A vocational baccalaureate in Commerce
It all starts in Loos, at Notre-Dame du Sacré-Cœur, with a Bac Pro in Commerce, from 2018 to 2020.
I'm Romain. Available right now, in Montréal.
The web came after commerce. Field hockey never left the calendar.
2018–2020
Vocational baccalaureate in Commerce (Bac Pro)
Notre-Dame du Sacré-Cœur, Loos
Where I come from2020–2023
Bachelor's in Marketing and Digital Communication
Efficom, Lille
Where I come from2020–2026
Field hockey referee and coach
Lille Hockey Club
Hockey2022–2024
Web designer and developer
WaterRower, Tourcoing
WaterRower2024–2026
Master's in Marketing and Digital Communication
Efficom, Lille
Where I come from2024–2026
Webmaster / Product Owner
Sofinco, Roubaix
SofincoToday
Montréal
Available now
MontréalChapter 02 — Loos, then Lille, from 2018 to today
I didn't start with the web: I started with a vocational baccalaureate in Commerce, then moved into marketing and digital communication. The web showed up along the way, and it stayed.
It all starts in Loos, at Notre-Dame du Sacré-Cœur, with a Bac Pro in Commerce, from 2018 to 2020.
Then Efficom, in Lille. First a Bachelor's (Bac+3) in marketing and digital communication, from 2020 to 2023. Then a Master's (Bac+5) in the same field, from 2024 to 2026.
In November 2022, I became a web designer and developer at WaterRower, in Tourcoing: a real site, followed across more than 600,000 sessions a year. The rest is in the next chapter.
Marketing and digital communication led me to the web. It was by working on a real website, at WaterRower, that the web became my job.
Chapter 03 — Tourcoing, from November 2022 to October 2024
WaterRower (NOHRD) makes premium fitness equipment. From November 2022 to October 2024, in Tourcoing, I was the web designer and developer of its website, waterrower.fr.
I learned HTML, CSS and JavaScript by applying them: designing, customizing and maintaining web pages, with real front-end development experience.
I managed and improved waterrower.fr end to end: restructuring the navigation (−20% drop-off rate on product pages), speeding up pages, making sure everything looked right on every device.
+35%
page speed

I built and managed more than 30 product and transactional pages on Magento. Layouts were A/B tested: you don't guess what works, you measure it.
+15%
add-to-cart rate
+12%
average order value
I tracked more than 600,000 sessions a year with Google Analytics and Hotjar, and delivered a monthly performance report with concrete recommendations for stakeholders.
To set the site's roadmap and quarterly OKRs, I gathered requirements in more than ten interviews with those same stakeholders.
I led yafit-studios.com from start to finish: scoping workshops, user stories, functional then visual mockups in Figma, and development on Webflow. More than 5,000 visits in the first month.

WaterRower is my first real website: real visitors and numbers to read every month. Yafit showed me the whole path, from the scoping workshop to launch, in eight weeks.
Chapter 04 — Roubaix, from September 2024 to September 2026
Sofinco is part of CA Consumer Finance, inside the Crédit Agricole group. Its website, sofinco.fr, gets more than fifteen million visitors a year. For two years, I was its webmaster and its Product Owner.
A site this size needs daily upkeep: content to update, pages to build and consistency to keep across more than 600 pages, all living in the Jahia CMS.
When a page needed more than text, I went into code: HTML and CSS to bring in images, video and Lottie animations.
Then came the redesign, which I led end to end: reviewing the content of more than 600 pages, rethinking the information architecture, optimizing SEO, refreshing the design.
Within six months, organic traffic was up 30% and the bounce rate was down 18%.
+30%
organic traffic in six months
more than 600
pages redesigned

Redesigning a site is one thing. Knowing what people do on it is better. I analyzed more than 500,000 sessions a month on the credit journeys with Google Analytics, ContentSquare and Eulerian: conversion funnels, heatmaps, multi-touch attribution.
I spotted more than fifteen friction points. Once they were fixed, the conversion rate rose by 22%.
+22%
conversion rate, after fixing more than fifteen friction points

Average load time went from 4.2 to 2.1 seconds.
To make it hold everywhere, I ran QA continuously: technical tests, debugging sessions and cross-browser audits.
2.1 s
average load time, down from 4.2 s
For two years, I coordinated four teams (Marketing, IT, Content, UX/UI) in two-week sprints: more than 50 user stories, 12 releases shipped on time. On the quality side, more than 200 tests across about ten device types, and a mobile Core Web Vitals score that went from 65 to 92.
Before touching any code, I drew: more than twenty Figma mockups and prototypes to validate the experience before development.
Part of search now runs through AI. I rolled out a GEO strategy, meaning I worked on the site's visibility in generative search (ChatGPT, Gemini, Google AI Overviews), along with AI-assisted content workflows to produce faster.
Recurring reports are automated with N8N and Make: fewer manual steps, fewer errors.
Alongside, I also led, as project lead, the content redesign of pro.sofinco.fr, the B2B platform for professional partners.
A new information architecture designed for SEO, page templates, refreshed visuals. It meant coordinating design, content and IT, with no interruption of service.

I also ran regular SEO audits and performance reviews on several other sites.
On a site visited by more than 15 million people a year, decisions rest on measurements and tests. Above all, I learned to coordinate very different teams around a single backlog.
Chapter 05 — Lille Hockey Club, from 2020 to 2026
Since 2020, there has been field hockey. I play, I coach and I referee, at Lille Hockey Club and for the French Field Hockey Federation. It's where I learned to lead.
I coach players of all ages and all levels, from U6–U12 up to seniors. I hold two official coaching diplomas.
2
official coaching diplomas
I referee at the highest French national levels, in the Women's Elite league and the Men's Nationale 1, and in international tournaments: the Junior Nations Cup.

Coaching and refereeing are two ways of leading. I developed leadership, team management, decision-making and communication under pressure.
Deciding quickly, staying calm when things heat up, getting people to play together: I use the same reflexes when I coordinate a project team.
Chapter 06 — What I keep within reach
My tools, sorted by use.
I'm a Product Owner: I run the backlog in Jira, write the user stories, set the roadmap and work in Scrum, in two-week sprints.
I build in HTML, CSS and JavaScript, with REST APIs when needed, on Jahia, Webflow, WordPress and Magento.
I also take care of what makes a site findable, fast and accessible: technical and on-page SEO, GEO, Core Web Vitals and Lighthouse. I know the WCAG standards and I can write accessible content; this site itself aims for level AA.
Google Analytics (GA4), ContentSquare, Eulerian and Hotjar to understand what visitors do. Cross-browser testing to check that everything holds. Figma and the Adobe suite to draw before building.
Claude Code, ChatGPT and Gemini to produce faster, GitHub Copilot to code, N8N and Make to automate whatever repeats.
Coordinating teams, listening, adapting, solving problems before they grow: I work on these as much as on tools.
I work in French, my native language, and in English, at a professional level.
Chapter 07 — Recently settled, available right now
I've just settled in Montréal, on a working holiday permit (PVT/IEC). I'm authorized to work in Canada and available immediately.
A role as a webmaster, Product Owner or digital project manager.
What I bring: nearly four years creating, managing and optimizing high-traffic websites, from backlog to launch, and the habit of coordinating teams.
The NFL and the NBA.
more than 10
countries visited
I'm available immediately. I'm looking for a team where I can lead and build websites, from the idea to launch.
If that sounds right, write to me: my details are just below.
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Available right now, in Montréal.