Cartier · Boucheron · now MDE
Every engagement closes with a detailed non-conformity report, root cause analysis and corrective recommendations.
Inspection that traces back to the source.
The approach
The aim is not to sort pieces, it is to stop the defect coming back. Inspection happens at every stage of production and on incoming goods. Every non-conformity found opens onto something wider: understand where it started, adjust the process, prevent the repeat.
The deliverables
A document built around each non-conformity, with visual record, precise technical description, analysis and recommendation. A deliverable that travels between the bench, management and the end client, and becomes a shared language.
The extensions
Incoming inspection of supplier deliveries, before manufacturing starts. Direct interface work as well: setting inspection conditions, specifying tolerances, explaining requirements on the supplier side, escalating points of disagreement. Gemstone control backed by gemmological qualification (FGA).
I would rather build dialogue between the workshop and the client than hand down penalties.
Mobility
One-off or recurring engagements. On-site work with clients, manufacturers and suppliers. French and English. Pforzheim, Valenza, Antwerp, Le Locle…
At the heart of luxury and high jewellery.
Since 2026
Independent consultant in quality transformation
2024 — 2026
Quality Lead · Jewellery, Fine and High Jewellery
2023
Quality Control · Coloured Gemstones
2022 — 2023
Head of Jewellery · Appraisal and auction sales
Certifications & Training
Gem-A · The Gemmological Association of Great Britain · London
Certified training programme
In jewellery manufacturing, quality is invoked everywhere and built rarely. The departments exist. The certifications pile up. So do the procedures. And still the gap holds, between what the documentation describes and what actually happens at the bench.
The problem is not a lack of rigour. It is the absence of a system that produces quality by construction, instead of catching it at the end of the line. The distance between the maison as it imagines itself and the maison as it runs.
Most manufacturers think they have a procedures problem. Almost always, what they have is a dialogue problem between the bench and management.
That gap is the one I come to close.
Five axes that structure my observation, in inspection as in structuring.
understand before structuring, structure before documenting, document before the conversation starts.
F1 Understand how the organisation actually works before prescribing anything.
F2 Translate ISO 9001 requirements into concrete, workable constraints.
F3 Build the indicators that let you see it coming.
F4 Capture the craft without freezing it. Documents that serve the bench.
F5 Create the conditions for what the floor knows to reach management without friction.
A first look at the quality maturity of your organisation, in 15 minutes.
25 questions organised around the 5 Foundations. Within two working days you receive a personal reading written from your answers: where you stand on each of the five Foundations, whether fragile, developing, vigilant or solid, the zones to watch and the priority levers.
No commitment. No automated sales sequence.
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