Jonathan SOUILLOT 12 Rue des Grandes Collonges, F-71380 ST MARCEL, France Mobile: +336 70 38 71 70 | Email:
[email protected] Date of birth: 6th September 1978 | Married, 2 children Dual nationality French & English
Career Objective Technology and Team Leader in a modern company, taking part in the strategic decisions to answer and anticipate Customer needs.
EMPLOYMENT HISTORY o 2015…: DIRECTOR OF GLOBAL SOFTWARE AND HARDWARE DEVELOPMENT GAMING PARTNERS INTERNATIONAL (France) - http://gpigaming.com Gaming Partners International (GPI) is a leading provider of casino currency and table game equipment worldwide, with offices and manufacturing facilities in many key regions including the Americas, Europe and Asia (+600 Employees). GPI manufactures and supplies a wide range of casino products to licensed casinos worldwide including casino currency (chips and plaques), RFID products and technology, layouts, dice, cards, gaming furniture and accessories.
➢ Product Management of the R&D RFID projects – hardware & software – Management of a multi-continent team (USA – France – Asia) – Leader for the products development (R&D, production, marketing, tradeshows…)
o 2010 – 2015: DIRECTOR R&D VERTECH’ (France – Chalon / Saône) – http://vertech.eu VERTECH’ is a software editor for the glass industry. VERTECH’ develops an MES tool (SIL) adapted for all levels in the plants to supervise glass production and make sure quality meets the Customer’s requests. With over 90% export sales, VERTECH’ is an international company with software available in more than 15 different languages including Russian, Chinese, …
➢ Management of the software developments and products to fulfil Customer needs and anticipate new developments to follow the IT evolutions (mobility, web development…). Management of 10 Engineers. ➢ Member of the Board in charge of proposing strategic evolutions to answer Customer needs and to follow technology evolutions. ➢ Presentations and discussions with high decision Managers of Worldwide groups such as Verallia, feeder of the Marketing supports to promote the R&D work ➢ Organisation and optimisation of the technical teams (software and operations and support) to achieve strong sales evolution (2,4M€ => 3,8M€ - 92% export - 18 => 32 Employees).
o 2008 – 2010: GENERAL MANAGER TRACETECH (France – Chalon / Saône) – http://tracetech.eu TRACETECH provides a software (TYM) to trace the full process of electronic cards manufacturing. TYM can follow the full life of card enabling ascending and descending traceability of all the components. By controlling the process and by saving all the information, TYM allows reactive and proactive management of the manufacturing processes.
➢ Responsible for sales and technology for the start-up of a company editing a traceability software for the electronic card manufacturers.
o 2004 – 2008: SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT ENGINEER & PROJECT MANAGER VERTECH’ (France – Chalon / Saône) – http://vertech.eu
➢ Conception and development of a central acquisition cabinet for the glass industry. Each continent requiring a specific PLC and the core business of the company being software, a black box was developed based on a PC capable of counting digital inputs (100Hz guaranteed), monitoring digital outputs, serial communication, arcnet communication, … The goal was to have a product easy to maintain by the internal teams, reliable in an industrial environment.
➢ Project Manager of industrial software installations for the glass industry in different countries: USA, Italy, Bulgaria, Germany, Saudi Arabia…). The projects (100-600k€) included wiring supervision, software installation, training…
o 2001 – 2004: SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT ENGINEER PIERRE MAUCHAMP SA (France – Dijon) http://www.pierremauchamp.com/ PIERRE MAUCHAMP SA (PLMSA) is a software editor for sawmills. PLMSA develops tailor made programs that help Operators take decisions to cut wood by calculating and proposing all the best optimized possible patterns.
➢ Software development for Sawmills – 3D cutting optimizations for the wood industry (GUI & optimization algorithms | PLC communication). After scanning the shape of the log, the system was to propose within 1 second the different cutting solutions to then send the cutting pattern to the machines.
EDUCATION 2003: European Master Conception and production and industrial quality - University of Burgundy (France 21). 2002: Postgraduate degree Instrumentation and image processing – University of Burgundy (France - 21). 2001: Master’s Degree Electrical Engineering and Industrial Software (G.E.I.I.), option Electronics and Image processing - I.U.P. of Dijon (France - 21). 1998: Two-year technical degree “Physical Measurements” (DUT) - I.U.T. du Creusot (France - 71). 1996: A-Levels in Science, specialisation in maths Language skills: •
Bilingual French / English
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Basic / Conversational German
Management skills:
Technical skills:
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Analytic mind
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Delegation and motivation
Complex software organizations (urbanization
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Proactive
of Information System) •
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Rigorous and reactive
Windows | Linux | VMWare virtualization
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Change Leader
C | C++ | C# | Qt Designer | Visual Basic |
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WinDev basics | Web services XML SOAP •
SQL Server
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Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio, Project, Publisher)
INTERESTS ➢ Canoeing (White water Paddler since 1990) o
2017-…: President of the Saône et Loire department Canoeing development committee
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2007-2016: Member of the International Freestyle Committee of the ICF
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2005-2008: Member of the national canoeing council of the French Canoeing Federation (FFCK)
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2002-2008: Manager of the Freestyle French Championships and French Freestyle Chairman
➢ Badminton (Founder of the club in my village – October 2016) ➢ Theatre, Reading, Running, Swimming
REFERENCES References available upon request
