Bertrand Gorge

Sophia Antipolis · +33 6 31 40 43 51 · bertrand.gorge@gmail.com

Director of product management with fifteen years experience in web development. I ignited, led and managed several products from ideation to maturity, while accompanying the growth of CrossKnowledge Technology.

Father of four, concerned about the future of Earth and the life our children will have. Fascinated by the pace of change, new technologies, new issues, new paradigms. Hopeful of being able to have an impact.

I wish to join a growing team with a broad vision and the will to change things!

CV (French) / Resume (English)

Experience

Founder

Neayi (Sophia-Antipolis)

Actively thinking about the issue of climate change, I try to have an impact by considering the angle of behaviour changes: people will need to stop using their car, eating meat, taking planes - for a start... Wishful thinking is not enough for all this to happen at scale, so solutions have to be found to help us change radically in our most profound habits.

2018-now

Director of Product Management

CrossKnowledge (Sophia-Antipolis)

Managed the team of product management for all CrossKnowledge products, including strategy, user research, design, and marketing, with tight relationships with the development teams.

Active participation in the sell process, including prospective meetings with key accounts, speaking in events and sales strategy.

2012-2018

Director of R&D

CrossKnowledge (Sophia-Antipolis)

Hired, organized and managed software development teams. I led the adoption of Scrum, as well as other quality and project management processes. Led our flagship LMS product on the path to handle more than 10M learners, with more than 500 global clients.

Managed the technical side of the acquisition of Mohive software by CrossKnowledge in 2010, successfully driving the change of technology and software development teams, including cross-cultural relationship management.

2009-2012

Founder

Epistema (Sophia-Antipolis)

Co-founded Epistema and led its technical development, up to its acquisition by CrossKnowledge in 2008. Accompanied the growth of the structure from 2 people to 80 people in 2017, setting in place the technology foundations, processes and hiring.

2002-2009

Software developer

Enora Technologies (Paris)

Worked as senior software developer, in a small software service company. Worked on the first french web service for online tax declaration (ASP Web development)

2001-2002

Software developer

Effix (now Reuters) (Paris)

Worked one year as software developer on the real-time front office trading product Kobra (now acquired by Reuters). (mostly C++ development)

2000 – 2001

Software developer

Integrated Sales Systems (now Siebel) (London)

Worked two years as software developer, on client-server CRM software (C++, Oracle, Sybase). Learned a lot about software quality, code inspection, test and review cycles.

1997 – 1999

Software developer

Siemens AG (Munich)

Intern at Siemens AG, Venture Internet Products (an innovation 'bubble' within the network/phone division, in Munich), I worked on a prototype of a sort of network computer designed for home use, based on a modified Apple Newton 2000.

1997 – 1997

Education

ESSEC Business School

Master 2 Executive Director, Management - Strategy

Executive master on management and strategy. Final dissertation on Innovation Strategy in the specific context of a mature organization.

2016 – 2017

ESIEE

Master of Engineering (M.Eng.) in Computer Science

Engineering degree with focus on Computer Science.

1991-1997

Skills

Soft skills

Complex problem solving
Criticism
Creativity
Agile project management
Negotiation
Decision making

Product management & Tools

Excel, PowerBI
Google suite
Balsamiq, Adobe XD

Programming Languages & Tools

PHP
Front-end development (HTML5, CSS, JS, bootstrap, Gulp)
Adobe suite
Database Architecture (MySQL)
Linux, Apache
REST, web services, interoperability

Interests

TED and Earth issues

I’m a big fan of TED conferences, and I’ve watched hundreds of them (in plane transits). This is probably one of my main source of awareness about Global Warming and Earth protection.

Management 3.0

I developed a real interest for all alternatives to top-down, classical management techniques (holacracy, freedom-form companies, etc.). I follow the work of Jurgen Appelo, Isaac Getz, Valve, ... I have set up agile in my teams and have always loved to experiment people management.