General Management: oversaw growth from ≈120 to ≈270 students and corresponding transformations in the organisation
Finances: reduced overdue receivables from ≈8% of revenue to ≈1%, oversaw and restructured bookkeeping and reporting practices, kept a balanced budget, built a forecasting model
Governance: established Board committees, led revisions to bylaws, revised and renewed partnership with French government agency (AEFE)
Personnel Management: oversaw personnel growth from ≈35 to ≈60 employees
evolving the organizational chart accordingly,
led labor negotiations and working condition improvements
Crisis Management: maintained sound finances, enrollment growth, and staffing levels, through the COVID-19 crisis, while deploying safety measures
Operations: supported headmaster and CFO in daily management
Standardisation Consultant –nowNorway, Japan
Leadership: Elected Member of the W3C’s Advisory Board (–now), appointed liaison to the Board of Directors (–now)
Governance: co-designed Board of Directors structure and Bylaws of W3C, Inc; lead several major revisions of the W3C Process, including the move from a Director-led to a Member-led organization
Technology: Designed improvements to key web technology as the Editor of many specifications in the W3C CSS Working Group
Negotiations: Built consensus among major software vendors (Apple, Google, Microsoft, Mozilla...)
Product Management: led conception, development, and commercialization of a SaaS platform for ordering and delivering printed products to 35 countries
Business Development & Partnerships: established technology cooperation with Adobe & Monotype, and partnerships with printing companies
General Management: reporting to the CEO and the Board of Directors, coordinated Product Development, Customer Support, Procurement & Legal, Production
Project Management: managed up to 12 developers and 5 testers in 4 countries using agile practices
Development: Implemented improvements to the layout engine of the Opera browser, focusing on interoperability, crash robustness, and implementation of new standards
Standardization: Negotiated the evolution of key web technology (CSS) as Opera's representative at the industry's global standardization consortium (W3C); Lead the effort on the CSS Media Queries specification, and contributed to many others
Led teams of up to 6 developers and 4 testers in multiple countries (Japan, Sweden, Taiwan, Poland) on more than 15 projects for major TV manufacturers and Japanese phone operators; redesigned work-flows to improve quality and to eliminate schedule overruns, established project estimates, and prioritized tasks
Extended and maintained the Opera browser for connected TVs and Japanese mobile phones
Renegotiated the terms of employment with HR, management and employees, and mediated in personal conflicts as employee representative of the Japan office
Certificate of achievement for significant performance in engineering 2008
Software Developer –
Sharp Corporation (Electronics Manufacturer) Japan
Developed an ebook reading application for mobile phones supporting Japanese typography and manga, as well as associated authoring tools,
wrote the specification of the document format (XMDF) for standardisation at the IEC
Award of excellence 2007
Languages
French:
Native
English:
Fluent (TOEIC: 990, PTE-A: 90)
Japanese:
Business (JLPT level 2)
Mandarin:
Basic
Education
INSEAD France
MBA, graduated with distinction (finance as dominant elective) –
