Denis WOLFF*

Consultant Systèmes d'Information / Directeur de projet-programme, SYNCHRONE TEC

95HerblayÎle-de-France - France

Throughout my professional life, I developped three main experiences :
1. Globaly managed Information System in relation with the business strategy and company development
2. Managed IS and IT projects in relation with business and end-users
3. Prepared and implemented outsourcing contract and the suitable organisation

Denis  WOLFF*
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Since 2007

• Building of services offers in relation with the commercial and sales team (shared services center, fixed sum activities, …)
• SILCA (IT Production for Credit Agricole Group) - Integration of two affiliates (SOFINCO and FINAREF) into deliveries offered by SILCA (scope : desktop services, desktop engineering …)
• Société Générale - Due to an important reengineering of IT infrastructures activities, support for the implementation of Service Center process
• Société Générale : Process definition for project management in term of budget authorization and monthly budget report
• Société Générale : Due to the creation of shared services, development and deployment of an outsourcing contract regarding service desk and proximity activities in an European scope in banking sector

Computer services
Professional experience
2006 - 2007

• First analysis for an IT outsourcing opportunity study with the CIO of an international company in food processing activity sector
• First analysis for centralisation of IT activities with the CIO of an international company in automotive activity sector
• First analysis for IT support organisation with the CIO of an international company in transportation and logistics activity sector
• Coaching of unemployed people and recruitment activities for a non-profit-making organization

Computer services
2004 - 2006

• Steelcase International, responsible of outsourcing contract covering all IT activities (HelpDesk, Infrastructure Management, Application Management, Asset management, Distributed Services, …) on EMEA
- Transition and organization of the day to day services
- Management of technical teams (60 people), installed on several sites (Strasbourg, Paris area, Madrid),
- Management of the budget (5M€ per year + projects)
- Assistance to Steelcase on standardisation of IT architecture and process
• TOTAL, responsible for outsourcing contract, in European SAP production and other tools around SAP (CRM, EAI, E-procurement, …)
- Customer relationship
- Outsourcing contract development
- Project management for production integration
- Management of technical activities in relation with delivery team (180 people)

Computer services
2003 - 2004

Development of information systems management in time-sharing
- IT strategy
- Project management
- Audit and IT development plan
- Outsourcing

Not for profit associations
1986 - 2002

1999- 2002 INFORMATION SYSTEM MANAGER

Led and coordinated the IS team (5 people) and the subcontractors (40 people)
Handled IT budget (6M€)
Functional and technical user assistance (Link between the functional and operational department and the IT team)

1. IS department Management
Responsible for the management of the information system in a distributed organization (25 sites located in France/Belgium/Spain/Germany, 40 servers, 700 PC) and in a global outsourcing context (EDS, SAP Competence Center and Cap Gémini)
• Guarantied the availability, coherence, integrity and evolution of the information system (organization, processes, technical architecture, specific software, SAP)
• Managed the outsourcing contract and follow up the IT services
• Created, led and coordinated a business working group to define the information system evolutions

2. Studies and projects
• Performed the evolution plan for the I.S (Risk analysis due to the old technologies, Gap analysis between current organization and organization defined by SAP, Project organisation in quality management SAP/QM, sales management and logistic integration SAP/SD and SAP/BW, human resources management ZADIG)
• Participated in the definition and roll-out of the new IT organization for France-Belgium : 4 big companies, 3 businesses, 2 countries (preparation of the main projects : WAN, outsourcing contract, hardware and software assets management, integration system)
• Performed IT costs reduction (-40% on the outsourcing contract for the 5 next years)
• Defined the communication tools (E-mail, Intranet)
• Performed the compatibility of the Information System for Euro

3. Affiliated companies assistance
• Tratel (Transportation company)
- Defined and rolled out of the outsourcing contract
- Assisted in Project management
• Socli (Lime producer)
- Organized and defined the SAP project

1996 – 1999 FUNCTIONAL CONSULTANT
Led and coordinated subcontractors (20 people)
SAP project (FI, CO, MM, PP, PM modules)
• Member of the international working group for the group rules definition
• User assistance for the business process definition
• Responsible for the data migration
• Responsible for integration system and for the system integrity

IS department activities and follow up the outsourcing contract
• Responsible of the outsourcing contract part for software maintenance and functional project
• Defined and managed the budget for software maintenance and functional project
• Made suggestion to the operational and functional department for the evolution of their organization and means of working with the information system

Project management
• Assisted the functional and operational department (Link with the IT team, assistance to definition of needs and validation of the deliveries)
• Responsible for the evolution and the coherence of the information system (main projects : Year 2000, Euro, real estate management and geographic information system, assistance tools for decision, ...)
• Led users club (experience exchange, identification of new needs, definition of user specifications, ...)
• Final choice of solutions and order the subcontractor to realize the solution, follow up the realization and control of the quality, cost and planning

Affiliated companies assistance
• Adviser then, responsible for the roll-out of an ERP project
• Coordinator for information exchanges between Ciments CALCIA and its affiliates

1986 – 1996 PROJECT MANAGER
Responsible for administrative and financial software

Management activities
• Definition and follow up budget
• Management of the team with internal people (2) and subcontractors (7)

Studies and projects
• Project management, writing of user specifications, analysis of the needs, management of the development team, software roll-out, end-users training :
- Material management (Supplying, Purchasing, Stock, Delivery, ...), Legal and auxiliary accounting : software SIGA/GIP Finance, Cost control, Plant maintenance management, Data wareho

Construction materials
1979 - 1982

Computer services
Education
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