David Vincent

Different consulting missions for European companies (France, Spain , UK, Slovakia, Switzerland) on organization, change management, information management.

Transition & Change Management

Carried out 2 missions regarding management of conflict situations:
* For a Capital Ventures in Luxembourg in conflict with a start-up from their portfolio
* For a famous Swiss skipper in conflict with a polish shipyard

General Management of the Swiss and Polish subsidiaries
Management and leading of a team dispersed in Spain, Germany, Portugal, Poland and Switzerland
Definition and implementation of IT strategy, objectives and budgets connected with country general managers
Define, Guarantee and follow the security, reliability, confidentiality and integrity of information systems
Management of the hardware and software infrastructure in all countries
Management of data centers and Business Continuity (20 servers, Unix, Linux, FreeBSD)
Management of the development and roll-out of business applications (ERP-CRM-BI)
Organize, facilitate and follow consultations and exchanges between senior management and IT department
Define and guarantee the respect of SLA
Define and oversee the overall management and organization of the IS
Manage and arbitrate multidisciplinary projects involving geographically dispersed actors
Define and implement the policies of IT risk management, operations, security
Negotiate and monitor supplier's contracts and their implementation

Director of the mission to optimize telecommunications costs in the agencies of a major French bank on contractual, organization and procedures aspects.
Director of the mission of implementing and monitoring the plan for improving the reliability of the information systems of a large French oil group on technical, organization, risk management, measurement and monitoring of risks, in a SAP and Siebel environment.

Missions :
Start-up of the company specialized in Customer Relationship Management consulting services (help our customer to improve their client's relationship, organize and optimize their call centres)
Business development : definition and implementation of products, sales and marketing strategies, management of pre-sales and sales
Project Management and profitability
Recruitment, management and leading of the team (20 people)

Achievements :
1,5 M€ (Innovacom) and 2 M€ (CDC) of funds raising
Balanced Operating profit after 2 years.
Project manager for implementing a call center for a large French oil group.
Project manager for implementing a call center for an investment bank and investment.
Project manager for implementing a call center for a company to trace fresh produce for supermarkets.
Project manager for implementation of speech recognition IVR for reservation for a Paris taxi company.
Project manager for IT security implementation in UAE for french armoured fighting vehicle manufacturer.
Company sold.

Manage sales and delivering for EDF/GDF, Airbus, EADS and Lagardère Group
Management of partners
Covered 120% of sales objective (36MF)
3 years agreement contract with EDF-GDF for supplying PABX and network equipments for nuclear plants.

Missions : Business development
Project management with quality, profitability and change managements
Management of the team (20 people)
Achievements : Management of the roll-out of 6000 PC and 300 servers, and change management in the 66 factories of Nestlé in France
Management of the configuration and the roll-out of 300 Unix servers for the Intranet of France Telecom (100% of success on deployment)

Recruitment, management and leading of the team
Definition and implementation of IT strategy related to the group's IT strategy in UK connected with local senior managers
Define, guarantee and follow the security, reliability, confidentiality and integrity of information systems
Supply Chain management
Network Infrastructure Transition
Implementation of a disaster recovery plan