Pierre-alain LAUR
Senior engineering leader
50 years old
Driving License
LONDON (NW53QH) United Kingdom
Professional Status
Employed
Open to opportunities
About Me
As a child of technology and a quick learner, i always followed new trends during my career.
During my experiences, I was able to combine my scientific and pedagogical skills with those necessary in the business world.
Collaborating with people from various countries and different cultures has allowed me to build and leverage great project teams achieving amazing products.
Different platforms, languages, environment help me to continuously improve processes and leadership.
Build, innovate, be caring and push the limits are elements that animate me and that I like to share in each of the companies with which I share a privileged moment of my life.
"The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it.", Theodore Roosevelt.
During my experiences, I was able to combine my scientific and pedagogical skills with those necessary in the business world.
Collaborating with people from various countries and different cultures has allowed me to build and leverage great project teams achieving amazing products.
Different platforms, languages, environment help me to continuously improve processes and leadership.
Build, innovate, be caring and push the limits are elements that animate me and that I like to share in each of the companies with which I share a privileged moment of my life.
"The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it.", Theodore Roosevelt.
Engineering Manager
Meta (ex. Facebook)
Since March 2022
- Managing multipe teams and senior contributors in Reality Labs to improve the Video Conference and Media bridge experience.
- Back end and front-end services to enable media communication (Rsys, SIP, WebRTC, Composition, Computation).
- Contribute to improve engineering efficiency and drive organisation improvements.
Software Developer Manager
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
August 2020
to February 2022
- Back and front-end services to enable AWS E2E Billing
- Manage multiple engineering teams and senior contributors.
- Implement software engineering processes with cross functional teams
Bixby FR - Site Leader & Tech. Program Manager
SAMSUNG / HARMAN
April 2018
to July 2020
Full-time
PARIS
- Supervising development and delivery of Samsung Intelligent Assistant (Bixby 2.0) for France. Bixby 2.0 full commercial launch successfully accomplished in June 2019, including Local Content Providers such as Marmiton, Allocine, JeuxVideo.com, OUI.sncf, Tele 7 Jours, Akinator and many others, and Global Content Providers such as Spotify, YouTube, Google Maps, Gmail.
- Site leader (30%): RH (recruitment, team building & coaching (6 leads), promote culture of success & creativity.
- Program management (70%): international stakeholders alignment, team alignment and feedback, evangelize best practices (CI, code, project, deploy,...), relevant data security practices.
- 60+ coworkers (80% dev., 20% other), 6 teams: ASR - Automatic Speech Recognition, NLU - Natural Language Understanding, NLG - Natural Language Generation, CHAT - Chatbot, TTS - Text To Speech & Q&A - Questions & Answers .
- 1 Mobile AI voice assistant Bixby 2.0: Robust, multi-device, personal , Empowers developers to create services , Developed across several countries , 30+ millions of users worldwide and growing.
Executive Producer and Operations
The good drive
May 2017
to March 2018
Full-time
Paris
France
- Production of PC / Console / Mobile serious game aiming at modernizing mainstream transportation learning. We use technologies from video games, AI and virtual reality.
Available in France since 2014, The good drive is extending its reach in Europe and Overseas with an increasing number of partners. - Operation (30%): asses talent, team building, coaching, product and commercial strategy, P&L.
- Production (70%): projects management, pipeline, agile, technical direction, CI, planning and mitigation.
- 15 coworkers (12 directs), 3 products (Web, PC & Mobile).
Senior Director (Engineering and Strategy)
Digital Air
November 2016
to April 2017
Full-time
Bangkok
Thailand
- Digital A.I.R is a social communication hub that links users to users, brands to users and entire social networks across the world.
Digital A.I.R. is creating the next major evolution of communication by building an interactive ecosystem, in which existing digital and traditional media are merged into new and amazing mixed-reality experiences. - Tech.(40%): architecture, pipeline, team building, coaching, AR/VR.
- Engineering (40%): product design, roadmap, pipeline, planning, process, team building, coaching, software quality.
- Operation (20%): P&L, strategy, investors relationship, organization, staffing.
- 30 coworkers (14 direct), multiplateform: Web / Mobile / SNS.
Development / Production / Data consulting
PAL COMPANY
Since December 2015
Consultant
Paris
France
- Development: Plateforms (Mobile, Web, Social Networks), Technical design (Scalability, Disponibility, Pipeline), AR/VR, Team assesment & Process.
- Production: Agile (lean, Scrum, Kanban, Trello), Product (Design, Roadmap, Mitigation, Management)
- Data: Business Intelligence, KPI, AI & ML.
- Others : Gamification, Digital transformation, fund advisor.
Technical Director of Software Engineering & Executive Producer
Virtuos
December 2014
to December 2015
Full-time
Chengdu
China
- Virtuos is one of the largest game developers, providing the highest quality games and art to publishers and developers worldwide. We have more than 1200 staff across eleven locations worldwide and our clients include 18 of the top 20 digital entertainment publishers.
- Engineering Department management (team size 60 direct (+30 remote), 3 assistant technical director, 6 software engineer managers).
- Staffing. Training, Process, Pipeline in order to improve skills and department efficiency.
- Architect & product owner of in-house Free To Play Mobile Framework (Front & Back End).
- 400 coworkers, multiplateforms (mobile, xbox, ps4,..)
Mobile and Social operator Director
Virtuos
February 2013
to December 2014
Full-time
Shanghai HQ
China
- Virtuos is one of the largest game developers, providing the highest quality games and art to publishers and developers worldwide. We have more than 1200 staff across eleven locations worldwide and our clients include 18 of the top 20 digital entertainment publishers.
- Creation and management of a new Free To Play Mobile Business Unit from scratch (team size 60, P&L ).
- Design and setup of high quality agile production and developement pipeline from idea to launch.
- Staffing, Training and coaching of the team.
- Top management & group strategy.
- 1200 coworkers, 2 publishers, 2 jeux, 5 third parties.
Founder / Managing Director
FEERIK
August 2007
to December 2012
Montpellier
France
- Company strategy (10%): Business Plan / PnL / Investor relationship.
- Production (40%): technical design, delivery framework, DB optimization, Web & Mobile projects (38 projects, agile).
- Publishing (30%): Partnership, International, Live Operation.
- R&D (10%): strategy, 2 scientifics publications.
- Backoffice (10%): RH (recruitment, coaching), Accounting, Tax, Statement.
- 20 Free to Play Web / SNS / Mobile games (>10k CCU).
- 40 coworkers (20 direct), 46 contractors, 5 000 000 EUR annual income, 32% outside of France.
Group IT director
Groupimmo SA
August 2006
to August 2007
Full-time
Fort de France
Martinique
- IT strategy on 25 real estate agency accros 3 islands.
- Digital strategy design and execution of group online presence (Web, Business software) as Technical Director and Product Owner.
- Team management (5 Software Engineers and 12 contractors).
Professor Assistant
University of West Indies
September 2004
to September 2006
Part-time
Fort de France
Martinique
- Teaching to Licence & Master degree (Algorithm, C++, Java, UML, SQL & Datamining) university students and professional workers.
- Research at Grimaag Laboratory (5 intl. scientific publications).
Founder & CEO
PAL COMPANY
January 2000
to December 2003
Monpellier
France
- Trading card games retail business (online & offline).
- Booth organization at major European Magic The Gathering events.
- 150 000 EUR company annual income.
Aedenia Founder & Investor
Aedenia
April 2002
to June 2006
Lyon - Nimes
France
- Setup and Supervision of 2 video games cyber-cafe shops with Trading card games side business.
- 450 000 EUR company annual income.
PhD. Student (Merit Scolarship)
Montpellier University
September 2000
to August 2003
Part-time
Montpellier
France
- Teaching to Licence & Master degree (Algorithmique, C++, Java, UML, SQL & Datamining).
- Research at LIRMM Laboratory (8 intl. scientific publications).
