Apr 2024 – Present · 2 yrs · Bucharest | Paris · Hybrid

• “Agentic AI for Higher Education”
• StudentCentral is a deeptech education company increasingly built as an agentic-first startup.
• We turn courses into quizzes with AI tutor and feedback loops
• with dashboards that provide real-time cohort analytics and knowledge diagnostics.
• Technical stack:
• Microsoft Azure AI Platform
• LLMs from OpenAI
• AI voicebot (Azure Voice Live + GPT Realtime)
• Orchestration: LangChain & Quantalogic
• Engineering workflow: AI-assisted + agentic development (GitHub Copilot, OpenAI Codex, Claude Code), with review/test gates

Sep 2023 – Apr 2024 · 7 mos · Bucharest, Romania · Hybrid

• Building the new generation of Romanian business leaders
• Executive MBA Program delivered over Weekends
• #Leadership
• #Corporate Finance
• #Startup Valuation
• #IT Management
• #Digital Transformation
• #AI

Sep 2021 – Dec 2022 · 1 yr 3 mos · Bucharest, Romania

• Managing Director of the Romanian subsidiary of an international IT Services Company
• Outcome: Smooth restructuring | Create a new vision with the teams | New organizational culture | Develop the partnership with local start-ups | Initiate the convergence to the group | HRBP program with annual bonus and personalized training program | About to become a Great Place to Work
• Financial Results: 26M Eur Total Sales in 2022 (+1M, almost all this net growth coming from the Data & Business Automation sub-perimeters)
• HC: +30 FTE

Mar 2019 – Sep 2021 · 2 yrs 6 mos

• Deep Expertise in Analytics on structured data - from Small Data to Big Data (Spark)
• Time series: spot trends, seasonalities, anomalies and root-cause analysis
• NLP with Python stack + MLFLow
• Toolbox: Python, SkLearn, Tensorflow/Pytorch, XgBoost, PyOD, Prophet

Jan 2017 – Mar 2019 · 2 yrs 2 mos

• Lead Organizer & Trainer: Big Data/AI Academy - Internal Upskilling program to accelerate the Data Transformation
• Mentoring BigData projects (around Datalakes - Hadoop / Spark)
• Project Manager & Tech Lead on AI projects in various perimeters (small data / in conjunction with RPA solutions)

Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 · 1 yr

• Functional Expert / Senior Business Analyst
• PROD: Proxy-Product Owner within IT Dept of Financial Markets Division

Jul 2012 – Apr 2015 · 2 yrs 9 mos · Orléans Area, France

• MarketScience France SAS was a start-up between Orleans (France) & Bucharest (Romania) whose primary objective was to offer a unique combination of expertise in text-mining & high-frequency econometrics on macrodata in order to automatically monitor & understand global market movements.
• GlobalMacroWATCH: The Proof of Concept is available on the Bloomberg terminal (APPS GMW <​go>), but it is no longer supported. The initial revenues didn't meet the shareholders expectations, so this company has been liquidated. Anyway, the research achievements were just great.

Feb 2008 – May 2012 · 4 yrs 3 mos · Paris, Hong-Kong

• Head of Quantitative Prop Trading on FX
• Design, Test, Validate and Handle in Production, numerous automated trading strategies on G10+Asian Currencies
• Excel/VBA, Bloomberg + Reuters Data, Matlab, C# based execution engines

Feb 2007 – Jan 2008 · 11 mos · London, United Kingdom

• Systematic Directional Trading on G10 Currencies based on IR/FX Comovements (Intraday/Extraday)

Jan 2006 – Present · 20 yrs 3 mos · Dijon Area, France

• AI researcher at CIAD-Lab (Centre d'Intelligence Artificielle Distribué)
• My courses within IMBS (Master's degree in International Business)
• "International Software Management"
• My courses within a Master's program in Banking & Finance
• "AI & Digital Transformation in Banking"
• "Digital Innovation in Banking Services"

Jul 2003 – Jul 2006 · 3 yrs · London, United Kingdom

• Currency Porftolio Manager of CAAM DynArbitrage Forex (Absolute Return Fund of 3Bl EUR AUM at the top)
• Discretionary and Systematic Trading on G10
• Pure Volatility Trading (Vol Swap, Forward Vol, Straddle)
• Very Large Trading Positions Mngt