
Brice Coves
Professional development
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Nice, France
Freelance, ouvert au CDI
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Introduction
Certified SAFe Product Manager with 10+ years delivering innovation across tech, travel, and fintech industries. Led teams of 25+ members, reduced deployment time by 60%, and launched digital products serving global markets. Expert in Agile methodologies, product strategy, and cross-functional team leadership to drive measurable business results.
Expérience de travail
Professional development
Career Break
sept. 2023 - Présent
3 ans 2 mois
13700 Marignane, France
Launching a business in the dating industry. Responsible for product management, market and competitive analysis, writing product specifications, and handling regulatory compliance (CNIL, GDPR, Legifrance). Acting as project manager for the application development, including PHP programming and mobile-responsive design of a digital app. Collaborating with a business partner on the commercial side and partnership management.
Real Estate Negotiator - Senior manager
BSK ImmobilierFreelance
juin 2021 - Présent
5 ans 5 mois
Cannes, France
Having founded my own agency under the aegis of BSK Immobilier, alongside my role at Capgemini until the third quarter of 2023, I have developed expertise in selling properties and apartments in the Cannes, Antibes, and Mougins areas. My role encompasses negotiation, diligent client acquisition, as well as the management and follow-up of existing clients, ensuring a high-end service and successful transactions. I also manage a team of real estate negotiators.
Capgemini
nov. 2018 - oct. 2023
5 ans
Sophia-Antipolis technopole, French Riviera, France · Hybrid
Product Manager / Product Owner - Capgemini Innovation Hive
mai 2023 - oct. 2023
6 mois
Sophia-Antipolis technopole, French Riviera, France · Hybrid
- Launching a team for an innovation product on the Capgemini France Hive. - Gathering business needs from internal clients. - Defining the product vision and high-level roadmap. Empathy map. - Prioritizing the Product backlog. - Collaborating with the UX/UI team and crafters. - Utilizing JIRA suite as a Product Owner, including epic creation, administration, and story mapping. - Implementing best practices with the team and onboarding new Hive collaborators.
Engagement Manager de niveau 1 - Capgemini France
avr. 2022 - oct. 2023
1 an 7 mois
Sophia-Antipolis
- Promu au rôle d'engagement manager de niveau 1 pour Capgemini France.
Engagement Manager Capgemini France
avr. 2021 - oct. 2023
2 ans 7 mois
Sophia-Antipolis, France
My objective was to satisfy my clients by leveraging my expertise, driving innovation, being proactive, and deploying and managing teams in the field to ensure that commitments were met on time. - Managed client accounts and ensured commitments were fulfilled, delivery management, project and product management for main customers. - Led two dedicated Agile teams for a Capgemini client: one focused on innovation, and another on a complete overhaul of the customer relationship management system (Microsoft Dynamics CRM) - Oversaw operational management and governance - Developed business opportunities and maintained client relationships - Supervised delivery processes - Implemented processes and key performance indicators (KPIs) - Managed consultants: tracked monthly activities, prepared commercial proposals, handled invoicing, and monitored the financial aspects of the account - Approved team members' leave requests, onboarded new consultants, and facilitated knowledge transfer - Drove change management initiatives and promoted Agile practices; established and monitored processes and KPIs
Business Lead SDM and Project manager
nov. 2018 - déc. 2021
3 ans 2 mois
Sophia-antipolis
Worlwide solutions provider leader, Capgemini is focus on Testing, Cloud, Cybersecurity, AI and automation to better serve its customers. Multicultural, Capgemini's consultants are >200000 present in more than 40 countries, with an EBITDA of 13,2M€ in 2018. - Held the role of Service Delivery Manager - Managed teams (testing/projects), delivery, commercial proposals, KPIs, client and provider (ESN) relationships - Led governance core teams, steering committees, demos, budget oversight, KPIs, and client's activity recovery initiatives.
Service Manager AirFrance via Sogeti - Testing & Quality - 25+ team members
AirFrance
nov. 2018 - mars 2020
1 an 5 mois
Sophia-Antipolis
Sogeti, part of Capgemini – A global leader in customized, innovative, and future-oriented solutions in the fields of Insurance and Testing, Cloud, and Cybersecurity, integrating artificial intelligence and automation technologies. A resolutely multicultural group, Capgemini has over 200,000 employees in more than 40 countries and achieved revenues of €13.2 billion in 2018. People matter, results count. - Direct management of a dedicated team of up to 25+ employees (Kanban, Scrum, SAFe across projects) - Delivery and oversight of client project commitments - Acted as a strategic advisor to the client - Prepared new commercial proposals and managed internal accounting (receipts, expenses, etc.) - Established multi-site governance and quality processes (Valbonne, Toulouse, Bordeaux) - Managed change and provided operational oversight of the Sogeti team - Conducted service demonstrations for internal clients - Handled service staffing: recruited new resources, managed transfers, and facilitated knowledge sharing
Product Manager & Project Manager - Amadeus - Alten group
Amadeus IT Group
juin 2014 - déc. 2018
4 ans 7 mois
69340 Francheville, France
World leader in Travel industry with 195 countries, Amadeus products & solutions help to improve business performance of our customers: travel agencies, corporations, airlines, ground handlers, hotels, rail, car rental, airports, cruises & ferry operators. In a multi-cultural Agile high-tech work environment, responsible for leading & evolving a Digital product that plays an important role by allowing Amadeus to customise its Distribution Product Mgt(DPM) #1 Front-office products, from customers’ business needs up to deployment.
SENIOR SOFTWARE ENGINEER - AGILE SCRUM
Panviva
juin 2013 - mai 2014
1 an
Greater Melbourne Area
World Leader in Business process guidance, more than 200,000 CSRs and back office staffers worldwide are already using SupportPoint™ in Banking, Health Insurance, Telecommunications, Utilities, Manufacturing and Government. • Proactively improved development processes and tools • Set up sharepoint websites for teams to share best practices • Drove Scrum meetings for QA and development teams (up to 15 team players, Daily stand-up, retrospectives…). • Identified opportunities and design the new version of SupportPoint™ using Microsoft Visual Studio 2013 • Reviewed and approved the code of co-workers. • Worked closely with the Product Manager, developers, and QA to achieve a successful outcome within an Agile environment. Key achievements: • Very significant impact on productivity by leading Scrum meetings : We have delivered the first release of SupportPoint Viewer in six months instead of the original estimate of two years. • Proactively improved development processes, set up best practices and tools. Delivered the project on time.
INTERNET & DEVELOPMENT MANAGER - AGILE
Can'L
avr. 2011 - juil. 2012
1 an 4 mois
New Caledonia, AR 71730, États-Unis
Second biggest Internet and telecommunication providers in New-Caledonia with more than 15,000 customers • Recruited trainees and workers. Managed of a technical web team (Agile Scrum, PHP environment) • Driven internal and web-based projects • Set up an intranet system to manage storage, internal documents and customers • Led meetings for decision-making and trained staff. Coordinated the launch of new web-based products • Dealt with stakeholders: service providers, partners and customers Success stories: • Recruited and managed a technical team (Agile, PHP) that was fully operational within a month • Introduced technical efficiencies and actively promoted best practices and methodologies that resulted in an improved worker response time (+31%). • Led new strategic web based products in order to gain new customers and conquer new markets
Business Owner - IT PROJECT MANAGER CONSULTANCY
BriceCOVES.com
août 2010 - juil. 2011
1 an
Creating a company, which was a rich experience and allowed me to win the invitation to tender of the board of trade and industry (CCI) of Nice Côte d’Azur with the “e-drh06” human resources project management. • Managed Internet and web-based projects in PHP/.NET technologies. • Set up client portfolio: sought and secured the loyalty of professional customers. • Drafted contracts in compliance with the French law, quotes, delivery orders, and bills. Success story: • French academic award for the design of the Human Resources portal “eDRH06.com”, the French Web Portal of Sophia-Antipolis, dedicated to companies from Sophia-Antipolis to Monaco, which provide a large offer of training programs.
INTERNET PROJECT MANAGER
Smartware
janv. 2006 - janv. 2010
4 ans 1 mois
7620 Paris, Danemark
Leading Worldwide supplier of turnkey solutions for personalisation and test of smartcards and e-passports. • Managed projects: new website of the company, intranet • Web-Development • Web marketing, SEO Key achievements: • Set up tools to identify new customers and opportunities. • Architect of an Intranet system dedicated to Human Resources Management. ISO standard. • Improved the worker response time via the intranet and the productivity of the company which has raised 4M€/year (Official public data, 2008). Completed several external projects involving consulting and teaching for three universities : --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- • Part-time teacher (Nice and Sophia-Antipolis, France) 2007-2011 Taught C++, co-editor of PHP, web programming lessons, Flash ("IUT", "IUP", "UFR Lettres") • Project manager for medical software (Nice, France) 2007-2008 Designed a doctor’s account delegation module, a critical data retrieval and a database merging modules. • Project manager for a subsidiary training company (Paris, France) 2007–2008
DESIGNER OF FINANCIAL SOFTWARE
Devner Ltd Group
janv. 2006 - janv. 2006
1 mois
Sophia-Antipolis
In a financial environment based on the foreign market, designed two software used to treat flows of financial operations.
TECHNOLOGICAL STUDIES MANAGER
Fullfilnet
janv. 2005 - janv. 2005
1 mois
Sophia-Antipolis
A Marketing company in Sophia-Antipolis which provides direct marketing (BtoB) and printing solutions(BtoC). • Designed marketing documents • Improved the productivity and technology foresight.
WEB DEVELOPER & NETWORK ADMINISTRATOR
Carlton
janv. 2004 - janv. 2005
1 an 1 mois
Cannes, France
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WEB DEVELOPER ASP/PHP
Coteweb
janv. 2002 - janv. 2004
2 ans 1 mois
Sophia-Antipolis
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Formation
UFR Sciences, site Polytech' Sophia-Antipolis
"MASTER 2 MIAGE NTDP" NEW TECHNOLOGIES AND PROJECT MANAGEMENT
2012 - 2013
1 an 1 mois
Université Côte d'Azur
"LICENCE LPSIL" INTERNET-MULTIMEDIA
2004 - 2005
1 an 1 mois
Université Côte d'Azur
"DUT Informatique" DATABASES
2002 - 2004
2 ans 1 mois
Lycée CARNOT
"Baccalauréat Scientifique"
1999 - 2002
3 ans 1 mois