Apr 2022 – Present · 4 yrs

• 🎮 Games: FarCry 6, Riders Republic, Assassin's Creed, Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora, Just Dance 2023, XDefiant, Beyond Good & Evil 2
• Cross-project product leader responsible for rescuing and closing major AAA games across multiple Ubisoft studios. Known internally as a “Closer”, a rare hybrid role focused on problem solving by blending hands-on delivery, product scope negotiation, and creative ops strategy at scale.
• 🚀 Impact Highlights
• Shipped or unblocked high-priority AAA titles by aligning producers, testers, and directors on closing roadmaps.
• Created and/or led and/or helped numerous core teams to steer projects and to rationalize their product scope by distinguishing what is good enough for ship versus what is nice to have and can be cut or postponed, relieving pressure on the teams.
• Led cross-functional war rooms for complex milestones (alpha, beta, final submission), focusing on submission, quality, and compliance, cutting non-essential scope to protect delivery.
• Used data-driven forecasting tools (Jira dashboards, burndowns) to drive delivery cadence and prevent overruns.
• Introduced “gating systems” and weekly validation workflows to avoid iteration chaos and sharpen product USPs.
• Acted as an internal AI advocate, helping teams integrate GenAI tools to improve pipelines in QA, prototyping, and production.

Apr 2021 – Apr 2022 · 1 yr

Aug 2020 – Apr 2021 · 8 mos

Jan 2019 – Dec 2020 · 1 yr 11 mos

• Intermediate role in Production for an unannounced triple A game and Farcry 6

Aug 2017 – Sep 2017 · 1 mo · Seoul, Seoul, South Korea

• Co-organized and hosted one of the first experiments in peer-to-peer entrepreneurship educational program, in Seoul, MITBAWS. It was an alumni program derived from the MIT Bootcamps.
• Created the program; invited prestigious speakers from Korean startup ecosystem; hosted workshops; planned visits; led assessment; wrote report

May 2017 – Jan 2019 · 1 yr 8 mos · Seoul, Seoul, South Korea

• AR Game for Learning pre-seed startup
• Performed primary, secondary, and user research; defined personas; led product definition; created mockups, business plan
• Managed a team of 4; created pitch deck; selected for a startup program in Seoul; pitched twice to Samsung VPs

Sep 2016 – Nov 2016 · 2 mos · Beijing, China

• Invited by the largest on-campus innovation and entrepreneurship center worldwide to create forward-thinking learning experiences in order to prepare participants to the challenges of the 21st century (national plan by the Ministry of Education).
• Designed a short intensive developmental program opening learners' perspective and making them develop "21st century skills" such as creativity, critical thinking, computational thinking, working in collaboration
• Leveraged technologies like virtual and augmented reality for new ways of learning
• Initiated business development with Chinese tech giants like Xiaomi

May 2016 – Present · 9 yrs 11 mos · International

• Open-source initiative highlighting, supporting and fostering Immersive Tech (XR aka VR, AR, MR) applications for learning (from K-12 education to corporate training and lifelong learning)
• Gathered 1000+ professionals in a year
• Secured partnerships including the largest VR media in China.

May 2016 – Jun 2016 · 1 mo

• Organization dedicated to stimulate imagination and do prospective on future experiences, using new technology, especially virtual reality, augmented reality, drones, iot, robotics, data, artificial intelligence.
• Co-organized a major event for Futur en Seine (biggest European tech fair) on the future of viewers/spectators experience for the Olympics of 2024. Interdisciplinary teams of VR experts, developers, science-fiction authors, journalists and athletes, imagined what could be future way of watching (or even becoming an actor of) sport, using tech like virtual reality
• Output of the event was inserted within Paris application for 2024 Olympics

Mar 2016 – May 2017 · 1 yr 2 mos · Greater Paris Metropolitan Region

• Co-organized largest VR game jams in EU
• Secured strategic partnerships with HP, Nvidia and HTC, with thousands of euros worth of equipment
• Advised the association as a Board Member as well

Jan 2016 – May 2016 · 4 mos

• Built a MOOC project on Makers movement (syllabus, content, assessment)
• Shot dozen of hours of content with 35+ stakeholders
• First building blocks of the course put on Open edX.
• Devised several innovations, like the first 360° videos used in an online course,) and challenges-based learning

Sep 2015 – Apr 2018 · 2 yrs 7 mos · Greater Paris Metropolitan Region

• As a Product Manager for CLIP (platform integrating all the tools to help teachers innovate in their pedagogy):
• Performed user research (dozens of surveys and interviews); defined requirements, UX; roadmap; prioritized 4 features
• Supervised development by coding school 42 & design agencies; recruited 5; led usability testing with 100+ users

Sep 2015 – May 2016 · 8 mos · Greater Paris Metropolitan Region

• Designed and hosted programs for 100+ students on entrepreneurship and edtech, with limited budget and time.
• Utmost satisfaction from participants who praised the hands-on approach (they learned by creating startups), and praise by key actors of French startup ecosystem

Dec 2014 – Dec 2019 · 5 yrs

• Technology Entrepreneurship online program, taught by Chuck Eesley, hosted on NovoEd
• Co-created curriculum and content; instructional design; set success metrics; leveraged data (learners’ analytics)
• Experimented on engagement strategies and features, especially gamification (cohort-wide portfolio with voting system, leader boards, rewards for the best projects) and social dynamics (learning in teams), resulting in 250 000 registrants from 50+ countries and boosted retention from usually 10% with other MOOCs to 35%
• Operated the program and engaged the community (800 people in the first Slack inserted within an online program, 11k+ members in our Facebook group); accompanied more than 200 tech-driven startups that raised millions in seed funding

Aug 2014 – Nov 2014 · 3 mos · Greater Boston

• MIT and edX
• Led feedback collection of hundreds of learners; did pioneering analysis of blended learning model with high-level MIT actors leading to its scaling with now more than 8 cohorts
• Crafted PR for the program
• Devised and implemented systems (online conferencing, groups) to maintain and engage the community with still hundreds of daily messages 3 months after the event's conclusion

Jun 2013 – Jan 2017 · 3 yrs 7 mos

• Built and ran simulations with 100+ analysts on strategy and technology trends for clients such as NATO, U.S. DoD, Air Force, Deloitte
• See "publications" for some examples of our output

Sep 2012 – Sep 2015 · 3 yrs · Greater Paris Metropolitan Region

• RPG-like platform providing personalized online learning pathways to users
• Led primary and secondary market research; user research (dozens of enthusiasts learners interviewed); defined specifications; built quick prototypes; MVP
• Initiated partnerships and negotiations (EU, Comcast…); secured $100k+ in funding

Aug 2012 – Jan 2013 · 5 mos · Paris

• Supported the launch of Kickstarter alternative Gamesplanet Lab, the crowdfunding platform of Metaboli, one of the pioneers and leaders in game digital distribution
• PR effort about their activity
• Advised on the design of the webpage, the layout, the content

Mar 2007 – Sep 2007 · 6 mos · Paris

• Created content for the Consistory publications on paper and digital version
• Technical support

Dec 2006 – Jan 2009 · 2 yrs 1 mo · International

• Led Raid 25; devised strategy leading to first down (BC); resolved conflicts; recruited. Top EU guild.
• Nota Bene: i'm including this as a professional experience, as i feel i've gained as much knowledge and hard/soft skills through it as many others in the physical world.

Jan 2004 – Feb 2014 · 10 yrs 1 mo · Internatinonal

• Consulting provided to several games (indie like Fleish & Cherry in Crazy Hotel, mods...)
• Ideas for game content; guidance for copyright matters; relations with publishers and crowdsourcing companies; communication; website localization

Jun 2000 – Oct 2003 · 3 yrs 4 mos · Paris

• Contracts at Micromania (Gamestop France) and FNAC (cultural retail chain)
• Advised thousands of customers for their gaming purchase
• Demoed latest releases
• Managed orders, organized shelves and displays
• Organized a newly opened large store which became the top performing one

Jan 2000 – Jan 2003 · 3 yrs · Paris

• Second most popular French-speaking website at the time about interactive entertainment. Pioneering webcasts with the "CF TV".
• Co-managed the start-up
• Wrote dozens of games reviews, news, and editorials
• Covered several showrooms, in particular in the Los Angeles E3, interview with industry figures like Shigeru Miyamoto, creator of Mario and Zelda
• Built and managed the community on our forums, with thousands of users acquired

Jan 1998 – Feb 2017 · 19 yrs 1 mo · International

• Published dozens of news, articles, interviews and reviews, on thought leadership, entrepreneurship, VR/AR, edtech and gaming, with thousands of unique views.
• Sites: World Economic Forum, Class-Central, UploadVR, Linkedin Pulse, Medium, NotEnoughShaders, cf-network/cfan, push-start, dreamcast-france, bubblegames, nippon-games, hardcoregamers, nintendocorp!

Jan 1998 – Feb 1998 · 1 mo · Paris

• High-School internship
• Contributed to the launch of their new Internet providing services, within one of their Paris area agencies.