Bruno Flaven

AI Coordinator & Digital Project Manager

AI Coordinator and digital transformation expert with 20+ years of experience, including a decade at France Médias Monde. Leading the group’s AI strategy and implementation across France 24, RFI, and Monte Carlo Doualiya. Combining a Product Owner, Project Manager, and Trainer background to drive change management and lead multicultural teams. Seeking a new challenge to apply these skills in ambitious digital media projects.

Core Competencies

AI Team Leadership: Led high-performing AI teams using Agile and Lean methodologies; recruitment, upskilling, and cross-functional facilitation.
Technical AI Expertise: Machine learning, deep learning, NLP, LLM integration, and big data analytics applied to content management and multilingual media.
Strategic Project Management: Directed AI projects aligned with long-term goals; experienced with public/private-funded budgets, resource management, and administrative oversight.
Long-Term AI Strategy: Defined and executed AI roadmaps, translated stakeholder needs into actionable use cases, and measured impact on company objectives.
Cross-Functional Collaboration: Coordinated technical, editorial, legal, marketing, and IT security teams; strong track record with European partnerships.
Change Management: Guides teams through rapid technological evolution in innovation-driven environments.

Professional Experience

France Médias Monde — Paris

2013 – Present

AI Coordinator · Product Owner · Project Manager · Trainer

France Médias Monde (FMM) is France’s international public broadcasting group, encompassing France 24, RFI, and Monte Carlo Doualiya.

As AI Coordinator

Led strategic and operational transformation of FMM’s AI initiatives across Editorial, Data, Marketing, Legal, IT Security, and DTSI departments.
Established AI governance frameworks and coordinated a team of AI developers.
Facilitated the internal AI community and drove change management programmes.
Key deliverable: DENIA — an AI microservices API system orchestrating multilingual content processing (transcription, translation, summarisation, semantic categorisation) across 15+ languages and 61 editorial programmes, serving nearly 2,000 users.

As Product Owner

PO for COCKPIT: a web micro-services platform handling user authentication, roles, permissions, and application management for mobile, connected TV, and websites.
Co-PO for BACH: FMM’s new Symfony-based editorial back-office, replacing the legacy Drupal system.

As Project Manager

Managed iOS and Android applications for France 24, RFI, and MCD — news and radio player apps across 13+ languages — coordinating a PO and three mobile developers, with releases on the Apple App Store and Google Play.

As Trainer

Trained 50+ editorial staff at MCD and France 24 on the new back-office; produced 18 video tutorials for onboarding.
Designed and delivered AI training for journalism educators in Tunisia (IPSI / CFI PAMT2 programme).
Delivered a 15-day training programme in Zambia for ZNBC on running a news website, under the France 24 / RFI / MCD Academy.

Sites : francemediasmonde.com, france24.com, rfi.fr, mc-doualiya.com

Hecube – 3WDOC — Paris

2006 – 2013

Founder · Commercial & Marketing Manager

Hecube was a web agency specialising in website and mobile app development. It created 3WDOC, a cloud-based HTML5 SaaS tool for interactive web documentaries, showcased at LeWeb 2010 (Google Workshop).

Defined commercial and marketing strategies targeting media groups (Time Warner, Jalou, Orange, France Télévision, Le Monde, CapaTV, Bayard), public institutions (Forum des Images, UNESCO), and e-commerce clients.
Secured strategic partnerships and €91,000 in public funding (OSEO).
Led multimedia projects end-to-end: functional specifications, wireframes, UX/UI design, Agile Scrum management.
Delivered user training in 12 universities and journalism schools (Paris-II Assas, Marne-la-Vallée, Lorraine, EMI, CFPJ, IHECS, University of Bristol, etc.).

Style-Vision — Nice

2002-2006

Associate · Technical Director

Style-Vision was a consultancy in consumer trends and strategic design for the automotive, textile, luxury, and retail sectors in Europe, India, and China (clients: Tata Motors, Luthai, Tencent).

Developed the Style-Vision website and digital trend publications.

FDK — Paris

2000-2002

Founder · Multimedia Project Manager

Designed and produced animated films and websites; set up encoding and streaming servers.
Clients: Letraincapitale.info, Wildwatching, Studiocities.com, Pepper-view.com.

Earlier Experience

1993 – 2000

Production assistant for TV documentaries on La Cinquième — including Des Religions et des Hommes (with Jean Delumeau, Collège de France) and Democracy (with Olivier Duhamel and Robert Darnton, Princeton). Subsequently worked as web project manager, community manager, and editorial lead at Chez.com (Tiscali), Tripod France, and Lycos France (Bertelsmann).

Technical Skills

Development & Infrastructure
Python, SQL, PHP, JavaScript (Node), FastAPI, Dash, Symfony — Docker, Git, Microsoft Azure — MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, NoSQL

AI & Data
LLMs: Claude, ChatGPT, Mistral, Whisper, NLLB, CLIP — MLOps: MLflow, Prompt Engineering — Jupyter, Google Colab — Analytics: Google Analytics, Adobe SiteCatalyst, AT Internet, Parsely, Piano

Project Management & Quality
Agile (Scrum), Lean — Jira, Trello, Redmine — Testing: Cypress, Playwright, Selenium

Digital & Web
CMS: Drupal, WordPress — Design & UX: Figma, Canva, Miro — Mobile: iOS, Android — SEO / SMO / GEO — APIs: Meta, Twitter/X, LinkedIn, Instagram, Google Maps, Amazon, Mapbox

Languages

English (fluent) · French (native) · Spanish (read, write, speak) · Russian (basic)

Publications

A Quick Journey Through API Testing — From Node Application to Postman best practices through Gherkin features. Amazon Kindle, 2018.
Redefining a Testing Automation Strategy for a P.O. with CodeceptJS & WordPress — The Continuous Learning Trilogy, Book 3. Amazon Kindle, 2020.
Learning and Building E2E Test Automation with Cypress & OKR — Define, code & apply an E2E strategy with a PO mindset focused on quality. Amazon Kindle, 2022.

All books: amzn.to/2WQbRpA
· Source code: github.com/bflaven
· Videos: YouTube tutorials

Education

École Polytechnique Executive Education (2021–2022) — Technology Innovation Management
Université Paris Dauphine (1997–1998) — DESS 226, Telecommunications & New Media Management
Université Paris II Panthéon-Assas (1995–1996) — Master’s in Economics and Business Management

Interests

Long-distance running (marathons) · Yoga · Ancient & Contemporary Philosophy (Foucault, Wittgenstein) · Ukulele · Cinema · Literature