Stephanie Fernier

Work History

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  Virtual Reality Project Manager / Consultant Europe - software & hardw

  Freelance

  October 2018 - Present

  Paris Area, France

  Helping companies to develop their own XR projects or to outsource their interactive installations, Virtual Reality / Mixed Reality / Augmented reality / 360  experiences, UX, Product Management, 3D artists, and developers management.
  
  Available for part-time project management work and consultancy at the moment.
  
  Project examples:
  . UX/UI design and VR project management for a POC on hand tracking with Oculus Quest (international).
  
  . VR project management from ideation to implementation (SaaS application, VR training - soft & hard skills) (France).
  
  . VR project management of a gravity simulation experience to a Switzerland event (homologation, training and installation at scale) (France).
  
  . Project Management internal audit (France).
  
  . Ideation and technological studies for :
  Artistical haptics and smell VR experience, Entertainment (International)
  360° Live stream video and audio - 5G, Entertainment (Europe)
  AR training on social distances - IoT, Serious game (Europe)
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  Virtual Reality Pre-sales and Support consultant

  ESI France

  October 2019 - May 2020

  Rungis, Ile-de-France, France

  Managing the technical support, developing and conducting engineering service projects, and performing trade pre-sales technical support of key account customers and their subcontractors on the Virtual Reality solution "IC.IDO" (Aeronautics, Nuclear, Railway).
  ESI Group is a pioneer and world-leading provider in virtual prototyping software solutions (Industry v4.0 solutions).

• World Traveller

  Planet earth

  October 2017 - September 2018

  Worldwide

  Creation of panoramic photos (360) and WebVR project
  Improving foreign languages (English, Spanish)
  Networking with international innovative companies
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  Production Technology Project Manager - Software

  Double Negative

  June 2016 - September 2017

  London, United Kingdom

  Responsible for managing the R&D development, maintenance and support of the in-house tools used by artists regarding Rendering, Colour Science and Software Operation domains.
  . Ensuring projects undertaken by our software developers and engineers are delivered on time and to specification
  . Working closely with lead developers, heads of department and senior stakeholders to produce project roadmaps
  . Managing development projects for in-house tools used by VFX artists and Feature Animation shows
  . Scheduling development projects based on available resource and competing priorities
  . Balancing day-to-day support tasks with ongoing development commitments
  . Reporting project progress to the management team and escalate issues where necessary
  . Liaising with the third-party vendor Isotropix Clarisse iFX.
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  IT Infrastructure Project Manager

  DHL

  August 2010 - May 2015

  Emerainville

  Deutsche Post DHL Global Business Services France, Supply Chain France and Global forwarding France.
  Responsible for the project management throughout the entire project lifecycle, including project initiation, project delivery, business liaison, stakeholder management, post-implementation review and project closeout, handover – 1 to 200 MD.
  . Writing feasibility report document including technical and organisational parts (Network LAN/WAN/WLAN, telephony PSTN/VoIP, system, cost estimates and project planning as well).
  . Coordinating technical teams and external partners, reporting on project activities.
  
  Achievements:
  . move / creation / closing site,
  . video-conferencing installation and roll out,
  . printers rollout,
  . Windows migration,
  . client-server software installation,
  . Wifi networking site and Wifi terminal installation,
  . implementing new IT connection with IT customer (label edition),
  . Management creation of new flow.
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  Incident Manager

  Galeries Lafayette

  November 2008 - April 2010

  Paris 9ème

  Monitoring sensitive incidents (cash register and production applications), workgroup tracking logs as well as Service desk and maintenance partners management.
  Managing of one person.
  
  Achievements: Implementing procedures to assure quality and service delivery for every new business applications to support teams (particularly the release to production news cash register system Cylande).
  Designing the new incidents workflow for the new IT management software Easy Vista.
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  Product manager

  AXA France

  November 2007 - October 2008

  La Defense

  Managing software requests for evolution and maintenance of the Financial, Report and Decisional department.
  Involvement in CMMI preparation.
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  Digital Project manager - reporting analyst

  Orange

  February 2007 - September 2007

  Arceuil

  Collaborating with Business Teams and Technical Experts to redesign the database and the web pages of an internal web site.
  Gathering data and designing production reports for the Sales department.
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  Adjunct manager of the Service desk service provider

  Electricity transport network

  May 2005 - February 2007

  Courbevoie

  Service Desk Management (hotline and on-site technicians), call reports analysis, workgroup tracking logs.
  Implementing procedures to ensure quality delivery and technical services for business applications to support the team.
  Providing organisational support to business software managers.
  
  Project manager for the software referential of the company (including project charter).
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  Helpdesk manager

  Valeo

  August 2004 - November 2004

  La verrière

  Managing the work of two technicians (configuration as well as software and hardware troubleshooting).
  Managing the hardware and software inventory.
  IT communicator to internal users.