Thierry D'Hers

About Thierry

Experience

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   Part-time · 4 yrs 2 mos

   • Field CTO North America

     Jan 2025 - Present · 7 mos·Current

     Pigment gives organizations the tools to build plans that work for every potential future.

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   3 yrs 2 mos

   • Technical and Product Advisor

     Aug 2024 - Present · 1 yr·Remote·Current
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   Part-time · 4 yrs 2 mos

   • Product Advisor

     Jun 2021 - Present · 4 yrs 2 mos·Current

     Pigment is rethinking how company of any size build business plans and strategy, in a simple, flexible, distributed and collaborative way. I feel honored to have been asked by its founders to join them as advisor.

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   Radar (Radar4.ai)

   • Product Advisor

     Apr 2021 - Present · 4 yrs 4 mos·Greater Seattle Area·Current

     More on this stealth startup in a few weeks...

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   3 yrs 2 mos

   • Chief Product & Engineering Officer @Vivun | Your Sales Team’s Technical Copilot

     Jun 2022 - Aug 2024 · 2 yrs 3 mos·Remote

     Vivun is your Sales team's Technical Copilot, helping the fastest growing companies secure more technical wins more efficiently. Customers like Snowflake, ADP, Coupa, Elastic, Seismic and Docusign use Vivun to build better products, scale demonstrations, and perfect their technical sales process. The result is an increase in technical sales capacity which lowers costs, boosts win rates and reduces sales cycle time.

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   Inference.io

   • Investor, Advisor

     May 2021 - May 2023 · 2 yrs 1 mo·San Francisco Bay Area

     With Inference.io, let data be your guide Inference.io apply cutting-edge machine learning and automation techniques to your data to drive impact toward your business goals. https://www.inference.io/post/stop-asking-questions

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   Headwaters Economics · Freelance

   • Technology Advisor

     May 2021 - Jul 2024 · 3 yrs 3 mos

     Headwaters Economics is an independent, nonprofit research group that works to improve community development and land management decisions. They inform community decision-making and identify practical solutions by making complex data understandable, beautiful, and interactive, helping develop solutions to some of the most urgent and important issues that communities face. As a Tableau foundation Grantee, Headwaters economics uses of data is centered to the success of their mission and I help them make the most Tableau to do so.

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   Indico Labs (formerly PPTX Builder)

   • Product Advisor

     Apr 2021 - Feb 2023 · 1 yr 11 mos·Greater London, England, United Kingdom

     Turn Research Data to Reports in Seconds https://www.indicolabs.io/ A faster and smarter way to build PowerPoint reports for your Market Research projects. Packed with functionality that will make your life easier and free your time to focus on insights. Indico labs is hiring: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/indicolabs_business-development-manager-indico-labs-activity-6833689274202775552-dKla

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   Google · Full-time

   • Appsheet Director of Product Engineering

     Jan 2020 - Apr 2021 · 1 yr 4 mos·Greater Seattle Area
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    1 yr

    • Vice President Product and Engineering

      Jun 2019 - Jan 2020 · 8 mos·Greater Seattle Area

      Today I am delighted to announce that I am joining Appsheet to lead its product and engineering team. What decided me to come out of semi-retirement for this role is the strong belief I have in the impact Appsheet's mission and product can and will have on commercial and non-profit organizations of every size and with any mobile based business applications needs. Like Tableau did 10 years ago when it democratized BI and Data visualization technology for all, Appsheet has a great potential to make building mobile based productivity application something accessible and possible to all organizations with no development skills required. Whether your team/organization has a list/inventory management need, or a mobile fleet or employee population tracking needs, or a location survey needs, Appsheet can enable your teams with low or no IT budget and resources to build your own fully customized mobile business application at very low cost. And yes, we are hiring in all disciplines... check our career listing here: https://angel.co/company/appsheet/jobs 2 - My Appsheet app detail.png 1 - My Appsheet app Overview.png

    • Strategy Advisor

      Feb 2019 - Jan 2020 · 1 yr·Greater Seattle Area

      AppSheet's mission to empower people to innovate, create mobile experiences and apps themselves, and to use those apps every day with their teams is magic. Their no-code, fast path from innovative idea to business app is simply mesmerizing. From a set of data in a Google spreadsheet to a fully location-aware, offline-online smart deployed mobile experience is mesmerizing. There are more than a billion people in the world who could use custom mobile apps to be more productive at work. However, whether in a large corporation or in a small business, it has proven way too expensive, complicated, and time-consuming to build apps with traditional code-based programming. AppSheet has taken a different approach by creating an intelligent, declarative, "no-code" app platform that support their mission to empower all those people to innovate, to create apps themselves, and to use those apps every day with their teams. I am spending some time advising them on some strategic aspect as it relates to some innovation that AI and ML can bring to make this experience even easier and more magical, not unlike what happened to Tableau.

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    Splash.org · Freelance

    • Technology Advisor

      Jan 2019 - Jul 2024 · 5 yrs 7 mos·Greater Seattle Area

      Splash is a fantastic non-profit organization whose mission is to bring clean water and good hygiene practices to public schools in poor urban areas of India, Nepal, Ethiopia and more. Today they serve over 400,000 kids with a goal to increase this number to over a million school kids by 2023. Kids living in urban poverty regularly have little control or no choice about the water they consume. In a world where restaurants and hotels for tourists can get clean water anytime and anywhere, it is hard to imagine that kids in the same cities cannot. Splash works with foreign governments & builds local businesses to create safe water projects, at scale, in resource poor cities. The puzzle pieces already exist. They simply need to reconfigure them to create a more efficient, effective and equitable product. Splash begins with clean water at scale. Splash then add customized hygiene education services and broker key relationships to solve sanitation challenges. By piggybacking on technology and supply chains already in use by major food and hotel chains, we’re able to set a bold goal of 100% coverage of a platform (instead of simply a pilot project): every orphanage in China; every public school in Kathmandu, Nepal; every child-serving institution in Kolkata, India; and more. I am advising them on technology choices and implementation in regard to developing a reliable, scale-able, efficient, low cost, and low maintenance end to end data pipeline covering all aspects of data collection, reshaping, warehousing, reporting and analysis.

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    Levyx, Inc.

    • Strategic Advisor

      Jan 2019 - Jan 2020 · 1 yr 1 mo

      Levyx's technology is transforming the economics of real-time processing large-scale data sets. Capable of handling hundreds of millions (scaling to billions) of queries per second, Levyx's Helium product enables radical reductions in the amount of supporting infrastructure that is typically needed to process large volumes of data. Levyx makes the massive data processing power that was usually reserved for web-scale companies (who could afford it) and makes it accessible to the masses.

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    FocusVision

    • Chief Product (and development) Officer

      Apr 2018 - Nov 2018 · 8 mos·Portland, Oregon Metropolitan Area

      What we do: FocusVision offers the most comprehensive range of world-class tools available for the collection, analysis and dissemination of data. We are in a unique position to become the single source platform for behavioral, qualitative and survey data. Why we do it: To provide companies with the most flexible, secure, and productive research environment in the world, allowing them to improve their product or service in order to better serve their audience.

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    6 yrs 4 mos

    • Vice President, Product Development

      Oct 2015 - Apr 2018 · 2 yrs 7 mos

      In this role I am responsible for all engineering disciplines (Developers, Testers, Product Mgr, UX designers, Mobile) for the Tableau’s engineering teams covering Analytics, Visualization, Dashboarding, and client experiences (both rich desktop clients, in-browser and mobile). This represents about half of Tableau’s engineering team, which is now a 1000 strong. Over the last 2 years, I have grown the next generation of senior engineering and product management leaders for our engineering organization, establishing strong product and organization strategies and roadmap as well as inspiring to next evolution of our practices necessary to support our future growth.

    • Vice President, Program/Product Management

      Jan 2012 - Oct 2015 · 3 yrs 10 mos

      Through my tenure as Senior Director then VP of Product Management, I grew and built the Product management team from two initial hires to over 75 PMs by late 2015. This growth supported the introduction of Agile methodology at Tableau as well the introduction of our Feature teams structure. The experience gained with Reporting services allowed me to advise the existing development leadership team and shepherd this first major organizational transformation at Tableau. Through this time we also introduced Release management processes and moved our release cadence from yearly major releases to a more continuous quarterly release cycle. Through this period, the Development organization grew from 90 engineers to 800.

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    12 yrs 3 mos

    • Principal Group Program Manager

      Jan 2008 - Jan 2012 · 4 yrs 1 mo

      SQL Server Reporting Services – (Now PowerBI) This role oversees all aspects of program management for the SQL Server Reporting Services team’s deliverables in Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft Office and Microsoft Visual Studio releases Accomplishments • SQL Server Reporting Services in SQL 2008 R2 and 2012 delivered the second half of the new Self Services BI push introduced with PowerPivot. The team delivered two major releases in only 30 months introducing industry changing innovation for Information worker such a Power View (now PowerBI Visualization), Alerting, Report Component library and Report ATOM feeds. Meanwhile the team also brought the Report server assets to the cloud with the SQL Azure Reporting service which became live on November 2011. • Turned over a team of 15 PMs that had one of the lowest OHI score of the division and turned it around in a year.

    • Principal Engineering Group Manager

      Aug 2006 - Dec 2007 · 1 yr 5 mos

      SQL Server PowerPivot (now PowerBI) project This project became the one reason for Ted Kummert (SVP SQL Server) to create a new exceptional interim release (codename Kilimanjaro) between SQL 2008 and SQL11. The SQL Server 2008 R2 release was labeled the Self Service BI release and scheduled to sync up with Office 14. Power Pivot is now Power BI Data modeling experience. Accomplishments • Attracted, recruited and grew an incubation team of 20 covering all disciplines (Developers, Testers, Program Managers, User design). • Responsible for defining the long term strategies and roadmaps for incubation projects with the rest of the Microsoft BI stack. • Accountable for driving tactical steps to take incubation project into “productization” phase within 12 months. • The Gemini Project released with Office 2010/SQL Server 2008 R2 under the name PowerPivot which is described as one of the most innovative and industry-redefining Business Intelligence software application by analysts such as Gartner and IDC. It also received the eWeek 2010 Product of the Year Award along and next to the Apple Ipad. Microsoft EBC Achievements (EBC – Executive Briefing Center) • Outstanding customer Focus award 2007 • One Microsoft Award 2008 • Performance Excellence Award 2008 • Microsoft BI EBC Achievement award 2008

    • Lead Program Manager

      Jan 2001 - May 2002 · 1 yr 5 mos

      Role focused on the development of a new business and suite of products within the Office division. The Biz# project introduced a new line of Monitoring, Analysis and Planning capabilities that now ship as part of SharePoint Server. Accomplishments • Responsible for building the initial incubation team: Recruited industry veteran in the area of Financial reporting, Forecasting, planning, corporate performance management and built a feature team around them. • Developed a business model that covered engineering plans, sales force development, support implementation, licensing model.

    • Lead Program Manager

      Nov 1999 - Jul 2006 · 6 yrs 9 mos

      Occupied various role in the Microsoft Analysis Service program management team. Responsisle for the design of all the SSAS development and management tools. Responsible for product evangelisation

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    Hyperion Solution

    • Group Product Manager

      Sep 1997 - Oct 1999 · 2 yrs 2 mos

      Pivotal role accountable for finding new revenue opportunities and developing new emerging businesses to complement the product set and generate new growth for the company. Accomplishments • In charge of the new applications and product area • Managed team Product Managers, each responsible for designing and bringing a new product to market (Hyperion Business Rule designer, Hyperion Portal, Hyperion Call center analytics, Hyperion Profitability…) • Defined and organized a common Product management infrastructure for the company. This included defining the Product management curriculum, mission, role and processes in relation with the Marketing, Sales, Services and Development departments across all of our development sites and all of our projects and major product lines. • Responsible for the Hyperion OLAP 7.0 release (Called Hyperion MBA)

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    Hyperion Solution France

    • Consultant/Pre Sales

      Sep 1992 - Sep 1997 · 5 yrs 1 mo

      Working in the Hyperion French subsidiary, initially held role as a technical consultant, evolving to a Presales role and finally Consulting lead.

Education

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   ESIEA - École d'Ingénieur·e·s d'un numérique utileBS, Computer Science1987 - 1992

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