Judith - Consultant UML

Since 07/2005 TROSA, (a 2 y residential program for substance abuse recovery serving over 350 residents, 10 Millions annual budget (90% generated by TROSA business entities), 40 staff )
New Ventures Director Durham,North Carolina,US
 In charge of starting and developing new (social) ventures (i.e. profit centers) for TROSA with following constraints:
o Generating revenues for the program
o Recycling (i.e. selling) unused donations
o operated by the residents of the program (i.e. serving as a vocational training for hard-to-serve population)
 Current ventures in development (totaling annually over $200K in revenues) include a used-furniture consignment store and an eBay business:
 Responsibilities include Operations (assessing, monitoring, streamlining), Finance, Hiring / Selection, Sales, Marketing and PR (Partnership / Community), Reporting
 In charge of developing Academic relationships with surrounding University (Duke University) for joint initiatives / participations. Recent actions:
o Session at 7th Gathering on Social Entrepreneurship (********.cfm)
o Joint entrepreneurial project with Duke Social Entrepreneurship Class from Public Policy Institute, and TROSA (********/)


03/2004– 07/2005 CleanSweep @ Urban Ministries of Durham, (Homeless Shelter) —
Member of the Board of Directors, then Venture Director Durham,North Carolina,US
 Social Venture startup of a Janitorial Service serving the Durham community operated by residents:
- Presented a Business Plan at the Yale Business School 2nd Competition for Social Entrepreneurship (********.asp),
- Started the venture (total budget of $54,000) with the double bottom line:
o Aligned with the homeless shelter mission, provide employment opportunities and work history to selected residents of the shelter
o Generate resources for the shelter to make it less dependant on other traditional funding sources
- After a year of operations, CleanSweep has produced some social success stories and is in the path of financial break-even, with 2 full time employees, and with over 6 residents involved
- Operation, Program, Procurement, Finance, Hiring / Selection, Sales & Marketing, Partnership / Community, Reporting.


2000 – 2001 ALCION (Consulting Firm)— E-Business Project Director Paris, France
 Strategy:
- Bids and proposals: selection, pre-sales, proposal design and final presentation of projects corresponding to 30% in revenues (average project size of 300KЄ)
- Initiated Knowledge Management on specific competencies (including seminars, partnership, intelligence business) such as Web Servers, J2EE techniques and Speech Technologies.
- Recruited, trained and coached consulting engineers to sustain an average growth of 7 engineers per month
 Project Management (including full development cycle, negotiation, outsourcing, cost and schedule)
- TravelSoft: ASP type platform providing travel services integrated with AMADEUS software.
- Directed for CDC Filinks (joint venture from group Caisse des Dépots et Consignations) and successfully delivered a project ( financial ASP platform providing Financial Market Instruments intermediation) within very short time frame (5 months, 12 persons, over a million lines of code)


1997 – 2000 Lucent Technologies, Wireless Access Solutions,— Process Engineer Le Plessis, France
 Audited the Software Process in place (150 engineers, 5 departments, 3 locations). Responsible for process reengineering and deployment (based on Capability Maturity Model), resulting in shortening the development cycle by 30% with better overall quality
 Improved Customer Care Service by reducing average correction delay by 110 days


1994 – 1997 Lucent Technologies, Bell Laboratories — R&D Senior Engineer New Jersey, USA
 Implemented, within a core team of 6 persons, the very first professional speech engine software resulting from a tight collaboration with research scientists
 Designed and implemented advanced speech APIs for easy integration of speech in applications


1992 –1994 AT&T ISTEL Velizy, France
Technical Manager —Sextant Avionique, Automatic Test Division
 Managed a team (6 engineers) and successfully delivered on-schedule a subsystem of Automatic Test Equipment of the fighter jet Rafale and heavy battletank Leclerc
Test Engineer —Sextant Avionique, Civil Flight Division
 Validation of the Fuel Control Management System, a new real-time computer of AIRBUS A340
 Run Pilot Tests in collaboration with British Aerospace (Filton, England)


1989 – 1992 University Paris XI, Research Laboratory in Computer Science Orsay, France
Doctorate Student & Teaching Assistant
 Design of language for describing control of rewriting systems (proof theory)
 Teaching Assistant at Paris XI University and in two colleges of Engineering EPITA & ENSTA (Programming Languages & Compiler Design)