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Keyrus
- Chief Information Officer
Levallois-Perret
2007 - maintenant
Conducted an information systems audit and established the company’s worldwide IT strategy throughout seven countries (Belgium, Brazil, Canada, France, Israel, Spain and Tunisia). Achieved the integration and the membership of the different Keyrus subsidiaries to the global IT strategy. Line of responsibility includes staff of 15 personnel including 3 IT Managers and direct IT operations supervision and administration.
– Member of the executive management team to propose new systems and enhancements to meet business objectives.
– Develop Information Technology strategy in support of the company’s mission and core objectives.
– Established the IT Governance that guaranteed robustness in IT decisions, alignment of the business processes and a continuous communication throughout the group.
– Established all of the IT standards that dramatically improved business productivity and communication throughout the whole Keyrus group.
– Facilitated the reorganization of the IT departments including skills and responsibilities.
– Directed IT business projects (Finance, Production management, Budget planning, ERP, CRM, Financial and Human Resources Data warehouse, Active Directory and Messaging).
– Directed in-house application development (Recruiting, Skill Cartography, Skill Management, Legal Contract Management, Asset Management and Helpdesk).
– Designed and rolled out a new global architecture including VPN between subsidiaries to guarantee redundancy increased systems and network uptime to 99.99%.
– Conducted the migration of over more than 800 mailboxes from the different messaging systems of the subsidiaries to Microsoft Exchange 2007 including Lotus Notes 6.0, Microsoft Exchange 2003 and external systems.
– Consolidated all the mobile contracts to one single telecom provider generating more that 40% annual savings.
– Consolidated the French Wide Area Network providers generating more that 60% annual savings.
– Developed intranet for company internal communication and knowledge management. Developed extranet and business and client projects.
– Management of the IT teams in their systems, network and security administration.
– Delivered direct support and expertise for all the business projects (Business Intelligence and Agribusiness and Pharmaceuticals)
– Responsible for the preparation and management of more than 2€ million IT budget.
– Established quality assurance, preparation and implementation of group IT policies, procedures and standards.
– Consolidated purchasing and licensing policy generating 50% savings per annum.
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Le Partenaire Informatique
- Director of Consulting Department
Orléans
2004 - 2007
Successfully created the Consulting Department which played a key role in the business growth of the company generating 40% of the business income. Implemented the methodology process used in the department from the pre-sales to the production department. Actively managed IT services and teams within big and critical clients.
– Delivery of consulting services, strategic planning and assessment to clients.
– Conducted IT audits (application and technical), business applications functional and technical specifications, business secure planning).
– Successfully deployed IT outsourcing services (user needs analysis, recommendations, organization setup, team assignment and expertise).
– Won two 500k€ IT services contracts with new clients allowing to outsource IT services (System Administration, 1st and second level Helpdesk support).
– Actively managed numerous IT projects (infrastructure, systems, networks, messaging, communications, security, development, helpdesk and asset management).
– Defined the company’s methodology, standards, procedures and tools.
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HR Gardens - Havas
- Chief Information Officer
2002 - 2004
Conducted and managed an information systems audit and established the company’s European IT strategy throughout four countries (Belgium, France, Germany and United Kingdom). Achieved the integration of the different HR Gardens subsidiaries in the global IT strategy based on the business model defined in the company’s project. Line of responsibility includes staff of 17 personnel including 3 IT Managers and direct IT operations supervision and administration.
– Member of the executive management team to propose new systems and enhancements to meet business objectives.
– Defined the enterprise IT strategy according to the business priorities starting with the systems and networks.
– Secured the business in all the four countries by transforming the local architectures and securing the local business information.
– Responsible for all the IT infrastructures, systems, networks and applications.
– Successfully established communication between the four subsidiaries (implementation of VPN using firewall technology and deployment of the external group messaging system).
– Delivered the critical “Event Management” application used by the Belgium and German subsidiaries. Successfully deployed the client/server application (Unix / Jboss / Oracle) in France and United Kingdom generating new revenues for the HR Garden business and achieving a short term return on investment.
– Consolidated IT budget and suppliers reducing dramatically the over all costs.
– Created an outstanding international working environment for the IT teams.
– Travelled 2 days per week in order to accompany the business model and strategy.
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Dell Computer France
- IT Manager
MONTPELLIER
2000 - 2002
Responsible for Information Technology operations within the Dell Computer France business unit based at Rueil-Malmaison providing products for Large Accounts. Oversaw systems, network, messaging and application administration, desktop support, application development and budget management. Line of responsibility includes staff of 8 personnel.
– Led team of Systems, Messaging, Network, Desktop and Security Engineers maintaining a global infrastructure.
– Designed and rolled out new business unit system architecture consolidating 60 servers to 43 servers including files services that resolved security issues.
– Built productive reporting application for Finance and Accounting departments.
– Implemented an Electronic Document Management system that improved the sales chain from the Internet ordering to the back-office.
– Managed the entire local IT projects respecting the requirements, the quality assurance and by controlling the risks and the budgets.
– Deployed IT strategy and agenda that aligns with corporate EMEA objectives.
– Administered the BU IT budget.
– Provided the recruiting, hiring and providing the appropriate training for IT staff.
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Sanofi~Synthélabo Recherche
- System and Network Manager
1998 - 2000
Responsible for Systems, Network and Support within the Sanofi~Synthélabo research unit based in Gentilly. Oversaw systems, network, messaging and application administration and desktop support. Line of responsibility includes staff of 6 personnel.
– Led team of Systems, Network and Desktop Engineers maintaining local infrastructure.
– Administered and supervised a Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 multi-domain network.
– Implemented as technical project manager the systems Microsoft Windows NT 4.0, Lotus Notes, Microsoft Internet Information Services 4.0, Norton Antivirus.
– Successfully managed the year 2000 project.
– Wrote technical procedures.
– Nominated technical representative of the Sanofi~Synthélabo Research site within the worldwide IT organization.
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ILOG
- System and Network Engineer
1995 - 1998
Oversaw the complete setup of a Microsoft Windows NT 3.5 network and 150 workstations along with the implementation of a Microsoft Exchange 5.0 messaging server.
– Successfully designed and implemented a Microsoft Windows NT 3.5 network including 150 multi-platform (Microsoft Windows 3.11, 95, 98, Millennium, NT 3.5, and 4.0) workstations for developers and administration personnel.
– Successfully implemented the main messaging systems based on Microsoft Exchange Server 5.0 including web access and news feeders.
– Setup a technical solution for a central point of software code sources between PC and UNIX workstations.
– Mastered and deployed more that 150 laptops, desktops and workstations within the company and subsidiaries.
– Insured end-user support.
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Elf Aquitaine International
- System Engineer
1993 - 1995
Oversaw the entire setup of a Novell Netware 3.12 network and 50 workstations.
– Successfully designed and implemented a Novell Netware 3.12 network including 50 Microsoft Windows 3.11 desktop for administration personnel.
– Developed tax calculation module under Microsoft Excel.
– Insured end-user support.
