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Senior Agile Coach | Release Train Engineer (RTE) | IT Project & Program Director
Paris, France
France
MASTER in Information Systems ArchitectureAbout me
I help leaders and teams navigate complexity, align priorities and deliver results that last. A former French Navy officer, IT program director and senior Agile coach, I combine structured delivery, systems thinking and a people-centred approach to transformation.
Agile MethodologyAgile ModelingAgile TestingAtlassian ConfluenceAtlassian JiraChange ManagementDisciplined Agile DeliveryProduct ManagementScrum MethodologyProgram ManagementTransition ManagementScaled Agile FrameworkStakeholder EngagementStakeholder ManagementIT Project Management
Senior transformation and delivery professional with extensive experience in complex IT environments, combining program management, scaled Agile coaching, organisational development and cross-functional leadership.
Core expertise
• Scaled Agile & SAFe: PI Planning preparation and facilitation, ART coordination, feature prioritisation, dependency management, delivery synchronisation, continuous improvement and coaching of RTEs, Product Managers, Product Owners and leadership teams.
• IT Project & Program Management: project framing, governance, planning, risk management, stakeholder alignment, resource coordination, reporting, quality, cost and schedule control.
• Organisational Transformation: diagnosing organisational obstacles, clarifying responsibilities and decision-making, connecting business and IT teams, improving operating models and strengthening team autonomy.
• Product & Delivery: backlog structuring, Features, acceptance criteria, roadmaps, visual management, cross-team delivery coordination and hybrid project approaches.
• Leadership & Facilitation: executive coaching, management team alignment, large-scale workshops, training, mentoring and conflict resolution.
Selected achievements
Orange France, Mobile Core Network: Supported a strategic transformation program involving approximately 250 people. Helped establish the first SAFe PI Planning within three weeks, involving 17 teams. Coached program leadership, RTE and Product Owners. Contributed to achieving a regular delivery cadence and meeting a critical production deadline ahead of the Paris 2024 Olympics.
Orange France, Cybersecurity SOC: Coached the leadership team, clarified strategic priorities and strengthened cross-functional cooperation, with organisational improvements sustained beyond a leadership transition.
Pluxee International: Supported the transformation of Product Engineering involving approximately 200 people. Coached Product roles and redesigned the Miro environment for PI Planning and cross-domain collaboration.
La Poste: Coordinated deliveries across 17 teams, facilitated large-scale planning events and developed practical training on feature definition.
Earlier experience: IT program management in the French Navy, including a €100M long-term program and coordination with defence industry partners; business unit leadership, engineering management and complex IT engagements.
Methods & tools
SAFe, Scrum, Kanban, Waterfall, hybrid project management, Jira, Jira Structure, Confluence, Miro and Klaxoon.
Generative AI
Advanced practical use of leading generative AI models for research, analysis, knowledge structuring, collaborative writing and management-related work. Currently co-authoring a management book using AI-assisted workflows.
Approach
I focus on making complex situations understandable, connecting people and disciplines, improving decision-making and enablin
Experience
Professional experience10+ years
Freelancer since2017
Languages
EnglishFluentFrenchNative speaker
Project history
* Mission : Initiate and coach Aglile@Scale transformation with SAFe®
Initial IT and business leaders trainingn, impulsing the initiative, recruiting, mentoring and
coaching one
* SAFe® Trainings SA, POPM, SASM
* Ad-hoc workshops to rebuild and prioritizse features backlog plus drafting a PI plan
* Recruiting, mentoring and coaching of RTE
* SAFe® maturity assessment (Team & Program) + change backlog/roadmap
Initial IT and business leaders trainingn, impulsing the initiative, recruiting, mentoring and
coaching one
* SAFe® Trainings SA, POPM, SASM
* Ad-hoc workshops to rebuild and prioritizse features backlog plus drafting a PI plan
* Recruiting, mentoring and coaching of RTE
* SAFe® maturity assessment (Team & Program) + change backlog/roadmap
* Mission : Support Agile SAFe® transformation
Framed in a Agile/Digital transformation initiative, we launch one Agile Release train decdicated to
a PLM tooling system for electric production plants. I lead the mission in a complex situation.
Cycles de sensibilisation à l'agilité
* Restart building the backlog a collaborative way
* SAFe® executive workshops
* Close coaching of the leaders team (organized as an Agile Scrum team)
* Leading SAFe® and SAFe® for ART training
* As RTE : coordination of build and design teams, facilitation of I&A and PI Planning events
* Recruiting, mentoring & coaching of RTE (external)
Cooperation of stakeholders restarted and feature delivery optimized. DevOps initiative launched.
Operational managers adoption of Agile mindset enough to get interest from top management.
Framed in a Agile/Digital transformation initiative, we launch one Agile Release train decdicated to
a PLM tooling system for electric production plants. I lead the mission in a complex situation.
Cycles de sensibilisation à l'agilité
* Restart building the backlog a collaborative way
* SAFe® executive workshops
* Close coaching of the leaders team (organized as an Agile Scrum team)
* Leading SAFe® and SAFe® for ART training
* As RTE : coordination of build and design teams, facilitation of I&A and PI Planning events
* Recruiting, mentoring & coaching of RTE (external)
Cooperation of stakeholders restarted and feature delivery optimized. DevOps initiative launched.
Operational managers adoption of Agile mindset enough to get interest from top management.
* Mission : Reboot Agile SAFe® Transformation Initiative
450 people HR system development program spreading accross around 10 locations. Close ministry
monitoring following several major budget and time slipages. Rapid situation evaluation : lots of
gaps between basics and reality (mindset, values, principles, rituals, roles, ...). I set up the
basement for a LACE (Lean/Agile Center of Excellence) so that we can refocus, dynamize and
coordinate actions of aroun 1à existing Agile coachs.
* Mission audit and framing
* Achieving the enthusiastic support of the coaching team
* Launching LACE backlog grooming
450 people HR system development program spreading accross around 10 locations. Close ministry
monitoring following several major budget and time slipages. Rapid situation evaluation : lots of
gaps between basics and reality (mindset, values, principles, rituals, roles, ...). I set up the
basement for a LACE (Lean/Agile Center of Excellence) so that we can refocus, dynamize and
coordinate actions of aroun 1à existing Agile coachs.
* Mission audit and framing
* Achieving the enthusiastic support of the coaching team
* Launching LACE backlog grooming