
PAUL LECLERCQ
Technical Project Manager | Head of Delivery | Technology & Digital Transformation Leader | Enterprise Programmes, Cloud, Data & Platform Modernisation | UAE Relocation
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Manama - Émirats arabes unis
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Introduction
I am a senior technology and delivery leader with over fifteen years of experience driving large scale digital, cloud, data, and platform transformation across global organisations. My background spans media, technology, gaming, advertising, and enterprise platforms, where I have consistently led complex portfolios, stabilised critical programmes, and delivered measurable business outcomes at scale. I bring a strong balance of strategic leadership and execution discipline, ensuring technology delivery is tightly aligned to commercial and organisational priorities. I specialise in building and leading high performing delivery organisations across multi-vendor, near shore, and offshore environments. I have extensive experience partnering with C suite executives, boards, and senior stakeholders to establish governance, improve portfolio visibility, manage risk, and accelerate decision making. My approach is outcome focused and data driven, with a strong emphasis on predictability, financial control, and delivery maturity across enterprise environments. Throughout my career, I have led transformation initiatives covering cloud migration, platform modernisation, digital product delivery, data and analytics, identity and subscription platforms, and large-scale customer facing systems supporting millions of users. I am highly experienced in Agile, SAFe, and hybrid delivery models, and I am often engaged to turn around complex or high-risk programmes that require strong leadership, structure, and calm execution under pressure. I am now seeking senior delivery, programme, or transformation leadership roles in the UAE, particularly within Dubai or Abu Dhabi, where I can support organisations undergoing rapid growth, digital transformation, or technology modernisation. I bring deep international experience, strong cultural awareness, and a proven ability to operate effectively in fast paced, multicultural, and executive level environments common across the Middle East market.
Expérience de travail
Senior Project Manager / Delivery Lead
News UK
janv. 2019 - Présent
7 ans 10 mois
Londres, Royaume-Uni
– Led delivery of a multi million pound digital and technology portfolio supporting platforms with tens of millions of monthly active users – Built and scaled cross functional delivery teams across engineering, product, data, DevOps, and commercial functions – Established enterprise wide delivery governance, portfolio prioritisation frameworks, and executive reporting for senior leadership – Directed large scale platform modernisation initiatives covering cloud migration, CMS, data platforms, identity, subscriptions, and advertising systems – Acted as senior escalation point for high risk and complex programmes, successfully stabilising delayed or failing initiatives – Partnered closely with C-Level & directors across product, and editorial leadership to align delivery execution with strategic business objectives – Improved predictability, delivery confidence, and time to market through adoption of agile and hybrid delivery models – Reduced delivery risk and dependency issues through structured RAID management, financial control, and portfolio transparency
Project Manager
SEGA Europe
nov. 2014 - janv. 2019
4 ans 3 mois
Londres, Royaume-Uni
– Led delivery of global online services and digital platforms supporting major gaming franchises and live service environments – Managed distributed delivery teams across internal engineering groups and external vendors operating across multiple regions – Delivered complex backend platforms including payments, identity, customer data, and live service infrastructure – Oversaw programme planning, governance, and execution for high availability, customer facing platforms – Introduced agile delivery practices across both legacy systems and newly developed platforms – Coordinated cross functional stakeholders across product, engineering, operations, and commercial teams – Managed vendor performance, delivery risk, and commercial accountability across third party partners – Ensured platform stability, scalability, and operational readiness in fast paced, revenue critical environments
Technical Specialist
avr. 2014 - oct. 2014
7 mois
Londres, Royaume-Uni
– Provided technical leadership and support for large scale advertising technology platforms used by global enterprise customers – Worked within highly regulated, high availability environments supporting mission critical systems – Acted as a technical liaison between engineering, commercial, and support teams – Supported feature delivery, platform enhancements, and operational improvements across ad technology solutions – Diagnosed complex technical issues impacting performance, compliance, and customer experience & revenue – Collaborated with global stakeholders to resolve platform challenges and delivery constraints – Ensured adherence to security, reliability, and operational standards – Contributed to continuous improvement of technical delivery and customer outcomes
Senior Software Engineer Technical Lead
DataCenterDynamics
oct. 2012 - mars 2014
1 an 6 mois
Londres, Royaume-Uni
– Led delivery of digital platforms, data products, and event systems supporting a global B2B media and research organisation – Delivered platform upgrades, website rebuilds, CRM integrations, and data driven products – Introduced structured delivery governance, release planning, and stakeholder reporting – Partnered with senior leadership to align technology delivery with commercial growth objectives – Oversaw quality, performance, and scalability of customer facing digital platforms – Improved operational efficiency through improved planning, prioritisation, and delivery discipline – Supported enterprise customers with reliable, scalable, and commercially aligned digital solutions
Smile
août 2006 - sept. 2012
6 ans 2 mois
Amsterdam, Pays-Bas
Head of CMS Solutions and Project Manager
avr. 2011 - sept. 2012
1 an 6 mois
Amsterdam, Pays-Bas
– Led delivery of complex enterprise digital platforms built on open source technologies including Drupal, PHP, and Linux – Acted as senior technical delivery lead bridging business stakeholders and engineering teams – Managed multi site and multi country delivery teams across Europe – Delivered high traffic websites, e commerce platforms, and content management systems for global brands – Provided hands on technical leadership, architecture oversight, and quality assurance – Improved platform performance, scalability, and security across multiple client environments – Drove agile delivery adoption within both client organisations and internal teams – Ensured consistent delivery standards across geographically distributed teams
Technical Lead, Senior Developer
nov. 2009 - avr. 2011
1 an 6 mois
Barcelone, Espagne
My role was to help in the planning, development, testing, delivery and reporting of our web projects on time, budget and scope for the Spanish branch of Smile. Tools: eZPublish, SugarCRM, PHP/MySQL, Apache, Debian Clients: Medwinds, Mandadori, MRW, OSEO
Technical Lead / Senior Developer
août 2006 - nov. 2009
3 ans 4 mois
Paris, France
As a product expert and technical lead, my role was to provide the technical solutions for high-traffic websites to the highest standards. This leading, international, award-winning open source integrator is a technical solutions provider for governments, banks, media and industry leaders. Tools: eZPublish, PHP, MySQL, Javascript, HTML, CSS Clients: Lagardere, Amnesty International, OSEO, Prisma-presse
Technical Lead & Web Engineer
Lagardere
avr. 2007 - nov. 2009
2 ans 8 mois
Paris, France
Lead Developper on web projects for the premiere.fr platform & laposte.net In charge of day to day development and maintenance for a leading entertainment portal for the Premiere film magazine. This cinema, tv, theater, music and video game platform was the Winner of ezpublish site of the Year 2007. The site grew to become a leading entertainment web portal in France with around 40 Millions PV/month according to Alexa stats. High load, multisite, SSO, Flash games integration, google maps, and Iphone integration. http://www.premiere.fr php/ezpublish/apache
R Application developer
CNRS
juin 2006 - août 2006
3 mois
Villeneuve-d'Ascq, France
R Application developer: Creation of an R package for Analysis of Affymetrix Spike-in data with Langmuir Isotherms
Web Developer, Trainer
freelance
oct. 2004 - août 2006
1 an 11 mois
Lille, France
Part-time developer and trainer. Tools: PHP, ASP, MSSQL
Systems Support Consultant
easy2easy
juil. 2005 - août 2005
2 mois
Londres, Royaume-Uni
IT Consulting, Windows Systems Administration for various small tp medium size companies based in the london area.
Lead Technical Sales Manager
OVH.com
mars 2004 - oct. 2004
8 mois
In my role as Technical Sales Manager, I led technical sales for cloud, hosting, and infrastructure services across Europe. – Led enterprise cloud, hosting, and infrastructure sales – Worked directly with enterprise customers on platform design and migration – Bridged sales, engineering, and operations teams for delivery success – Supported large-scale datacenter and infrastructure changes
IT Support
IlliCAD
août 2003 - mars 2004
8 mois
59100 Roubaix, France
Web development and hardware maintenance and support Tools: PHP/ASP, Windows, 3DSMax
IT Support - United Nations
World Food Programme
août 2002 - août 2002
1 mois
Kampala, Ouganda
IT Support and development of a small intranet for a large United Nations regional WFP office Tools: ASP, Access, windows, ghost
Technical Manager - Systems Administrator
Petech Ltd, London, Negris Group Nigeria
sept. 2001 - mai 2002
9 mois
Londres, Royaume-Uni
IT support, procurement and consulting, including a two-week assignment in Nigeria Tools: ASP/Access, Windows Server, IIS
Bar Staff
PoNaNa; Eclectic Bars & Clubs
janv. 2000 - sept. 2001
1 an 9 mois
Reading, Royaume-Uni
Formation
University of Lille 1 Sciences and Technology
Masters, Computer science and bioinformatics
University of Reading
Bachelor's degree, Applied Computer Science And Cybernetics
Licences et certifications
Professional Scrum Master I
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Español Nivel C1 del Marco Comun europeo de referencia (Spanish C1)
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Doubleclick Campaign Manager Fundamentals
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