
David Brocard
Driving operational performance
Salaire / Taux journalier
Toulouse, France
Freelance, ouvert au CDI
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Introduction
Over the past ten years, working with Thales, Airbus, Siemens, and MSA, I have developed deep expertise in organizational transformation — covering cultural, human, and structural dimensions. I now bring this experience to the challenges of AI deployment, where managing change is often the decisive factor. My agile and lean practices (including SAFe) provide the operational backbone, and I can also step into hands-on roles as Project or Program Manager when execution leadership is needed.
Expérience de travail
Senior Transformation Consultant │ Project/Program Manager │ RTE │ Organizational Coach
MetapeopleFreelance
janv. 2007 - Présent
19 ans 10 mois
82000 Montauban, France
• Project/program management and operational leadership of complex engineering programs (aerospace, defense, industrial) • Enterprise transformation & change management at scale: operating model, value streams, governance • RTE on multiple Agile Release Trains; Lean-Agile transformation (SAFe SPC) • AI enablement: use-case prioritization, data readiness, PoV pilots, adoption & governance (forward-looking) • Executive, team & organizational coaching (RNCP 6 certified) • Trainer: transformation, Lean-Agile | SAFe, project management, Management 3.0 • Co-founder of Agile Tour & Agile Toulouse; regular conference speaker Clients: Airbus, Siemens, Thales, Latécoère, B2M, MSA, high-tech & multimedia companies, training organizations, universities KEY MISSIONS: Airbus Defense & Space GEO (Toulouse, 31) Sep. 2025 – Mar. 2026 Transformation Consultant | Operational Performance - Production of high-level satellite images • Implementation of SAFe LPM for development governance including alignment of strategy with operations • Deployment of accurate capacity-management practices Outcomes: Better projects prioritization, no more project bypass Projects lead times decreased, limited WIP Relevant KPI board setup and better roadmap items OTOCOQ Contact: Yann Gouy, Transformation Leader B2M (CCI82) (Montauban 92) 2025 20 people Organizational Coach for a training organization • Teams / managers / executives coaching for organization improvement Outcomes: Resolved tensions and conflicts between departments Better alignment between direction and teams Contact: Hervé Holz, Directeur (endorsed) Thales SIX GTS (Gennevilliers 92) Dec. 2024 – Jun. 2025 About 100 people Programme Manager | Transformation Lead – Rafale F4 Connectivity System • Management of the Rafale F4 Aircraft Connectivity System transformation program (classified Defense project) • Structured cross-functional collaboration (Kanban, flow optimization) • Continuous delivery and system test automation • Leadership and teams coaching in a high-criticality environment Outcomes: Engineering Flow optimized (especially IVV) Obeya and Jira boards installed Teams empowered and better management delegation Contact: Alexandru Enache, Directeur Ingénierie / CTO (endorsed) iMSA (Montauban 82) 2018 – 2024 More than 1000 people Programme Manager | Enterprise Transformation Lead – Agile@Scale & Change Management - Agricultural Social Care • Lead of the enterprise-wide SAFe transformation : program direction, value streams design, launches of agile teams, ART and entire LPM • RTE on several ART • Coach of every roles : teams, agile roles, management and executives • Release management and CI/CD/devOps deployment across the company • Organizational and cultural transformation support, including HR • Setting up and coaching managers community of practices Outcomes: Enterprise successfully transformed in five years Organization redesigned to be compliant with SAFe 8 Agile Trains, 1 Large Solution, Enterprise portfolio successfully running Leadership adapted HR engaged and organizationnal Culture actual evolution, Contact: Bertrand Chabaud, Responsable Transformation (endorsed) Latecoere (Toulouse 31) 2018 – 2021 30 people Innovation Delivery Coach - R&D ASGARD & DINA Project • Deployement of Scrum/Kanban in hardware & R&D environments • Full lifecycle delivery support (concept → industrialization) • Leadership coaching of management and innovation teams Outcomes: Agile proven viable in a hardware/R&D context Drastically accelerated prototypes delivery Contact: Patrick Vergnot - Head of Advanced Engineering (endorsed) Thales Avionics (Toulouse 31) 2017 – 2019 About 100 people Programme Manager of the« Digitalisation and Mission » business unit delivery • Multi-teams delivery programme management • Agile transformation in a complex system engineering environment • Coaching leadership in transformation adoption Outcomes: Increased productivity and OTOCOQ Teams empowered, management adapted Engineering specificity reconciled with agile Contact: Michel Subelet - Engineering Operations Directort Siemens Mobility (Paris 75) 2014 – 2016 About 100 people Transformation Consultant | Delivery Performance - "TGMTR3" Metro Autopilot • Transformed development value chain of a metro autopilot system • Improved delivery performance in a critical embedded context • Coaching leadership in transformation adoption Outcomes: Cross-team delivery synchronized at scale Strategic Project delivered on time Strong quality requirements met Contact: Catherine Larvor - Product & Solutions Security Officer (endorsed) MIPIH (Toulouse 31) 2014 – 2016 About 100 people Lean-Agile Coach - Agile/SAFe Transformation of Medical Application Development • Agile Transformation Support, Agile@scale • Coaching of 6 Scrum Teams and Product Managers • Management Support Outcomes: Delivery transformed across the whole product development department Strong leadership evolution Contact: Marianne Jullien – Transformation responsible (endorsed) Thales Alenia Space (Toulouse 92) 2014 (3 months) About 10 people Lean-Agile Expert – Chorus II Reference System • Study and implementation of an agile version of the Thales methodological framework, leveraging lessons learned and best practices from satellite programs across the company Outcomes: Chorus II reference system re-engineered and deployed to comply to agile lifecycle Industrial lifecycle & quality requirements successfully embedded Contact: Michel Reboul - Directeur de l’ingénierie IFR Skeyes / Airbus Military (Colomiers 92 - Madrid 2010 – 2014 About 100 people Agile coach | Project Leader | Scrum Master– Computer-Assisted Aircraft Maintenance • Designing the transformation strategy • Coaching the agile transformation of the product development unit • Operational Projet Leader and Scrum Master of the new products • Innovation & Design thinking Outcomes: New World Class AAM product launched Scrum successfully installed on development teams Contact: Jean-Christophe Huc - CTO (endorsed) Thales Alenia Space (Toulouse 92) 2009 (one year) About 100 people Agile Coach & Quality Engineer– Yahsat Satellite program • Designing the agile methodological framework • Coaching the agile transformation of Yahsat Program : Scrum teams, • Adapted Quality assurance and control Outcomes: Delivery transformed across the whole program Contact: Pierre-Louis Naut – Project Manager (endorsed) Tech & Multimedia Companies (Toulouse 92) 2007 –2009 Scrum master & Fullstack developer • J2EE and front end product development (gaming and multimedia apps) • Scrum master of small development teams Outcomes: Multimedia application successfully delivered Scrum deployed on innovation product teams Contact: to be asked
Project Manager and Quality Consultant
Altran
mars 2005 - juil. 2007
2 ans 5 mois
Toulouse, France
• Project Manager for Airbus IS projects • Change manager, Project Management Coaching / Project Management Office • Agility, CMMI, Airbus GPP/LBIP Client: Airbus
Senior Developer, Project manager, Scrum Master and Quality Manager
Dassault Systèmes
sept. 2000 - mars 2005
4 ans 7 mois
92150 Suresnes, France
• Project management and Scrum Mastering of IT teams on aeronautical software products using Dassault Systèmes solutions • Quality manager of the Toulouse entity • Design and development (C/C++, J2EE, Extreme Programming) Clients: Dassault Aviation, CNES, CEAT, DGA, EDF
Developer and project manager
Visiotics
mars 1995 - oct. 2000
5 ans 8 mois
78140 Vélizy-Villacoublay, France
• Development of a virtual reality golf simulator: motion capture, aerodynamic simulation, SW/HW integration, 3D computer graphics engine, software and hardware ergonomics, commercial support, international, recruitment; Visual C++, DirectX, Open GL • Team leader of 6 people
Formation
ESSEC Business School
AI & Leadership: impact on strategy and innovation, AI
2026 - 2026
1 mois
LINKUP COACHING
Master's degree, Coach Professionnel Certifié RNCP niveau 6
2024 - 2025
2 ans
Université Marie et Louis Pasteur
DEA, Information Technology
1993 - 1994
2 ans
Licences et certifications
Foundation Workshop
Délivré le : janv. 2024
Certified SAFe® 5 Program Consultant
Délivré le : avr. 2020
Portfolio

Implementation of SAFe LPM for development governance

Teams / managers / executives coaching for organization improvement

Design and support of the Lean-Agile transformation of the Rafale F4 Connectivity System

Enterprise SAFe Transformation

Scrum for Hardware

Agile transformation support for the Digitalization and Mission department

Agile transformation of the development value stream of the TGMTR3 metro automatic pilot
