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Description

IT Project Director | Payments & Payment Processing Expert | Acquiring / Issuing

20 years of experience in banking, fintech, and e-commerce. I support banks, PSPs, and online retailers with their strategic payment projects: e-commerce payment processing, POS terminals, acquiring, issuing, SEPA, and high-availability environments.

I manage complex, high-stakes business and technical programs, ensuring the reliability, scalability, and compliance of delivered solutions.

**Recent References**:

**Payplug**: Acquiring for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games ticketing and In Stadia project for approximately 3,000 payment terminals.
**Estreem**: BPCE customer interface for integration with the One processing platform, covering issuing and acquiring.
**HSBC**: Project management for SEPA and securing EVPS platforms.

**Key Areas**:

Project Management, Acquiring / Issuing, SEPA Payments, Payment Processing, Compliance, IT System Reliability, Digital Transformation.

Industry field of expertise

Languages

French
Native or bilingual
English
Native or bilingual

Workplace preferences

Can work on-site

Paris (up to 50km)

Estreem
Customer Delivery Manager
BANKING AND INSURANCE
August 2025 - February 2026 (6 months)
Paris, France
Integration of BPCE group with the Estreem payment processing platform for issuing and acquiring:
Organization of steering committees with BPCE PS management
Sharing of the Estreem roadmap, focusing on related work.
Risk management: Identification, internal mitigation plans, and customer/supplier facilitator role.
Customer Relations Payment Processing Steering Committee
Payplug
Project Director
BANKING AND INSURANCE
September 2021 - August 2025 (3 years and 11 months)
Paris, France
Manage strategic company projects on behalf of the Executive Committee (primarily the CPTO, Strategy & Transformation Director, and COO). My role is to ensure these projects are delivered in accordance with time constraints, established quality requirements, and sponsor expectations.
Responsible for strategic projects:
2024/2025 - Convergence: Unification of the product and platform from the Dalenys and Payplug legacy
2023/2024 - Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games: Ticketing and In Stadia acquiring offer for ~3,000 payment terminals
2023 - Tap to Pay on iPhone: Launch of the offer in France as a pioneer on November 14, 2023
2022 - Fit to Scale: Adapting the Dalenys platform to new volumes and making it compatible with growth objectives
Project Management IT Strategy Supplier Relations Payment Processing
Groupe BPCE
Project Manager
BANKING AND INSURANCE
October 2017 - August 2021 (3 years and 10 months)
Paris 13, Île-de-France, France
For BPCE SA, managed projects for the creation or evolution of regulatory reporting (ECB and SRB), as well as securing the accounting platform.

18 projects managed with a budget of 7,200 person-days, with implications for the bank:
- Securing the Accounting Platform: For the integration of new banking activities (EuroTitres and BPCE Financement), securing the Accounting IT system to handle tenfold volume increase, accounting system version upgrade, infrastructure migration to a new outsourcing zone, and addition of new recycling and audit trail functionalities.
- SMITH: 2 priority projects to integrate Natixis's specialized financial services (SFS) into BPCE SA's IT system within 4 months.
- Financial Communication: Taking over the project for industrializing the Reference Document to get it back on track one month before production.
- Interest Rate Benchmark Reform: Launching a project to map business and IT impacts in anticipation of the emergence of the new Ester benchmark.
Accounting IT Project Management