That's a question I'm often asked. I cannot answer without answering to that one : "what are you ?"

 

I'm an author. So what I do is live, which involves such bodily functions as breathing, eating, or evacuating. My idea of action is to stir, dig, or fertilize my poor mind and to contemplate the miserable output, which I sometimes jot down on paper or on the web. Not because it's worth it, but because it frees some space up in the attic. My intention is certainly not to exhaust that useless ecosystem but to keep it rocking and rolling.

 

To learn more / to contact me : see about and links. See also places and things I like.

 

 

    1967 - born in Paris (4.25 kgs)
    1970 - discovers writing (some pretend it existed before)
    1971 - first participations in TV shows (French Ministry of Education)
    1977 - first paid publication (Le Diablotin - 2 subscribers across France)
    1981 - revelation of center-forwardship in Burghausen, BRD
    1991 - born in Seoul-Gimpo (70 kgs)
    1993 - marries Heyonn in Paris

 

 

    "dragedies - la mer amarree et autres dragedies"

    "La Ligue des Oublies - l'autre histoire du football"

 

 

 

I've always been an author but there's something you should know : I was a teenage mutant in a corporate world anticipate - create - innovate

1970-1993 Ye Olde Years  Ecole maternelle Chardon Lagache Ecole primaire Musset Editor at "Le Diablotin" Lycee Saint Jean de Passy Bridgeport University, CT, USA - ELS Preparatoire Carnot Editor at "Reserves" . Publication of "Lautriv" and other short stories ESSEC 1991 . co-founder Defonce d'Afficher . President and Editor in Chief  (ESSEC Medias, Synchro Magazine) . "Deregulation in Indonesia"  (Credit Lyonnais Jakarta) ."Urbanism & Lifestyle in Hauts de Seine"  (FNAIM & Conseil General 92) The French Embassy in Seoul, ROK  (Assistant Commercial Attache)

1993-1996 The "start-up" years (early bird catches the e-worm) Marketing Manager  (CLV / GC Telematique) . Managing 2 online gaming sites (gross margin x 2) . Media Planning (advertising ROI x 4) Marketing Project Manager (Fintel AudioSmartCard) Designing new applications for the AudioSmartCard solution (B2B, B2C, all industries and services : banking, trading, insurance, sports...). Invented the Penaltel concept. Marketing Director (Intercarte International) Launching France's first challenger in calling cards (BtoB, BtoC). Designing tailor made applications for new markets (telecommunities, online gamers, customer services...) at a national and international level.

 1996-2003
The "Vivendi - SFR - cegetel" years

Market Manager - cegetel (1996-1998)
Launching France's leading challenger in fixed line services (Le 7 de cegetel) in charge of :
- loyalty strategy (designing the group's first loyalty program) - international services (10% market share EOY 1)
- convergence and internet (group synergies, VoIP, website...)
- boosting indirect channels through innovative pricing (inventing France's first long distance "forfaits", the "super sunday" concept...)

Strategic Intelligence Manager - SFR - cegetel (1999-2003)
Driving the cultural shift from a best follower in mobile comms to a leader in mobile multimedia :

=> Strategic Intelligence Manager (1999-2001):
. War rooms and preemptive strikes for decision makers (a competitive edge in the 3G license bidding process)
. New strategic toolkits for everyone (markets, value chains, services, players...)
. Collaborative networking for everybody (initiating the Group's Strategic Intelligence dynamics)

=> Strategy Manager (2001-2003):
. Long Term Strategy, New Business & Strategic Partnerships
. Madness, One Step Beyond (Wi-Fi, new communicating devices, imaging services, mobile TV, production, edition, content verticals...)
. Coordination of Strategic Partnerships

NB : overall, 7 years in the group from 1996 to 2003 and from COFIRA to CEGETEL Longue Distance to TDS to Le 7 to cegetel to Groupe Cegetel to SFR-Cegetel to SFR. The opportunity to work with the group's main shareholders (Vivendi-Universal, Vodafone, SBC, BT, Mannesmann...) as well as their extended families (Vizzavi, Universal Music Mobile...).

2003-
Back to the writing board

Innovation isn't as fun as it used to be and mature markets tend to bore me. Now I'm focusing on the only disruptive environments I know will remain as such : the ones I design in my head.
This excuse for a website only displays my junk writing (blogules in French, blogules in English-or-sort-of, Seoul Village, mot-bile and footlog).
For the "literature" part, my "dragedies" are up for grabs.
Somewhere in between, I published chronicles on "The other history of football", La Ligue des Oublies. That's football as in soccer.