Hakim Senane

Catalyse large scale collaboration for high impact outcome

ABOUT

Consistent track record of catalysing large scale collaboration for high impact outcome. Keen servant of stakeholders, teams and above all the mission. Deep interest in understanding the needs of stakeholders, translating these into strategic roadmaps and focused effective agile delivery. Strong understanding of the specificity of Platform products. Possess excellent analytic skills, wide and deep technical expertise and experience.

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ACHIEVEMENTS

Senior management support and organisation culture were key

  • Led full re-definition of agile teams for higher motivation and focus
  • Successful delivery of large programs for BBC
  • Streamlined BBC TVP Certification process to serve the needs of the Connected TV industry
  • Large team (30+ people) management with sucessful delivery and zero turnover.
  • Product, Program and Engineering management of BskyB and SkyITalia for OpenTV.
  • Ownership of the Full Software Development process for OpenTV UK.
  • Technical management of End to End complex Integration programs.

    • EXPERIENCE

    Portfolio Program Manager
    BBC - Mediacity UK - Manchester

    • Leading delivery of our BBC TV Partner Devices crews giving strong focus and clarity to our teams.
    • Leading coordination of ATI new BBC analytics solution across BBC TV Products.
    • Management of BBC Digital Platform deliveries on cross-BBC programs involving external partners.
    • Key BBC strategic public successes include Deliveries for Freeview Play launch, transition of Youview and Virgin to BBC HTML TV products.
    • These programs involved 10+ teams across BBC as well as multiple external partners' teams.
    • Development environments employed a mixture of Agile and traditional approaches.

    August 2014 - Current

    Certification Program Manager
    BBC - Mediacity UK - Manchester

    • Definition implementation and management of strategies and processes for Connected TV device compliance to BBC TV Platforms specifications.
    • Coordination of activities across multiple stake holders for prompt and effective problems resolution and products delivery to market.
    • Management of Youview HTML migration project for BBC: A large project involving all teams in BBC TV Platforms, multiple teams across BBC Future Media and Youview (all BBC Milestones delivered on time for World cup 2014).

    June 2012 - August 2014

    Head of Engineering UK
    OpenTV Ltd. - Hammersmith - London

    • Engineering, Product and Project management of BskyB and SkyItalia OpenTV programmes.
    • Build, management and coaching of integration and development teams to deliver end to end Cable, Satellite and IP Digital TV systems.
    • Key programs requirements, solution architectures definition.
    • Technical management of multiple teams (30+ Engineers altogether).
    • Interface between internal and external stake holders.
    • Budgeting, department strategic planning.
    • Started as Engineering Manager, promoted Senior Manager in 2006 and Head of Engineering in 2009.

    November 2004 - May 2012

    Software Engineering
    Paris - Hileversum - Galway - London @ HP - Philips - Symbian - Sony - BSkyB

    • Hold various positions from Software Development Engineer to Software Development manager.
    • Active experience on device drivers, middleware, 3D OpenGL, complex software system parallelisation and more.

    October 1996 - November 2004


    EDUCATION

    PhD in Computer Sciences
    Polytech’Nantes (ex IRESTE), Nantes, France

    October 1996

    MsC Electronic & Computer Sciences
    Polytech’Nantes (ex IRESTE), Nantes, France

    June 1992


    SKILLS & EXPERIENCE

    Figure 1: Skills on a 0 to 10 scale and Experience on a 0 to 10+ years scale.



    CONTACT

    Email
    hakim.senane@gmail.com

    Adress
    Sale
    M33
    Manchester, England.

    Phone
    +44 (0)7944-561976

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