I was most recently Chief Technology Officer and Vice President of Engineering with Bertelsmann BeMusic, a provider of online music commerce, storage, streaming and subscription services. I previously worked at Pagoo as Vice President of Product Development and headed the design and implementation of the company's Voice Over IP products. Before coming to Pagoo, I was Chief Technology Officer and co-founder of Zowie Intertainment (later acquired by LEGO), where I oversaw the development and realization of the next generation of Zowie toys. Prior to that, I was a Project Manager with Paul Allen's Interval Research, where I conceived the original Zowie smart toy concept and for three years led the project that eventually spun out as Zowie.

I was also a Visiting Scholar at Stanford University's Knowledge Systems Laboratory, where I designed interactive applications for the Internet and developed end-user programming systems.

I hold a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Université Pierre et Marie Curie in Paris, and a M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from École Centrale in Nantes.

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Pagoo Phone is the first full service Internet phone line allowing users to get a (regular) phone number with Caller ID, place and receive phone calls on their PC, retrieve voice messages and forward calls to another line. Pagoo Phone shipped in June 2000. This service was later customized and made available to Tiscali, the second largest European Internet Service Provider. The 3MB Windows application is available for download.

Zowie's Ellie's Enchanted Garden and Redbeard's Pirate Quest are the first toy playsets hooking up to the computer to provide children 4 and up with an integrated tactile/visual play experience. Those interactive playsets were on the shelves of all major toy retailers during the Christmas 1999 season and are protected by half a dozen patents.

The PenPal is a prototype of an Internet-enabled personal communicator for young children featuring an intuitive tactile user interface. The PenPal was developed at Stanford University in the context of the Apple Design Competition and received awards for "Best Hardware/Software Integration and User Involvement" and "Best Presentation".

During my Ph.D. I developed the AIDE Workbench, a system substrate helping developers implement applications that are programmable by end-users. The title of my dissertation is "Un système d'aide pour la mise en oeuvre de la programmation par démonstration" (in French - 450KB Acrobat PDF file.)