• Defined the data strategy, influencing 1000+ technologists
• Defined the target state for the APAC data lake, rebuilt the team
• Defined and delivered the external data API, key to building partnerships
• Initiated and built collaboratively a shared Kafka cluster, saving 7 digits costs
• Core member of the APAC Design authority
• Organized trainings and tech talks for Hong Kong IT
• Organized data science community meetups
• Delivered a data analytics solution, key to the APAC client strategy, which helped grow the
business by 50% in 4 years
• Delivered a cost allocation solution, used by APAC COO to analyse P&L
• Core member of the APAC Engineering board
• Organized training and tech talks for Hong Kong IT
• Initiated and ran the Developer productivity think tank
• Initiated and ran the Data science community
• Delivered a big data analytics solution, meeting hard regulatory deadlines, which was key in
avoiding multi-million $ fines
• Built a team of 20 developers in 10 months
• Acted as tech guru for a floor of 150+ developers
• Organized tech talks
• Delivered a STP for Swift payments
• Built and managed a team of 6 agile developers in 6 months
• Organized tech talks
• Designed and prototyped a new generation trade and risk management back end.
Head of functional and technical architecture for Structured Equity Derivatives at HSBC
• Architect for a staff of 100+ engineers with a $35M budget
• Represented the bank at the Intel France HPC user group
Project manager for Structured Equity Derivatives at HSBC
• Delivered a multi-channel eCommerce solution for structured products, which helped increase business by 25%. Managed relationships with business, client and vendor. Managed
3 teams of 16 people in total.
• Delivered the MarkitSERV connectivity and booking business logic, mandatory to meet compliance requirements. Managed relationships with business and vendor. Managed of a
team of 4 analysts and developers.
• Delivered the trade booking STP in order to handle exponential volumes. Divided production incidents by 20. Managed relationships with business and strategic technology team.
Managed 2 teams of 10 analysts and developers.
Solution architect for Global Equity Derivatives at Calyon (now CA-CIB)
• Delivered a netting solution for the booking STP, which enabled 3,000,000 daily executions.
• Improved performance of HFT solutions, avoiding blackouts in trading strategy execution.
• Delivered a programming language for financial products.
• Lead for a mobile CRM for pharmaceutical industry hosting for 30,000 professional users
• Delivered in less than 3 months a new Windows Mobile framework which was crucial to retain customers after PalmOS and PocketPC were dropped
• Managed relationships with other teams. Managed a team of 12 developers. Contributed to
CMMI level 2 certification
CTO for digital solutions at eRoket, California
• Delivered a digital workflow for red carpet photo business, sold to 1,000 photographers
2000 to 2002 CEO, CTO and founder of Penbase, France
• Envisioned, designed and delivered a technology for mobile enterprise computing. Comprised a patented mobile database engine, a synchronisation engine and development tools.
• Delivered solutions to Danone, Andersen, PSA, Hachette, RATP and Cannes festival
• Managed relationships with investors, customers and partners
• Hired and managed of a team of 15 people