Arnaud

Program & Engineering Management | Broadcast & Digital Specialist
36 years oldOther technical positionsCome from Belgium Living in Xi'an
Language: English, French
Mandarin: a little

CTO
Netco Sports, Paris France
Dec 2018 - Aug 2019(9 months)

Supervise backend team (Paris, France), mobile and web frontend teams (Minsk, Belarus) and project management team (Worldwide) for a total of 100 peoples. Build quality assurance and data protection processes (GDPR). Handling communication with stakeholders, customers and partners at executives’ level for any delivery or technical elements. Leading tendering process and defense in front of potential customers. Monitor KPIs and budgets. In charge of technical leadership and company operation and delivery in line with company strategy and business goals. Reporting to CEO.

Head of Platform
Netco Sports, Paris France
Apr 2018 - Dec 2018(9 months)

In charge of leading a team of Full Stack Engineers located between France and Belarus (hiring, training, mentorship, appraisal, KPIs, …). Owner of production, product development, support planning’s and accountable of project deliveries, priorities, launch and operations for an amount of 2M€ per year. Leading DevOps activities for Cloud infrastructures: scaling, maintenance, billing, deployment, … Architect of service-based solutions, web applications and single page applications: software architecture, cloud infrastructure, deployment strategies, back offices and APIs design. Performing on-site support during live events worldwide (US, China, Japan, France, …). Part of tendering and post-sales activities from scoping, solution definition, high-level estimations, SLA definition and contract review. Delivering multiple projects worldwide from France, UK, Canada, MENA, US to Australia. Reporting to CTO.

Program Manager
EVS Broadcast Equipment, Liège Belgium
Jun 2017 - Apr 2018(10 months)

Responsible for work breakdown, planning and scheduling strategies. Communication of projects status and KPIs to internal or external stakeholders and C-level executives. Scaling methodology based on principals from SAFe and LeSS, leading up to 80 engineers divided in up to 10 teams internationally (France, Germany and Belgium). Working in collaboration with the Enterprise Architect to define end-to-end architecture, public/private APIs, third-parties’ integrations and hardware requirements. Federating and inspiring development teams using a servant leader mindset and assuring anyone see the meaning of their work in the global picture. Fervent defender of the “Keep it simple, stupid” (KISS) design pattern and continuous improvement. Delivering multiple major product releases related to production systems. Reporting to VP Product Delivery.

Engineering Manager
EVS Broadcast Equipment, Liège Belgium
Dec 2014 - Jun 2017(3 years)

In charge of building from scratch, leading and mentoring a team of Software Engineers from 3 to 10 using Scrum as Agile framework. Assuring multiple developments shared between headquarters and offshore offices (China, Germany) from defining requirements and system architecture to delivery. Managing priorities, resource allocation and working with product management, quality assurance and operations. Day to day and managerial activities related to the team: mentorship, technical leadership, performance, change management, staffing, appraisal... Delivering multiple major product releases from video switcher to streaming server and web player. Reporting to Senior Product Development Manager.

HEPL, Liege, Belgium
, Computer Science
Sep 2007 - Jun 2010(3 years)

Finished second of my promotion.