Luc

Role:
Lead and manage a newly established, multi-location team of over 50 professionals in France, Portugal, and India to maximize the availability and quality of the organization's information system.
Achievements:
• Developed a new leadership layer within the team to improve results, drive efficiency, and foster stronger ownership.
• Redesigned the team's operating model by introducing a "Follow the Sun" approach between India, Portugal and France, ensuring continuous service delivery and coverage.
• Achieved a drastic reduction in incidents in short period of time and significant production stabilization by implementing a robust ITIL framework and associated tooling.

Role:
Responsible for the delivery of scalable, cost-efficient, and resilient technology and operational services, leveraging local talent to support global business functions, drive innovation, and ensure alignment with corporate objectives.

Achievements:
• Provided strategic vision, direction, and leadership during company growing phase in close collaboration with the CEO and the board of the company (0 to 210 headcounts in 3 years, attrition below 5%, Revenues $11.2Mn, Op. profit $1.91Mn FY 23-24).
• Led, coached and managed a team of 12 managers covering critical support and client-facing functions (Technology, operations for banking and capital markets, client onboarding).
• Created a regional operational excellence program based on lean six sigma to develop expertise in process and foster continuous improvement culture. (35 people certified, 35+ projects delivered).
• Initiated an automation program on low-code/no-code tools to reduce manual workload and mitigate risk (40+ automation delivered on Power Platform & Alteryx, 40 citizen developers trained).
• Built strategic partnership with vendors based in India to propose new delivery models at optimal cost for the group. (budget $1.5Mn with 3 vendors).

Role:
In charge of APAC fixed income and equity IT teams (20+), driving front-to-back IT projects, engaging stakeholders to align business and IT priorities and timelines.

Achievements:
• Strategically managed a €2.2M budget, ensuring optimal allocation of financial resources to meet operational and organizational goals.
• Achieved a 20% reduction in time-to-market for new product prototyping by redesigning pre-trade architecture for APAC trading desks.
• Built an FX options auto-pricer for China, generating €1M in revenue for the desk in 2021.
• Designed and implemented a citizen developer program using a customized open-source Python stack, training 25+ quants, traders, and financial engineers.
• Consolidated equity and fixed income teams into a single, streamlined 20-member unit, saving 2 FTEs, eliminated redundant tools by 15% and implemented cross-training to enhance service resilience and operational efficiency.

Role:
Lead a team of 3 developers to re-design xVA pricing solutions for front office and incorporating new regulations requirements

Achievements:
• Conduct a 3-year green-field transformation project to rebuild pricing tools of xVA trading desk from excel to a robust and scalable micro services architecture. (10+ services, 10 users).
• Managed a team of 3 developers following agile scrum practices, providing guidance and oversight to ensure timely and high-quality deliverables.

Role:
Responsible for developing, troubleshooting, and optimizing a high-availability real-time risk engine for a cross-asset application, ensuring critical pricing accuracy, risk monitoring and rapid response times for trading desks.

Achievements:
• Optimized and enhanced a real-time risk calculator for a cross-asset application, improving scalability, reliability, and reporting capabilities while ensuring uninterrupted operations.

Role:
Responsible for integrating new portfolio management software and developing advanced applications to manage automated factsheets and NAV reporting to clients. (13 employees, $1.5Bn AUM)

Achievements:
• Integrated Webfolio, a third-party portfolio management tool, into the company's in-house solution, streamlining full lifecycle of alternatives investment.
• Developed an AI based electronic document management system to optimize operations processing and improve efficiency.