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Fabien Rica

Fabien Rica

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Team Lead, Release and Tooling Development at Bricsys®, part of Octave

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Career: 11

Team Lead, Release and Tooling Development

Bricsys®, part of Octave

On-site

Apr 2024 - Present

Agfa HealthCare

Gand, Région flamande, Belgique

Jul 2021 - Feb 2023

Leading 7 different scrum teams, I engaged in the following tasks and responsibilities:

  1. Managing and nurturing a team of individuals.
  2. Overseeing the software development process and utilizing various tools.
  3. Participating in discussions related to strategy and roadmaps.
  4. Contributing to planning efforts.
  5. Working on architectural aspects.
  6. Analyzing customer requirements to transform them into new software features.
  7. Addressing third-line customer complaints.

Agfa HealthCare

Gent, Flandre, Belgique

Jun 2019 - Jul 2021

R&D Team lead and Scrum Master in the Enterprise Imaging Solution (6 persons team)
• Committed to deliver results on-time, on-scope, with high quality and on-budget
• Involved in multiple impactful platform and backend changes: FHIR-based backend, RH-SSO, JBoss & JDK upgrade
• Fostering cross departmental (Product Management, Architecture, Services, R&D) collaborative culture to deliver committed features on several release streams
• Enforcing best practices for collaboration and knowledge sharing within the team to improve team's efficiency
• Acted as agent of change in the company Agile transformation journey by pioneering and championing the Agile methodology
• Enrolled in an internal program for high-potential managers to grow and develop key competencies

Agfa HealthCare

Mar 2013 - Jun 2019
  • Test automation management: test strategy and planning, integration in continuous integration system, follow-up of test results for all automation projects of R&D Imaging IT in Gent.
  • Performance tests: automation of performance, load and stress tests according to defined targets. Close teamwork with development teams.
  • Cross-site collaboration with one of the test team abroad to synchronize the test automation priorities.
  • DevOps: creation of tools to monitor the activity and quality related to automated tests, lead of a virtual team in charge of the continuous integration workflow.

Agfa Healthcare

May 2008 - Mar 2013

Responsible of a multi-site test team (20+ persons) spread around the globe, I'm taking care of the test planning, test executions and reporting. I'm also in charge of leading a challenging project dealing with test automation Involved in the Quality Management System in the project.

Agfa Healthcare

Dec 2006 - May 2008

In charge of Verification in a small agile team, I manage the planning, the tests plan and the tests session (smoke, functional or performance tests). Introduced systematic testing with DVTk for DICOM validation mixed with unit testing. Responsible of the products installers.

Agfa Healthcare

Aug 2004 - Dec 2006

R&D software engineer on radiology sotware products. Development of an user management application and a security component to access medical data. Also in charge of LDAP interface.

Environment was strongly Object-Oriented with use of Design Patterns.

XR Partner

2003 - 2004

Deployment of a ER management system in Paris Public Hospitals emergency services (AP-HP). In charge of several ER services, responsible for defining end-user needs, customizing the product and training key users before going in production.

Philips Medical Systems

Feb 2003 - Jul 2003

Development of a dose control regulation software to be used for future radiology systems. Work done in Pre-development team of Common Imaging Systems department

Université de Technologie de Compiègne

Feb 2002 - Jul 2002

Adjustment of an algorithm of automatic boundaries detection in echographic heart images. Work done in collaboration with pediatric cardiology department of Amiens hospital and UTC biomedical laboratory.

IDM laboratory, Université Rennes 1

Sep 2001 - Feb 2002

Validation of a stereoscopic reconstruction process to help the neurochirurgical act (calibration of stereoscopic system and coding of new 3D visualisation functions). Work done in collaboration with the Pontchaillou hospital in Rennes, France.

Projects: 1

sourceforge.net/projects

Java application to find DICOM tags meanings by tag values or the other way around.

Skills: 60

Technical

Continuous IntegrationContinuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD)DevOpsEclipseFront-End DevelopmentGroovyJavaJIRA
PythonSoftware DevelopmentSoftware Development Life Cycle (SDLC)SQLTest AutomationTest Driven DevelopmentTestingUML

Business

Agile Application DevelopmentAgile MethodologiesAgile Project ManagementScrumTeam ManagementUser Stories

Interpersonal

CoachingCommunicationProblem SolvingTeam LeadershipTechnical Leadership

Security

ISO 13485IT Service ManagementMedical Devices

Other

Agile & Waterfall MethodologiesAgile TestingContinuous DeliveryContinuous ImprovementCustomer-Focused ServiceDesign PatternsDéveloppement agileDICOM
Extreme ProgrammingHL7HL7 StandardsIHEJBoss Application ServerJenkinsJUnitLean ManagementMedical ImagingNotes de publicationOraclePACSPicture Archiving and Communication System (PACS)Quality CenterReportingRetrospectivesRISScaled Agile FrameworkSoftware Quality AssuranceSubversionTest ManagementTest Planning

Credentials: 6

Creating Measures and Metrics in ITSM

Udemy

Feb 2024

Lean Management

Udemy

Feb 2024

Education: 2

Université de Technologie de Compiègne

Master

1998 - 2003

Lycée A. Boulloche

Baccalauréat

1994 - 1997

Languages: 4

French(Native or bilingual)
English(Professional working)
Dutch(Limited working)
Spanish(Elementary)

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EuroSky (@ricafabi.eurosky.social)

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