Sébastien LE BRETON

New project and new role as a Product Owner of the System Integrator team, driving all product related tasks for the various partners working on this project including the customer in New Zealand, our own wyplay development team in France and manufacturer / CAS companies in Europe / Korea.

Working on a POC for an internal project, aiming at bringing new technology application to Digital TV, including blockchain.

Yet another change for me in wyplay, as I'm embracing a full time role as a Product Owner on the new hot project we signed, developing the new STB for AT&T partners, first SKY in Brazil, then DirecTV for the other LATAM countries. As I already handled some PO tasks on my previous projects, this is more of an evolution than a revolution in my career, trying as always to be as efficient as possible and benefiting from my past experiences as developer and project leader to have a good understanding of everybody's need and expectations, providing a clear backlog and detailed stories. After the first major releases were done, I continued my Product Owner duties and also managed a remote team in Tunisia for the maintenance phase of the project.

I joined this project in order to manage a new team in charge of the development of new features, so that people in place can focus on the maintenance part. After a few weeks we started Netflix integration, which is now the big thing in progress, with lots of synchronization needed between the French/Belgium, US, UK and Chinese teams of Cisco, Broadcom, Belgacom and Netflix to keep up with the challenging schedule. After successfully launching this netflix-capable firmware, I joined the other team working for Proximus' next-gen interface, running on the same boxes but with an updated UI and functionalities.

FrogByWyplay is an open source software solution for pay-TV operators, set to launch at 2014 CES. For this project we obviously need to have a fully functional solution, including the middleware, a reference UI and backend applications, and all the associated source code and documentation available for our partners through a web portal. This also required the development of a set of internal tools to handle the documentation publication, source code IP check and various other tasks. My role as a project leader is to synchronise all those teams in order to meet our deadlines, make sure the servers will be up and running in time, and set up a publication workflow for binaries, sources and documentation. When everything is in place, the next tasks at hand will be future evolutions of the product, and setting up support and trainings for our partners. In addition to this, I'm also the scrum master for the backend teams in charge of implementing the web portal giving access to our partners to documentation and source code, and the WyClub Application Store, which will be the first element of the backend part of the solution. For more infos on FrogByWyplay, check out the official website : www.frogbywyplay.com.

After almost 3 years working on the GUI and VOD of SFR's latest neufbox 'Evolution' DSL Set Top Box, I'm now taking over as the Project Leader / Scrum Master, handling the following tasks : - Agile ceremonies - Team coordination - Build & Releases - Support for Product Owner - Resources management - Reporting to management In order to improve our efficiency on this project, I also took over the Product Owner duties after a few months, while still handling my previous tasks. New tasks include: - More communication with the client - Defining the scope of future releases - Release notes and billing - ...

Wyplay is designing TV-centric software solutions for operators and consumer electronic brand names. As we were chosen by SFR to develop their new 'Evolution' Set Top Box, I joined the development team to work on the GUI, covering pretty much all of the STB features, including : - TNT Scan - Next/Following programs from TV - UI Boot sequence with setup integrity checks - Audio / Video output parameters and HDMI hotplug algorithm - Promo Channels in TV, and subscription - Cross-Universes Redirections - Dynamic menus - ... Then I took ownership of the whole VOD section, from server requests to GUI navigation and responsiveness improvements, being in constant communication with the guys at SFR, both for technical matter such as lib and server stuff, and higher level discussions with the marketing people, such as specs and features reviews.

Wyplay is designing TV-centric software solutions for operators and consumer electronic brand names. I worked on an improved version of the automated testing / indexing tool for our STB media player, so that we could increase our coverage (files, codecs, features, test scenarios, ...), publish pertinent reports, and make cross reference checks among all those datas easier and more accurate.

2 months extension following the DESS internship in order to work with the composer and the musician for the first ever use of the virtual drummer application in a live show. (This now goes by the name "Air Drum", or "Percussion Aérienne" in the research section of the Scrime's website)

Development of a virtual drums application: - 3D instrument editor, used by the musician to design the areas where he wants to interact and how he wants to interact with - Real time capture of the drummer's gesture using a 3D device and processing of those datas as input for the musician to do sound synthesis with Max MSP (This now goes by the name "Air Drum", or "Percussion Aérienne" in the research section of the Scrime's website)