Thomas VIAL
What I do
- Experienced leader with a track-record of building and developing product-oriented engineering teams.
- Tech agnostic, embracing innovation, with a preference for open source over multi-thousand-dollar-blackboxes
- Involved in business and vision definition to align and deliver ambitious product & technology roadmaps
- Strong belief in ownership and team empowerment promoted through an agile mindset more than a methodology.
Qualifications
- Strategy (product and engineering)
- Team Management (hiring, objectives, review...)
- Budget (compensations, CAPEX)
- Organization & methodologies
Professional Experience
Director, Software Engineering @ TAG Heuer Connected (since 2019)
- Leading software engineering team developing latest generation of TAG Heuer connected watches.
- Managing a multidisciplinary team (mobile, backend, infrastructure & quality assurance), up to 25 people.
- Technical strategy, set up product & engineering agile organization (feature teams), budget & investment strategy (make or buy).
Executive Director, Engineering @ Aptus Health (2016-2019)
- In charge of technology for Aptus Health products, including Univadis, platform for physicians deployed in 90 countries
- Web, data, mobile, QA
- 24 people in Paris + 35 in Mumbaï
VP Projects @ Ogury
- Centralize product and project strategy with CEO and COO
- Collect, define and prioritize needs on the company's projects
- Drive and animate team during the whole product life cycle
- Organize the team (developers, project managers, devops architects)
- Insure the relation with the other internal teams and the stakeholders involved in the projects
Head of Production @ SensioLabs (2014-2015)
- Managing technical consultants (symfony coach & architects), developers, and scrum masters in a full agile environment
- Building new offers and solutions
- Support to sales, marketing and financial teams
- Management committee, P&L & KPIs, Operations
Technical ecosystem : LAMP/Symfony2, Docker
Manager @ Ekino (2010-2014)
- Management of the PHP activity, recruitments (8 people in 2010, 32 today), trainings, ratings
- Change management (technology, processes, methodologies, project types, team investment)
- Business development, sales and project direction
- Product development on Symfony2 based libraries
Project types: business applications, corporates websites, services oriented platforms, e-commerce, mobiles and API.
Main projects:
- www.digiposte.fr (digital lock-box platform)
- www.fff.fr (high traffic editorial website and extranet)
- www.sage.fr & store.sage.fr (corporate and e-commerce websites with information system integration)
- www.wecab.com (TaxisG7 shared taxis service, e-commerce, back-office and mobile application)
- www.sfr.com (corporate website)
- www.generali.fr (corporate and information system integration)
- Other clients: Orange, L’Oréal, Hermès, Hachette Livres, Chanel...
- Technologies: Symfony2, Drupal7, Varnish, Memcached, Capistrano, SVN, GIT, Behat, PHPUnit, Jenkins, Selenium, New Relic, OAuth, CAS...

Senior Technical Consultant @ FullSIX France (2005–2010)
Project management with dedicated teams, in charge of customer relationship, delivery and budget.
Main projects:
- www.renault.fr & www.dacia.fr (international platform, 2 brands, 24 sites)
- www.myboox.fr (editorial and social platform for Hachette Livres)
- www.sfr.fr (graphical, functional and technical rework)
- Other clients: SNCF, Société Générale...
- Technologies: Java (Stripes, CAS) & PHP (Symfony 1.4 and Drupal 6).
Certifications
Certified Scrum Master
Delivered by Scrum Alliance in March 2010
Member #000085602
Certified Product Owner
Delivered by Scrum Alliance in April 2014
Member #000085602
Education and diplomas
Professional Master in Engineering (2003 - 2005)
Institut Ingémédia (Toulon / La Garde)
Bachelor degree in Engineering (2002 - 2003)
Institut Ingémédia (Toulon / La Garde)
DUT in Marketing Techniques (1999 - 2001)
Université du Sud Toulon Var (Toulon / La Garde)
Languages
- English: advanced level
- Spanish: intermediate level
Hobbies
Technology
Music
- Play bass, guitar & drums.