{"id":4640,"date":"2023-09-25T18:47:07","date_gmt":"2023-09-25T16:47:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.outscale.com\/victoire-team-leader-in-a-development-team\/"},"modified":"2023-09-25T19:02:55","modified_gmt":"2023-09-25T17:02:55","slug":"victoire-team-leader-in-a-development-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.outscale.com\/en\/victoire-team-leader-in-a-development-team\/","title":{"rendered":"Victoire: Team Leader in a development team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>With a scientific background, I first obtained a Bac S specializing in Mathematics, before joining the ISEN engineering school in Lille with an integrated preparatory course, specializing in Robotics, with a focus on Software Development and AI. During my studies, I did several internships in robotics in laboratories and companies.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I chose to pursue a career in technology at a very early age. I wanted to help people who were suffering in particular as a result of life&#8217;s accidents, or who were born with deformities that could be improved or resolved thanks to technology. This idea came to me after watching a report on post-war Vietnam. It showed children who, in order to survive, had to work and live near land infested with anti-personnel mines. According to the report, young children and adults ended up stepping on these mines and losing the use of a limb. I felt a deep sense of injustice for these people, who were not responsible for this war and who are still suffering such consequences today.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>The myth of a &#8220;purely&#8221; technical job<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Today, I&#8217;m Team Leader of an R&amp;D development team. My responsibilities include organizing the team&#8217;s work to meet the various needs of our product development, and making decisions about the progress of projects. I&#8217;m involved in all phases of the project, as well as taking part in technical developments. I also try to challenge ideas and maintain a good atmosphere within the group.<\/p>\n<p>My job gives me great satisfaction and I&#8217;m glad I chose it. I love what I do every day. I like the interaction with the team and teamwork&#8230; Solving problems and finding solutions&#8230; Developing a product to make it more efficient and innovative&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I really feel I&#8217;ve found a place where I feel useful and where my skills can be of use to others.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dealing with entrenched stereotypes<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Despite my rather positive experience of the job, I did encounter a few difficulties, mainly due to the fact that my work wasn&#8217;t always taken seriously. For example, during technical meetings with men, I was particularly shocked by the lack of credibility given to my presentations and answers to questions. To put it more clearly, when I presented our needs, the person opposite me from a partner company would turn to my male colleague to validate everything I was saying. I found this behavior extremely unpleasant and, above all, it&#8217;s important to know that this type of situation is a blow to one&#8217;s self-confidence.<\/p>\n<p>Finding a job where I was finally respected enabled me to face up to these situations and overcome them emotionally. The kindness of the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.outscale.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">3DS OUTSCALE<\/a> staff really helped me to feel at ease in my job and in my profession. I met some wonderful people who helped me to grow and develop.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>A word for women looking to work in the Tech sector<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Technical professions and the tech sector more generally are generally dominated by men, and yet it&#8217;s a field of activity just like any other! If you like technology, if you like software development, there&#8217;s no difference between a man and a woman. We all have the same abilities and the same opportunities to do a great job!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With a scientific background, I first obtained a Bac S specializing in Mathematics, before joining the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":2712,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[370],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-outscale-for-women"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.outscale.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.outscale.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.outscale.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.outscale.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.outscale.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4640"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.outscale.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4640\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4650,"href":"https:\/\/blog.outscale.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4640\/revisions\/4650"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.outscale.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.outscale.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.outscale.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.outscale.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}