XP - Technical Project Manager
Direct-Energie has been one of the 1st company created during the opening of the electricity and naural gaz market in France, to the competitors, in 2004.
I have been working at Direct-Energie, Paris, France from 2005 to 2011. I was still a student, working to get my Master Degree in Computer Science when Direct-Energie hired me as a Java dveloper. I had the chance to grow along with this company and took the lead on some specific developments and for the technical migration to SAP in 2009. I then spent the next 2 years as a Technical Project Manager, using agile methodologies, to make that link between the business and the development teams and making sure these application was getting the necessary update, always on time.
Software Development Agile Project Manager, May 2009 – Jan 2011
Software development manager for trading and energy balancing internal solutions
- Provide help to stakeholders to define their needs, prioritize and build their requirements
- Manage and prioritize product backlog taking into account costs, resources, risks…
- Drive and control planning, development tasks, animate the scrums, sprints planning and retrospectives
- Test changes, manage defects and validate final product
- Provide production support
SAP/ABAP Development Manager, Apr 2008 – Apr 2009
ABAP team lead for our major “Migrate to SAP” project
- Hire and manage development team
- Create and validate processes with each project actors
- Validate input documents before developments
- Drive and control planning, development tasks, manage defects
- Deliver final releases after driving tests and quality performance benchmark
- Provide production support
Billing and Invoicing Lead Dev, Jan 2006 – Mar 2008
Responsible of custom developments for our customers billing system
- Negotiate our issues in the distributor’s roadmap
- Collect user’s issues for modifications of needs and bugs fixes
- Analyze, design and write functional and technical specifications and documentations
- Develop software solutions in Java, Drive final users tests
- Implement and adjust internal software quality procedures
- Provide production support
For more details about my roles at Direct-Energie, check my LinkedIn profile.
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