IT Director
Business oriented, Outcome focused and Passion driven
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Skills

Management, Strategy and Steering

  • Large teams in multi-cultural environment, International management, Remote teams
  • Objectives definitions with OKR and Smart methods, Development and performance plans
  • Strategic approach to team alignment; Definition on business objectives
  • Industrialization and optimization of production processes, KPI Creation
  • Crisis and Escalation Management; Capacity planning
  • Methodologies: ITIL processes (Change, Incident, Problem), DevOps, Agile (Kanban)

Technical

  • Infrastructure: Active Directory, DNS, DHCP, Exchange, Hyper-Converged
  • Network: WAN & MPLS, Dark fiber, SAN, Multi-site, WAN Optimization
  • Cloud: Google Workspace and Google Cloud, AWS, Azure
  • Virtualization & Containers: VMware vSphere, Docker, Kubernetes
  • Others: Bash scripting, Python, Nginx, Apache, Salesforce
  • Languages: French (mother tongue), English (fluent)
Recent Experiences
Director, Internal-IS
VeepeeSince 2021

Keywords: Trust via communication, Leadership, Strategy, KPI, Relationship, Transformation

  • Strategy definition to converge 4 support teams spread over 4 countries on 8 sites, covering 10 countries Ø
  • Creation of a roadmap to align User Support deliveries and Infrastructure evolution
  • Led key project, eg: AD Convergence of 3 subsidiaries; Creation of IT Asset referential
  • Creation of budget with service approach to improve delivered service and reinvoice the entities
Head of Internal-IS Infrastructure
Veepee2020 - 2021

Keywords: Communication, Strategy definition, Security

  • Definition of the gap with the state of the art; Creation of KPI used to align the team on the targets
  • Realignment of team’s skills with requirement; Strong focus on automation and SRE methodologies
  • Creation of Production targets; Finalized the main pending project, migration from Office365 to Google
Manager, France Delivery
VMware2018 – 2020

Keywords: Management, KPI, Relationship, Leadership, Customer focus, Business outcome focus, Crisis management

  • Management of a team of 25 consultants and Senior consultants: people management, development plans, objectives definition, recruitment
  • Customer management: focus on business outcomes and organizational expectations, steering committees
  • Develop relationship with customer key stakeholders for Cloud, Infrastructure, Network & Mobility projects
  • KPI Definition and Creation of reporting tools to drive activity (Excel, PowerBI, etc.), Financial management
Team Leader, Consulting
VMware2017 – 2018

Keywords: Management, People Development, Optimization

  • Management of a team of 9 consultants: people management, development plans with various profiles: Network, Infrastructure, Cloud and Mobility
  • Revenue management, Forecast, Quarter closing, Partner management: candidate pipeline increase
Older Experiences
Technical Account Manager and Senior TAM
VMware2014 –2018

Keywords: Leadership, Mentoring, Conflict Management, Customer Centric, Solutions, Automation, Cloud, Network, Security

  • Creation of strategies for Cloud projects, aligned with business outcomes
  • Development of relations with top customer managers and executives, recommendations on KPIs
  • Conflict and escalation management with and within customer organization
  • Increase the impact on the TAM team via Mentoring, sharing, ...
  • Partnering with customer to have them take out the best of their VMware investments: vSphere Optimization, Cloud Infrastructure deployments
  • Sharing and customizing Best Practices with their environment: LAN security, Micro-Segmentation, Cloud
  • Automation, Development of customer technical skills
Storage and Virtualization Architect
Euriware Service Desk2011 – 2014

Keywords:ITIL, RFP, Service Catalog, Delivery Management, Capacity planning, End to end Architecture

  • Design of new Storage and Virtualization infrastructure for AREVA Group
  • Contribute to new requests for proposal for contracts renewal
  • Definition of new applicable standards for infrastructures, internal processes to set up the « managed services », technical specifications
Virtualization and Cloud Computing Project
AREVA DSI Operations2010 – 2011

Keywords: Multicultural environment, Production Optimization, Service Catalog

Optimization project using virtualization with 2 mains goals:

  • Relocation of workloads on 3 datacenters and simultaneously creation of the group private spanning those 3 datacenters in France, in Germany and in the USA
  • Definition of a new service catalog, partnering with AREVA’s outsourcer
  • Definition of new processes (technical and management) to shorten provisioning requests
SAN and Virtualization Expert
Euriware Service Desk2009 – 2011

Keywords: ITIL, Expertise, Storage, Virtualization, Redundancy

In an ITIL based service desk, manage and provide support and expertise for Storage and VMware based solutions:

  • Management of an infrastructure composed with 23 Storage Arrays, more than 800 virtual machines, 23 Clusters (130 vSphere hosts); incident & problem management, Automation & industrialization; Reporting
  • Design of new architectures, Sizing, Fault-Tolerance (RTO/RPO), Multi-site
Technical Coordinator for Projects
Euriware Service Desk2008 – 2009

Keywords: Project management, Relationship building, Infrastructure, Documentation

  • Responsible for coordinating the required actions launched by "infrastrutures" teams & "Project and development" teams of DCNS Group, to deploy "Windchill", a PLM used to design new ships.
  • Writing of the "Infrastructure" documents related to the project, respecting the quality standard of the client
Euriware Service Desk2004 – 2006

Keywords: Production Management, Automation, Administration, Linux, UNIX, Security

  • Management & day to day operations of UNIX platforms
  • Automation of operations: Installation, Management, Incident & batches management
Trainings
Business Certifications

Certified for ITILv3 Foundation, for IT Management; Prince 2 Foundation, for Project Management

Professional Trainings
  • 2015: VMware Certified Professional – Cloud – VCP6-CMA earned
  • 2015: VMware Certified Professional – Network Virtualization – VCP-NV earned
  • 2013: VMware vSphere 5 Datacenter Design
  • 2013: VMware vSphere 5 Install, Configure, Manage – VCP5-DCV certification earned
  • 2013: VMware vCloud Director – VCP-Cloud Certification earned 2011: Prince 2 Foundation – Certification earned
  • 2011: ITIL v3 Foundation – Certification earned
  • 2011: VMware vSphere 4 Troubleshooting
  • 2010: VMware vSphere 4 - Install, Configure & Manage
Degrees
  • 2004: Master 1 & 2 in Computer (5 years) - Network and Systems
  • 1999: High School Diploma (with Honours)