and issue tracking).

IV. From 1992 to 2001: International PLM/EAI/SOA Middleware Solution Consulting

01/1995 – 09/2001 Arakné (France and USA)
Owner and PLM/EAI/Middleware consultant: Founding and management of Arakné (growth to half a dozen consultants), providing Product Licecycle Management (PLM) and SOA EAI/Middleware consulting services on Metaphase/TeamCenter and MatrixOne (EAI for product life-cycle management applications).
Development of an international corporate customer base: Michelin (USA, France), ABB (USA, Suisse, Allemagne), Schneider, Compaq (Europe), Airbus Industries (France, Allemagne), Marconi Space (GB), Renault, Heidelberg, Messier ... with PLM architecture, tests, benchmarking, and project management services.
Development and sales of MetaDynamic and PyMatrix: Python extensions to the customization environments of the Metaphase and MatrixOne PLM products, thereby providing robust production-grade RAD environments to these PLM products
Open source development of JPE (the Java-Python Extension): Single-process reentrant and multithreaded symmetrical bridge between the Java and Python virtual machines (based on JNI – the C/C++ Java Native Interface). Nominated for “Best Python Programmer” award to the 2001 International Python Conference in Los Angeles.

01/1992- 02/1995 Renault Automobiles Paris, France
Research Project Lead, Engineering and Lean Manufacturing Information Systems
Responsible for assessing object-oriented databases and methods. Supervision of 3 Master’s theses, subcontracting proofs of concept development; selection and networking with 6 European academic research labs; European community project management.
In-house consulting for IT support to new manufacturing engineering business processes.
Trainings: Renault Executive track, Total Quality, Project Management (PRINCE 2 - like), MS Project.

08/1987- 12/1991 Teaching and Research Assistant USA
- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Illinois Institute of Technology
- School of industrial Engineering, Purdue University