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Senior Product Owner with over 17 years of experience in IT, data, and application projects, in large enterprise and multi-stakeholder contexts.
Supporting teams on Agile practices (Scrum, SAFe) with proven experience on several large enterprise projects and environments, enabling the structuring of fundamentals, challenging existing practices, and engaging teams in a continuous improvement approach.
Solid experience in gathering, qualifying, challenging, and structuring needs, with a strong focus on value and contribution to building product roadmaps.
Key interface between business, products, and IT teams.
Proficiency in project phases:
• Discovery: Gathering and formalizing needs, managing initiatives, building and piloting the roadmap
• Build: Backlog management (framing, epics, prioritization), functional design and specifications, development and testing monitoring
• Delivery: Performance testing monitoring, GO/No GO piloting, production launch monitoring
• Run: Analysis of production incidents, criticality assessment, and fix prioritization
French
Native or bilingual
English
Fluent
Arabic
Native or bilingual
Can work on-site
Rueil-Malmaison (up to 30km)
Experience
- L’OréalProduct Owner / Agile Practices Consultant – L’OréalFASHION AND COSMETICSJanuary 2025 - December 2025 (11 months)Clichy, FranceWithin the Evaluation Intelligence team, acted as Proxy Product Owner for the Performance Center Data Integration and Data Insight products in a product/data environment, in close collaboration with Product Owners, the Product Manager, and IT teams.• Participated in gathering, qualifying, and prioritizing business needs• Contributed to backlog management (framing, epics, prioritization, user stories) (ServiceNow tool)• Monitored development in conjunction with technical teams• Participated in Agile rituals (sprint planning, Sprint Review, Daily, retrospective)• Contributed to and monitored functional testing• Organized and led pilot programs with end-usersConcurrently, held a cross-functional role as an Agile Practices Consultant:• Identified, on my own initiative, dysfunctions in the application of Scrum practices• Shared findings and recommendations with Product Owners and the Agile Coach• Contributed to the establishment of a dedicated working group (PO, Agile Coach, Scrum Master)• Actively contributed to the assessment of practices and identification of areas for improvement• Co-constructed a pragmatic target model to streamline the organization without rigidifying processes• Defined a progressive improvement plan for Agile ceremonies• Contributed to the implementation of the first evolutions and handed over to internal teams for deployment
- L’OréalUser’s Voice (Part Time)FASHION AND COSMETICSJune 2024 - December 2024 (6 months)Clichy, FranceWithin the Cognitive Sciences team, acted as User’s Voice for a project to implement an application for collecting data from cognitive science studies:- Organized and facilitated needs gathering workshops with laboratories worldwide (international context)- Built the roadmap of expected functionalities- Prioritized and identified the MVP- Created the application wireframes- Shared progress with the US-based project team during project meetings
- HARMONIE MUTUELLEProduct Owner (SAFe since 01/2023)BANKING AND INSURANCEFebruary 2022 - March 2024 (2 years and 1 month)Paris 15 Vaugirard, FrancePO for a scrum team and then in a squad with the introduction of scaled agility “SAFe” within Harmonie Mutuelle's IT department:• “Discovery” Phase:o Participated in roadmap definition;o Organized workshops to validate business needs and assisted the Product Manager in feature creation;o Participated in synchronization meetings between POs from different squads;• “Build” Phase:o Populated the JIRA backlog with epics and User Stories (US);o Based on the roadmap, prioritized US and identified provisional scopes for upcoming sprints in collaboration with the squad's technical lead to prepare for the sprint planning ceremony;o Collaborated with the UX/UI team for UI design;o Participated in writing and validating US drafted by Business Analysts;o Participated in writing and validating detailed functional specifications in Confluence;o Facilitated the sprint planning meeting to define sprint content;o Participated in Daily Meetings for daily monitoring of development, testing, and blockers;o Planned and facilitated demos to stakeholderso Participated in retrospectives;• “Delivery” Phase:o Decided with business on GO/No GO based on testing reports at the end of the sprinto Monitored performance tests and operational team GOs before production launcheso Communicated production launches to business unitso Participated in pilot programs with stakeholders and end-users before go-live;o Assisted business units in writing user documentation• “RUN” Phase:o Analyzed production feedbacko Prioritized bugs based on their criticality.o Scheduled urgent fixesTechnical Environment and Methodology:Agile Scrum, SAFe, JIRA, Confluence, Microsoft Office
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Education
- Engineering degree, Software EngineeringNational Institute of Applied Science and Technology2008Diplôme d'ingénieur, Génie Logiciel
Certifications
- Scrum Product OwnerXebia2014