Profile
Seasoned Information Systems Manager with 18+ years of experience in
technical and management positions. Committed to deliver creative,
standards compliant solutions that fulfill customer requirements.
Recognized interpersonal and communication abilities that stimulate team
spirit and individual involvement. Confident that the Information Systems
body can be managed/operated as any other commodity services organization.
Fluent in french and in english with an international background.
Experience
Associate Consultant, Melentane, Paris, France 2003-present
Counsels CIOs and IT managers using a coaching approach based on informal
interviews to uncover operation or technical issues which lead to
collaborative solution finding. This method drastically raised counter
measure acceptance.
Designed a simple Information Security Management System (ISMS) used for
SMB customers.
Designed a simple information security pre audit plan to reassure managers
before real audit campaigns.
Undertakes initiatives to expose the relevant I.S. security information to
compliance auditors.
Manages both I.S. technical (DRP, network, security, storage,
virtualization and operation projects from the inception to the full
delivery.
Experiments how to adapt the World Class Manufacturing (WCM) principals to
the information system organization.
Outsourcing director, Tymis, Paris, France 2006-2009
Developed from the ground up a service portfolio, an organization and a
technical environment to offer IT infrastructure outsourcing services to
SMBs. The 3 years contracts provide up to 35% profit margin.
Won deals against renown service providers with solutions that exceeded
customer expectations while staying within budget limit.
Established operations processes inspired from ITIL/Cobit that led to
outstanding delivery time and 98% customer retention.
Engineering team manager / chief security officer, Genuity, Paris, France
2002-2003
Maintained team (17 persons) cohesion and motivation when the company filed
for bankruptcy.
Managed the successful transition of the customer base to the new owner's
datacenter.
Infrastructure services manager, Genuity, Paris, France 1999-2002
Presented zero flaw security audit reports while in this job.
Designed best of class network and security customer architectures.
Early adopted cutting edge IT Infrastructure technologies that are now
standards.
Built a flexible/efficient engineering team organization to handle both
integration projects and run activities.
System & network engineer / datacenter manager, Integra, Paris, France
1996-1999
Designed from the ground up the first datacenter's technical environment
with dedicated and shared resources to host pioneering Internet services
including e-commerce and B2B applications.
Defined appropriate means (architecture, usage policies) to offer remote
services management to customers while maintaining a high security level.
Developed tools including site staging butler, mailserver self-servicing,
frame aware search engine.
Software engineer / project leader, Paris, France 1991-1996
Designed and coded client/server applications using distributed computing
and object oriented technologies.
Contributed to the EU ESPRIT project.
Taught information technologies in an engineering school.
Implemented a subset of the X400 protocol communication stack.
Education
Paris VII university, Paris, France
D.E.S.S. (Master degree +) Fundamental Software, distributed systems option
Paris VII university, Paris, France
Ma trise Informatique (Bachelor in Computer Sciences)
ISACA, Rolling Meadows IL, USA
Certified Information Security Manager (CISM)
Skills
IP network and security Virtualization and storage
architecture technologies +++
ITIL +++ Software dev (Internet,
client/server)
Technical training +++ IT processes management
ISO/IEC 27001 +++ IT audit and control +++
Internet services Change Management
Information security management Verbal and written communication
Budgeting +++ IT Monitoring
Project Management IT Dashboard
Team management Business Intelligence ++
Risk Management +++ Mediation/facilitation
Disaster Recovery Plan