Richard Basque

Richard Basque (36 years experience) founded Alcyonix in 1998, now member of SQLI Group since 2007. He is an SEI Certified Lead Appraiser for the SCAMPI (Class A, B, C and High Maturity) and an SEI Certified Instructor for the CMMI V1.2. As a part-time SEI "Visiting Scientist", he is occasionally invited by the SEI to train or observe (as part of their authorization process) candidate SCAMPI Lead Appraisers or candidate CMMI Instructors. Richard has been involved in numerous official process evaluations in Canada, the United States, Europe and South America. He published the first book in French on CMMI with DUNOD, the prestigious French publisher. The book was very successful bringing about a 2nd edition in 2006 and a 3rd edition expected in November 2009. Richard published a 2nd book (A CMMI « Aide-mémoire ») in 2008 and a 3rd one in 2009 on the implementation of CMMI. In parallel with his books, he moderates a French forum to discuss CMMI (Yahoo Group of a few hundred participants). Richard is now Director of Strategy for all of Alcyonix within the SQLI Group.

Denis St-Pierre

Denis St-Pierre (23 years of experience, 12 in consulting) is an SEI Certified Lead Appraiser for SCAMPI (Class A, B, C and High Maturity) for CMMI-DEV v1.2 and CMMI-SVC (CMMI for Services). He is also an SEI Certified Instructor for CMMI-DEV 1.2 and CMMI-SVC (Services Supplement for CMMI v1.2). He is a well-known expert of software measurements and processes. Denis has been involved in approximately 25 process assessments in Canada, the United States and in Europe. He has accomplished many process improvement projects in Europe, North America and Australia. He recently coached (leading process definition workshops, conducting process asset reviews, and process improvement planning…) an organization in its achievement of CMMI Maturity Level 2 in six months; the average duration according to the SEI is about 2 years. Denis is also the process improvement lead of Alcyonix internal processes. He has significantly contributed to several international software engineering and measurement standards.

Daniel Henry

Daniel Henry (16 years experience) is an SEI Certified SCAMPI A, B, C and High Maturity Lead Appraiser for CMMI-DEV v1.2 and CMMI-ACQ. He is also a SEI Certified Instructor for CMMI-DEV v1.2 and for CMMI-ACQ (Acquisition Supplement for CMMI-DEV 1.2). He also collaborated with the SEI on the Handbook for Conducting Standard CMMI Appraisal Method for Process Improvement (SCAMPI) B and C Appraisals and was most recently a team member on the first SCAMPI A appraisal with a beta release of CMMI version 1.2. Dan has lead 20 SCAMPI Class A appraisals to date in multiple domains (e.g. finance, aerospace, IT services) covering both Systems and Software, using both Representations (staged and continuous), including a high maturity appraisal in France.  He continues to support organizations across the globe to improve their performance by leading process definition workshops, conducting process asset reviews, and process improvement planning. Dan was also Software Development Process Group Leader from 2000 to 2003 for the Motorola Canada Software Center (MCSC) in Montreal: the first organization in Canada to report SW-CMM Level 5 rating to the SEI following a registered CBA-IPI assessment in December, 2001. He also managed the software centre's transition to CMMI in 2003. Formally a lead appraiser while at Motorola, he was privileged to travel to Argentina, China, Mexico, Russia, and the USA for multiple MSA and CBA-IPI assessments. 

Frédérick Lussier

Frédérick Lussier (15 years experience) is a SEI certified PSP developer and an SEI authorized instructor for TSP^ms/PSP^ms (Team Software Process/Personal Software Process). Before recently joining Alcyonix, Frédérick worked as a quality assurance manager and team leader in many organizations like Silverrun, BaaN (Berclain), Amadeus Solutions, Pocatec and EXFO. He was a Personal Software Process (PSP) instructor at BaaN where he coached several software development teams. In 2002, he coached Pocatec on the deployment of  the CMM and helped them achieve a SW-CMM level 2 rating following a Software Capability Evaluation (SCE). Frederick has managed several groups in charge of requirements development, quality assurance, verification and validation (V&V), measurements, and configuration management. Using CMMI, he defined, improved and established practices and measurements to increase the product quality in multiple domains (like : software development and system engineering). Frederick has given and continues to give several training courses in quality control, quality assurance, and software metrics for the Computer Science and Software Engineering Department of Laval University.

Gilles Charron

Gilles Charron has acquired 28 years of experience, counting 12 in Project and Portfolio Management methodologies and 8 in Process Improvement and Project Management teaching at the university level in Montreal. He has been a member of many SCAMPI A CMMI Dev Version 1.2 teams at Level 2 and Level 3.  In addition to being a Process Improvement advisor, Gilles is specialized as advisor in Process Development support and training for organizations implementing CMMI Dev Version 1.2 and P-CMM Version 2.  He is also advisor for the CMMI–SVC constellation and People CMM model.  Finally, Gilles is certified PMP (Project Management Professional) from PMI (Project Management Institute) and has a Master's Degree in Project Management from the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM).        

Antoine Nardèze

Antoine is an SEI Certified CMMI instructor and a SEI Certified SCAMPI (Class A, B and C) Lead Appraiser.
Antoine is from Toulouse and is a computer scientist with more than 15 years of experience in software engineering and 14 years in process improvement. He resided in Quebec for several years where, under the tutelage of Richard Basque, then at CRIM/CGLA, he developed his SW-CMM knowledge. He worked in Canada and in France, first as an independent consultant and later with Qualium. He founded Alcyonix France in January 2005. Antoine is Director of the Expertise Department of Alcyonix, SQLI Group.

Alain Bret

Alain has 30 years of experience in software and systems engineering, half of this time for Astrium, in the aerospace industry. He participated in both the Concerto and the HSDE (Hermes Software Development Environment, a software environment for the European spacecraft) project workshops. He worked for 15 months at the European Software Institute in Bilbao before returning to Toulouse where he managed the software configuration management service where a process improvement plan was performed. He has also participated in SEPGf or ground systems (engineering processes) and embedded software (as a SEPG Leader). In 2003, Alain created IRIMI Software providing process improvement and systems engineering services.  Alain is from the south-west (Armagnacais) and is a software engineer by trade. He joined Alcyonix France in January 2005. He was accredited as a SEI certified CMMI instructor in July 2008.

Yohan Bourgoin

Yohan has 12 years of experience including 6 years as software engineer and project leader, essentially for automotive and railway embedded software. Yohan has acquired his technical experience in a company which operates at the SW-CMM maturity level 4 with the Cleanroom methodology. For 6 years, he performed assistance missions for SEPG (CMM & CMMI level 3) and process appraisals (CMM, CMMI and ISO/IEC 15504).

Since August 2008, he is certified by the SEI to perform SCAMPI A appraisals as “Lead Appraiser”.

Yohan is from the South-West of France (Périgord). He obtained his Master-Engineer degree at the IUP of Bordeaux. Yohan joined Alcyonix in May 2006.

Jean-Emmanuel Luc

Jean-Emmanuel is a consultant for process definition, deployment, assessment and quality management frameworks implementation based on CMM/CMMI and ISO/IEC 15504 models. He performs CMM/CMMI and ISO/IEC 15504 assessments for IT departments and technical product oriented businesses by assisting them in defining, deploying and improving software and system engineering processes. His experience is based on international standards or recognized frameworks. He was responsible for the deployment of the CMM-Cleanroom methodology in an organization developing embedded software for the automotive industry. Since August 2008, Jean-Emmanuel is certified by the SEI to perform SCAMPI A, B & C appraisals as “Lead Appraiser”. He is from the south of France (Languedoc-Rousillon) and holds an Engineer Degree in MicroElectronics and Robotics from the ISIM (Engineering School) of Montpellier. He joined Alcyonix France in April 2007.

Christian Romano

Christian has 24 years experience in software engineering. He has taken part in several mandates as a process improvement consultant for major French customers and is involved in process deployment for SQLI as a Quality Assurance engineer and as a member of the Improvement Committee. He has acted as Head of SEPG at CSEE Transport where he led the Development Direction at CMMI Level 2 and ISO 9001-2000 certification. Christian worked as an Object Consultant at Aonix acquiring experience in training staff for object technologies (UML, MDA, CORBA-RT). He was responsible for the deployment of the project management process and tool at Dassault Date Services and trained project managers. He became Head of the Technical Business Unit, after being Project Manager and Programmer in C/C++, Ada and Pascal languages. Christian is a graduate of École Centrale de Marseille, previously known as École Nationale Supérieure de Physique de Marseille.

Olivier Chotin

Olivier (23 years experience) joined Alcyonix France in the spring of 2008. His recent experience includes realizing multiple CMMI related mandates such as Gap Analyses, SCAMPI A evaluations, defining Process Improvement plans as well as supporting organizations in the development and deployment of CMMI practices. He has worked with organizations in various sectors but particularly those in the banking and insurance sectors (14 years experience) and as a project manager, he participated in software editing. Olivier is also an instructor and has animated many training sessions and workshops in various fields such as governance (Cobit and Val IT), Process Improvement (CMMI-DEV, CMMI ACQ) and Project Management. Before joining Alcyonix, he worked with SQLI for 7 years as Project Director and Business Unit Manager and was responsible of CMMI deployment in the West Agency of SQLI.  Member of SQLI’s CMMI group and responsible for Quality Assurance, he is an active member of the SQLI Improvement Plan by performing Scampi B and C evaluations in the SQLI organization.  He is also advisor for the CMMI ACQ constellation and part of the multi-references approach.  Olivier is a TI graduate of l’École des Mines in Paris.