résumé

🙋‍♂️ Tech Project Leader
🏦 Payments, Finance, IT
🎓 M.Sc. Ingénieur des Mines
📍 France, Switzerland
💬 leo@leolazou.com ↗
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I’m aiming for a leadership role in projects with impact, meaning, challenge & innovation.
I engineered B2B payment solutions and analytics tools driving revenue growth and enhancing acceptance and transparency; and supported & streamlined sell side fixed income trading operations.
Personality: ENFP

Experience

Business Analyst + Scrum Master @ Amadeus

2020 – 2023, Nice, France

Amadeus ↗ is the leading technology solutions & services provider for airlines, hotels, and other businesses in the travel industry

Built an analytics platform for Amadeus-issued credit cards that contributed to a 5% product revenue increase, provides customers with insights and advice on payment transactions, and helps salespeople find & attract new prospects.
Led the development of many new features, from requirements analysis and specifications writing to tests and implementation, delivering better acceptance, flexibility and transparency in B2B payments to airlines and travel agencies.
Acted as the primary liaison between business and development teams, ensuring clear communication and alignment.
As Scrum Master, led a team of 8 to 16 people in its transition from Scrum to SAFe. Prioritised team’s backlog facilitated plannings, reviews and meetings with stakeholders, resolved team’s impediments, ensured timely delivery of new features.
Prepared and passed the PCI-DSS audit, ensuring that credit cards issued by Amadeus meet top payment security standards.
Skills : agile leadership, product design, business analysis, business intelligence, analytics, payment & travel industry

Front Office Support Analyst @ BNP Paribas CIB

2018 – 2019, London

BNP Paribas ↗ is the world’s 7th largest bank

Ensured smooth government bonds, futures & derivatives trading activity on 10+ pricing & quoting applications. Investigated and solved up to 5 critical issues per day to limit losses of up to thousands of dollars per second.
Established and maintained a strong trust-based relationship with traders, serving as their go-to technical advisor and support.
Conducted business analysis and designed solutions to improve the trading platform efficiency, meet evolving business needs, solve traders’ pain points, adapt to the changing regulations. Worked closely with developers and quant-analysts.
Analysed data and coded workflows that made critical & urgent problems investigation 10% faster.
Skills : fast problem investigation and response, root cause analysis, market finance, analytics, Bloomberg, SQL

Software engineer intern @ Revevol

2018, Paris

Revevol, a Google partner, specialises in cloud development.

Created 5 advanced proof-of-concept cloud applications using new Machine Learning and Data Analysis techs & frameworks, and thereby added the underlying technologies to the solutions portfolio of Revevol, a Google’s partner for cloud development.
Developed a Java app for a major French company to efficiently interact with Google Workspace files’ metadata.
Skills : Google Cloud, Data visualisation, Python (Pandas, Plotly, Dash), Google Workspace, Node.js, Java, Linux

Software engineer summer intern @ Creatiwity

2017, Paris
Creatiwity is a software & UI development agency

Coded an android app with over 1 million downloads today, and proof-of-concept iOS apps.
Created a web app showing news from various news agencies on a world map in real time via natural language understanding.
Skills : Java, Swift, Google APIs, IBM Watson NLU

Studies

Master of Science at Mines de Nancy engineering school

2014 – 2018, Nancy, France

Mines de Nancy is one of the best “Grandes Écoles” in France, delivering highly skilled scientists, engineers and business leaders across Europe and the world.
Courses : Theoretical Maths, Theoretical & applied Physics, Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Macro & Micro Economics, Business Management, Market Finance

Bachelor of Science / ‘Prépa scientifique’ in Janson de Sailly

2012 – 2014, Paris, France

Courses : Theoretical Maths, theoretical Physics, organic & inorganic Chemistry

Projects

Startup project

@ Mines Nancy, 2015 – 2016

In a team of 4 developed an online relocation services project. Won ‘Les Entrepreneuriales’ local startup award.
Skills : Project & team management, Strategy, Product conception, Pitching on startup events, Networking

Startup club chairman