- Since December 2003
Mozilla Europe: Founder and president
Mission: support the Mozilla Project by developing, deploying and promoting the free Mozilla software, its by-products and related project within Europe.
- Created the legal entity while negociating agreement with Mozilla Foundation
- Created original Web site and managed the whole project, including content management, Web design, content production and integration, localization in 4 languages (English, French, German and Spanish)
- Managed the Public Relations campaign for Mozilla Europe launch.
- June 2001 to November 2003
Netscape Client Product Development: Technology and Standards Evangelist, Europe.
Mission:
- Promote web standards so that alternative, standards compliant browsers users have access to all web content.
- Promote usage of Netscape Gecko web technologies, including Mozilla 1.0, Netscape 7, Chimera, Firefox and versions of the AOL client that embed Gecko.
- Advocating AOL Europe to support standards and accessibility in their products and content.
- Contributor to Netscape Devedge, in charge of French version of the site, along with the Strategy section.
Mozilla.org: Contributor on technology evangelism, Europe.
Web Standards activist. Stimulating the Web Standards promotion in France, using Guerilla marketing techniques, including the following efforts:
- Co-founded and currently leading Collectif OpenWeb (http://openweb.eu.org/). OpenWeb explains how to produce valid XHTML and CSS content to beginners and html old-timers. A section dedicated to decision makers is also available.
- Created and maintaining my weblog, aka StandBlog, dedicated to web standards, user-agents and accessibility.
- Co-managing the Interopérabilité effort by AFUL, focusing on open standards.
- Member of Pompage.Net team, which translates standards-related english texts into french.
- July 1998 to May 2001
- Netscape Communications (then Sun-Netscape Alliance/iPlanet), Southern Europe: Product Marketing Manager. In charge of various countries including France, Italy, Spain, Israel and Switzerland.
Mission:
- To "get the word out", acting as an evangelist and a product manager for the whole Netscape product range to prospects, customers, journalists and analysts. Create events to do so (press conferences, road shows, analysts briefings, etc...)
- Generate leads through various means, mainly seminars: adapting US content or creating local content & messages for such events.
- Defining the product requirements for the local markets, including corporate positioning. Understanding the market specifics for the different countries and sending it back to the US for localization and features prioritizing.
- Creating and adapting sales tools such as presentations and competitive analysis for the southern europe sales force.
- May 1997 to June 1998
Netscape Communications France - Product PR Manager, then Marketing & Communications Manager for
France.
Technical Public Relations for Netscape France. Meeting with journalists, organizing press conferences and monitoring interviews both for products (Client and Server) and Executive staff (Jim Barksdale, Marc Andreessen). Organized and delivered demonstrations and workshops for journalists. Writing press releases and content for seminars.
Marketing Manager France. Relations with large partners such as Sun and Oracle. Organizin and delivering conferences and demonstrations to customers, prospects and partners.
- January 1995 to April 1997
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PartnerSoft S.A., Paris. In charge of the SIMWARE software products.
Started the REXXWARE activity in France in 95.
Product Manager : prepared corporate presentations and demos based upon english material. Animated and prepared seminars and trade shows.
Sales representative : dedicated to large accounts. Inked the biggest sales contract in PartnerSoft history.
- May 1993 to November 1994
- Client/Server Consultant with PartnerSoft for Centura software Client/Server product line (4GL Development environment and relational database). Product expert, support for evaluation, corporate presentations and demonstrations. Also in charge of customer training in this environment.
- April 1992 to April 1993
- Technical Manager with a start-up company specialized in computer security.
