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professional experience

Software Development Manager

Benevity

Sep 2022 - Present

Vannes, Brittany, France (Remote)

  • Directed company's #1 priority project for the year, delivering on-time with exceptional quality
  • Led platform integration project: separated and integrated European feature into North American platform
  • Led 8-person team distributed across Spain, Switzerland, Romania, and Poland, coordinating with stakeholders across 5 time zones
  • Delivered multi-client enterprise launch with zero-defect quality: 1 minor issue in month-long testing campaign

R&D Director / CTO

MGDIS

Dec 2016 - Sep 2022

Vannes, Brittany, France (Hybrid)

  • Directed technology strategy for 4-product portfolio, defining 3-year technical roadmap adopted by executive committee
  • Led 18-month transformation of flagship product from SOAP monolith to microservices, reducing release cycles from quarterly to weekly
  • Architected and delivered greenfield platform replacing 12-year-old legacy system, achieving 90% win rate by third year
  • Built and led 5-person architecture team from scratch, establishing technical standards adopted across all R&D

Head of Analysis & Development

MGDIS

Nov 2015 - Dec 2016

Vannes, Brittany, France

  • Management of analysis and development teams
  • Supervision of technical project delivery
  • Interface between business requirements and technical execution

Head of User Experience

MGDIS

Nov 2013 - Nov 2015

Vannes, Brittany, France

  • Created UX department and recruited the team
  • Established design systems and UX standards
  • Defined user experience strategy
  • Supported cultural change within the company

Mobile Activity Manager

MGDIS

Jan 2011 - Oct 2013

Vannes, Brittany, France

  • Led a research-funded mobile project
  • Created mobile activity from scratch
  • Recruited and supervised interns then a dedicated team
  • First structuring management experience

Analyst Developer

MGDIS

Oct 2005 - Dec 2010

Vannes, Brittany, France

  • Developed enterprise applications
  • Progressed from junior to senior developer
  • Built foundations in software architecture and quality

education

Master 2

Software Development

Université de Bretagne Occidentale, Brest, France

2002 - 2005

DEUG

Computer Science

University of South Brittany, Vannes, France

2000 - 2002