Stephane Colin

IT Manager South Asia & Pacific Ocean - Banking Expert and e-Payment Expert, BRED I.T. (Thailand) Ltd.

10BangkokThailand

Basic statements of what I believe in my job: Customer satisfaction, Company profitability and awareness of what motivate people.
Motivation in my job: Manage various International projects, be the technical interface with customers; manage people (inside or by outsourcing), human contacts and communication.
I also believe that motivation is as important as the technical aspect in order to manage projects.
I believe that working within an international environment is always a precious opportunity for learning and sharing more with other people.
I have 7 years experiences as Software Engineer, 3 years experiences as Project Manager and 4 years experiences as Program Manager in France, Mauritius, Singapore, India, Thailand, Laos and Djibouti.
9 years in e-Payment domain at Schlumberger, Axalto and Gemalto.
5 years in banking domain at BRED Banque Populaire and BRED IT (Thailand) Ltd.

Stephane Colin
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Since 2009

IT Hub and Services for Banks subsidiaries of Group BPCE – BRED Banque Populaire:
• BFL (Banque Franco Lao) in Laos
• BVL (BRED Vanuatu Ltd.) in Vanuatu
• BCIMR (Bank for Commerce and Industry) in Djibouti
Projects Management – Banking Solutions and e-Payment:
• Manage the System and Network for all our Banks.
• Implement the Core Banking software FLEXCUBE developed by ORACLE Financial Services.
• Implement the e-Payment system (ATM, POS, VISA Credit Card).
• Implement the Internet Direct Banking and SWIFT Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication.
• Give training to the Business teams to use FLEXCUBE Core Banking Software and e-Payment system.
• Organize the Support IT 24x7 for all our Banks.
• Synchronize and plan work with all partners in India, Singapore, Australia, New Zealand, France, Thailand, Laos, Vanuatu and Djibouti.
• Lead the internal project review with other Managers (Headquarter, our Banks and our partners).
• Define the projects priorities according to the technical constraints, the customer expectations and available resources.
• Estimate costs, Projects Plan, Respect Milestones, Control costs and Risks.
• Communicate costs and evolutions of the projects to our Headquarter and our Banks.
• Elaborate and negotiate the budget for next year.
• Improve in the quality process.
Team Management:
• Lead, organize, synchronize and plan work for my team: 8 people (5 engineers + 3 Core Banking Experts).
• Interview and recruit 5 engineers + 3 Core Banking Experts.

Banking
Professional experience
2007 - 2009

Customer Relationship:
• Improve Customer Relationship in India.
• Advice Customer to promote our products and extend our software offer and our product range.
• Meet Customer expectations at the best profit.
Projects Management:
• Develop the system of payment for Indian Oil, Bahrat Petroleum, ICICI Bank and HDFC Bank in India.
• Spot malfunctioning in the internal process and suggest improvement actions for the technical teams.
• Define the projects priorities according to the technical constraints, the customer expectations and available resources.
• Manage projects portfolio of 10 software for terminals of payment and 3 systems with Oracle Database.
• Coordinate with 2 outsourcing teams in India in Delhi ( 11 software engineers + 2 projects managers).
• Respect Milestones, control the costs and the risks with the Project Plan and Dashboard.
• Communicate the cost and the evolution of the projects to the Headquarter in France.
• Coordinate with the traversal teams (Research &Development, Marketing, Sales and IT Support).
• Take part in the internal forum with other region Program Manager (UK, Italy, North America and Asia).
• IT support for our customer in Asia (Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, China, Singapore, Australia and New Zealand).
• Give training to the development partners in Asia to develop their applications on our terminals of payment.
Team Management:
• Lead, organize, synchronize et plan work of my team : 5 people (4 software engineers + 1 projects manager)
• Recruit 3 software engineer and 1 Project Manager.
• Reorganize the teams by projects and promote some team leader.

High Tech
2004 - 2007

Projects Management:
• Manage the strategic project CB v5.2 EMV for the French banks.
• Manage private projects (Japan Credit Bureau JCB EMV, American Express EMV, Diners, Cofinoga, Accord Finance, Franfinance, Chèque Vérifiance FNCI Banque de France).
• Obtain certifications: EMV Level 2, VISA ADVT and Martercard end-to-end (ETEC) for all EMV applications.
• Coordinate with organisms of certifications (EMVCo, Groupement Cartes Bancaires, VISA, JCB) : We are the first to obtain the GIE CB certification on the project CB5.2 EMV (Europay Mastercard Visa).
• Manage projects development in off-shore in Mauritius.
• Control and communicate the evolution and cost of the projects to the transversal teams (Project Plan and Dashboard).
• Organize meetings of projects; participate to the interbank CONCERT meetings.
• Improve the quality process for the technical team.
Team Management:
• Lead, organize, synchronize and plan work of my team: 3 Software Engineers and one outsourcing team: 3 software Engineers and 1 Project Manager in Mauritius.
• Give training to Software Engineers.

High Tech
2000 - 2003

• Specify, Analyze, Develop (C/C++) and perform testing of the CB5.2 EMV, JCB EMV, American Express EMV and ePurse MONEO applications on terminal of payment MagIC Agp1 & Agp2.
• EMV expert (Europay Mastercard Visa)
• Control the evolutions of the bank specifications and EMV specifications.
• Obtain the certifications: EMV Level 2, VISA ADVT and Martercard end-to-end (ETEC) for all EMV applications.
• Respect the quality process.

High Tech
1997 - 2000

• Model and Design objects interfaces to access (SQL) to the DB2 Database.
• Analyze and Develop programs (Batch and CICS) for the bank on MVS system.

Banking
Education
Hobbies
I am very interesting in Asian languages and cultures. I would really like to work in one of the following countries: Singapore , China , Japan , Korea , Thailand , Laos and Vietnam. Hobbies: Traveling , Photo , Learn Chinese , Hindi , Thai and Lao languages
Communities

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