About me
WORK IN PROGRESS!!!
My Skills
Assistant Editor
In business and engineering, new product development covers the complete process of bringing a new product to market.
iOS Development
Business development entails tasks and processes to develop and implement growth opportunities within and between organizations.
Independent Filmmaker
Project management is the practice of initiating, planning, executing, controlling, and closing the work of a team to achieve specific goals and meet success criteria at the time.
IT & Cloud
Agile is a repetitive approach to project delivery. Your team delivers multiple smaller steps from the start, instead of delivering everything at the end.
Education
Directing & Producing Science & Natural History - MA
National Film & Television School
Geophysics with Study Abroad - MSci
University of Southampton
TV & Film
Broadcast Credits
Croc Watch / Hippo Watch
Edit Assistant - True to Nature
Planned and implemented workflow for the show, with guidance from Evoloutions post house. Workflow included DIT, ingest, syncmaps, logging, assemblies, online and archive to LTO.
Whale with Steve Backshall
Edit Assistant - True to Nature
Planned and implemented workflow for the show, with guidance from Films @ 59 post house. Workflow included DIT, ingest, syncmaps, logging, assemblies, online and archive to LTO.
Night Coppers
Edit Assistant - Blast! By The Sea
Worked with other edit assistants and an edit producer to create rough assemblies of all stories shot by the various shooting teams.
These rough assemblies (along with logs) were then used by the series producer to assign stories to each episode editor & edit producer.
Dinosaurs: The Final Day with David Attenborough
Edit Assistant - BBC Studios
Responsible for coordinating between the offline edit and VFX vendors.
Tasked with ingesting storyboards, exporting storyboard cuts and plates to VFX vendors, and replacing updated VFX material in the offline cut.
Film Credits
PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT
American Express / Aug 2018 - Present
Product lead for the Digital New Card Application across 7 countries. Partnered with GFK Market Research to conduct international user studies to determine core MVP features, plus long-term optimizations.
DIGITAL PRODUCT MANAGER
HP Inc. / May 2016 - Jul 2017
Co-created HP’s consumer PC-as-a-Service eCommerce subscription business from zero to public in 6 months. Collaborated with HP’s external finance partner to build and scale the subscription business.
TECHNICAL PROJECT MANAGER
Hewlett-Packard / Aug 2014 - May 2016
Designed, executed, and implemented an end-to-end big data analytics dashboard built on HP’s Vertica architecture. Enabled Net Promoter Score growth of HP’s top 10 enterprise accounts by over 60%.
Filmmaker
Personal Projects
PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT
American Express / Aug 2018 - Present
Product lead for the Digital New Card Application across 7 countries. Partnered with GFK Market Research to conduct international user studies to determine core MVP features, plus long-term optimizations.
DIGITAL PRODUCT MANAGER
HP Inc. / May 2016 - Jul 2017
Co-created HP’s consumer PC-as-a-Service eCommerce subscription business from zero to public in 6 months. Collaborated with HP’s external finance partner to build and scale the subscription business.
TECHNICAL PROJECT MANAGER
Hewlett-Packard / Aug 2014 - May 2016
Designed, executed, and implemented an end-to-end big data analytics dashboard built on HP’s Vertica architecture. Enabled Net Promoter Score growth of HP’s top 10 enterprise accounts by over 60%.
Tech & IT
Certificates
LEADERSHIP EXCELLENCE
Harvard University / 2018
RISK MANAGEMENT
Stanford University / 2017
My Skills
PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT
In business and engineering, new product development covers the complete process of bringing a new product to market.
BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT
Business development entails tasks and processes to develop and implement growth opportunities within and between organizations.
PROJECT MANAGEMENT
Project management is the practice of initiating, planning, executing, controlling, and closing the work of a team to achieve specific goals and meet success criteria at the time.
AGILE WORKFLOW
Agile is a repetitive approach to project delivery. Your team delivers multiple smaller steps from the start, instead of delivering everything at the end.
"Laurent is one of the most talented, creative and easy to get along with digital product leader, who really brought in an impact into our company."
Hewlett-Packard, Nancy Blake