Philippe Blandin
Chief Operating Officer at U-NICA- Claim this Profile
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Bio
Credentials
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SAFe Practitioner
SCALED AGILE ACADEMYOct, 2014- Nov, 2024
Experience
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U-NICA
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Switzerland
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IT Services and IT Consulting
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1 - 100 Employee
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Chief Operating Officer
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Mar 2022 - Present
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NAGRA
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Switzerland
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IT Services and IT Consulting
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700 & Above Employee
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Product Owner in charge of Workflows
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Jul 2019 - Feb 2022
In charge of improving and migrating the workflows from the NINTEX and K2 platforms to the Camunda engine (BPMN). Defined a framework that makes it easy to define, implement, test, deploy, maintain and migrate workflows. Phase 1 completed: NINTEX decommissioned.
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Business Development Manager
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Jan 2018 - Jul 2019
Internal Innovation Initiative: o One of the 7 projects, out of 306, selected by the upper management to go beyond the exploration phase. Conceptualized a value proposition for the Medical Device (MD) and In Vitro Diagnostic (IVD) Industries that leverages the key strength of Nagra in the field of security. Validated the concept using the Business Model Canvas and by meeting key market players (Hospitals, MD/IVD manufacturers). Demo made to illustrate the value of the devised Ecosystem. Scouting for leads. Product to be developed by the IoT-BU. o Devised a new Service for industrial partners. Discussions on-going with selected large accounts to validate the value proposition and the expected return on investment. Show less
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Lead Engineer / Product Owner
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Jan 2017 - Dec 2017
Lead engineer for a team (8) industrializing tools and processes.Lead Engineer: o Guarantee that the solutions are in line with the strategy of the department o Guarantee the coherence of the system by synchronizing the Product Owners and Architects working for the different trains o Develop synergies o Report to the lineProduct Owner: o Create and maintain product backlog o Set the priorities o Share the vision and goals of a sprint, a release to the teams o Interface with the stakeholders, represent the customers o Participate to scrums, sprint plannings, sprint reviews and retrospectives o Communicate with the stakeholders and report to the trainChanges in organization of the Pay TV division : o Transition from a CMMI methodology to an Agile methodology (SAFe). o One train per product line o Team Leads become Lead Engineers Mission of the group: o Upgrade our information system to generate, manage and deliver crytographic keys and certificates o Industrialize the tools, processes and procedures Stakeholders: o R&D teams o SmartCard (SC) production o TV operators o Set Top Box (STB) manufacturers o Chipset manufacturers Show less
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Technical/Industrialization Office Team Lead
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Jan 2011 - Dec 2016
Responsible for a team (8) of architects and project managers.Team management: o Development of the team members o Coaching for the transition to CMMI o Guarantee that the solutions are in line with the strategy of the department o Support the R&D teams o Control the budget o Reporting to the lineProject Management: o Monitor scope, planning, budget o Reporting o Review and validate requirements, architecture, project planning, deployment planning o Provide support to the R&D and test teams o Participate to the definition and deployment of new processesMission of the group: o Upgrade our information system to generate, manage and deliver crytographic keys and certificates o Industrialize the tools, processes and procedures Stakeholders: o R&D teams o SmartCard (SC) production o TV operators o Set Top Box (STB) manufacturers o Chipset manufacturersMethodologies: o Project Management / CMMI level 2 compliant assets ( → 2014) o Agile methodologies / SAFe (2015 →) Show less
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Technical Support Team Lead
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Jan 2005 - Dec 2010
Responsible for a group (5 - 8) of support engineers and developers.Team management: o Development and coaching of the team members o Guarantee that the solutions are in line with the strategy of the department o Support the R&D teams o Control the budgeto Reporting to the lineProject Management: o Monitor scope, planning, budget o Reporting o Review and validate requirements, architecture, project planning, deployment planning o Provide support to the R&D and test teams o Participate to the definition and deployment of new processesMission of the group: o Technical assistance to on-site engineers and R&D teams. o Development of specialized tools (SW and HW) and services (secure client-server infrastructure, ....). HW development involved 5 teams located in 5 different sites (USA-FR-CH). o Training of support engineers. o Investigate serious failures with clients and providers. o Bring technical expertise to the clients on specific topics.Stakeholders: o R&D, test and integration teams o Support engineers in the regional offices Show less
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Technical Lead
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Jan 2003 - Dec 2004
Coordinate the development of a SIM card of the third generation (USIM) on a JavaCard.Collaborate with a major chipset manufacturer.Development of a framework to ease the development of customer applets and automate tests.Inventor of a "système de développement d'une application embarquée dans un module" (EP1632849A1).
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Project Manager
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Feb 2001 - Dec 2002
Represent the Nagra-Futuris joint venture within the Conditional Access work group of the WorldDAB.
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Software Developer
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2001 - 2001
Responsible for the maintenance and the development of a: o Major component for a “traffic and scheduling” software for a Spanish TV operator. o Java toolkit implementing the IDEA cipher algorithm.
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Treasurer
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May 2016 - Feb 2022
Changes in the investment management strategy and in the organizational structure.Interface with banks and experts.Reduction of costs.
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Vice President
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Jun 2012 - Jun 2016
Member of the foundation board and of the office
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Atraxis
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Airlines and Aviation
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1 - 100 Employee
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Software Developer
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1999 - 2001
Developer on a fleet assignment program for the SAirGroup. Software used to optimize the usage of aircraft by an optimized planning of the legs. Developer on a fleet assignment program for the SAirGroup. Software used to optimize the usage of aircraft by an optimized planning of the legs.
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Università degli Studi di Padova
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Italy
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Higher Education
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700 & Above Employee
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Postdoctoral Researcher
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1997 - 1999
Numerical simulations: o Ported an ab-initio molecular dynamics program on a massively parallel super computer o Study of Rh clusters and quantum dots Numerical simulations: o Ported an ab-initio molecular dynamics program on a massively parallel super computer o Study of Rh clusters and quantum dots
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Georgia Institute of Technology
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United States
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Higher Education
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700 & Above Employee
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Postdoctoral Researcher
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1996 - 1997
Numerical simulations: o Developed an ab-initio molecular dynamics program using multigrid algorithms o Computed the electronic structure of metallic clusters Numerical simulations: o Developed an ab-initio molecular dynamics program using multigrid algorithms o Computed the electronic structure of metallic clusters
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Università degli Studi di Padova
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Italy
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Higher Education
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700 & Above Employee
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Postdoctoral Researcher
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1995 - 1996
Numerical simulations: o Developed of a multigrid program to solve the Poisson and Schroedinger equations. o Used a Mehrstellen discretization of the Laplacian. Numerical simulations: o Developed of a multigrid program to solve the Poisson and Schroedinger equations. o Used a Mehrstellen discretization of the Laplacian.
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Education
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HEC Lausanne - The Faculty of Business and Economics of the University of Lausanne
Executive MBA HEC Lausanne -
EPFL (École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne)
Physics Engineer -
EPFL (École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne)
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) -
Collège Champittet
Swiss baccalaureate type-B with focus on Latin