Philippe Antona

In a SAFe context, supported the DevOps team in building a Platform as a Service (PaaS) for developers of containerized banking software products and contributed to the bank’s digitalization strategy via on-premise cloud adoption. Key Responsibilities & Contributions Backlog Structuring & Prioritization: Organized objectives and roadmap, managed inter-team dependencies, and facilitated strategic decision-making with stakeholders. Team Facilitation & Engagement: Led Agile ceremonies (refinement, synchronization, architecture decision-sharing), aligned stakeholders, and supported Agile transformation. Process Optimization & Documentation: Created and maintained reference materials to accelerate onboarding and ensure the continuity of best practices. Product Vision & Strategy: Defined and communicated a 12-month roadmap, providing management and teams with a clear vision of delivery milestones. Technical & Strategic Decision Facilitation: Led Architecture Decision Record (ADR) sessions, fostering a collaborative framework for better understanding DevOps and on-premise cloud challenges (Kubernetes, GCP). Key Achievements ✅ Enhanced Strategic Alignment: Clarified priorities and ensured a shared vision across the organization. ✅ Improved Cross-Team Synchronization: Successfully managed dependencies to streamline interactions. ✅ Accelerated New Hire Onboarding: Documented key knowledge to reduce ramp-up time. ✅ Increased Transparency & Decision-Making Efficiency: Led discussions on architectural and technical decisions, strengthening collaboration across teams.

Supported the agile transformation of a key organization in the insurance sector, focusing on value stream optimization, team skill development, and structuring agility at scale (SAFe). Key Contributions & Achievements Agile Transformation & Coaching: Guided multiple teams toward effective adoption of agile and DevOps practices. Value Stream Formalization: Mapped and optimized processes to enhance understanding and facilitate team reshaping. Team Dynamics Facilitation: Led team-building workshops to improve structure and efficiency. Coaching Key Roles (PO/SM/Managers): Developed Product Owners and Scrum Masters to strengthen their role and ability to drive agility at scale. Strategic Alignment & SAFe Synchronization: Contributed to SAFe events to ensure greater visibility of priorities and dependencies. Facilitation & Collective Intelligence: Used tools like Klaxoon for more engaging and productive sessions. Measurable Impact ✅ Coached 5 teams in agile (3 months), then in scaled agility (3+3 months): active listening, pedagogy, follow-up, and fostering a favorable environment. ✅ Accelerated time-to-market through better value stream management. ✅ Reduced cross-team dependencies, enhancing autonomy and smoother deliveries. ✅ Improved engagement and role clarity, with visible skill development for POs and SMs.

In this role, I led product development management within a critical team, following the SAFe methodology. My main objective was to deliver key features and improve banking systems while ensuring seamless integration between teams. Key Responsibilities & Achievements: Requirements Management (Jira/Confluence): Writing user stories (US) and managing product documentation to ensure clear understanding of business needs. Prioritization & Decision-Making: Applied SAFe principles to manage priorities and balance technical and business requirements, maximizing delivered value. Stakeholder Collaboration: Maintained continuous communication with stakeholders and the development team to ensure alignment of objectives and meet client needs. Product Testing & Evolution: Led user acceptance testing (UAT), analyzed issues, and proposed enhancements to ensure client satisfaction. Legacy Product Management: Continuously improved existing products by responding to user requests and ensuring alignment with the broader strategy. Impact & Results: ✅ Optimized inter-team collaboration and improved development process efficiency. ✅ Effective prioritization within a SAFe framework, enabling fast and informed decision-making. ✅ Fast delivery of new features while maintaining the quality of legacy products. ✅ Enhanced client satisfaction through continuous monitoring of needs and tailored solutions.

Manage a restaurant voucher application changes Prioritization and refinement of requests Writing acceptance tests and passing tests Feedback on the product and these features from sponsors / KPI monitoring Facilitation / animation of workshops with different stakeholders to maturate functionalities Dissemination and sharing of advice and methods

Set up of an Agile-oriented organization and cooperation climate with all stakeholders. Writing detailed functional specifications Management of the relationship with the MOA Database modeling Organization of user workshops Management of the development team

Animation d'équipe de développement.

Successfully delivered critical software for Airbus flight tests. Involved in writing User Stories (gathering requirements and formalization). Tracked development using Kanban and then Scrum, managed planning, and centralized questions. Responsible for Tests Factory (at the developers’ end) and Validation (at Airbus), including auditing and improving tools.

Video playback and editing software developement Support for international customers. Evolution of video software. Technological monitoring, competitive monitoring. Pre-sale

Real-time and historical financial data formatting sofwares development Development of a module for providing news and alerts on a pool of financial instruments. Development using Extrem Programing methods of a COM add-in allowing real-time queries Results: Strong contributions to architecture. Software more efficient than the competition.

Customization of the automatic fingerprint recognition system (AFIS) design - coding - tests Results: 6 countries achieved. 2 months per Country

Development of Pacemaker testing software development requirements- conception - coding - tests memory processing and parameter programming