David Maisonneuve is a 32-year-old French engineer with over 15 years of experience managing water networks in India and China. He has extensive experience implementing tools to reduce non-revenue water and optimize costs. Currently he is the Manager of Networks for Nangloi Water Services in New Delhi, India, overseeing a team of 10-12 people and responsible for all technical issues related to drinking water management. Previously he held technical management roles in China, implementing best practices and overseeing technical assistance teams. He has a diploma in environmental engineering from Ecole des Mines de Nantes and is fluent in French, English, and conversational Chinese.

1. 32 years old ◄►French◄►India - New Delhi◄◄► International Mobility ◄► Driving license
: david.maisonneuve@veolia.com
: https://www.linkedin.com/pub/david-maisonneuve/34/104/803/en
: +91 81 303 94 796 ; +33 6 08 47 29 79
SKILLS & Achievements
►Team Management: Management & Coordination of Multicultural Technical Team: ~10 people. India/China
►Cost Savings: 8.3 MRMB (1M€) electricity savings / 47MRMB Total Cost.
Non Revenue Water assessment (NRW), reduction, follow-up: 31% to 20% in 3 years.
►Project Coordination: Short & Long term transversal projects management: Technical Direction, Technical Dpt
& Customer Service. Meter accuracy assessment and techno-economic replacement:
1.8MRMB investment – 5.1MRMB yearly additional revenue.
►Flexibility: Worked in several Chinese joint ventures, in India Public-Private Partnership company,
very different contexts and sets of problematic, being often only foreigner in my team.
► Performance driven: Key Performance Indicators selection, assessment and follow up, ex: NRW management
(NRW %, authorized volume…), Water Network monitoring (unit losses, repair delay…).
►Accountability◄►Commercial awareness◄►Adv.Water Engineering◄►Problem solving◄►Health &Safety focus◄
FRENCH (mother tongue) ◄►ENGLISH (fluent) ◄►CHINESE (Conversational)◄►GERMAN, ROMANIAN
(Bases)
Experience
►January 2015: Manager Network – Nangloi Water Services – Veolia.
– Municipal Concession ◄► 1 Million Customers
Main responsibility:
Responsible of all technical issues related to Drinking Water Management in NWS including: supervise and follow
up technical and design team support (10-12 people), provide technical support to all NWS operation departments,
Non Revenue Water Management, definition and implementation of drinking water network management tools,
definition of technical standards, and supervision of R&D activities.
Responsibilities typically include:
 Implement Non Revenue Water Management tools, train NWS departments and operations in
understanding NRW concept, support all departments and operations in reduction of NRW.
 Responsible for implementation of Veolia Technical and Operational good practices in NWS.
 Responsible for ensuring proper technical control of all NWS network operations.
 Responsible for providing technical support to optimize all NWS costs.
 Responsible for implementation of Veolia Underground Asset Management Standards in NWS.
 Responsible for reviewing and validating Technical reporting for NWS.
 Implement Technical standards as per Veolia regional, zonal, and headquarters requirements.
 Responsible for supervising all technical aspects regarding Research & Development on drinking water
network operation.
 Provide extensive technical support to all NWS Operations and Departments on specific tasks upon
request.
 Fulfill other tasks required by Supervisor and Company.

2. ►Sep.2012 – Dec.2014: Technical Assistance Manager – Tianjin Jinbin – Veolia.
– Municipal Concession ◄► 3 Million Customers
Main responsibility:
Supervise the technical support of the joint venture company, 8 to 10 people team, provide technical expertise and
added value, implement good practices and management tools in drinking water network operation and power
consumption optimizations.
Responsibilities typically include:
 Supervise and follow up Technical Assistance team, consolidate technical assistance tasks & results,
establish yearly technical supporting report.
 Globally follow up of alignment plan implementation.
 Consolidate monthly performance report of JVC.
 Implement high standard of drinking water network operation reporting
 Supervise the implementation of network integrated management systems
 Supervise energy savings projects and energy optimization
 Supervise Non Revenue Water management system implementation
 Provide support to the operation and technical department on specific tasks upon request
 Fulfil other tasks and objectives required by supervisor and company
►Sep.2010 – Sep.2012: Technical Assistance Engineer – Tianjin Jinbin Veolia Water – Veolia.
– Municipal Concession ◄► 3 Million Customers
Main responsibility:
Supervise the technical support to the operation and technical department of the joint venture company to
implement good practices and management tools in drinking water network operation.
Responsibilities typically include:
 Implement high standard of drinking water network operation reporting
 Supervise the implementation of network integrated management systems and improvement action plans
including: hydraulic models, GIS, network zoning, non revenue water management, and network asset
management
 Implement a non revenue water management system:
 Train JVC technical staff about the NRW concept (all its categories)
 Quantify each category of NRW
 Draw up NRW mid-term reduction plan (3-5 years)
 Implement customer metering improvement plan including: key account, big meters, medium meters and
small meters
 Provide support to the operation and technical department on specific tasks upon request
 Fulfil other tasks and objectives required by supervisor and company
►Oct.2007 – Sep.2010: Network Engineer – Veolia Lanzhou Water Company – Veolia.
– Municipal Concession ◄► 3 Million Customers
Main responsibility:
Implement advanced Water Network management tools (Hydraulic model, GIS, advanced asset management,
meter renewal plan and assessment), train local teams and hand over.
►Feb.2007 – Sep.2007: Technical Direction Engineer – Shanghai Network Management Team – Veolia.
– Support to Operations ◄►10 municipal projects
Main responsibility:
Support Municipal Concessions project upon request, mostly on hydraulic modelling and pumping issues.
References
 Nicolas Lejeune 2010 – 2015 nicolas.lejeune@veolia.com
 Yang Xiaohui 2010 – 2015 nicolas.yang@veolia.com
 Marcel Gaborel 2011 – 2015 marcel.gaborel@veolia.com
 Guillaume Clisson 2013 – 2015 guillaume.clisson@veolia.com
 Eric Burlion 2007 – 2010 eric.burlion@veolia.com
 Laurent Pelletier 2007 – 2010 laurent.pelletier@veolia.com
 LinkedIn endorsements, online references, reference letters : scan QR code ►

3. EDUCATION, DIPLOMAS, trainings
►2002 - 2006: Ecole des Mines de Nantes. Engineer diploma - presentation link.
 2 years of initial formation (sciences knowledge development, quality, management).
 2 years of specialization in Environmental Engineering (water, air, waste).
Environmental engineering is one of the two major areas of excellence of the school.
►Internal trainings in Veolia Training centers (Shanghai, Seoul, Guangzhou, Changzhou).
 Advanced water management
 Advanced leakage detection
 Pumping and costs excellence
 Advanced Team Management and Leadership
 Financial awareness and operational finance
 Project Development
►Computer sciences:
 Hydraulic engineering & mapping software advanced user (AutoCAD, Epanet, GIS, water logger software).
 Office software advanced user & Trainer (Word, Excel, PowerPoint).
 Other software operational user (Sketch up, Photoshop, Access, Visio, Project
INTERESTS
►Outside - Sports: Badminton, basketball (following NBA & playing), regular treks (mountains, seaside,
countryside…) and tentative yearly extended autonomous trek > 1 week, biweekly
swimming.
►In & Out - Music: French scene, rock 70, reggae, Balkan music, old jazz. Numerous concerts and festivals.
►Inside - Reading: Classic French novels of 18th/19th/20th century with a special taste for Alexandre Dumas,
heroic fantasy – even before it came all over screens, thrillers. Some philosophical essays
to think deep, but not that often.
►Inside - Cooking: Passion of cooking, daily when possible; take advantage of weekends to gather and
prepare group meal, much challenging and satisfying! One drawback : cooking instruments
are invasive. They are.
“Skills can be taught. What cannot be taught is a great “can do” attitude.” ― Beth Ramsay
“Be a Person. Not a Resume.” ― Sharad Vivek Sagar