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Eric PenhasEP

Eric Penhas

⭐Transition Manager | DATA Project Director

€1,000/day
Paris, FR
15+ years

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About Eric

✅ Immediately Available – Assignments 3 to 18 months+

📢Transforming data into business impact has been my profession for 20 years.
With 20 years of experience, I am a Data, AI & Cloud Project Director | Transition Manager. I work as a freelancer to manage your strategic programs and transform your Data & AI usage and processes into measurable value.

Sectors:Banking, Insurance, Healthcare, Leisure, Transport

🎖️My Role:Bridge the gap between your businesses and your technical teams, structure priorities, secure deliveries, define Data Architecture/Governance functions, and unite stakeholders around a clear vision with operational teams and management committees (CODIR/COMEX).

My Added Value:A 360° vision (business, technical, compliance), a strong ability to simplify complex topics, to unite people, and a commitment to measurable results (ROI, cost reduction, revenue improvement, compliance).

🏗️My Expertise:
  • Data & AI:Scoring, Churn, Marketing Automation, Fraud, GEN AI/LLM, Web3.
  • Architecture & Cloud:AWS, GCP, Azure, Big Data, Data Lake, CRM, ERP, AI Lab, Data Platform, Data Factory, Databricks, Python.
  • Governance & Compliance:Basel, AML/CFT, GDPR, AI Act, NIST, OWASP, ISO, data quality.
  • Management & Leadership:CODIR, budgets of €5M/year, 40 FTEs, Agile/SAFe, PMI/Prince2.
🏆Achievements:
  • MGEN:Renovated Data Platform (B2C→B2B2C)
  • RATP:MVP blockchain for asset traceability and security
  • PERSONAL:RAG/LLM Assistant (OWASP).
  • COMPAGNIE DES ALPES:Management Committee Member: Data offering for 16 subsidiaries.
  • LA BANQUE POSTALE:
  • 1st banking Data Factory (€5M/year, 10 departments, 22 managed people).
  • Real-time application - granting 1M cards/year and 600K credits/year, 15M customers.
  • 1st Data Warehouse (1500 tables, 1000 flows/day)
💼Intervention:
  • Data Transition Management | Data/AI/Cloud Program Management.
  • Data Governance & Strategy.
  • Data & AI Product Management.
  • French

    Native or bilingual

  • English

    Fluent

Can work on-site
Paris (up to 50km)

Experience

  • ARYZOM
    Freelance (ARYZOM President)
    CONSULTING AND AUDITS
    September 2025 - Today (9 months)
    Sèvres, France
    Immediately available, I am actively seeking an assignment in project and product management for Data, AI, Cloud (IT and/or business) or transition management, or architecture and operational delivery.

    Product Manager/Tech LEAD - Gen AI/LLM Conversational Agent (Self-taught project):

    - Design and prototyping of a RAG architecture and a conversational assistant specialized in boat engine maintenance, based on a personalized LLM (fault diagnosis, maintenance procedures, optimization advice), user journey, and integration of a technical documentation base (manufacturer manuals, mechanical guides).

    Stack: Mistral AI, Ollama, FAISS Vector Database, HuggingFace, LangChain, React, FastAPI, Docker, Figma.

    Product Manager/Tech LEAD – Sensitive Asset Traceability MVP
    (Blockchain Business School Certification):

    - Design of a Web3 solution (MVP): smart contract/private blockchain/wallet for firearm traceability for security forces (sales, assignments, maintenance, training, shooting tests)
    - Presentation to the BBS and Doors3 jury.
    - Sharing Blockchain fundamentals with the "RATP Innovation" community.
    - Design of a better product-market fit (OCR, AI, and White Label).

    Stack: Hyperledger, Polygon, Polkadot, Peaq, Solidity, Rust, IPFS, ZKPs, Metamask, EVM
    Product Management Generative AI LLM Blockchain Big Data
  • MGEN Technologies
    Data Platform IT Domain Manager
    HEALTH AND WELLNESS
    April 2022 - August 2025 (3 years and 4 months)
    Paris, France
    Accomplishment:
    As part of a major business model transformation (B2B2C) at MGEN (VYV group), I contributed to winning commercial tenders, improving customer relations, and providing quality data for business units. I enabled the implementation of a modern, more efficient, and cost-effective Data-Centric platform to support new business (customer volume, cost reduction, data accessibility/security/reliability, fraud reduction).

    Functional Data:
    • Co-management of IT/Business Data strategies and projects + Agile SAFE scoping of Business Owners' needs.
    • Identifying growth levers + roadmap for use cases: Products, Marketing/Distribution, Policy Lifecycle Management, Accounting/Finance, Compliance/Security).
    • Writing business/technical JIRA features (Data, Digital, CRM, AI, and Reporting use cases).
    Technical Data:
    • Solution Architecture, Data, and Data Platform service offerings.
    • Co-construction of a new Data-Centric platform for VYV (€5M/year): Data assets (Master Data Management business objects), Customer Reference Data (RUP), high-availability Data Cache for Digital, Data Lake, and AI Data Labs.
    • Definition of Data services: loading, storage, monitoring, utilization, quality, security/access/compliance, mediation/exchange, Data Governance, Data Science.
    • Leading technical delivery (Collection/Transformation, Security, Compliance, Monitoring, Environments, Test Automation, continuous improvement).
    • Managing migrations to on-premise (transitional) infrastructures and then to GCP/S3NS Cloud (target Business Data Cloud).
    Management:
    • Human Resources: 4 Agile IT/Data teams (25 to 40 people).
    • Budget (Annual plan, Forecast, CAF/Staffing).
    Stack:Big Data, BI, Google Cloud (GCP/S3NS), MDM, Tibco EBX, Semarchy xDI, Couchbase, Greenplum, Kafka, Python, Power BI, LLM, Gen AI, JIRA, Klaxoon.
    Big Data Artificial Intelligence Product Management Google Cloud S3NS
  • Compagnie des Alpes
    Data Director (CIO Management Committee Member)
    ENTERTAINMENT AND LEISURE
    July 2020 - March 2022 (1 year and 8 months)
    Paris, France
    Accomplishment:
    For business units and IT, I managed the strategic plan, budget, resources, and solutions to improve customer knowledge, marketing automation, finance, and cross-functional processes to increase company revenue.

    Leadership:
    • Definition and execution of the group's Data strategy (budget of €2M/year).
    • Management and construction of the roadmap for 16 business entities (leisure parks and ski resorts).
    • Management and monitoring of the Data budget roadmap for Leisure and Ski resorts (Comex/Codir).
    • HR and operational management of an Agile team (13 data engineers).

    Functional Data:
    Business leadership and management of use cases for customer knowledge/relationships, contactability, satisfaction/loyalty, IT principles, and regulatory compliance.

    Technical Data:
    • Cloud Business project management on AWS, Azure DevOps, and Databricks (IT migration, Data Platform, Data Science). Application of ITIL best practices for operational continuity.
    • Management of needs and delivery for reporting (accounting provisioning, operational cost management, customer and revenue transitions).
    • Solution Architecture: evolution of DevSecOps mode Cloud Data Platform services (continuous deployment and monitoring) for Marketing Automation, Reporting, and Data Science.
    • Design of IT functions: Quality, Security, and Regulatory (GDPR).
    • AI studies for equipment failure prediction, fraud prediction, snow cover rate forecasting, queue management.

    Stack:Big Data, BI, AWS Cloud, Databricks, Python, Spark, Talend, Power BI, Azure DevOps, Klaxoon.
    Amazon Web Services (AWS) Marketing Automation Databricks CIO Big Data

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Education

  • Master's Degree Engineer
    ESI-SUPINFO
    2007
    Management des organisations, Intelligence Economique, Administration de Base de données Oracle, Administration/Ingénierie Systèmes Serveurs et Postes Microsoft, Gestion et mise en place d'architectures Serveurs Linux, Développement Java, Ingénierie des d'intelligences et systèmes neuronaux, Gestion des principes Cyber-sécurité par Microsoft, Administration Réseau CISCO. Gestion d'entreprises, Comptabilité/Finance, Formation spécifique sur concours pour maîtrise de tous les services de Systèmes IBM.

Certifications

  • Tech Lead Web3 Blockchain & SmartContracts Systems
    Blockchain Business School
    2025
    DAO DeFi Smart Contract Blockchain Bitcoin Ethereum Tokenization EVM Fundraising Tokenomics
  • Scrum SAFE
    Digital Tango
    2021
    Product Management Agile Method Agile Methodology (SAFe) PI Planning Agile Release Train Scrum SAFe Agile Project Management Value Stream Mapping

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