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

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