Involved in various RFPs, mostly in the field of application security.
⦁ Technical lead for Cloud Signature & RBAC (Role Based Access Control) activities.
⦁ Technical advisor for strategic partnerships (OVH...).
Security Expert, working in the Technical Directorate.
⦁ Looking after innovation in Software Security & Open source software : partnerships, relations with academics, etc.
Working in the Research organization
⦁ Recognized expert in SOA security at the group level
⦁ Open Source developments in the field of RBAC/XACML in close relation with academics
⦁ Presales actions
⦁ Involved in various task forces for technology strategy (s/w security...)
⦁ Team Leadership (4-5 eng. Team)
⦁ Technical evaluation of numerous Open Source products
(mostly Linux)
⦁ South EMEA region (includes Middle East)
⦁ Proof of Concepts, Technical documentation, customer presentations, bid mgmt, etc.
⦁ Also Product Expert for the Identity Management products (Directory, PKI)
⦁ Interface with Product Groups
⦁ Partners Management (System Integrators, Product vendors….)
⦁ Initially hired as Sr Sales Engineer (Directories, Messaging - South EMEA).
⦁ Then moved to Product Management, in charge of the messaging server for EMEA.
⦁ Customer presentations (technology strategies, etc.), RFPs support, etc.
⦁ Technological directions, requirements, segmentation
⦁ Competitive analysis, Partners management (X & Mail,…)
Initially, migration project manager from legacy systems to Notes (pre-sales & consulting)
⦁ Then in charge of various projects in the military & banking sectors in Europe/MidEast/Africa.
⦁ Related technologies : PKIs, smart cards, S/MIME v3, SSO, Directory sync.
⦁ 5 persons team
⦁ Member of a security Task Force assisting the VP of Product Mgmt
⦁ RFP support, Customer presentations (100+ audiences…)
⦁ Product litterature (data sheets, white papers…)
⦁ IBM/Lotus activities coordination - Partners relations (Gemplus…)
In charge of answering a major banking RFP (pre-sales)
⦁ Providing technical/strategic expertise for Internet based projects
⦁ Managing 8 design engineers and animating a product team (Marketing, Quality, Technical Publications). Acting Product Manager.
⦁ Duties included definitions of the broad technological directions for a SunSoft-wide messaging program, articulated around development of internet products...
Managed various networking (OSI based) projects for major accounts such as EDF or SNCF.
1984/09-1988/06 : Design Engineer, Hewlett-Packard (Grenoble, France)
⦁ R&D engineer affected to an X.25 project for the HP3000.