Experience
Over 25 years of experience at the intersection of engineering, Data Science, and Artificial Intelligence. A career built in the most constrained environments — telecommunications, finance, international organizations, and nuclear energy.
Professional Experience
Founder & AI Consultant
Independent Data & AI consulting, specializing in scoping and prototyping under physical and regulatory constraints for critical enterprise systems.
- Identification and prioritization of AI opportunities across 4 business domains simultaneously (25+ opportunities evaluated)
- Formal feasibility studies: architecture, data governance, compliance (Export Control, EU AI Act, nuclear safety)
- Design of specialized AI architectures: Knowledge Graphs, physical models (PINNs, Kalman Filter), multi-scale e-monitoring, and LLM agents
- Prototyping (POC) and technical handover to delivery teams (phased blueprints POC → MVP → Pilot)
- AI acculturation of product teams: training, shifting paradigms from deterministic to probabilistic
Dataiku DSS, AWS, GCP, Open Source (on-premise)
Posit Shiny (R/Python packages), Claude 3.5 Haiku, DuckDB, Neo4j
CTO Paris Branch
Technical direction of the Paris branch of an IT consulting firm specializing in Data & AI.
- Steering the branch's commercial and technical strategy
- Managing senior managers and their technical teams
- Defining the vision and **quarterly OKRs of the AI Practice**
- Recruitment, onboarding, and retention of talents
Practice Lead France — Artificial Intelligence
Structuring and steering the AI Practice in France, growing it **from 4 to 32 consultants**.
- AI projects for a major energy player: NLP (LegalBERT), risk intelligence (Neo4j Knowledge Graph), Knowledge Mining
- GenAI project for the **International Criminal Court**: RAG for detecting factual inconsistencies
- Development of accelerators: MLOps Accelerator, Prompt Injection Tests, Swarm Portfolio Optimizer
- Prompt engineering and AI training for large enterprise accounts (energy, insurance)
Microsoft Azure, Azure Databricks, Azure OpenAI, Neo4j, LegalBERT, Doccano
Senior Data Scientist
Conception and deployment of AI solutions for fraud detection and industrial innovation.
- CNAF: detecting suspicious logins (Neo4j graph), overpayment prediction (Bayesian networks, Spark clustering)
- French Customs: detecting anomalies on goods declarations, benchmark of approximate search
- Research Tax Credit (CIR) projects (Lead Data Scientist): aeronautical anomaly detection, portfolio optimization using Swarm Intelligence (MOPSO), industrial predictive maintenance
- Contribution to Research Tax Credit (CIR) objectives — **achieved two consecutive years**
R / sparklyr / Shiny, H2O, Spark, Hadoop, Neo4j
Data Scientist & Big Data Consultant
Freelance mission for a music streaming service — machine learning applied to music recommendation.
- User behavioral segmentation (clustering, music discovery variables)
- Neo4j Knowledge Graph + Java API: high-performance solution for real-time recommendation
- Formalization of A/B testing (frequentist and Bayesian approaches)
AWS EC2, Hadoop, Spark, R, Shiny, Neo4j
Telecommunications Engineer
Fifteen years of network engineering in Europe's most demanding environments — before data, physical signals.
- Nokia (2008–2013) — Senior Network Architect: design of the testbed that won the **Free Mobile** RFP; pre-sales for key accounts in Europe
- Nortel (2004–2008) — VoIP & GSM-R Engineer: introduction of **GSM-Railways technology in France**; technical specifications for switch and subscriber database
- Anite / Delta Partners (2001–2003) — Pre-sales: network planning software suite, successful sales to British Telecom and Alcatel
- NET2S / Steria (1998–2001) — Certified GSM/2G Trainer (French, English, Spanish); integration of network performance management platforms
Education
| Year | Degree / Program |
|---|---|
| 2004 | M.S. in Image and Signal Processing (DEA) — ENSEA, Cergy, France
Neural networks, Bayesian networks, Information theory. |
| 2014 | Data Science & Big Data Professional Certification — CNAM Paris, France
Cloudera Certifications (Hadoop Developer & Admin) & Coursera MOOCs. |
| 1998 | M.S. in New Technologies and Decision Support (DESS) — Université de la Méditerranée, Marseille, France |
| 1997 | B.S. in Telecommunication Systems and Computer Networks (Maîtrise) — Université Toulouse III, France |
Languages
Trilingual — French (fluent) · English (fluent) · Spanish (native language)
Full CV available upon request — [email protected]