Lyes Mahammed

19 years in IT, from development to complex transformation programme leadership. Multi-country delivery (insurance, aerospace, public sector), budgets up to €1.7M, teams up to 42. Operational AI capability as differentiator: practice creation, production system deployment, platform audits.

Chief AI Officer / BU Manager — AI Practice at VAGANET GROUP (2025-07 – Present)

Created and led the AI practice. Strategy, governance, tooling, training, client delivery, business development.

• AI-first operating model: charter, Responsible AI framework, commercial offering co-built with Sales & Marketing, strategic partnership with insurance consultancy (joint catalogue, C-level access)
• Training programme: 7 sessions, 60 staff across technical and non-technical teams, 30% confirmed adoption
• Production AI tools: on-prem RFP Analyzer (RAG + MCP, 10-16h/week saved, hallucinations <5%), automated QA (Playwright + AI), marketing agent (n8n), pharmacy stock forecasting app (Prophet + AI, 4 pilots, 0 stockouts)
• 10-day AI platform audit for energy client (AWS Bedrock, Step Functions, OpenSearch, €25K): maturity assessment, agent architecture, PII/GDPR compliance

Project Director — CNP Assurances at VAGANET GROUP (2024-09 – 2026-05)

IS convergence programme, Social Protection division, post-merger LMG-CNP. Cumulative budget >€1.4M, up to 17 people.

• 5 projects delivered: delegated management ecosystem (€950K, Snowflake, S3), death benefits portal (€500K, Drupal, Salesforce, CIAM/Auth0), LMG-CNP merger (regulatory deadline met, 100% migration), Cegedim HR portal, Group tool convergence
• Coordinated integrators (Cegedim, Sopra Steria, Antenia); CxO governance, executive reporting
• Deployed RAG document indexing (~700 files) to accelerate programme management
• Policyholder mobile app developed with AI integration (React, Claude & Cursor, CIAM/Auth0, MFA)

Project Director / IT Coordinator at LISI Aerospace (2023-04 – 2024-04)

International programme 100% in English, 6 countries, ~30 people, €1.7M. EPAM as integrator.

• Salesforce CRM transformation (Manufacturing & Marketing Cloud). Multi-country rollout, first Agile project (SAFe-inspired) for the organisation
• Results: 100% orders via Salesforce (Excel eliminated), duplicates <10%, labelling errors ~3% → <0.1%

Project Director at Conseil Départemental de Seine-Saint-Denis (2022-09 – 2023-04)

IT Department, cross-functional division. Public sector transformation.

• Salesforce citizen portal: response time 10 days → 2 days, renewal processing 10 days → <2 hours, 99% uptime
• Cross-functional steering transformation: artefact adoption 20% → 90%, stakeholder satisfaction 8/10
• Coached 5 project managers. Satisfaction 9/10

Head of Cross-Functional Steering at Jaji Mutuelle / KLESIA (2021-02 – 2022-09)

Built a mutual insurance company from scratch: platform, product, organisation. 25 to 42 people, SAFe at scale.

• End-to-end delivery from inception to production: MVP in 5 months, ~50 corporate clients, ~1,000 policyholders. Whitelabel multi-tenant platform
• QA at scale, change management, tribe structuring (OKR, SAFe rituals, PO/PM recruitment)

Salesforce Programme Test Lead at AESIO Mutuelle (2021-04 – 2021-09)

Cross-functional test lead on Salesforce programme (~200 people, €500K). SAFe framework.

• 300-400 test cases, 100% coverage, zero major production incidents

PPM Strategy Consultant at Klésia Mutuelle (2021-01 – 2021-03)

Advisory to Strategy Division on project portfolio management.

• Tool benchmarking and selection: Planisware Orchestra (cloud). Multi-criteria scoring grid, recommendation

PPM Strategy Consultant at Intériale Mutuelle (2020-04 – 2020-12)

Hermione Programme — overhaul of project governance (IT and business) through PPM tooling.

• Full roadmap from tool selection to deployment. Vendor benchmark, licence cost optimisation, change management plan

Release Manager at Malakoff Médéric Humanis (2019-02 – 2019-10)

NEO programme (€120M, full IS overhaul post-merger). Coordination between Integration (~40 people) and Testing (~90 people).

• Environment management for ~80 parallel applications. Centralised tracking tool designed and deployed

Employee at VAGANET GROUP (2019-02 – Present)

Permanent contract since February 2019

Project Manager at Canton de Vaud (via Sopra Steria) (2018-06 – 2018-10)

Public health digitalisation. CHF 100K budget.

• Processing time for health authorisations reduced from several days to a few hours (80% of cases). BPMN (Bonitasoft iBPMS)

Project Manager / Product Owner at Viamedis Santé (Malakoff Humanis Group) (2010-03 – 2018-05)

France's leading third-party payment operator. 1 year Java/JEE development, then 7 years PM/PO.

• Kalivia/Kalixia professional portal: 4,000+ healthcare professionals, ~100% network adoption
• Hercule programme: 12 parallel projects, €1.3M, 15 people. April → Viamedis migration: 1.2M beneficiaries, €1M

Java/JEE Developer at Oger International (2007-02 – 2010-02)

Logistics application deployed in Saudi Arabia. Paris-Riyadh synchronisation.

• 3 major versions delivered. Stack: Java EE, Oracle Database. First international deployment experience

State Engineer in Computer Science in Computer Science – ESI (ex-INI) (2006)