Guillaume GERARD
Services Delivery Manager, NextDocs Corporation, Lyon, France
Services delivery manager. Responsibilities:
- Management of international team of Project Managers and Consultants to implement document and quality management systems for life-sciences companies in Europe. In charge of recruitement, people management and appraisal, project staffing and success, and meeting revenue targets.
- Account management and business development for France and Southern EU. (Including management of entire sales cycle from lead generation to closure.)
Specialties
- Strong technical background combined with project management and delivery skills.
- Management of consulting teams.
- Business Development and Account Management.
- Management of Sales cycle.
- Interaction with local partner companies.
34 contacts- In charge of a team of Project Managers and Consultants to implement the NextDocs document and quality management system in Europe. Set-up the initial consulting team in EU, and administrative entity in France.
- In charge of account management and business development for France and Southern EU
2007 - 2009Consultant at NextDocs Corporation. In charge of global implementations of the NextDocs Electronic Document Management System.
2005 - 2007Major infrastructure consulting company
• La Poste (the French Post Office):
o Managed the flagship national project of LANs security improvement.
o Designed and developed an error-handling mechanism within Internet Explorer for end users when communicating to corporate intranet applications.
• Ouest France (leading French newspaper):
o Managed the integration of an Identity and Access Management solution in the company information systems (Calendra from BMC).
o Designed workflows and customized the application to fit customer requirements.
o Implemented mechanisms to provide provisioning on an Active Directory and interfacing with corporate appliances.
• CHU Angers (Hospital and Medical Research center):
Developed a tool to perform provisioning on an Active Directory system (as part of the integration of the Access Master security directory)
• Bureau Veritas:
Packaged company applications for distribution through the corporate software distribution system (Unicenter)
2004 - 2004Major French consulting company
• Société Générale (leading French bank / 80000 employees worldwide):
o Set up the company Public Key Infrastructure (PKI).
o Specified and developed a Java applet to manage smart cards and the billing system for generated digital certificates.
• Société Générale Asset Management (SGAM):
o Set up a kit to securely connect roaming laptops to the information system.
o Performed technical and financial analysis of Internet roaming solutions.
o Deployed the solution over 200 laptops.
2003 - 2003Manufacturer of blood cell analyzers
Designed and developed a wrapper to provide a distributed application with competitor’s devices connectivity.
2002 - 2002Manufacturer of hi-tech electrical relays
o Designed and developed an embedded system to synchronize interconnected relays with the GPS.
o Designed a uC electronic card and developed the embedded software.
