As a Product Manager, I listen to and promote the voice of the customer within my teams. It is instrumental to balance constraints and release the right product at the right time.

On a daily basis, I am an orchestrator. I put in music sales representatives, user experience, development, test and marketing to build a consistent product with a clear vision that is shared by all stakeholders.

Product Management is a school of compromises. I constantly need to consider timing, technical complexity and resource limitations to deliver the best possible product that solves actual issues for our customers.

I see management as the art of maintaining an environment where each project member can deliver the best and actively contribute to a common realization.

This drove me to investigate and put in place agile methods in the teams I lead. I no longer had to micro-manage people. They were collectively responsible for the outcome and I could focus on addressing the difficulties they were facing.

Management is tough. There are difficult decisions to push and complex human interactions to understand. But it can be incredibly rewarding when it creates a winning spirit, empowering people to move to the next level.

Software development is a long-standing passion. When experimenting with my graphing calculator in highschool or learning C++ on my own, I did not imagine I would pursue this way and make it part of my day job.

I love the creative aspects of programming, how I picture a desired outcome, progressively figure out the steps to build it and the key moment where everything falls in place.

Whether as a Team or Product Manager, at home or at work, I like trying a few ideas and understand the code my team is working on. This helps me “feel” the difficulties and potential impacts on our planning.

My English teacher in Shanghai once asked me what “home” meant to me. I simply answered that it was the place where I felt comfortable living. A few years later, I would add “… with my wife and kids”.

Passionnate about languages and cultures, I can feel myself at home in various locations. I married a Chinese woman and considered from the very start our family to be international.

I had the chance to travel a lot during my childhood. From this experience, I understood that I have a lot to learn, very few lessons to give, and that I should never underestimate cultural differences, as they are the cause of many misunderstandings.