Siebel Configurator then Siebel Lead Configurator then Siebel Architect / Project Manager
ALCATEL – LUCENT, Strasbourg
aujourd'hui
2002 : Starting with configuration/scripting activities on Siebel Field Services 6.3 (Siebel Tools, Siebel VB) during 2 month, before contracting for higher position hereafter
2002-2003 : Technical lead of a 4 persons development team, plus American former developers, for re-localization in France of development of the Sales Force Automation « Orion », using Siebel Sales and Siebel Forecasts (version 6.3).
Application production stayed in the USA, and was being deployed in Europe, then Asia Pacific, Africa and Middle East, which required my high involvement synchronizing business needs and both IT/production team, and development activities.
This project involved daily work and synergy with business representatives (based in Paris) and IT partners in USA and Australia. Evolutions included renewal of the pipeline management, multicurrency implementation, online reporting flexible custom development, together with the integration of the solution with both Alcatel Referentials and Cognos-based “olap” reporting tool
2003-2004 : Increasing development activity with 7 persons, adding the quote and proposals module while keeping the corporate solution active with interfaces. This improved dramatically the efficiency of the collaborative sales effort between Alcatel’s solution teams and Alcatel field sales forces.
2004-2005 : Migration to Siebel 7.5 web-based solution, together with functional evolutions aiming the North America and Latin America areas to join the Orion community. In addition to the technical migration challenge, this project had the original goal to serve 2 different sales methodologies into a single common tool and a single reporting layout. This was also an opportunity to introduce some local “administration” features, that are not provided in the standard Siebel application.
2005 : Project Manager for Siebel Marketing 7.5 and Siebel Data Quality implementation, from preliminary scenario studies, up to its rollout in North America as a first step. This enabled sales force, and Marketing department, to better manage the « target to lead to order » process, in an integrated and single tool, with real-time pro-active interactions between these actors. I was in charge of designing the architecture, recommend a scenario, then designing the solution with the business representatives, then having a newly hired dedicated 4 persons development team realize it in 3 months. This involved Siebel Marketing module, and “multi-repository” architecture, since the “Sales Forces” development team still developed its own evolutions
2006 : Helping the new Alcatel Project Manager for a the most important project we ever had, aiming the integration within the tool of the remaining 30% of Alcatel-Lucent sales activity not yet using the tool (channel sales of Enterprises solutions). The solution reliability and functionalities was a key factor of success, against Alcatel Enterprises previous solution based on ********. Sales, reporting and Marketing activities were implemented in a single step, with the effort of 7 persons during 6 months.
2007 : The solution had become complete and mature, but data growth led to performance issues. At the same time, Alcatel started to outsource development to offshore, and drastically reduced local development manpower.
I changed then my activity for the Architecture, designing and leading implementation of many performance improvements. This involved diagnostics in tight link with Oracle, benchmarks, hardware upgrades, server assignment redesign as well as the reporting architecture, and application optimizations.