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Education

  • DESS: Graduate Degree in Management (IAE-Aix en Provence)
  • Doctorate in Engineering and Mathematics and Advanced Study Degree in Applied Mathematics (Grenoble).
  • Doctorate in Engineering: Polytechnic school of Grenoble.

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Professional Experience

 

Professional experience: 40 years   

In International Firms

  • Expert Information System Design and Optimisation in Real Time Area.
  • Head of Information System Development Department.
  • Responsible for Partnership development.
  • Responsible for business services.
  • Director of Organisation and Information Systems.
  • Founder and manager of Information System Consulting firm.

At Universities

  • Responsible for postgraduate educational development (Master 2)
  • In charge of IAE-Company relationships.
  • Responsible for apprenticeship development for postgraduate students.
  • Responsible for the conception and implementation of the Information System of programme" Mastery of Educational Tools" at the University of Aix-Marseille.

Teaching Experience at Universities

  • Professor at Grenoble University (Undergraduate level):
    • Quantitative methodologies: Mathematics and Statistics.
  • Thesis supervisor in the context of a partnership agreement that included Grenoble Universities/ International and Innovative enterprises.
  • Associate professor Information Systems (Postgraduate Master 2) at IAE:
    • Management of Information Systems and Data Analysis:
  • CMMI/Six Sigma: Qualitative and Quantitative Methodologies.
    • Governance of Information Systems: IT alignment, Balanced Score Card/Cobit, Business Intelligence, Corporate Performance Management.
    • E-transformation.
    • Business Process Integration.
    • NTIC.
  • Co-director of programme Erasmus Mundus programme: International Master's in Management of IT (IMMIT)

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Research and Development (R&D) Work

 

Areas of expertise: IT Infrastructure, IT Governance, Information System Integration and optimization of performance, Partnership, Entrepreneurship,

On a Research and Development team, in France and abroad, I contributed to the development of new methodologies and products centred around NTIC and Information System.

 

  • At the “Centre d’Etude Atomique de Grenoble” (CEA) scientific research laboratory.

Main area:

 

  • Quantitative methodologies for the digitalization of “Random signal processing”
  • In R&D departments of international companies

Main areas:

 

  • Real time systems performance optimization: Technical and Scientific.
  • Architecture and Performance: RISC versus CICS.
  • Optimization and implementation of High Availability Information System Architectures.
  • Open-source system implementation in industries.
  • Integration of Information Systems.
  • Reengineering of Information Systems.
  • Alignment of Information System objectives with the global strategy in international organization.
  • Business Intelligence and Process Integration.
  • Strategy and Organisation methodologies: definition and implementation of intercompany partnership networks.

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Contact

IAE d’Aix en Provence
Clos Guiot
13540 Puyricard
Tel: (33)(0) 442-792-284
e-mail: paul.laifa(at)iae-aix.com

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