David Vincent
Consultant, Freelance
• Entrepreneur
• 20 years practical experience in the areas of executive management, business development, IT, telecommunications, consulting services, marketing and sales in multi-national and multi-cultural companies
• Result-driven, hands-on executive with a significant change management background.
• Proven experience managing cross-initiative integration opportunities and dependencies from a change management perspective
• Strong leadership, motivational and organizational skills/potential.
• Strong executive presence with good relationship building and interpersonal skills.
• Strong personal and professional values.
• Very good leadership and communications skills
• Proactive attitude at linking new technologies, enhanced or new applications and modified processes with current and future business needs. A passionate advocate when needed
• Persistent but flexible approach to the mutually beneficial achievement of corporate business needs and objectives of staff, suppliers and customers (internal and external)
• Vast experience in project management and business continuity
• Vast experience in Customer Relationship Management
Do not hesitate to contact me ( envahisseur@gmail.com )
8 contactsDifferent consulting missions for European companies (France, Spain , UK, Slovakia, Switzerland) on organization, change management, information management.
2004 - 2010Missions :
Business development across Spain, Germany, Portugal, Switzerland and Poland
Management of the Swiss and Polish subsidiaries (30 people)
Definition and implementation of IT strategy
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
Guarantee the reliability, confidentiality and integrity of information systems
Negotiate and monitor supplier's contracts and their implementation
Key figures:
Incomes (12M€ in Spain, 4M€ in Germany, 500k€ in Portugal)
Balanced Operating profit
Opening of 40 agencies in Europe (Spain, Portugal, Germany)
2003 - 2004Total GAZ - (Paris la Défense) - Security audit and recommendations for the Unix Server infrastructure
Société Générale (Paris la Défense) Define the infrastructure and the organization of the call center to manage calls overflow in all agencies in France
2000 - 2003Missions :
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 centers)
Business development : definition and implementation of products, sales and marketing strategies, management of pre-sales and sales
Project Management and profitability
Recruitment, management of the team (20 people)
Achievements :
1,5 M€ (Innovacom) and 2 M€ (CDC) of funds raising
Balanced Operating profit after 2 years
Company sold
1999 - 2000Missions: Manage sales and delivering for EDF/GDF, Airbus, EADS and Lagardère Group
Achievements: Covered 120% of sales objective
1997 - 1999Missions : 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)
1995 - 1997Missions : Recruitment, management of the team (5 people)
Definition and Management of the budget
Project Management
Supply Chain management
Deployment, maintenance and support for the applications, LAN and WAN
Definition of the IT strategy with the board and the IT manager in the UK
Implementation of a disaster recovery plan
Achievements : ATM network deployment
Unix platform deployment
IT and network installation of the whole new warehouse
Technical environments: IBM ATM infrastructure
AS/400
Unix AIX
Windows NT Server & workstation
