Freelancer profile translated to English.

Description

As a Product Manager / PO Lead, I am pleased to offer you my skills.

With over 13 years of experience in both a company with a complex hierarchy and a small company (startup), I have mastered Agile methodology and facilitate communication and information flow.

Furthermore, my technical and functional experience ensures a good understanding and thus better coordination between departments.

I am of course available to discuss my background.

Thomas

Industry field of expertise

Languages

French
Native or bilingual
English
Fluent

Workplace preferences

Can work on-site

Nice (up to 50km), Paris (up to 10km)

ACCOR
Data Product Manager
HOSPITALITY
October 2023 - June 2024 (8 months)
Paris, France
Digital & Business Factory – Data domain

Project Context:
As part of the team restructuring, my role was to manage two teams. To provide a product vision, develop a strategy aligned with the Data factory's challenges, and foster a user-oriented product culture.

Teams:2 feature teams composed of 2 POs, 2 Tech leads, 2 QAs, 6 data engineers

Tasks / Achievements:
PMS data collection: technical and functional strategy in compliance with GDPR recommendations (PMS Opera, Opera Cloud, FOLS, MEWS, Sihot, Protel...)
Migration and redesign of the Hotel Data Manager database (from Sybase to Snowflake)
Propose a product vision and strategy aligned with the challenges of the data domain and develop a product roadmap.
Design and development of a framework for the Hotel Data Manager PMS, a database structured in 4 layers.
Risk and dependency management
Backlog prioritization.
RUN activity optimization
Communication plan for product evolutions
Improvement of PO skills in product culture
Methodology:
Snowflakes, Power BI, Talend, Dataiku, GitHub, Opera, Opera Cloud, FOLS, MEWS, Sihot…
Java, Python, Angular
JIRA, Confluence, Teams
Data analysis Data science Art direction Mentoring Team management Change management strategy Change management Communication strategy
METRON
First Product Manager
ENERGY AND UTILITIES
May 2020 - September 2023 (3 years and 5 months)
Paris, France
Metron is a Cleantech company that helps industries reduce their energy consumption by collecting and analyzing data from their sites.

SaaS environment dedicated to energy management for industrial groups.

Project Context:
In the scale-up phase, my role was to create and manage a product team to best meet commercial challenges through a user-centric approach.

Also in charge of the data collection scope.

Teams:3 feature teams composed of 3 POs, 4 Tech leads, 2 QAs, 1 UX/UI

Tasks / Achievements:

Define the product vision and roadmap, integrating Metron's commercial challenges.
Collect, understand, and translate business needs (industrial technicians) into functional requirements (product features).
Strategy for prioritizing the roadmap and the product backlog.
Define OKRs for tracking product objectives and performance (NPS, Business, User analytics).
Change management
Communication plan for product evolutions
Ensure processes to maximize team productivity (Agile methodology)
Extend data collection to new protocols (API management, MQTT, automated flat file ingestion)

Technical environment:

AWS, homemade dataviz tool, Talend, Dataiku, Kubernetes, Apache, NiFi, RabbitMQ, MongoDB, Java, Python, Angular, GitHub, API Management
Data collection Big Data Data science Data visualization Data analysis Market research
ACCOR
Product Owner Lead
HOSPITALITY
October 2016 - April 2020 (3 years and 6 months)
Issy-les-Moulineaux, France
Project Context:
In an Agile context within the Product Guest team, I am responsible for coordinating and supervising POs in charge of the evolution and health of all accor.com products in line with the digital plan strategy.

Teams:2 feature teams composed of 2 POs, 2 PPOs, 1 SCRUM master, 4 developers,
1 QA, 1 UX/UI

Tasks / Achievements:

Define the strategic vision of products with a user-centric approach.
Responsible for the roadmap and product backlog, I ensure the prioritization and scoping for the different teams (UX, UI, PO, developers, QA).
Define KPIs to monitor product performance and health (business, technical, customer satisfaction).
Gather and guide business needs.
Site compliance with GDPR and accessibility requirements
Define the product deployment strategy: A/B testing, performance monitoring, customer satisfaction campaigns, user testing, crowd testing...
Version communication plan.

Technical / functional / methodological environment:
Oracle CMS, API Management, Smart AI, JIRA..., SCRUM
Project management Product roadmap Communication strategy