Astrid Méryl Smith

Experience

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  Zinc Océan Indien

  May 2006 - Jul 2006

  Web Developper Trainee

  - Enterprise website development and its CMS (PHP/MySql)- Brochure Design with Photoshop CS3 + advertising pages in local magazines.- In-house directory development (database + User interface)

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  IBM

  Jan 2007 - Jan 2013

  - Manage services and Application Support Team for eCommerce website eLuxury.com- Organize Steering committee- built SLA reportings- manage and anticipate budgetAlso act as IT Support Analyst:- Defect analysis, root cause investigation and bug fixing- support to users- Enhancement analysis and estimate- Build, deployment and Integration followup- Integration testing and QA testings support- Support to Production deployment used technologies : ATG eCommerce, Java/J2EE, SQL, Oracle, Crystal Report, Linux, CronTools: Quality Center, Wiki, Eclipse, SVN Show less

  • Application Architect (Edelia)

    Jun 2010 - Jan 2013

  • Integration Developer (APHP)

    Dec 2009 - May 2010

  • QA Engineer (Carrefour)

    Oct 2009 - Dec 2009

  • IT Service Manager e-commerce (eLuxury / Vuitton) / L2/L3 support

    Jul 2007 - Sept 2009

  • (Stage) IT Specialist - eCommerce (eLuxury)

    Jan 2007 - Jul 2007
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  Givaudan

  Jan 2013 - now

  Lead transition of my team (~35 people incl. Dev teams offshore) from projects to products ways of working.Manage a subset of the IT portfolio for business contributing to the fragrance development process (formula & ingredient management, fragrance creation, fragrance development & application, pricing).Define and maintain a vision and roadmap of the product line, ensuring alignment between the entreprise strategy and the IT execution.Manage a team of Product Managers, Product Designers and experts (Architect, QA) to deliver business value through digital products and solutions (based on Web technologies).#peopleManagement #agileManagement #management3.0 #portfolioManagement #capacityPlanning #tacticalPlan #productManagement #productOrganization Show less - Design framework and operating model for Digital Innovation projects. - Coach teams on Agile Product Management, Lean startup and Design Thinking practices- Facilitate tailor-made Design Sprints with cross functional groups.- Create games and exercices that stimulate collective intelligence - Act as scrum master on agile digital product development#designThinking #lean #scrum #kanban #UX #innovationGamesI also contributed to the global IT re-organization in which I promoted and designed a product-based organization model with user-centric approach. Show less Main responsibilities:- Run necessary workshops and UX activities to Define & maintain the IS Roadmap for Fragrance Development business- Scope impacts of business demands, identifying & assessing differents solution scenarios and architecture.- Ensure global consistency & accuracy of Enterprise Models for my domains: business organisation and processes, Glossary, Application Architecture (in Hopex/MEGA)- Ensuring transversal consistency of solutions in Givaudan Information System landscape in Line with defined standards- Sometimes act as Scrum PO to drive product development (backlog management, user stories writing BDD, user tests and adoption followup)Domains: Sales & Opportunity management, Marketing, Consumer Insight, Fragrance Evaluation, Fragrance LaboratoryAlso in charge of:- Leading initiative to address continuous improvements on agile projects- Coaching project teams on agile methods (agile Framing, Story mapping, UX Design )- Coaching people on business analysis best practices and methods (requirements gathering, business process mapping, business entities modelling) Show less Design and drive in-house business web applications that supports users activities( fragrance evaluation, fragrance creation, laboratory, sales, pricing...).My job activities are to: - Scope projects, identify impacts and anticipating workload- Design solutions (ux design, object modeling, application architecture) to answer the project requirements- Model & Maintain the functionnal architecture in MEGA/Hopex in terms of interfaces, functionnal components and services.- Write and maintain the functionnal documentation to support development and to facilitate the knowledge transfer within the team.- Design test plans (HP QC), execute system tests- Drive the development, integration and deployment of web application (J2ee) from test environments to Production roll out. Show less

  • Enterprise Agile Coach

    Feb 2023 - now

  • IT Product Line Manager - Fragrance Development

    Aug 2020 - Oct 2023

  • Team Agile Coach (Digital Factory)

    Jan 2019 - Aug 2020

  • Product Manager / Business Architect

    Oct 2015 - Mar 2019

  • Application Designer / Solution Architect

    Jan 2013 - Nov 2015