
Thierry L
Senior Project & Product Manager
Salary / Daily rate
Rouen, France
Freelance, open to permanent contract
Skills
Languages
About me
Intro
Senior Project Manager & Product Manager with 15+ years leading IT projects and building startups from concept to scale. Proven expertise in agile delivery, team leadership, and transforming businesses through strategic product development. I help companies accelerate growth through efficient project execution and innovative product strategies.
Work experience
Product Manager
Cobot-it !
Jul 2022 - Present
4 years 4 months
Cobot-IT is the new platform for collaborative bots and I'm one of the lucky early joiners. I joined as Product Manager and Customer Success Specialist, helping client to build their first cobot.
Founder
La Tournée des Producteurs
Apr 2020 - Present
6 years 7 months
76200 Dieppe, France
La Tournée des Producteurs is a popup project in Normandy born during the Covid 19 confinement to help our local food producer deliver their fresh products to us
Freelance Senior Project Manager
IsagriFreelance
Dec 2020 - Jul 2022
1 year 8 months
60000 Beauvais, France
As transition project manager, I was leading a team of 15 developers, rapidly brought to 20 in charge on a payroll software. I faced big challenges: puting on track the complete revamping of the solution, remotivating the team, recruiting and training new developers, dealing with an inexperimented PM, preparing the transition to agile.
Sopra Steria
Jan 2017 - Dec 2020
4 years
Regional Sales Representative
Jan 2019 - Dec 2020
2 years
Sales representative for Normandy with a portfolio of local clients. I'm in charge of the development of those accounts and the promotion of the global IT offerings of Sopra Steria.
Project Delivery Manager
Jan 2017 - Dec 2018
2 years
Rouen Area, France
Supervising IT project deliveries on different technologies (pure custom development and integration) and for multiple clients. For one of them, I have coordinated the set-up of an offshore team in Spain and prepared the transformation to an agile delivery model. I was also partially affected to sales development for those clients.
PMO
Real Impact Analytics
May 2016 - Jan 2017
9 months
Brussels Area, Belgium
Head of Internal Projects/PMO, leading the internal key projects that contribute to the transformation and growth of the startup (ERP deployment, ...).
Head of Operations
Real Impact – Analytics in Action
Sep 2013 - May 2016
2 years 9 months
Brussels Area, Belgium
Development and management of the Operation Team in charge of deploying our analytical products. During 3 years, I have - developed and grown the Operation department from a very junior and un-experimented team to a group of IT professionals, - supervised more than 30 deployments in developing countries (mainly Africa), - set-up the project management and IT delivery methods, - built the support team. I also contributed to the transformation of Real Impact from a purely custom/consulting company to a software vendor deploying standard solutions.
Analytics Consultant
Real Impact Analytics
Sep 2011 - Aug 2013
2 years
Brussels Area, Belgium
Early joiner of the startup Real Impact Analytics. I participated to development, deployment and first productization of analytical solutions mainly in Africa (more than 15 countries visited). The technologies used were essentially Tableau, SQL and an ETL. I also contributed to the internal organization of the company by setting up standards in term of project management, delivery and internal processes, knowledge and documentation management.
Creator
Kontisto
Dec 2009 - Oct 2011
1 year 11 months
Kontisto was a startup project aiming at developing a web based management software for SME’s (accounting, CRM, …). I worked on the entire development of the project from the business plan to the coding of the SaaS application.
Consultant
Accenture
Aug 2005 - Oct 2009
4 years 3 months
Brussels Area, Belgium
Part of the Telecom practice. Different positions on a large outsourcing contract: - Team lead: development and maintenance on different applications: call center and EAI (Webmethods, Genesys, Avaya, Documentum). - Functional analyst: solution design, functional and technical documentation, internal and UAT test on complex IT processes for a call center and a provisioning system. - Presales: customer requirements analysis, workload estimation, planning and offer documentation.
Education
Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management
Ingénieur de gestion
2000 - 2005
6 years
Stellenbosch University
Exchange
2004 - 2004
1 year