Thierry L

Senior Project & Product Manager

Salary / Daily rate

Rouen, France

Freelance, open to permanent contract

Skills

Product ManagementProject Management (PMO)

Languages

French (Native)English (Fluent)Dutch

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.

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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

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