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CURRENT	Associate consultant with McKinsey&Company at the Montreal office.
EDUCATION	Massachusetts Institute of Technology , Cambridge, MA August 2002-January 2007. Doctoral candidate in Operations Research. · Concentrating in optimization, control, decision making under uncertainty, machine learning, and stochastic processes with applications in operations management, biomedical and social sciences. · Doctoral dissertation on data-driven dynamic programming with Professor John Tsitsiklis and Duncan Simester.
	Ecole Polytechnique , Palaiseau, France · Master's degree "Ingénieur de l'Ecole Polytechnique" from one of the leading university-level scientific institution in France, September 2002. · Broad curriculum in natural sciences with emphasis on decision sciences: applied mathematics, computer science and economics. September 2000-April 2002. · Business administration courses including entrepreneurship seminar with the business school Hautes Etudes Commerciales (France).
	Lycée Louis-le-Grand, Paris, France · September 1997-July 1999. Preparatory class in one of the most demanding college-level school to prepare the very competitive admission exams of the French engineering schools. Majors in mathematics and physics. · ‘A’ levels with high honors specializing in mathematics and sciences in July 1997.
EXPERIENCE	Massachusetts Institute of Technology , Cambridge, MA, USA January 2004- now. Research assistant under the supervision of Professors John Tsitsiklis and Duncan Simester on data-driven dynamic programming. It entails: the development of statistical techniques to estimation of Markov Decision Processes from data, risk averse control of uncertain MDP, the formulation of a new robust optimal control problem.
	Massachusetts Institute of Technology , Cambridge, MA, USA Fall 2005. Taught recitation and evaluated 20 MIT graduate students as a teaching assistant of the class Fundamentals of probability.
	Massachusetts Institute of Technology , Cambridge, MA, USA Fall 2002-December 2003. Research assistant under the supervision of Professor Jeremie Gallien on make-to-order revenue management.
	PicoPeta Simputers Pvt. Ltd. , Bangalore, India June 2003-August 2003. Designed, modelized and optimized the supply chain for the Bharat Electronics Limited-PicoPeta Simputer, a people-oriented handheld computer. The supply chain design was accepted by the executive management and the first operations in 2004 were accurately predicted by my model.
	Massachusetts Institute of Technology , Cambridge, MA, USA Spring 2003. Supported and evaluated 50 MBA students as a Teaching Assistant for the Class 15.760 Introduction to Operations Management at the MIT Sloan School of Management.
	Konrad Zuse Zentrum fűr Informationstechnik , Berlin, Germany May 2002–August 2002. Research intern. Developed and implemented in C++ a survivable network design methodology for telecommunication networks based on a Lagrangian decomposition.
	Brigade des Sapeurs-Pompiers de Paris , Paris, France August 1999-August 2000. As a lieutenant at the Paris Fire Brigade, I managed and trained fifty firemen at the fire station and was in charge of day-to-day technical operations including fire fights.
	Environment and Public Health Organization, Kathmandu, Nepal March 2004 and January 2006. Recommended an improved water filter design and business plan and proposed a sustainable growth strategy for the Kachan filter serving more than 3,000 households in Nepal in a MIT-World Bank project. Contributed to a successful proposal for a $10k grant from the US government and to the introduction of a microfinance scheme for filter purchase.
SKILLS	Languages: fluent in French (native), German ( Zentral Oberstufeprüfung , 2001) and English, beginner in Spanish.
	Dual citizenship: American and French.
	Computer: Java, C, C++, matlab.
INTERESTS LEADERSHIP	Development Focused on people’s basic needs and interested in technological solutions. Recommended sustainable implementation and growth strategy for the Kachan filter in Nepal in a MIT-World Bank project. Visited the wind energy project of Blueenergy in Bluefields, Nicaragua.
	Technological entrepreneurship, especially geared towards disruptive technologies and business processes, and development. Participated to entrepreneurship seminars at HEC (France) and MIT (USA). Wrote the business plan for an internet marketplace Klekoon.com in 2002. Finalist of a business plan competition at Polytechnique-HEC in Spring 2002. Member of the Social Entrepreneur for International Development association at MIT Sloan business school in 2002 until now.
	Outdoor adventure racing including orienteering, mountain-biking and kayaking. Orienteer in the first student team in the ten-day long Raid Gauloises . The adventure took place in April 2002 in North Vietnam. Jungle survival training in the Legion Etrangère, Guyana, in September 2001.
	Volleyball. National competitions as the team captain (French universities vice-champion in 2000, 2001 and 2002. French military champion in 2001).
	Sailing. Cruises and regattas on big boats such as Race around France in 2001 as a skipper and crew member.
	Student leadership. In Polytechnique, supervised dormitory life and organized social events such as dinners, travels and sport tournaments.
	Traveling. Visited more than 20 countries around the world.