A Little Story
In summer 1994, I discovered the Internet and the Web. It was a revelation. I was at a time visiting a friend in Washington who was doing an internship in a local university and had been a web evangelist for a while.

Already there was a lot of websites on the internet. They were run and maintained by a small number of dedicated individuals, academics and scientists spread across the globe. There was even a few sites where you could even order pizzas and CDs (the dawn of e-commerce). Mosaic was the best graphical browser around and finally made the internet accessible to masses. At that time corporate still thought that websites were only for nerds.

A few years later, the commercial world has taken over the internet. Each respectable Corporate has implemented its e-business strategy, Microsoft Internet Explorer is on virtually every PC in the world and Old Telecommunications companies like to call themselves IP companies (Internet Protocol).

Since I finished university I have been working in the Telecoms industry, so I got more and more involved with the internet. Thank god! I have now 'web' and 'on-line' all over my job description ;-)

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Education:
International MBA (1997: University of Leicester, UK).
Corporate Strategy, Marketing, Corporate Finance, Human Resources, Operations/Quality Management, Management Decision Making, Information System, Quantitative Analysis.

Masters in Physics (1995: University Aix-Marseille, France).
Newtonian Physics, Quantum Physics, Nuclear Physics, Relativity, Optics, Electronics, Semi-conductor Physics, Computing.

Bachelor in Science  (1994: University Aix-Marseille, France).
Mathematics, Chemistry, Computing and Physics.

Work Experience:

Present Post: European Website Manager, Cable & Wireless (Global Internet Group)

Business Managing and Developing the UK/Europe e-commerce and e-service websites, extranets and portals that support and web enable C&W sales channels in the SME, Corporate and Indirect segments. Visit www.cw.com

Running and launching B2C alliances and distribution agreements across Europe. Press Release

Launched in the UK a string of ADSL Broadband Alliances with the usual suspects of the global IT industry. These alliances were positively reviewed by analyst (Forrester Research: BT's Smart Broadband Move) and press (Financial Times, BT Press Release).

Created new routes to market for IP products through global high tech companies to reach quicker more customers.

Drove Business Improvement and maintained ISO 9001 standard.
Managed and improved the Quality Management Systems. Launched a Quality cultural change by managing symbolic actions and putting Quality in a business perspective.

MBA Thesis in Organisational Behaviour. Assessed BT’s Quality Strategy (Self-Assessment, ISO 9001, TQM and Cultural Change Programmes) and recommended an implementation plan focused on innovation and creativity to continue BT’s cultural change. Then I got my MBA!

Training draftees was the hardest and most rewarding time of my twenties. In the end, I got a medal (French National Defence Medal) and was very fit ;-)

Project on Active Control of Sound (noise + anti-noise = silence). That was fun!

That was dull. That's when I realised I had to get out of Physics after I finished my Masters.