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Objectives

My researches concern particularly the areas of activities :


General Management

Printing / Press / Editing



I'm looking for a publishing company eager
to set up new working methods borrowed
from project management techniques. The
perfect postion would be: Publishing Solution Manager, Project Manager.

Education

Since
September 2007

Dauphine and UQAM universities

Since September 2007

Executive MBA Dauphine
Area of specialisation :Master of Business Administration

October 2002
September 2003

IFIS (Institut Francilien d’Ingénierie des Services), Marne-la-Vallée university.

October 2002 - September 2003

Master MITIC (Management de l’Intégration des Technologies de l’Information et de la Communication)
Area of specialisation :Project Management Techniques

September 1989
June 1992

Estienne Higher School of Graphic and Art Industries

September 1989 - June 1992

Advanced Vocational Diploma in Graphic Industries
Area of specialisation :Graphic and Art Industries

September 1988
June 1989

Angers university

September 1988 - June 1989

First year of economic sciences, Angers university

Area of specialisation :Economics studies

September 1985
June 1988

Ste Agnès

September 1985 - June 1988

Baccalauréate in Mathematics (C), Nantes local education authority, France.
Area of specialisation :Mathematics, Physics

Experience

Since
March 2005

Publishing Solution Manager

Since March 2005

Mission : Responsible for an organization and methods department, in charge of managing several publishing projects:

Means : - Participation in the migration of a new web based publishing platform;
- Participation in the development of an industrial publishing project for the Journaux officiels printing works;
- Development of a multimedia department, in charge of the creation and administration of the corporate web site (Internet and Intranet);
- Color magement project;
- Setting up of a new prepress department.

December 2003
June 2004

Project Manager

December 2003 June 2004

Mission : In charge of advising design and publishing professionals on the management of their project and conducting audits of international dimensions. Keeping up with technological innovations

Means : Participation in the international market research project commissioned by Adobe Systems regarding a comparison between a publishing setup based on the Adobe Creative Suite, and a QuarkXPress-based workflow.

Appraisal : Participation in the publication of 5 individual reports with key findings and recommendations on the complete research results.
In progress: "InDesign Migration Strategies" report.

October 2002
September 2003

Publishing Solutions Analyst

Pearson Group UK, publishing company of international dimensions (Penguin Group and Dorling Kindersley).

October 2002 September 2003

Mission : In charge of advising the Publishing Solutions Manager on the feasibility study to migrate to InDesign 2.0 and Mac OS X.

Means : Introduction and training in project management techniques recommanded by the Project Management Institut (PMI), and tools for workflow modeling.
Planning of all phases of the migration project life cycle.
Feasibility study: ROI calculation.

Appraisal : "Methodology" and "Vision an Scope" deliverables submitted to the Steering Committee.

January 1994
October 2002

Senior Production Manager

Reader’s Digest France, publishing company of international dimensions

January 1994 October 2002

Mission : 1) Team Leader of 7 Production Managers:Accountable for the general books, illustrated series, reading series and monthly magazine production.
2) European Co-ordinator for Reader's Digest France

Means : Implementation of new prepress technologies for all books and magazine production (Computer To Film and Computer To Plate).
Production managers training regarding new process associated with PDf workflows, supervised by the prepress engineer.

Appraisal : 100% of RD books printed in CTP with a PDF workflow.

September 1992
December 1993

Technical Printing Adviser

Voluntary Service Overseas

September 1992 December 1993

Mission : 1) Accountable for the Comorian Government Publication Office Reorganization.
2) VSO worker in "Comoros Media Support" project within the "Al-Watwan" local newspaper.

Means : Drawing up of a list of materials to implement and conditions of installation (Macintoshes and offset press).
Management and training all staff in every stage of the graphic production line.

Appraisal : Support for the technical study in cooperation with UNDP (United Nations for the Developments Programs) on rationalization about printing means in the Comoros.
Desktop publishing installed within the "Al-Watwan" local newspaper.

Languages

  • English

    Speaking competence : Fluent ,  Written competence : Fluent

Computing skills

Software

Desktop Application: Microsoft Office 2007

Desktop Publishing Applications:
- Adobe Creative Suite: InDesign CS2, Illustrator CS2, Photoshop CS2, Acrobat Professional 8
- InCopy 2.0, QuarkXPress 4.1

Preflight Application: Flightcheck

Web Design Applications:
- Dreamweaver 4

XML Editor:
- Arbortext Editor, XMLSpy

Project Management Software:
- Microsoft Project and Microsoft Project Web Access, FastTrach Schedule 8

Languages

HTML et XML

Additional information

Operating System:
- Mac OS X v10.3 Panther
- Windows XP

Various

Interests / pastimes

Leisure: Painting and reading.
Pleisure and business trips: Reunion, Comoros, Tunisia, Spain, Italy, Germany, Belgium, Netherlands, United Kingdom, Czechoslovakia, Poland…
Sports: Tennis, deepsea diving and … football