Florian Laval

PLM Windchill Technical-Functional Engineer for various large groups or companies (Gemalto, Thales, Airbus DS, Renault, Safran AE)

• AMS Manager for the Core part (common foundation for all Thales entities) and Thales entities: management of run, bugs and evolutions (deadlines and costs), needs analysis (workshops with business stakeholders), writing specifications and test plans, version upgrades (design of patches and installations), deliverables/quality management, release monitoring, data analysis and correction (SQL), installations, AMS committee (monthly follow-up), OU management (allocated annual budget)

• Project Management:

◦ Deployments and Major Version Upgrades (Windchill 10 to 11, 11 to 12): SVN branch merging, version patch construction, installation, deployment

◦ Data Migrations (SQL, Loaders), minor version upgrades

◦ Interfacing with ERPs

• Management of the offshore development team (India), implementation and improvement of processes, and transition to a nearshore team (Morocco)

• Functional Manager for integration into the existing application of an American company following its acquisition (Agile PLM migration)

◦ Facilitation of workshops (in English) with business stakeholders, writing detailed functional specifications (in English), writing test plans and technical-functional tests

◦ Advice and support for the migration manager, data cleaning for ERP interfacing

◦ UAT Management (Jira), Version Management (SVN)

◦ Management and design review with the service provider in charge of developments

◦ Management of the "hyper care" AMS during the months following Go-Live