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Yann-Loup PHAN VAN SONG

Yann-Loup PHAN VAN SONG

Engineering Manager| ex-Amadeus ✈️


Background


About

About

IT engineer in Amadeus, leader in solutions for travel industry.Solution design and analysis. Project management

Work Experience

Work Experience

  • Leadership and digital consultant, Phantastic

    Dec, 2023 - Present

    • PHANTASTIC CONSULTING: Leadership coach and consultant for start-up and IT companies

    • I help founders to develop their leadership and management skills.

    • I support start-up in their focus on human factor and put in place management process (objectives definition, appraisal, performance review...)

  • General Manager, Chief Operating Officier (COO) & CPTO, 

    Nov, 2022 - Nov, 20231 year

      • Managing people in France and in Morocco: operational scope of product, tech & engineering, support, admin, hr and sales.- Building company vision, strategy and engagement.- Supervising 4 subsidiary companies :. 2 tech companies Yakoi and HealthBees. 1 event company ChillEvent. 1 educational company Naturopathy360. Coaching product aspects for tech companies. Coaching business and development aspects for these 4 companies (branding, strategy...).
  • General Manager France, Chief Operating Officier (COO), CPTO, Quiz Coach

    Sep, 2022 - Nov, 20222 months

    • Chief Operating Officer General Manager France- HR process improvements and hiring- Operation processes creation and improvements: post-sell, support, customer experience- Organization rationalization and oversight: protection of teams, internal dependency management- Putting in place OKR management

      • Awarded 3 times best manager of the quarter by the whole company- Internal system admin: Microsoft, Google Workspace, HubSpot, Atlassian, Gather, Canva, Odoo. SSO configurations, AWS...
  • Chief Product and Technical Officer (CPTO), Quiz Coach

    Apr, 2022 - Aug, 20224 months

    • Chief Product Officer- Product Strategy. Implementation of company strategy via Product development and design. Design, implementation follow-up, and deployment of a new business product Digital by Quiz Coach. UX best practice education- Solution Executive. Continuous improvement and global customer experience management. Status page creation. Help center and Support process creation. Internal process optimization- Digital Transformation. Various digital implementations to improve internal efficiency. Cultural transformation. Education--> Huge customer impacts of their global experience

      • Product Owner. Education of Agile best practices. Implementation of Scrum methodology
    • Chief Technology Officer- Coaching the newly appointed Scrum Master- Coaching the newly appointed Tech Lead- Transforming the global technical architecture- Putting in place basic development best practise.--> Impacts:. better delivery commitments and predictions. increase of delivery quality

    • Member of the executive board

    • Management and leadership evolution--> Huge employee impacts on work methodologies and internal communication--> Awarded 3 times best employee of the month by my peers

  • Engineering and UX Manager, Quiz Coach

    Jun, 2020 - Apr, 20221 year 10 months

    • Managing 2 different jobs: user experience specialists and solution definition managers

    • Managing 8 direct reports and 2 dotted lines in remote sites.

    • Serving a SAFe-like organization composed of 9 feature teams around the world.

    • Front-end applications with over 200000 active users in the travel industry

    • Transforming the user experience processes, UX Product Owner and UX sponsor for UX vision and strategy

  • Manager, Amadeus

    May, 2019 - May, 20201 year

    • Managing 5 different jobs: solution definition managers, product definition analysts, quality assurance engineers, user experience designers and a scrum master

    • Managing 19 people and a CBS (Capacity Based Services - outsourcing) team of 9 people. Partner management and Product Owner

    • Quality assurance evolution from manual tests to CI/CD

  • Manager, Amadeus

    May, 2017 - Apr, 20191 year 11 months

    • Unit manager of product definition analyst team

    • Products related to pricing aftersales orchestration

    • Interested in organization and process improvements

  • Proxy Product Owner, Amadeus

    Feb, 2017 - Apr, 20172 months

    • Functional analyst and coordination between product owner and teams

    • Product created from scratch

    • 3 months, 30 people, 4 Scrum teams

  • Manager, Amadeus

    Dec, 2015 - Oct, 201610 months

    • Acting manager of product definition analyst team

    • Products related to pricing and ticketing aftersales

  • Project manager, Amadeus

    Feb, 2014 - Dec, 20151 year 10 months

    • Stream leader at R&D-RDM-RPT level for JAL program

    • Retails, Payment and Ticketing solutions for a Japanese airline

  • Project manager, Amadeus

    Oct, 2015 - Dec, 20152 months

    • Stream leader at R&D-RDM-CBT level for DY-ECO project

    • e-commerce project for a European airline

    • Back-ends solutions related to ticket aftersales

  • Community manager, Amadeus

    Jan, 2014 - Sep, 20151 year 8 months

    • Product definition community manager at R&D-RDM-RPT division

  • Product Definition Analyst, 

    Dec, 2011 - Dec, 20154 years

    • Post Issuance Processes in Ticketing department

    • Functional analyst

    • Project management

    • Community management

    • Trainer

    • Acting manager

  • Consultant, Altran Méditerranée

    Dec, 2011 - May, 20142 years 5 months

    • Mission in Amadeus SAS as a Product Definition

    • Editor-in-chef of Business Unit Blog

  • Software design engineer, Kadeal

    Aug, 2009 - Dec, 20094 months

    • software project management with Scrum (an iterative method)

    • blog creation (Wordpress)

    • development with J2EE, Spring, Hibernate, FreeMarker...

  • Co-director, "Altai" a documentary movie

    Jan, 2009 - Dec, 200911 months

    • co-director

    • co-producer

    • assistant cameraman

    • soundman

  • Receptionist, Caisse de Crédit Mutuel de Montmorillon (Bank)

    Jul, 2008 - Aug, 20081 month

    • realization of the common banking operations

    • optimization of the checkbook sorting system

  • Web developer, Solotusk

    Jul, 2002 - Jul, 20021 day

    • formation in web development: XHTML/CSS, PHP/MySQL

Skills

Skills

  • Office Software

    Microsoft Office

    Microsoft Project

    LaTeX

    Lotus Notes

    Sharepoint

    Confluence

    Jira

    MediaWiki

    Google Workspace

    Altassian suite

    Odoo

    HubSpot

    Airtable

    ...

  • Development skills

    Web: XHTML, CSS, Javascript, JQuery, Ajax, REST

    Python, Django

    SQL, MongoDB, JSON

    J2EE

    PHP, Symfony 4

    Git, Bitbucket

    Node, Angular, Typescript, Express...

    Docker, Docker Compose

    Amazon Web Services (AWS)

    ...

  • Scientific software

    Maple

    Matlab

    ...

  • Multimedia software

    Gimp

    Adobe Premier / After Effect

    Blender

    Inkscape

    Audacity

    ...

Education

Education

  • , Master of Computing (Infocomm Security), National University of Singapore - School of Computing

    Jan, 2010 - Jul, 2011

  • , Diplôme d'ingénieur Supélec, École Supérieure d'Électricité

    Sep, 2007 - Jan, 2010

  • , Prep school ('Classe préparatoire'), Lycée Descartes Tours

    Sep, 2004 - Jun, 2007

  • , Baccalauréat général, série S option SI with distinction, Lycée Pilote Innovant, Jaunay-Clan

    Sep, 2001 - Jul, 2004

Certificates

Certificates

Interests

Interests

  • sports

    archerycanyoninghikingparaglidingultimate discclimbingtrekking
  • arts

    photographyimprovisational theaterwoodcrafting
  • others

    travelszero waste initiaves