France

In France the COSMIC organization is represented by Patrick Hamon and Hassan Soubra.
With 35 years of experience in software engineering, Patrick Hamon is an expert in software development, sizing and estimation best practices. Patrick guides large companies through application outsourcing management and software project estimation, especially for the use of artificial intelligence techniques.
Patrick graduated with a master’s degree in Computer Science (1986), a master’s degree in Artificial Intelligence (1987) and a degree in Business Management in 2005.
Patrick Hamon and his team are deeply involved in promoting Cosmic on the french speaking market, and help translate the methodology, provide training and certification services.
You can contact Patrick at patrick.hamon(at)cosmic-sizing.org.
Hassan SOUBRA is currently Associate Professor and head of the Digital Transformation & Innovation Engineering program at école centrale d’électronique, ECE-Lyon, which is part of OMNES Education, a leader in private higher education.
Hassan is a member of the Measurement Practices Committee at COSMIC since 2012 and has more than 15 years of experience in COSMIC Software measurement and measurement automation both in research and in the industry. He had worked on COSMIC measurement automation at Renault SA and contributed to COSMIC projects at several European, Asian and North American OEMs and suppliers as a consultant.
Dr. SOUBRA holds a bachelor in computer hardware engineering from École Supérieure des Ingénieurs de Rennes-ESIR (Rennes, FR), a master‘s degree in critical computer systems and networks from Institut National Polytechnique-INPT (Toulouse, FR) and a PhD in Software Engineering from École de Technologie Supérieure-ETS (Montreal, QC, CA).You can contact Hassan at [email protected].