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Back to original languageAbout David
Looking for a Product Manager specialized in Data & AI?
Looking for someone who masters Scrum, Kanban, SAFe, JIRA, Confluence?
I am a graduate of École Centrale de Lille with over 8 years of experience.
I have worked in sectors such as Banking - Insurance, Leisure, Hospitality, Fragrance & Flavor, Transport, Energy.
I have had the opportunity to work with companies such as: Société Générale, Barrière, Givaudan, SNCF, and EDF.
I can assist you with Product Discovery, Product Strategy, and Product Delivery in a Data and agile context.
I can also offer my knowledge in Coaching, Facilitation, and Graphic Facilitation.
I am certified in:
● Digital Product Management (University of Virginia Darden School of Business)
● Certified SAFe® 5 Product Owner/Product Manager
● Professional Scrum Product Owner I (PSPO I)
● ICAgile Certified Professional - Agile Team Facilitation & Agile Coaching
Shall we discuss your project?
French
Native or bilingual
English
Fluent
Japanese
Basic
Can work on-site
Paris (up to 50km), Lieusaint (up to 30km)
Experience
- GivaudanProduct Manager - Data, AI & InnovationCHEMICALJune 2023 - Today (3 years)Paris, FranceGivaudan is a Swiss manufacturer of flavors, fragrances, and cosmetic active ingredients. Employing over 16,000 people across more than 166 sites, the company has been the world's largest company in the flavor and fragrance sector since 2007.I joined the Digital Innovation teams to explore and develop approaches to help various departments submit fragrance proposals tailored to client briefs and to enhance their market knowledge.Some results: adoption by sales teams in several regions and positive client feedback, rapid acquisition of thousands of quantitative and qualitative consumer data points in multiple geographic regions, reduction in the analysis time of online product reviews by 50% or more.● Share the vision and align stakeholders.● Prioritize the Product Backlog and write user stories to clarify objectives with the team.● Qualify data and propose solutions to improve its quality.● Conduct interviews with diverse profiles to identify leads to prioritize and explore.● Measure product usage and user satisfaction to inform future decisions.● Qualify the performance of AI approaches with the Data Scientist and implement a solution to verify their health once delivered.● Optimize the user experience with UX/UI approaches.● Provide APIs.● Deliver tools that meet use cases related to Myrissi, an AI that connects fragrances, colors, and emotions.● Deliver solutions to query consumers and test innovative approaches to gain insights into fragrances.Technical environment: Multicloud (Azure, AWS) & On-Premise, S3, GPT-4 Vision, OpenAI CLIP, Angular, Java Spring Boot, API, Python, SQL, Tableau, NoCode, Maven, GitLab, Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift, SSO OpenID Connect, Sphinx iQ 3.
- Groupe BarrièreProduct Manager Data, AI & LoyaltyENTERTAINMENT AND LEISUREApril 2022 - Today (4 years and 1 month)Paris, FranceFor over 110 years, Barrière has embodied the prestige of French luxury and know-how. Today, it is a benchmark in luxury hospitality and a market leader in casinos in France.I joined its Marketing / IT departments to work on Data and Loyalty initiatives. The goal was to implement Data and Loyalty activations, partly using predictive models, to create value for customers and the Group.These actions have resulted in a 56% reduction in customer churn within their respective customer segments, a 3.55x increase in loyalty program enrollment during certain events, and positive customer feedback on the experience provided.● Share the vision and evangelize the use of data and statistical testing within the organization.● Prioritize the Product Backlog and write user stories to define new features or evolve existing ones.● Implement the Scrum / Kanban framework within the newly formed Data team and the lifecycle processes for Data Science use cases – manage a secondary role of Scrum Master / Agile Coach.● Qualify and ingest the data necessary for use case development.● Write and implement activations aligned with the Group's strategy, particularly concerning customer relations.● Align stakeholders and different business units to enable activations and gather feedback from a multitude of departments.● Implement A/B tests with control groups and monitoring KPIs alongside data scientists to significantly identify the impact of activations.● Automate CRM and Customer Analysis processes to save team time and ensure data reliability.Technical environment: Google Cloud Platform (GCP): Big Query, Vertex AI, Airflow, Gitlab, Python, R, SQL.
- Société GénéraleProxy Product Owner & Project ManagerBANKING AND INSURANCEMay 2020 - April 2022 (1 year and 11 months)Puteaux, FranceSociété Générale, one of the leading European financial services groups and a significant player in the economy for over 150 years, supports 25 million clients daily with over 117,000 employees in 66 countries.• Within the FPM (Financial and Performance Management) tribe on the project to enable management controllers to compare management data from different systems and have accounting and billing enrichments for them.• The project relies on a Datalake, with other projects dependent on it.• Team composition: international and in two feature teams - 1 PPO / Project Manager, 1 PPO / BA, 2 BAs, 2 Talend Developers, 2 MSBI Developers. For each feature team, 1 Developer also acts as Scrum Master.• Organization: Scrum / Kanban with 2-week sprints, and SAFe x Spotify with 6 sprints per Program Increment.• Creation and communication of the product vision with teams and stakeholders.• Prioritization of the product backlog and breakdown into user stories.• Operational management of the product during sprints (particularly using JIRA) and ensuring the vision is well shared and understood by everyone.• Dynamic and sustained exchanges with end-users and stakeholders, and regular communication about the project to them.• Continuous improvement of the team and its cultural evolution towards greater responsibility and a stronger capacity for proposal.• Identification, promotion, and execution of an opportunity to implement a new data model challenging the status quo and requiring the alignment of multiple stakeholders.• Design of solutions shared with the rest of the tribe and mutualization.• Project management: product roadmap, estimations, risks, facilitation of operational and project steering committees.
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Education
- Engineer from École Centrale de LilleÉcole Centrale de Lille2017Spécialisations choisies : Système d’Information, Modélisation (UML, BPMN). Certifications : TOGAF 9 Foundation Level, MOOC Gestion de projet – Rémi Bachelet, Assertivité – Isabelle Cuvelier. Activités et associations : Président du Bureau des Arts, Responsable Bandhoulle International Tour de Ze Big Bandhoulle : la fanfare de Centrale Lille, Participation à la course d'autostop étudiante "Le Pouce d'Or".
- Preparatory Classes for Grandes ÉcolesLycée Jacques Amyot2013Filière MPSI / MP.
Certifications
- MOOC: Project Management ABC - AdvancedCentrale Lille2014
- Discovery and practice of assertivenessIsabelle Cuvelier2015