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About José

CTO and IT expert with over 20 years of experience in critical environments (banking, finance, large corporations), specializing in information systems transformation.

I have led major programs (DevOps, Cloud, Data) and, since 2020, have integrated artificial intelligence (AI), particularly generative AI, into the core of technological strategies and skills development within investment banks.

Today, I support organizations and professionals in adapting service sector jobs for the era of generative AI.
  • English

    Native or bilingual

  • Spanish

    Native or bilingual

  • French

    Native or bilingual

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

Experience

  • FINAXYS (FILIALE IT FINANCE GROUPE NEURONES)
    CTO
    DIGITAL AND IT
    January 2019 - December 2025 (6 years and 11 months)
    Paris, France
    / Information Systems Directorate

    Development of Strategies, Orientations & Technological Roadmaps
    Management of Internal Transformation & Industrialization
    Operational Monitoring of Grouped Systems (CDS, CDC, ATG, Fixed Price Contracts)
    Pre-Sales Support & Referencing

    / HR Support

    Sourcing, Workforce Planning & Skills Catalog
    Development of a strategy for valuing periods between projects
    Management & Animation of Publisher Partnerships
    Management & Animation of Finaxys Events. Trade Shows, Conferences,
    Meetups Hackathons & Code Battles

    / Educational Directorate

    Management of Academy (Master's Interns) & University (Career Changes for Expert Profiles)
    Orientation & IT & Finance Training Programs
    Implementation of Qualiopi Certification.
    Design and writing of training materials
    Monitoring and updating of pedagogical documentation (Frameworks, website, pedagogical outlines, scoring grids...)
    Creation of Training Courses (Materials, Pedagogical Outlines, and Assessment Tools):
    - DevOps Acculturation
    - Big Data Acculturation
    - Gen AI Acculturation
    - Becoming a Gen AI Trainer

    / R&D, AI Innovation & IT Practices Transformation Directorate

    Management of the R&D LAB
    R&D Orientations and CIR management
    Supervision of expert profiles, PhD students, and doctors in applied research and industrial innovation
    CIFRE Thesis Supervision: Blockchain with Low Energy Footprint in Financial Environments

    / Programs, Offers & Solutions Directorate

    Management of client delivery by the R&D LAB
    Scoping, audit, and costing
    Management of generative AI application development teams
    Deployment of "Development Augmented by LLM" training paths
    Management of large-scale DevOps migrations, including AI-powered automation integration.
    Construction and animation of business support systems for AI acculturation for non-technical and mixed audiences (IT / Business)
    Artificial Intelligence Instructional Design Innovation Management Business Strategy IS Architecture
  • CRÉDIT AGRICOLE CIB / FINAXYS
    DevOps Transformation Manager
    October 2020 - December 2021 (1 year and 2 months)
    Change Management:
    Design and deployment of DevOps Transformation Kits Training Levels 1 & 2. DevOps Acculturation, Clean Code & Craftsmanship, Testing...
    Management of resources organized in Squads (CI, CD, Containerization/Cloud, Testing)
    Facilitation of workshops (Maturity Assessment, Ideation, Prioritization...)
    Budget Management & Optimization
    Preparation of Go2Cloud Roadmaps
  • CRÉDIT AGRICOLE GROUP INFRASTRUCTURE PLATFORM / FINAXYS
    Web, DevOps & Big Data Service Center Manager
    October 2014 - December 2018 (4 years and 2 months)
    Management: Operational management, coordination
    Methodology Management: LEAN + Kanban
    Facilitation of operational meetings
    Organization of technical workshops with Business teams
    Organization and facilitation of DevOps Workshops
    Organization and facilitation of Agile Workshops
    KPI Monitoring
    Budget Allocation
    Project Planning
    Baseline Planning
    Continuous Improvement
    Monitoring of requests, incidents, and change requests.
    Monitoring and organization of Security committees
    Proactive and innovative approach (tooling, internal solution development)
    Continuous Improvement Management
    Development and Marketing of DevOps & Middleware Service Offerings

    Technical Expertise: . Installation and configuration of WebSphere Application Server, JBoss EAP, and IIS environments hosting Java and DotNet applications. . Operation, maintenance, and global monitoring of platforms (behavior, tuning and optimization, capacity planning, supervision).
    . Development of DevOps tooling
    . Software Factory Integrations
    • - Architecture and Maintenance of CD Pipelines. Release Management (Publisher FixPacks and HotFixes)
    . Infrastructure security management (SSL/PKI);
    . Urbanization of the MDW & Hadoop park
    Management of technical platform obsolescence
    Technological watch
    Technical Environment: HP-UX, Linux, Windows 2003/2008/2012, IBM WebSphere Application Server 6.x/7.0/8.5.5, RedHat JBossEAP 6.x, Nagios, AppDynamics, Hadoop

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Education

  • Supervision of research work (CIFRE)
    Finaxys Lab R&D.
    2020
    Encadrement de travaux de recherche (CIFRE)
  • Hadoop Admin Training
    Octo Technology.
    2015
    Formation Hadoop Admin

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