Nov 2013 – Present · 12 yrs 6 mos · Paris, Île-de-France, France

• I coordinate and deliver a training on Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) with Télécom Paris Executive Education. Over two days, participants dive into:
• CDN fundamentals and architectures
• Challenges like latency, performance, and security
• Advanced use cases in video streaming, DRM, ad insertion, and operator CDNs
• The course helps decision-makers and engineers understand the shift from broadcast to streaming and make informed investment choices.

Jul 2013 – Jun 2019 · 5 yrs 11 mos · Cambridge, United Kingdom

• Promoted in 2017 to Director of New Business Development for EMEA, Asia, Pacific, Japan. In addition to Consulting (sales engineering), I took on commercial and marketing responsibilities to create a new Business Development team in Nokia IP Video - Focused on IP video products, Content Delivery Network, Cloud DVR, Personalisation, Advertising.
• Managing and leading a distributed hunting team responsible for identifying and developing new opportunities.
• Promoted to Director of Regional Product Line Management in 2015 when Nokia acquired Alcatel-Lucent. Took opportunity to create and shape the technical pre-sales team (solution architects) for Nokia IP Video products.
Started building the team for Europe, Middle-East, Africa and Asia Pacific in 2015, and expanded my scope to global responsibility in 2016 with deployments of my processes and practices into the Americas regions. Achieved the management, enablement and development of a team of 15+ pre-sales technical consultants.
• Joined Alcatel-Lucent in 2013 as a Senior Technical Consultant in the Video Business Unit (known as Velocix) in 2013. Driving the technical presale engagements with top customers like Verizon and Sky. Established myself as a go-to person within the team, and within the business unit.

Oct 2010 – Jun 2013 · 2 yrs 8 mos · London, United Kingdom

• Senior Solutions Engineer for the EMEA region - Carriers Sales division. Joined Akamai through the successful acquisition of Verivue in December 2012.
• Technical lead for CDN licensed solutions to large network operators wanting to build their own CDN capabilities:
• Operator Licensed Content and Multiscreen - delivering content owned by the Operator.
• Wholesale CDN – deploying a CDN to deliver third party content.
• Transparent caching - reducing delivery costs while improving QoE.
• Joined Verivue in 2010 as Systems Engineer for the EMEA region.
• Responsibilities include pre-sales, system design, training and documentation of Verivue Content Delivery solutions (MDX streamers and OneVantage CDN).
• Technical lead in the region for MDX streaming product, deployed by Liberty Global
• The OneVantage CDN was a complete infrastructure for network operators. It offers an extensible design to satisfy a diverse set of applications: Multi-Screen video streaming, Transparent Caching, and Operator CDN (offering CDN services to 3rd party providers).

Oct 2007 – Oct 2010 · 3 yrs · London, United Kingdom

• System design engineer in SeaChange Professional Services division, delivering technical analysis and solutions for Cable and IPTV projects: content workflow, system architecture, multi-vendor integration.
• Design and architecture: technical solutions for the VOD platform: CDN infrastructure, ingest workflow, targeted VoD advertising, 3-screen integration, etc.
• . EMEA pre-sales and architecture for VOD and IPTV.
• . Lead account engineer for Virgin Media where SeaChange had deployed its end-to-end VoD solution.
• . Consulting engineer in Amsterdam with the CTO architecture team of Liberty Global International (LGI) to design and validate the VoD solutions deployed across Europe.

Sep 2006 – Oct 2007 · 1 yr 1 mo · London, United Kingdom

• Following the integration of Bulldog Broadband into Cable &Wireless, I joined the design team of the large Internet Services division in C&W.
• The aim was to turn Bulldog into a profitable broadband provider, offering multiple wholesale services to other operators: data, vpn, backhaul, managed voip, tv.
• . Co-design and implementation of the first IPTV trial: delivering a live TV broadcast service over Bulldog's ADSL2+ network.
• . Support the pre-sale activities with Orange, INUK and Virgin Media
• . Co-design and consulting to port 3rd party TV services onto C&W DSL network: Virgin Media's cable TV & VOD offers and INUK IPTV service.

Apr 2005 – Sep 2006 · 1 yr 5 mos · London, United Kingdom

• Part of the Network Engineering team, I was integrating and testing the design of the new ADSL2+ network, based on the TR-101 specification.
• Working on end-to-end delivery and integration points between:
• . Customer Premises Equipment (DSL gateways, video set top boxes),
• . Access network (Marconi DSLAM, OOB solution),
• . Aggregation (Stacked vlans, Metro Ethernet network),
• . Edge network (First Juniper E320 B-RAS, SDX Policy Manager).
• Interface with the IPTV team of consultants from Fastweb: Scope and design to accommodate the Siemens IPTV solution onto the network.
• Management of the technical side of some business processes: RFI, RFP and vendor evaluation for the CPE.

Jan 2003 – Jan 2005 · 2 yrs

• Telecom Lille program associates coursework and laboratory practicals with 3-month periods devoted to technology and project management carried out within professional placements. Half of the time is spent working in renowned firms, involved in real-life technology projects, with a very hands-on approach.
• USA Fencing Association (Colorado Springs, CO)
• Principal engineer: Creation of a new management system for fencing competitions, using web technologies (PHP, MySQL) and wireless networks.
• Government Agency; 11-50 employees; Sports industry
• Dell Southern Europe (Montpellier, France)
• Internal EMEA Help Desk: Supporting the Dell employees across Europe.
• Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Computer Hardware industry
• Leon Paul Fencing Equipment (London, UK)
• Web designer: Design and implementation of the new UK website. Since 2003, ongoing web and network consulting (USA and French websites, backup strategy, VPN)
• Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Sports industry

Jan 2000 – Jan 2003 · 3 yrs

• Assedic des Pays du Nord (Lille, France)
• [Public agency for job-seeking services]
• Communication Assistant: Working at the board level on the communication plan for the Qualicert certification (ISO for services)
• Government Agency; 201-500 employees; Non-Profit
• September 2003- November 2003
• Girce Engineering (Seclin, France)
• [Processing center for the 'Caisse d'Epargne' bank]
• Network Engineer: Preparation and rollout a new local Ethernet network and initial tests on wifi security.
• Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Banking industry
• April 2002 – June 2002
• Norauto (Noyelles Godault, France)
• [Retail stores for automobile parts and supplies]
• Privately Held; 10,001 or more employees; Automotive
• Assistant shop manager: Organising and supplying the pilot-store where the current strategy was being trial.
• April 2001 – June 2001
• Samsonite (Henin-Beaumont, France)
• Operator on the plastic-mold injection machines.
• Consumer Goods; 1001-5000 employees; Public Company