Manager Machine

NICOLAS MATHIEU

Senior Product Manager

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SOFT SKILLS

Value finder & grower – Catalyst – Doer – Strong interest in science – Strong analytical skills – Excellent interpersonal skills – Sense of initiative – Enthusiastic – Excellent project management & presentation Skills – Synthesis Skills – Problem Solver PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Theme A: 6 years as a Product Manager, I worked on implementing consumer trends into a business model that aimed at promoting and selling French made products in China. I lead a Belgian SME in the fashion industry on the path to growth, able to position itself on highly profitables tenders. Lead the product management of TIAO S.A. (SaaS platform for chambers of commerce & their members) from 2 chambers to 15 chambers, x30 user base in 2 years. Worked as a Product Manager at Sopra Steria Benelux (French consulting firm), ensuring the delivery of products to institutional clients

(EUROCONTROL and EU-LISA)

Theme B: Strong analytical profile, MBTI group of the rationals, ENTP, score of 19/20 at the PET test

(professional employment test), aimed at measuring skills such as Data Interpretation, Reasoning, Quantitative Problem Solving, Reading Comprehension. Theme C: Excellent IT skills, capacity to work with a dev team to get a project done from A to Z in an iterative approach. Certificate from the University of Helsinki – Introduction to Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence, certificate from the University of Stanford – course on Machine Learning by Prof. Andrew Ng (Co-founder of Coursera; Adjunct Professor, Stanford University; formerly head of Google Brain) - Structuring Machine Learning Projects - how to build a successful machine learning project. Tinkerer, I love to work on building things. Big fan of open source projects, Raspberry Pi, IoT & automation & how artificial intelligence opens opportunities. *******.****@*****.***

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PROFESSIONAL TIMELINE & ACHIEVEMENTS

Product Manager • Sopra Steria • May 2019 – July 2020 Digilab Manager at Eurocontrol. The Digilab is aimed at reducing risks and pre-industrialize innovative techniques and processes such as new UI/UX for an existing tool, or use of ML to improve the efficiency of ATC experts.

– Setup & bootstrap of the Lab (overall objective: integration to EUROCONTROL processes)

– Coordinate with governance and operational teams

– Communicate all sequences content, plan, commitments, requirements & QA plans, schedule, budget and scope

– Manage Lab sequences (2 ML related, 1 UI/UX related sequence)

– Design proposal for the integration of the Lab methodology to EUROCONTROL project development & release process

– Report results to management, proposals for next steps Results: 3 out of 3 sequences results accepted, Lab methodology was adopted by EUROCONTROL Release manager at EU-LISA

– Monitoring & reporting to ensure that releases are delivered on time and within budget, and meet expectations

– Manage risks and resolves issues that affect release scope, schedule and quality (high impact of COVID-19 on all operations (development, QA plan & implementation), impact on resources availability due to WFH & increased security measures)

– Coordinate release content and effort based on the service request backlog & pending service requests

– Communicate release plans including requirements, QA plans, schedule, and scope changes

– Manage relationships with external providers and coordinate work between different teams at different locations (Brussels, Strasbourg & client)

– Conduct release readiness reviews, weekly reviews, milestone reviews, and Go/No-Go meetings Results: increased customer satisfaction, better planning of releases, restored confidence in our organization. Product manager – employee #1• TIAO • Apr 2017 – Apr 2019 Design & implement strategies to increase user engagement and grow our user base via product improvements, optimisation of user journey / user experience. In charge of the implementation of the vision & the development of the strategy of the TIAO platform. Essential functions:

– Owner of the vision of the founders, in charge of product positioning (value proposition, pricing, promotion, stakeholders involvement, users journeys & processes)

– Lead internal development team (Agile methodology) & external providers (integration of features complementary of our offering)Roadmap definition, product features & development prioritization.

– Conduct weekly meetings with dev team (planning meeting, mid-week meeting, weekly review...)

– Weekly reporting the CEO, CTO & CFO : KPIs, overview of development planning: requirements, scope, schedule, QA plans etc.

– Illustration of users needs with user journeys & stories, identification of pain points & growth opportunities.

– Creation of mockups, test of prototypes and release planning.

– Definition and measurement of KPIs

– Creation of marketing materials and customer support to maximize product adoption. Demos with clients (Chambers of Commerce – C-level introduction of our platform) & users (members). *******.****@*****.***

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Philosophy: strong empathy for users balanced with data analytics to ensure appropriate definition of the product roadmap. Strength: work with diverse stakeholders (users, developers, sales etc.) to reach goals. Results: brought the company from startup to scale up Year 1: +300% growth rate – from 2 to 6 chambers of commerce Year 2: +210% growth rate – from 6 to 13 chambers of commerce Year 3: +92% growth rate – from 13 to 25 chambers of commerce Year 3 : round B funding 1.5M€ raised

Business Developer • Fashion Technical Partner • Feb 2016 – Apr 2017 B2B positioning of our services, development of our client base, connect fashion designers to the right factories according to their needs (quality & pricing) In a year of work, I developed new markets which lead to a current recurring turnover of 200k€ per semester. Opened the company to new opportunities to respond to EU tenders in the field of textile. After competitive analysis, the company is now positioned to win over 1M€/y in EU tenders. Founder, Product manager • So Parisienne • Jan 2013 – Feb 2016 Company focused on distribution and sales of French fashion designers in China. I bootstrapped the company, defined the commercial offer, opened sales channels in China & developed our client base & partners in France.

Achievements

- Bootstrap the company from a small business loan (25k€)

- Presence on the 3 biggest luxury shows in China after 6 month

- Established commercial booth at K11 shopping mall (top end of shopping malls in China)

- French luxury brands among clients (Entreprises du Patrimoine Vivant)

- Negotiation of a Seed funding round of 100k€

EDUCATION

Online degree • 2018 • Stanford University / Coursera Effective machine learning techniques, implementation & getting them to work. Theoretical underpinnings of learning & also practical knowledge needed to quickly and powerfully apply these techniques to new problems. Examples of Silicon Valley's best practices in innovation as it pertains to machine learning and AI. Online degree • 2018 • Deeplearning.ai / Coursera

Structuring Machine Learning Projects - how to build a successful machine learning project. Decision-making as a machine learning project leader. - Understand how to diagnose errors in a machine learning system, and - Be able to prioritize the most promising directions for reducing error - Understand complex ML settings, such as mismatched training/test sets, and comparing to and/or surpassing human-level performance - Know how to apply end-to-end learning, transfer learning, and multi-task learning. Master • 2010 • Fudan university / Lille 2 university Master in e-commerce and logistics.

Interests

– Photography – Canon EOS 5D, Sony A7S

– Collaborative & competitive board games, Civilization V, VI

– Entrepreneurship as per how to make things better, incremental shaking of the status quo

– Enthusiastic about the MBTI & how it can help people improve themselves.

– Project for 2021 : learn guitar

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