Our Internal Experts

Richard Basque

Richard Basque (34 years experience) founded Alcyonix in 1998. He is an SEI authorized Lead Appraiser for the SCAMPI 1.2 (Class A, B, C and High Maturity) and an SEI Authorized Instructor for the CMMI 1.2. 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 over forty official process evaluations in Canada, the United States, Europe and South America. He published the first book on CMMI in French with DUNOD, the prestigious French publisher. The book is a real success and has been released in its 2nd edition. In parallel with the book, Richard moderates a forum to discuss CMMI in French.

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Denis St-Pierre

Denis St-Pierre (23 years of experience, 12 in consulting) is an SEI authorized Lead Appraiser for SCAMPI (Class A, B, C and High Maturity) and an SEI Authorized Instructor for the CMMI 1.1. 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. He also managed the transition of many organizations from SW-CMM to CMMI. Denis is also the process improvement lead of Alcyonix internal processes. He has significantly contributed to several international software engineering and measurement standards.

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Daniel Henry

Daniel Henry (16 years experience) is an SEI authorized SCAMPI A, B, C and High Maturity Lead appraiser. 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 several SCAMPI Class A appraisals to date in multiple domains (e.g. finance, aerospace, IT services) covering both Systems and Software, using both Representations (staged & continuous), including a high maturity appraisal in France. He continues to support organizations across the globe 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.

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Frédérick Lussier

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Antoine Nardèze

Antoine is currently an SEI authorized CMMI instructor and a SCAMPI (Class A, B and C) Lead Appraiser. He is certified by the International Assessor Certification Scheme (www.int-acs.org) as an ISO/IEC Principal Assessor.
Antoine is from Toulouse and is a computer scientist with more than 15 years of experience in software engineering and 10 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 has been the director of Alcyonix France since its creation in January 2005.

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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.

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Yohan Bourgoin

Yohan has 9 years of experience as a software engineer and project leader, essentially for automotive and railway embedded software. Yohan acquired his technical experience in a company which operates at the SW-CMM maturity level 4 with the Cleanroom methodology. For 4 years, Yohan has performed assistance missions for SEPG (CMM & CMMI level 3) and process appraisals (CMM, CMMI and ISO/IEC 15504).
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.

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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.

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