Software engineering, research and management in Paris and the Silicon Valley. • R&D Management, Development process optimization. • Mobile applications, Cloud software, Saas platforms, 3D. • Effective team building and motivational skills. Strong people management skills focused on knowledge spreading, growing leaders, teamwork and continuous improvement. • Complex issues solving • High Customer Focus • Lead by example. Enjoy • Improving capabilities and performance of products and organizations. • Shipping products and technologies (in startups, medium or large global companies) • Solving problems in unusual or unexpected ways. Patent filling http://patents.justia.com/inventor/laurent-pontier

Engineering Manager, R&D - Platform @ • Real Time Bidding • Direct buying technologies • Publisher Marketplace • Tools for Operations Paris, Bucharest. From October 2015 to Present (3 months) Paris Area, FranceVP Engineering - Deputy CTO @ Responsible for the development of the Sidetrade cloud platform including Sidetrade Network, Digital Collection and mobile applications. In charge of product development, quality and architecture. Management • Rebuild, Manage, grow and challenge a team of junior, senior developers, testers and architects. • Coordinate and organize development effort according to internal and external forces. • Partner with other companies on co-innovation projects as project Director for Sidetrade • Recruitment & Hiring Organisation • Reorganized development methods, code integration and processes to improve quality and productivity. • Optimized internal R&D flow through build, packaging and code merging automation for development, tests and deployments (~200 Hotfixes a year ). • Schedule back on track. Products • Business Intelligence module • New Risk management module for Sidetrade with Euler Hermes. • ElasticSearch integration • Shipped the Mobile application for Sidetrade Network (iOS & Android) Tech • Seamlessly integrate our Cloud platform with other organizations security model using SAMLV2. • Progressive technology migration of our cloud platform while shipping new features • Globalize our product with a top to bottom Unicode migration. • Improved batch processing performance. • Integration tools and custom TFS build components. • New in-house database deployment tools • Products source code, build chain, full software factory and documentation legal deposit, every year with Logitas. Cloud, Business Intelligence, BigData, SaaS, ASP.NET, TFS, Oracle 10/11g From June 2011 to October 2015 (4 years 5 months) Boulogne-Billancourt Area, FranceExpert Architect @ SAP Research / SAP Labs / BusinessObjects Innovation Labs Advanced development and Software Architecture. From inception to release : create new products and features from outside of the box and spread the result into the product group. • Technology transfer and international projects in Paris, Toronto, Barcelona and Tel Aviv. • Filled Patents for Business Objects and SAP. Created mobile applications for Android devices. • Exploration Views for Android devices. • SAP DKOM Design Excellence Award Developed an Automated social network generator from Business information, with the related application to explore and use it. • Social Network Analyser productized as "6 Degrees" and merged into StreamWork. Search • Mixed Enterprise Search and Business Intelligence with IBM Omnifind Java, .NET, AS3, Flex, Jira, CruiseControl, Dev management. From June 2006 to May 2011 (5 years) Tech Lead @ Rewriting from scratch the Flagship Legacy product from Pascal to C++ • In depth code renovation • Visual schema editor • Form designer • Vectorial editor C++, win32, Carbon, OSX, Quartz and Gdi+. Software Architecture, Dev management From September 2000 to May 2006 (5 years 9 months) Manager Graphical Application, Software Engineering @ • e-Picture 2.0 : Winner of the "Macweek Best of show" at MacWorld 2000 New York. • Speaker at MacWorld San Francisco and NewYork and Apple Expo Paris. From August 1999 to September 2000 (1 year 2 months) Software Engineer @ • e-Picture 1.0 : Winner of the "Best of show" at MacWorld 1999 New York. • Author of Kftp acquired by Beatware, Inc and distributed under the name "Get-It". From August 1998 to August 1999 (1 year 1 month) Military Service Scientist, Defense R&D @ Matra Marconi Space • Wrote a cloud detection software for the Helios 1 military project • Various database software modification. Vax/VMS systems and C on HPUX From October 1997 to June 1998 (9 months) Software Engineering @ Service National Informatique de France Telecom. France Telecom had problems to reach and administer remote servers through different networks. The task was time consuming, error prone and tedious: • Idea, specification and implementation in C of a specific TCP/IP Protocol to access and manage not directly accessible remote servers through a chain(X25/IP) of Unix workstations running AIX. • Descriptive language to define steps to jump from one server to another and the tool was able to define his own optimal route and build the connections. • Internal deployment and tests, users feedback, fixes and improvements. A lot of tech fun. From August 1996 to December 1996 (5 months) Software Engineering @ Laboratoire de biologie cellulaire de la synapse normale et pathologique (Inserm U497) • Design and implementation in C on a Silicon Graphics Indy of a SCSI CCD Camera Application to edit CCD Microscope settings and grab pictures from biological samples. • Various task of system administration on SGI Irix 5.3. From September 1995 to December 1995 (4 months) Microelectronics Engineering @ • Designed the next generation of ST6 micro controller hardware emulator. • ALTERA Programmable Chips design • Board design and layout From April 1994 to July 1994 (4 months)

Software Engineer, Computer Science, Management @ Efrei - Ecole FRançaise d'Electronique et d'Informatique From 1994 to 1997 Associates Degree in Electrical Engineering, Surface mounted components @ Joseph Fourier University From 1992 to 1994 Laurent Pontier is skilled in: Software Development, Mobile Applications, Software Engineering, Java, Cloud Computing, Architecture, C#, Technical Leadership, .NET, SaaS, Technical Management, Android, ASP.NET, Oracle, Software Project Management