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Senior PMO and Program Manager, 10 years of experience in managing complex technical programs and structuring growing organizations.
I support startups, SMEs, and industrial groups in strategic planning, structuring, and executing projects with significant budget and operational stakes. My background in demanding industrial environments (deeptech, complex hardware, institutional programs) has forged a rigorous approach, applicable to any technical sector.
I am involved in the entire project lifecycle: scoping, governance, planning, risk management, stakeholder coordination, institutional interface, and delivery assurance.
My goal:Ensure project and program performance (On Time, On Budget, On Scope). Ensure alignment between management, operational teams, and partners.
What I particularly bring to startups:
- Project organization structuring (roles, governance)
- Simple and effective processes, adapted to the maturity stage
- Controllable roadmap and schedules
- Product / technology / business prioritization
- Multidisciplinary team coordination (up to 10 people)
- Management of institutional partners and response to public calls for projects
- Design of AI tools for project monitoring and decision support
- COMEX support in structuring and scaling
- Junior team management
Concrete results:
- Management of portfolios of 5+ projects - €0.2 to €12 million
- Restructuring of projects with budget and schedule overruns
- Structuring of organizations in growth phase
- Deployment of project processes (pre-sales → closure)
- Management of multi-site and multidisciplinary teams
- Management and qualification of international installations
- Implementation and monitoring of production KPIs
- Design of a PMO AI agent
Available for missions as: Program Manager | Senior PMO
French
Native or bilingual
English
Fluent
Spanish
Conversational
Remote only
Primarily works remotely
Experience
- Freelance - Senior PMO/Program ManagerStart-up development Consultant | Program / Project Manager - FreelanceSeptember 2025 - Today (11 months)Paris, FranceSupport missions for deeptech startups, SMEs, and industrial groups on program management and organizational structuring for growth.Areas of intervention:
- Management of complex programs and projects: planning, budget management, risk management, resource allocation, prioritization, reporting
- Structuring of growing organizations: definition of roles and responsibilities, governance, project processes (pre-sales → closure)
- Transition and recovery management: taking over projects with budget or schedule overruns, re-aligning objectives
- PMO and practice industrialization: implementation of project frameworks, KPIs, monitoring tools
- Coordination of complex technical systems: alignment of specifications / performance / planning on multidisciplinary projects
- Management and coordination of teams: multidisciplinary, multi-site teams, support for junior teams
- Management of client and institutional partner relationships: stakeholder management, response to public calls for projects
Key Tags / Skills: Program Management, Project Management, PMO, Transition Management, Startup Structuring, Deeptech, Scale-up, Risk Management, Project Governance, Project Recovery, System Coordination, Team Management - ALDORIAPMO / Deputy Program DirectorMay 2024 - Today (2 years and 3 months)Paris, FranceManagement of a portfolio of 5+ projects in parallel, budgets from €200k to €12 million, in a fast-growing deeptech startup environment.
- Guarantee of delivery performance in terms of deadlines, costs, and quality (OTOCOQ) across the entire portfolio
- Deputy to the Program Director: operational continuity, decision support, and alignment with the company's strategic priorities
- Coordination of multidisciplinary teams (up to 10 engineers), ensuring system coherence and collaboration efficiency
- Management of client and institutional partner relationships, including preparation and submission of responses to public and competitive calls for projects
- Management of the deployment and qualification of international technical installations, in alignment with technical requirements, schedule, and operational constraints
- Management of operational incidents and anomalies: cross-functional coordination for rapid resolution and minimization of impact on project objectives
- Implementation and monitoring of production and operational performance KPIs, with continuous improvement actions
- Definition and deployment of project processes, from pre-sales to closure
- Support for the COMEX in the company's reorganization and structuring of internal processes
- Co-construction of the project management framework to support the organization's scale-up
- Design and deployment of an AI agent dedicated to the Program/Project department, improving project monitoring, operational efficiency, and decision support
Key Tags / Skills: Program Management, Project Management, PMO, Transition Management, Startup Structuring, COMEX, OTOCOQ, KPI, Risk Management, Multidisciplinary Coordination, AI applied to project management, Public calls for projects, Scale-up - SIRIUS SPACE SERVICESDEPARTMENT MANAGER / WORK-STREAM MANAGERJune 2020 - May 2024 (3 years and 11 months)Paris, FranceEnd-to-end management of complex technical work packages within an industrial deeptech startup, across the entire product lifecycle (early phases to development).
- Management of Mission Analysis and Environments work packages, including planning, budget management, resource allocation, risk management, and quality assurance, using Agile methodology
- Guarantee of delivery performance (OTOCOQ) through continuous monitoring of progress, risks, and dependencies, with implementation of mitigation actions
- Coordination of complex systems activities: performance monitoring, alignment of technical specifications, resource planning, coherence and updating of project data
- Interface between sales teams, clients, and technical departments, ensuring alignment between business objectives and operational execution
- Management of project governance: preparation and facilitation of progress meetings, reporting, decision-making processes
- Management of a team of 6 people across 2 work-streams, ensuring workload distribution, priority alignment, and collective performance
- Definition of structuring technical architectures, currently serving as the baseline for ongoing developments
- Contribution to the structuring of a deeptech startup in the scale-up phase: project processes, technical governance, work package organization
Key Tags / Skills: Project Management, Department Management, Work-stream Management, Deeptech Startup, Scale-up, OTOCOQ, Agile, Risk Management, System Coordination, Sales / Technical Interface, Team Management, Project Governance, System Architecture
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Education
- Generalist EngineerEPF Engineering School2016Generalist Engineer
- Mechanical EngineerUPV2014Mechanical Engineer