Profile of Simon

Simon Senior Digital Project Manager & Interim-CIO for startups
23 years experience 0 project(s) worked Genève (GE)
125CHF /hr Non-certified freelancer
Business DevelopmentBusiness InnovationCareer CoachCoachingContent MarketingDigital MarketingDigital Project Managemente-CommerceEmail MarketingManagement ConsultingMobile Project ManagementProduct ManagementProject ManagementRapid PrototypingRecruitingTechnical TranslationTechnical WritingTranslation French EnglishTutoringUX Design

The phrase that best describes me: “I don’t have any particular talent. I am just passionately curious.”” (Albert Einstein)

I can work full-time or part-time.

Example of on-boarding:

  1. I spend 1 or 2 weeks in your offices to meet your teams and get to know the mission.
  2. I switch to full-time remote. 
  3. I can always come on site if the need arises, and maximum once a week.

On request, I can quickly mobilise and manage an off-shore team of developers, designers, architects…

Examples of areas of intervention :

Digital project management

  • Framing and launching of projects
  • Collection of needs and functional design
  • Planning, steering and monitoring of projects
  • Agile management as Product Owner
  • Monitoring of external service providers
  • Organisation of deployments

Digital transformation 

  • Audit, analysis of the existing situation, collection of needs and assessment of digital maturity, formalisation of recommendations
  • Definition of digital targets, organisation and associated business processes 
  • Construction of digital and collaborative roadmaps

Change management 

  • Stakeholder analysis
  • Definition of the change management and communication strategy 
  • Creation of training, support and communication materials (leaflets, communication kits, videos, user guides, best practice sheets, etc.) 
  • Support and training of staff

CIO – Chief Information Officer

  • For a startup or a small business
  • Implementation of a CIO office
  • Strategic planning and organisation
  • Recruitment and training of the ISIT staff

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CIO, Chief Information Officer, Project Manager, Program Manager, Project Director, Product Owner, Product Manager, Business Analyst, Agile Coach, Trainer. Digital Transformation Manager, eMarketer, Technical Writer

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Work Experiences

  • HQ Retail Digital Product Manager

    TAG Heuer (LVMH Group)

    August 2021 - July 2022

    Industry: Watchmaking, Luxury.

    Projects:
    – Replatforming of the store locator with Yext solution.
    – Traffic counting global roll-outs with Prodco Analytics solution.
    – Boutique data gouvernance framing and study.

  • Retail IT Project Manager

    Audemars Piguet

    September 2020 - July 2021

    Industry: Watchmaking, Luxury.

    My role is to handle the interim and bring Agile best practises into the IT Business
    Solutions team. As such, I pilot and coordinate projects and initiatives:
    – Coordinate evolutions and maintenance of the commercial systems (mainly ERP)
    – Coordinate IT teams for the openings of new boutiques in the countries
    – Work on lean actions to improve efficient interactions between IT and Business teams

    Stakeholders: Business, programmers, IS/IT, solution vendor, external partners.
    Environment: Prince2, SharePoint, Infor M3, Azure DevOps (TFS), SugarCRM, EasyVista.

  • Level 2 Support Analyst

    Atos

    December 1999 - January 2001

    Delegated full-time to Wanadoo (Orange) to bring support to their internet customers, B2C and B2B (small businesses).
    ● Ensure the 2nd line support mainly for small businesses
    ● Update the client profiles database (Coheris Conso+)
    ● Update the back-office documentary base

  • ERP / CRM Consultant & Trainer

    PGS (Teleperformance)

    January 2001 - October 2001

    PGS solutions encompass ERP and CRM tools. Their clients are call centers and rental companies.
    ● Team up with the sales manager on before-sales actions
    ● Implement, train and support on our solution worldwide (mainly Europe)
    ● Localize and validate our softwares
    ● Write and translate the technical documentation
    ● Take part in the software testing

  • IT Trainer

    Sodifrance

    February 2002 - April 2002

    Sodifrance Institute is a training center, specialized in office automation, BI, ERP and CRM solutions.
    ● Train and support internal users on office softwares and ERPs
    ● Write the technical & training documentation
    ● Manage the e-learning tutoring

  • IT Trainer & Support Analyst​

    Bayer Pharma (ex-Schering)

    March 2003 - June 2007

    At this pharmaceutical company, as part of the IT department, my main tasks were:
    ● Troubleshoot software issues
    ● Train and support on SAP, Siebel, Citrix, Lotus Notes, Microsoft softwares and other solutions Manage the e-learning tutoring
    ● Write the technical documentation (SOP/SOX)
    ● Work on global issues with the central IT service (Berlin)

  • Web Marketing Project Manager​

    Bayer Pharma

    July 2007 - November 2019

    Industry: Pharmaceutical industry.
    Attached to the Marketing Director of the French branch (2nd turnover of the group), in charge of promoting digital initiatives in a pharma (regulated) environment.
    ● Manage my team (2 people) and people in the projects
    ● Be the interface between Business and ISIT teams
    ● Present the Board web initiatives to be included to the country roadmap
    ● Evangelise the Business, find budget from BU marketing directors and implement PoCs
    ● Host workshops and meetings with Marketing stakeholders and technical teams
    ● Take part with fellow colleagues on European and global digital projects
    ● Implement web & e-mailing campaigns (websites, SEO, analytics)
    ● Organise the websites content for SEO, measure the ROI of each campaign
    ● Improve the UX and ensure the legal conformity of web contents
    ● Foster change management and train users on the web tools
    ● Support our healthcare professional partners
    ● Organise the technological and competition watch and make recommendations to the Board
    Stakeholders:​ Board, marketing directors, product managers, communication, regulatory affairs, agencies Environment:​ Google Analytics, Sarbacane, MS Project, Lotus Notes, Interwoven Teamsite, Webtrends, Typo3, SeeURank, Piwik, Talentsoft (R.FLEX)
    Achievements and results:
    ● Definition and creation of the Web Marketing service
    ● 90% improvement on unique visits and 50% visit time, in 2008
    ● Implementation of a recruitment SaaS solution (TalentSoft RFLEX) on the corporate website
    ● Implementation of websites with multiple targets such as sep-services.fr

  • Web Project Director & CIO for Docatus

    Jerem System (Bianca Medica)

    December 2009 - December 2010

    Industry: Healthcare communication, Social networks.
    At this HealthTech startup, in charge of management, strategy and development of a social network for doctors.
    ● Define the strategy and tactics (qualitative and quantitative objectives), together with the CEO
    ● Work on the business development (partnerships, fund raising) and meet with investors
    ● Manage the project managers, programmers and community managers (9 people)
    ● Define the planning and budget of the actions/campaigns and report to the CEO
    ● Organise and coordinate on multichannel marketing actions (online and offline)
    ● Implement marketing campaigns from our clients and partners
    ● Create and implement a social media strategy, on and off-site
    ● Initiate on and off-line marketing initiatives (SEO, AdWords, analytics)
    ● Specify and plan the technical and UX evolutions
    ● Develop and pilot the SEO and web analytics strategies
    ● Organise the technological and competition watch
    ● Screen and recruit internal and external candidates
    ● Follow-up on the company’s accounting
    Stakeholders:​ Marketing & commercial directors, health and state authorities, VC, learned societies Environment:​ Xtrem Programming, Google Analytics & AdWords, Trac, LinkedIn, Viadeo, EmailGarage, Piwik

  • Global Online Business Analyst (contractor)

    Page Group

    January 2011 - June 2012

    Industry: Human resources, Recruitment.
    As part of a general ISIT migration programme, in charge of the analysis, specification and migration of 36 local country websites on both desktop and mobile to a new Jahia platform.
    ● Analyse and study the needs of the Business (business requirements, change requests)
    ● Interact with technical teams (developers, architects, testers, designers)
    ● Write the functional specifications, storyboards, wireframes and mockups
    ● Follow-up on platform and PoC developments with the technical team
    ● Recommend functional, UX, customer journey and SEO improvements
    ● Host workshops and meetings with Marketing stakeholders and technical teams
    ● Write the test documentation and pilot the functional tests and UAT
    ● Foster change management and train users
    ● Organise a technological and competition watch and be proactive in recommendations
    ● Select and onboard external candidates and interns
    ● Propose solution vendors in line with the budget
    Stakeholders:​ Regional marketing directors (UK, CEAM, AP), programmers, regional BAs. Environnement:​ PRINCE2, SOA, Visio, Google Analytics, Webtrends, Jahia, Jira, HP QC, SharePoint.

  • Business Developer France (freelance)

    Finch.com

    January 2012 - December 2012

    Industry: Digital marketing, SaaS.
    Finch.com is a web-based solution to optimize the ROI of Google AdWords campaigns. My mission was to prospect new clients and get them enrolled.
    Stakeholders:​ SMB owners, pure players, marketing, commercial, digital.
    Environment:​ Finch, LinkedIn, Viadeo, Skype, Zoho CRM, Google GSuite.

  • Mobile Functional Architect (contractor)

    Orange

    July 2012 - June 2013

    Industry: Telecommunications, Mobile.
    Based at Orange France HQ, as part of Orange.fr (8th French website in terms of traffic) team. 1st project: Migration of the customer area from desktop to mobile web and native apps.
    ● Analyse and study the needs of the Business (business requirements, change requests)
    ● Interact with technical teams (developers, architects, testers, designers)
    ● Write the functional specifications, storyboards and mockups
    ● Follow-up on developments with the technical team and deliver on time
    ● Report on project, together with the project manager
    ● Prepare and follow-up on the budget OPEX (pre-project) then CAPEX
    ● Recommend functional, UX, customer journey and SEO improvements
    ● Host workshops and meetings with business stakeholders and technical teams
    ● Write the test documentation and pilot the recruitment and execution of the Friendly User Test
    (FUT) with 400 internal users
    ● Foster change management and train users
    ● Organise a technological and competition watch and be proactive in recommendations
    2nd project: Optimisation and evolution of the incident website
    ● Improve the processes to handle customer requests
    ● Optimisation of the user experience
    ● Improve the speed of the web pages
    Stakeholders:​ Marketing, product managers, project managers, architects, programmers.
    Environment:​ SAFRAN (PMI), Scrum, SOA, Visio, Pencil, soapUI, Mantis, SharePoint, HP QC, SDLC, iOS, Android.

  • Digital Business Analyst (contractor)

    Richemont

    July 2013 - September 2013

    Industry: Luxury, Watchmaking.
    In charge of implementing the Product Catalog (PIM) and the Digital Asset Management (DAM), within Baume & Mercier and Piaget maisons, both integrated with ecommerce, Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) and ERP (SAP) systems.
    ● Analyse and study the needs of the Business (business requirements)
    ● Interact with technical teams (developers, architects, testers, designers, SAP, BI)
    ● Write the functional specifications and project documentation
    ● Follow-up on developments with the technical team
    ● Host workshops and meetings with business stakeholders and technical teams
    ● Foster change management and train users
    ● Organise a technological and competition watch and be proactive in recommendations
    ● Support the PIM and DAM users
    Analysis on bracelet obsolete components management in the PIM and the integrated systems.
    Stakeholders:​ Marketing, technical office (PLM), programmers, SAP team.
    Environment:​ PMI, Visio, SOA, SharePoint, Utopix Centrix, Celum, Matrix PLM, CQ5, TestTrack, Aris Express.

  • eCommerce Product Owner & Business Analyst (contractor)

    Nespresso

    February 2014 - December 2014

    Food processing, Luxury.
    At Lausanne-based HQ, in charge of the deployment of a strategic web platform of customer acquisition, the main internal client being France, the market generating the highest turnover in the company.
    ● Analyse and study the needs of the Business (business requirements)
    ● Interact with technical teams (developers, architects, testers, designers, SAP, BI)
    ● Write the functional specifications and project documentation
    ● Host workshops and meetings with business stakeholders and technical teams
    ● Ensure the hypercare support after the go-live
    ● Take part in the remote daily standup and other meetings with the Scrum team
    ● Manage the backlog
    Stakeholders:​ Marketing, Sales, programmers, architects, UX designers.
    Environment:​ Scrum, PMI, SDLC, SOA, SharePoint, Visio, hybris, CQ5, HP ALM & PPM, Mantis, Magic UniPaaS, Omniture, Jira, Confluence, Cognos, Lengow, Neolane, MS Project, Ogone, SlimPay, AirWatch.

  • Mobility & Innovation Project Manager (contractor)

    Nestlé

    March 2015 - April 2017

    Industry: FMCG, Food processing.
    At HQ, in charge of the deployment of mobile applications (iOS, Windows and Android) on MDM, and of coordinating various enterprise mobility projects, with a scope of all BUs and local markets.
    Project Manager for mobile innovation projects:
    ● Analyse the needs and best practises of the business and detect innovation opportunities
    ● Host workshops and meetings with business stakeholders and technical teams
    ● Write the functional specifications and create the wireframes and mockups
    ● Implement the PoC, as MVP, at local level, coordinating the offshore or internal teams
    ● Industrialisation at global level in case of success of the PoC Delivery Manager for mobile deployments:
    ● Prepare the app for deployment and customise it if needed
    ● Interact with technical teams (developers, architects, testers, designers, SAP, BI)
    ● Ensure the hypercare support after the go-live
    ● Plan for resources, budgets and delivery
    ● Take part in the remote daily standup and other meetings with the offshore team
    ● Manage and recruit the offshore team members (India)
    Stakeholders:​ Business, markets, programmers, IS/IT, designers, offshore.
    Environment:​ Agile, PMI, SharePoint, SOTI MDM, iOS, Android, Balsamiq, Xamarin, HockeyApp, GLOBE, SAP HANA, FIORI.
    Achievements and results:
    ● Definition and creation of the Entreprise Mobility service
    ● Improvement of internal and external processes
    ● Implementation of Xamarin for mobile apps
    ● Expert in the mobile user journey initiative.
    ● Coordinator of the MDM audit

  • eCommerce Program Manager (contractor)

    L’Occitane

    May 2018 - September 2019

    Industry: Beauty and cosmetics.
    At Geneva HQ, In charge of an ecommerce replatforming program for L\\\’Occitane\\\’s licensed distributors.
    ● Analyse and study the needs of the Business (business requirements)
    ● Conduct the pre-study of solutions, organise and follow-up on RFI then RFP.
    ● Select the SaaS vendor and validate the contrats
    ● Pilot the internal teams and the vendor
    ● Host workshops and meetings with the distributors, the vendor and third-parties.
    ● Prepare the tests and UATs
    ● Ensure hypercare support after the Go-live
    ● Plan for resources, budgets and delivery
    Stakeholders:​ Business, programmers, IS/IT, designers, solution vendor.
    Environment:​ Agile, PMI, Office 365, Teams, Workfront, SharePoint, Confluence, Jira, GitLab, Solusquare, Adyen, Mercado Pago.
    Achievements and results:
    ● Deployment pilot country (Iceland)
    ● Organisation of the roll-out for next countries

Certification

  • UX-PM Level 2

    UX Alliance

    May 2017 - May 2017

  • TOEIC (C2)

    ETS

    June 2004 - June 2004

  • Professional Scrum Product Owner I

    Scrum.org

    April 2014 - April 2014

  • PRINCE2 Foundation

    Axelos

    August 2014 - August 2014

  • Inbound Marketing Certified Professional

    Hubspot

    July 2011 - July 2011

  • Transformations Digitale des Services et des Entreprises

    Grenoble Ecole de Management

    January 2017 - January 2017

  • Marketing

    Wharton School - University of Pennsylvania

    January 2015 - January 2015

  • Product Manager

    Brainbench

    July 2013 - July 2013

  • IT Business Analyst

    Brainbench

    April 2013 - April 2013

  • Coaching

    Brainbench

    July 2013 - July 2013

  • Change Management

    Brainbench

    March 2013 - March 2013

Education

  • Bachelor Commerce International

    Université de Lille

    September 1995 - June 1999

  • Master eCommerce

    University of Franche Comté

    January 2016 - December 2016

English