Director Contracts & Procurement and Project & Strategic Planning

J-C Blondeau +974-******** */*

Jean-Christophe Blondeau

Director:

Contracts & Procurement

Project & Strategic Planning

Po Box 34 282 Doha (Qatar)

Mobile : +974-****-****

Mail: **********@******.***

LinkedIn: Here

Nationality: French

ABOUT ME:

Board manager; Experienced contracts & procurement manager; Project & strategic planning manager, business developer with international profile in Industry (Nuclear, Military, Aero & Space, Security, Automotive), Construction, Oil & gas.

EDUCATION (Refer below for detailed chronology):

PhD: Economic & Business Intelligence.

Master Degree in International Business Management, specialization: contracts & procurement.

Master of Art in industrial contracts & procurement management.

Higher National Diploma in Maintenance Engineering in: heavy trucks & construction machinery.

Higher National Diploma in Maintenance Engineering in: heavy trucks & heavy equipment.

A Level in IT systems management.

CORE COMPETENCIES:

Executive Management; Project Management (EPC & EPCM); Project Mode & Operations Management.

Design, Build, Organisational change management (Teams & Tools).

Contracts & Procurement; Negotiation; litigation & claim; SRM to CRM Management.

Project & Planning; Supply chain, Cost Control; QS & QC control and Risk Management.

Business model, Business plan, Budgeting, Roadmap design and management.

PROFESSIONAL BRIEF (Refer below for detailed chronology):

• 2014-2017 : Director Contracts & Procurement and Project & Strategic Planning at UCI Road World Cycling Championship 2016 Organizing Committee (OC) & project, Doha (Qatar). Stakeholders: UCI (International Cycling Union), Qatar Olympic Committee and Qatar Cycling Federation.

• 2014-2017: Sr. Procurement Officer at Qatar Foundation (QF), for R&D Operations Center, Doha Qatar.

• 2011-2014: Sr. Contracts Administrator at Dolphin Energy, Doha (Qatar).

• 2009-2011: Project Manager with positions of Procurement Manager & Sr. Contracts Engineer at Qatari Diar Real Estate Investment Company Doha (Qatar).

• 2006-2008: Senior Consultant with position of Senior Project manager (Contracts & Procurement) for new projects industrialisation activities at SMITHS Detection Group in Vitry sur Seine (France).

• 2002-2005: Team manager and Senior Procurement & Contracts manager at SOURIAU Marolles for the Champagné (72), Marolles (94), Cluses (73) and Malines (Belgium) plants, formerly AREVA FCI MAI division (Military, Aerospace and Industrial) until 2003.

• 2001-2002: Senior Procurement Engineer (Investments, Overheads and category), at Citroen Sport Automobile in Versailles Satory.

• 1994-1999: Procurement and Equipment park department Manager with position of Director for Saumur Town council (49).

PROFESSIONAL:

June 2014 Since 1st June 2014; Director Contracts & Procurement and Project & Strategic Planning at UCI Road World Cycling Championship 2016 Organizing Committee (OC) & project, Doha (Qatar), as part time and full-time position. Stakeholders: UCI (International Cycling Union), Qatar Olympic Committee and Qatar Cycling Federation. (Project to close fall/end 2017). Responsibility and Activity:

- Backup of the Managing Director.

- Project Set up, structuration & build-up. Strategic management of the Organizing Committee.

- Business model, Business plan, Road map and detailed budget design and Implementation.

- Policies & Procedures design and Implementation.

- Project & Strategic Planning and Contracts & Procurement directorate creation, structuration, training and management (Directorate area covering Contracts, Procurement, Strategic Planning; Macro Project monitoring, Inventory, Quality, Reporting, Policies & Procedures).

- Direct executive management of 20 staff.

- Direct supervision and control of all strategic contracts from SOW to Close out.

- Project Close out management including Contracts and Finances directorates direct management, Demobilization, Inventory & Legacy, Reporting and Audit. Key Projects proven Achievements:

- Successful Strategic planning design delivery, implementation and monitoring with no delay.

- Successful Project Delivery and management from mobilisation to close out.

- Successful Directorate executive management and achievements.

- Successful contracts management with no comments from Auditors & Audit State Bureau.

- Successful delivery of OC Business Model, Business Plan and detailed budget of the project.

- Successful delivery of OC Policies and Procedures.

- Successful Marketing & Merchandising Strategy Design delivery.

- Successful International TV & Internet campaign and Event Visual Identity delivery. J-C Blondeau +974-******** 2/5

- Successful Venues Contracting and Supplier Relation Management. 2014-2017 From 15/December to 14/April/2017: Sr. Procurement Officer at Qatar Foundation (QF), for R&D Operations Center, Doha Qatar.

- Contracts & Procurement management of QF R&D under MOU with QF Procurement.

- Internal Customer Contracts & Procurement support for all procurement above MOU. Key Projects Achievements:

- Successful audit submission of recommendations for R&D Contracts and Procurement activity development and go live in perspective of the QF R&D transfer to Hamad Bin Khalifa University.

- Successful Kick off of Contracts & Procurement activity, including ERP in QF R&D.

- Successful delivery of tested and functional ERP procurement tool and procedures to QSTP. 2011-2014 From 27/Sept/2011 to 14/Dec/2014: Sr. Contracts Administrator at Dolphin Energy, Doha

(Qatar).

- Post Award Contracts Management from Award to Close-Out, including and not limited, to: contracts administration, contractor’s management; commercial negotiation; legal, insurance; cost control & Projects financial impact; Tender Committee submissions & Approvals, variation documentation; ERP implementation and Claim Management. (OPEX & CAPEX)

- User support as per policy & procedures and business ethic monitoring. Field: Production Offshore and Onshore, up and down stream; Shutdown; and Subsea. Key Projects Achievements:

- Successful Ras-Laffan Compression facility and land lease contracts management.

- Successful Shutdowns 2012; 2013 and 2014 claims & contracts management.

- Successful Subsea campaign 2014 claims & contracts management. 2009-2011

From 16/Feb/2009 to 31/August/2011: Hired as Project Manager with positions of Procurement Manager & Sr. Contracts Engineer at Qatari Diar Real Estate Investment Company Doha (Qatar). Corporate portfolio management.

- Contracts Engineering and Management from Requisition and Scope reception; Tendering, to Contracts Closeout, including variations, claims, insurances and bonds.

- Procurement Management.

Key Projects Achievements:

- Successful Qatar Railway (QRDC) Initial Strategy and Business plan tenders.

- Successful Legtaifiya (West-bay) Lagoon and Lusail: road works, bridges, lagoon peers and decks, and various services, tendering and contracts management.

- Successful IT: EDMS, Intranet & Website development, installation and maintenance; IT Call off agreement & support services outsourcing tendering and contract management.

- Successful Accounting, Governance, Policies & Procedures consulting services.

- Successful Contracts and Procurement 1st ERP full cycle implementation. 2006-2008

From 01/Feb/2006 to 24/Dec/2008: Senior Consultant with position of Senior Project manager

(Contracts & Procurement) for new projects industrialisation activities at SMITHS Detection Group in Vitry sur Seine (France). Company activity: supply of heavy X ray equipment dedicated to control of shipment, for border administration and security companies (Security industry).

- Project Procurement Manager for the development, industrialisation and the production of mobile and gantry X ray scanning systems, optical character recognition gantry system, production software development, X ray trigger system.

- Procurement & Sourcing Manager Russia zone, Middle east and for Maghreb zone.

- Category Manager: electronic, software, welding, mechanic & specific devises. (50 M€/year). Key Projects Achievements:

- Successful X Ray Panther System development and industrialisation of relocatable gantry program system Panther (500M €/5 years turnover).

- Successful Lynx V3 System development and industrialisation: contracted R&D budget: 10M€. Industrialisation and Supply Chain budget: 1Billion €.

- Successful opening and build-up support of Russian industrial entity in St Petersburg.

- Successful HCV Gantry industrialisation and logistic implementation (Sourcing; Contracting and Supply chain in Russian local market).

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- and, pass through LP & character recognition system development and industrialisation. 2002-2005

From 09/2002 to 03/2005 Mission Team manager and Senior Procurement & Contracts manager at SOURIAU Marolles for the Champagné (72), Marolles (94), Cluses (73) and Malines (Belgium) plants, formerly AREVA FCI MAI division (Military, Aerospace and Industrial) until 2003. International portfolio: 30M€/year turnover.

- Set up, validation and implementation of the supply chain and industrial processes flow.

- After LBO, set up of corporate contracts & procurement procedures.

- Marolles subsidiary Team manager: Management of 7 people under functional responsibility.

- Contracts & Procurement and category subcontracting portfolio management. Category Management:

- Portfolios restructuration: machining (machining, turning, milling, screw-cutting), raw material

(stainless, aluminium, titanium (10t/year), copper, bronze and casting (supply-Chain). Projects and businesses:

- Manager focal point Procurement – R&D relations.

- Project Procurement Manager and Lead procurement for Nuclear, Navy and Space.

- Businesses & projects: reengineering, redesign to cost for confidential programs. Key Projects Achievements:

- Successful restructuration of procurement and supply chain as per LBO targets.

- Successful Ariane 5: productivity for 60 launches with EADS and Ariane Espace.

- Successful Tiger project management: confidential sub equipment reengineering and industrialisation with Eurocopter (including flow down contract dispute)

- Successful US Space Shuttle: boom reengineering and industrialisation with MD robotic

- Successful M51, Iris T, ASMP, ASMPA missiles components development and industrialisation.

- Successful Airbus Road 06 productivity implementation.

- and TGV & LGV (high speed train) equipment reengineering and industrialisation with Alstom. 2001-2002

From 01/2001 to 04/2002 Senior Procurement Engineer (Investments, Overheads and category), at Citroen Sport Automobile in Versailles Satory.

- Procurement related to the Satory new facility installation: Production tools, equipment, etc.

- Outsourcing, and services contracts management (facility and building maintenance, waste, security, transports and various subcontracts).

- Tendering and contracts management for the facility and the WRC activity (World Rally Car).

- Raw Material Procurement lead (nonferrous/ferrous; high grade steels, Inconel, titanium).

- Procurement & Contracts directly related to WRC championship and the customer championship: International logistic & transports; rally equipment, event, team clothing line & merchandising; various competition equipment.

Key Projects Achievements:

- Successful setting of Procurement and Supply Chain structure operational from 2002 to 2012

(Citroen World Rally Car Champion during 10 years).

- Successful tendering and contracts management.

1994- 1999 Hired as Procurement and Equipment park department Manager with position of Director for Saumur Town council (49) under technical group-director.

- Redesign and restructuring implementation of the Directorate. Executive management of 7 staff, 200 vehicles and heavy machines.

- Budgeting: Directorate Business model & budget design submission and implementation

(OPEX & CAPEX, yearly and multi-annual primitive and corrective budget).

- Operational Management of the park maintenance, and park management.

- Stock and inventory management.

- Tendering management. Contracts and Procurement management. Key Projects Achievements:

- Successful full restructuration of the directorate

- Successful migration from paper flow to computerized flow of the maintenance, park management, and stock inventory by implementing Computerized Maintenance Management System (CMMS) in workshop and stores.

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EDUCATION (detailed):

PhD degree in information and communication science, specialization: Economic & Business Intelligence at PhD School of Social Science, Territories, Economics and Management sciences, Poitiers University, CEREGE Laboratory (acronym for Centre de Recherche en Gestion: stands for Research Center in Business Management) as part time student, attached to the Institute of Business Administration University of Poitiers in France.

Field of study and contribution to Science: Economic & business intelligence; neo-institutional economy; governance, information & communication; non-standard economy; socio-economy; territorialized economy; anthropology.

Object of the Thesis: Observation and description of the existence of informal networks in a territorialized economy system based on neo-institutional economy. Identification and characterisation of implemented communication processes in informal socio-economical networks based on non-standard economy.

Study case: The French Arve valley and the industrial cluster of “Mont Blanc Industries”. Pole of competitiveness specialized in bar-turning and machining industry.

2005 Intensive English Program at Study Abroad Canada, Charlottetown, PEI. Intensive English course at the CAREL (Audio-visual Centre of Royan for Languages Study), University of Poitiers.

2004 MASTER Degree in International Business Management, specialization: contracts & procurement at University Robert Schuman of Strasbourg business school and CCI (Chamber of commerce) of Paris (niv I: BAC + 5 equivalents to 5 years after A levels). Master thesis topic: Clusters and Districts (measuring instrument of the interest of these zones for industrial procurement activities).

2002 Additional MS Modules in International Finance, International business Law and International Contracts & Procurement with CCI of Paris.

2000 Master of Art in Industrial Procurement Management: Maitrise from E.S.A.P 2000 Diploma of the CDAF school (French chartered Institute of Contracts & Procurement, Supply Chain and Quantity Surveying Professionals) with Chamber of commerce of Orleans (niv II: BAC + 4 equivalents to 4 years after A levels).

1993 Higher National Diploma in Maintenance Engineering, specialization heavy trucks & heavy equipment. (B.T.S MAVA). Maintenance Engineering of vehicles, Industrial and heavy Vehicles

(niv III: BAC + 2 equivalents to 2 years after A level) during military service. 1992

Higher National Diploma in Maintenance Engineering, specialization heavy trucks & construction machinery. Promotrans High school of Industrial Vehicles Maintenance Engineering (ESMVI). Heavy vehicles maintenance and school Management. Internship in Volvo Truck Group (niv III BAC + 2 equivalents to 2 years after A level).

1989

Law study at François Rabelais law study university in Tours (BAC + 1 equivalent to 1 year after A levels).

1988 A Level: (BAC H) Diploma of IT Systems Management, Data management and Programming. Note: Multiple trainings and Certificates not mentioned in this list with all mentioned companies can be provided on request. This includes: QF Faculty of Islamic Study: Thinking like Policy Analyst Module (2013-14), and for the latest with QF (4 modules in 2016): Procurement for Professionals (Purchasing & Procurement Center). J-C Blondeau +974-******** 5/5

REFERENCES; SKILLS AND INTERESTS:

References: Please refer to the following LinkedIn link: Here and go to recommendations section Additional references: On request

Language

skills:

French: Native language.

English: last TOEIC 825 (July 2005). Professional working and expatriation language since 2009. Arabic: apprenticeship in FANAR Centre and Qatar Foundation Language Centre, Doha (to restart after PHD)

Computer

Skills:

Pack Office: (Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint)

Diagramming Software: MS Visio

Project Management Software: MS Project

ERP Systems: SAP R3 (MM module); Oracle; Silver CS; and MFG Pro (under AS400) CMMS: GESPARK selection and implementation

EDMS: Electronic Data Management System

Semantic analysis software: Tropes

Contracts

Skills:

FIDIC and various forms of contracts.

Member:

E.M. Strasbourg Business School-Alumni member (association of the former graduates of the Management School of Strasbourg)

C.D.A.F member (French chartered Institute of Contracts & Procurement, Supply Chain and Quantity Surveying Professionals)

Leisure:

Former Climber (6c) and Mountain biker.

Scale Modelling (1990 French Champion).

Currently: Trail Running (Middle east) and Hiking (European Alps Mountains). Fields of interests: Economic, Communication, Diplomacy and Anthropology. Discover and Meet with other cultures.

... and my PHD project ongoing ...

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