Freelancer profile translated to English.

Description

Strengths:

Technical Project Coordination and Execution

End-to-end technical project coordination.
Business First: business benefits before technical aspects.
Management of stakeholders and vendors.
FINOPS: consideration of cost reductions for each project.

Network & Security Architecture and Engineering

Definition and evolution of architectures.
Multi-Technology: accustomed to heterogeneous environments (Fortinet, Checkpoint, Cisco, Aruba, Zscaler, AWS, Azure, Ansible, Terraform…).
Field Expertise: you build it, you run it!
Team Leadership: Lead by doing.

Languages

French
Native or bilingual
English
Fluent
Spanish
Conversational

Workplace preferences

Can work on-site

Paris (up to 10km), Bussy-Saint-Georges (up to 20km)

My Money Bank
Network Tech Lead / Network Architect
BANKING AND INSURANCE
January 2019 - Today (7 years and 5 months)
Responsibilities:
Definition of configuration and architecture standards.
Responsibility for adherence to standards and best practices.
Point of contact for decisions and choices of network and security technological solutions.
Definition of improvement areas, industrialization, and rationalization within the network scope (especially automation).
Management of major projects assigned to the team, delegation, and coaching of other team members on other projects.
Management of vendors and stakeholders.
Technological watch.
Key Experiences: Management of major network & security projects.
Integration of Société Générale Banque des Antilles (SGBA): Integration TSA of SGBA into the corporate network. Several different network projects to manage (company interconnection during the transition phase, integration of existing LAN, complete change of security equipment, MPLS transition to SDWAN, change of operators, Zscaler proxy solution migration, and remote work solution…).
Creation of the Interconnection Hub: Definition of a fully resilient network architecture to interconnect all user sites and all data centers (OnPrem or Clouds). Choice of technologies + migration of historical MPLS accesses to a Fortinet SDWAN solution. Production deployment of the solution and creation of all necessary technical documentation.
Network/Hub Infrastructure Datacenter Relocation: As Accenture was closing its hosting service, it was necessary to define how to migrate the entire interconnection hub to another datacenter within a very limited timeframe (1 year). Then, to carry out this migration on time. Role of project manager + network architect + network engineer.
Monitoring of the team outsourcing project: Monitoring of choices made by management, of the future managed service contract so that the new provider properly takes over all network team RUN activities.
My Money Bank
Head of Network & Telecoms
BANKING AND INSURANCE
January 2016 - January 2019 (3 years)
Responsibilities:
Team Manager (3 internal, 3 external).
Implementation of the team's agile organization by sprints.
Vendor Management (purchasing, sourcing, contracts, and negotiation, subcontractors).
FINOPS studies to optimize the team's scope costs.
Management of major projects assigned to the team.
Key Experiences:
Project for leaving General Electric (TSA): even more significant experience than management during this period.

Management and responsibility for the 15 network & telecom projects to be completed within a maximum of 2 years before exiting the GE group (complete shutdown).
Choice of vendors and technological solutions: either in agreement with General Electric's history (Zscaler, LAN, etc.), or through new solutions (Radius, management consoles, Remote Access…).
Choice of technical architectures with the support of an integrator.
Choice and management of the managed service provider: management of the tender, organization of contractual points, final choice + subsequent RUN monitoring (co-pilots, technical committees…).
Contractual negotiation and legal points to support internal Purchasing teams.
GE Money Bank
IT Leadership Program
BANKING AND INSURANCE
January 2014 - January 2016 (2 years)
Internal training (MBA type) bringing together over 100 people from 25 different countries.

2-year curriculum: Courses via Indiana University + 4 6-month assignments in different group structures.