Professional experience
Google Germany GmbH (Hamburg, Germany)
Senior Customer Solutions Consultant
Senior Customer Solutions Consultant
- Advising Google's top-tier publisher clients across Europe in architecting and implementing complex ad-serving and RTB programmatic platforms (including private ad exchanges)
DQ & A (Hamburg, Germany and Voorburg, Netherlands)
Manager Technical Consultancy
Manager Technical Consultancy
- technical consultancy around ad serving technologies:
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- integration of new ad concepts, targeting capabilities, rich media solutions, video advertising (DoubleClick In-Stream and VAST-compatible ad servers)
- ad server set-up and configuration. Trainings and product presentation
- troubleshooting with creatives and campaigns (Dart for Publishers, Dart Enterprise, AdTech Helios, Adition)
- support the DQ&A Sales forces for pre-sales meetings with customers
Lycos Europe (Guetersloh, Germany and Yerevan, Armenia)
Director Ad Technologies
Director Ad Technologies
- Team responsibility of 10 persons (6 in Germany and 4 in Armenia)
- Responsible for all technical ad operations for Lycos Europe Network (5 countries, 6 billion ad impressions per month)
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- customization of the Dart Enterprise ad server (DoubleClick) and peripheral tools to meet Lycos requirements
- interface with the financial system (SAP) and the Lycos user database
- development and maintenance of the Lycos page tagging system
- Responsible for the integration of new ad concepts, targeting capabilities, rich media solutions, video advertising
- Responsible for the technical support for Sales Operations and Ad Management (troubleshooting with creatives and campaigns)
- Technical integration of partners (Google, Meetic, Yahoo...) into the Lycos Network
october 2004 - august 2005
Lycos Europe (Guetersloh, Germany and Yerevan, Armenia)
Senior technical specialist AdServer
Senior technical specialist AdServer
- recruitment and management of the team in Armenia (profiles, job interviews and selection of candidates)
- customization of the DART Enterprise ad server and development of peripheral tools (Sales reporting system, interface with the financial reporting tool SAP...)
Lycos Europe (Paris, France)
Project Manager
Project Manager
- development of the Lycos Memberpages across Europe (8 countries)
- responsible for the development of new ad formats on the Lycos Member pages. 300 million ad impressions per month.
MultiMania (Paris, France)
Project Manager
Project Manager
- responsible for the development of the internal search engine (4 million. queries per month. Solution based on Verity K2
- development of the directory of member pages (PHP, MySQL)
Lincoln Systems (Boulogne Billancourt, France)
Internet Developer
Internet Developer
- Responsible for the conception and development of the extranet of the Interventional Cardiologist Group of the French Cardiologist Society. (Perl, IIS, Access Database)
- Development of several online solutions to collect medical data (Medtronic Labs, Cordis Labs, Hospital Lariboisière)
Circonscription de Gendarmerie de Bordeaux
Second Lieutenant
Second Lieutenant
- second-in-command, reporting to the Commanding Officer of the "Centre de Renseignement et d'Opérations". Responsible for the department "Cartography" (3 persons).
- aide-de-camp to the General officer commanding the "Région Atlantique de Gendarmerie"
Education and Training
july 1994
June 1994 Master's Degree (NVQ 5 ) in Organic Chemistry (with honours) University of Bordeaux, France
Special skills
Ad Serving Technologies:
- Extensive knowledge of several ad servers and closely related products: DART Enterprise: callouts, creative plugins, architecture, migration, integration of Dent with external systems (SAP, Revenue Science, Wunderloop...), Dart for Publishers (both Legacy and DFP by Google - campaign booking, reporting, APIs), AdTech Helios, Adition, E-Planning, SmartAdServer.
- Very good knowledge of several DoubleClick Products (In-Stream, Ad Exchange, Boomerang for Publisher, Spotlight...)
Web technologies:
- Extensive knowledge of HTML, CSS, Javascript, LAMP (Linux, MySQL, PHP)
- Basic knowledge of Java, Perl and ASP
Online Video:
- Extensive knowledge of the Brightcove platform (Brightcove Studio, Player and Media APIs, integration with DoubleClick In-Stream)
Groups and Associations:
- Active member of the AdMonsters Group since September 2005. AdMonsters is the only professional association exclusively dedicated to leaders in online advertising operations and technology
- Member of the "European DART Enterprise User Group".
Languages
- French: mother tongue
- English: fluent - daily professional usage
- German: fluent - daily professional usage
- Spanish: basic knowledge