I'm a highly accomplished and versatile leader with over 15 years of experience in project, product, and technical account management, now specializing in Generative AI. I excel at bridging the gap between technical and business domains, leading multidisciplinary teams through complex development cycles, and driving innovation from concept to market.
I'm an expert in agile methodologies, strategic decision-making, stakeholder management, and fostering cross-functional collaboration.
I'm passionate about leveraging cutting-edge technology to solve intricate problems and deliver exceptional user experiences.
In the past, I had the amazing chance to work with really great people who helped me grow and improve my expertise on innovation, AI, agile and lean management.
If you believe that we would work great together and mutually enhance each other, feel free to contact me :)
Empowered developers and startups to leverage Gemini AI through talks, workshops, and comprehensive code resources. ► Prepared and delivered high-impact workshops and talks on Gemini (Google for Startups, Google Developer Experts, DevFests, Cloud Next, IO Connect), significantly increasing developer engagement and adoption of Generative AI technologies. ► Managed the Early Access Program, strategically selecting and supporting top-tier startups, gathering crucial feedback to directly influence roadmap and features. ► Maintained and reorganized the Gemini Cookbook on GitHub, providing comprehensive code examples and didactic explanations that rapidly enabled developers to get started with Gemini, resulting in its recognition as the #1 trendy repo over the 2024 Christmas holidays.
Facilitated smart home developers' integration with Google Home and Matter, supporting business growth and advocating for partner needs. ► Successfully enabled smart home developers to integrate their products with Google Home and Matter integrations, contributing to the expansion of the smart home ecosystem. ► Supported Business Development with new initiatives, pitching new opportunities to a wide range of partners and driving strategic growth.
Maintained the relationship with video game dev teams and helped them to release their games on Stadia. ► Spearheaded the successful launch of over 30 games in 2 years by meticulously maintaining strong relationships with video game development teams and guiding them through the Stadia release process. ► Managed and prioritized partner feature requests, effectively bridging the gap between external developers and internal product/engineering teams to drive platform improvements. ► Championed the "no-change porting initiative," enabling Windows games to be directly brought to Stadia, streamlining the development process.
Leaded the gameplay team creating a new franchise: Immortals Fenyx Rising. ► Created and lead a multidisciplinary (15 roles from concept art to AI engineers) Team of about 70 persons in charge of the gameplay (fight, monsters, AI & progression). Made the hard decisions when needed. ► In charge of administrating production tools (Jira and other internal tools) and processes.
As part of the management team, my responsibilities varied during the project but my 2 main feats were: ► Working on Assassin's Creed Odyssey as production manager of the quest support team (transversal team including programmers, technical directors, and dev-testers). ► In charge of the Project Stream version of AC Odyssey, the first game using this technology that became Stadia (managed both technical, infrastructure and quality aspects)
Helped the regional entities of AXA in their digital projects. ► Staring with a "minimum viable product", built and tested with users quickly. ► Leading the transformation of those ideas into products following the Lean and Agile methodologies. As the "product owner", I was the interface between the business (in the entities and in the group) and the development team (in Barcelona).
Internal start-up developing proof of concepts of new products or services for the company. I was either the product owner, the product manager, the developer, the pitcher, only an advisory or all of that. ► During these 4 years, I worked on home automation, machine learning, data analysis, next-gen interfaces, IPTV, indoor geolocation, customer retention... ► I also helped in creating the Big Data lab of the company and registered two patents.
Studied about the trends influencing rail freight versus road and the demography of SNCF, the french public rail company, and the impacts over the costs.
Teaching the basics of computer science to future top engineers (in Maple language) Some of my subjects (in french) ☛ http://www.guillaume.vernade.fr/cours
