Description

17+ years of experience in the IT infrastructure field with a very strong

technical background, having participated in IT infrastructure Data Centre

design, implementations, project management and service delivery.

Languages

English
Native or bilingual
French
Conversational

Workplace preferences

Can work on-site

Paris (up to 50km)

REXEL - HQ
Head of European Data Centre
DIGITAL AND IT
September 2022 - Today (3 years and 9 months)
Paris, France
• • Lead the EU Datacenter IT infrastructure landscape which including Cloud platform and PAM services.
• • Maintain Technical architecture strategic plan, in line with the Group's business roadmap
• • Manage Infrastructure as service for EU
• • Manage budgets (Opex/Capex) and ensure EU scope of Infrastructure activites are appropriately funded
• • Ensure alignment and coordination of the infrastructure strategy across EU
• • Manage highly technical teams for EU Operations and Projects
• • Build partners relationship for services stability (Hosting/Managed services/applications), contract negotiation, RFP process
• • Drive complex IT projects, including application integrations and upgrades, Data Center migrations, and consolidation for EU
• • Ensure delivery governance, risk management, and compliance with Group security policies.
Infrastructure Operations Project & Program Management Budgeting Business Continuity Planning Transition & Transformation
Cognizant Technology Solutions
Service Delivery Manager – Data Centre
February 2020 - August 2022 (2 years and 6 months)
Paris, France
• • Manage all operations related to the provision of IT infrastructure services in the following areas, i. Datacenter [Hosting / OS / Virtualization [vBlock & VMWare] / Backup / Storage, Citrix] ii. Networks [WAN / LAN / WiFi] and Security [FW, LB, Proxy, IPS, DDos] iii. Workplace [EUS & FS]
• • Manage Datacenters in France and Data rooms across Europe [Belgium, Netherland….etc] and USA
• • Manage the Datacenter consolidation and migration projects
• • Manage the transition from the project phase to RUN and the impact on service and costs
• • Manage Vendors for large technology refresh projects and solutions [Cisco, Dell EMC, VMWare, MS, IBM, Quantum..etc] and suppliers
• • Manage Steerco committees and Third-party Service review meetings
• • Create new business opportunity from existing customers
• • Manage the management of the Infra program [BAU & DR] 150+ projects
• • Manage Client Relationship (communications, escalation, etc.)
• • Manage teams of 50+ people for Onsite / Offshore delivery [France, Belgium, India]
Anyway Solutions
Technical Consultant
October 2017 - February 2020 (2 years and 4 months)
Paris, France
• • Manage end-to-end responsibility for Data centre Operations and Projects in France for CAC40 clients.
• • Coordinate with business teams and develop strategies to ensure achievement of data center capacity expansion.
• • Write and maintain IS technical documentation (SIG, DAT, DEX).
• • Regular project status reports per week and monthly project board.
• • Manage teams of 10+ people for Onsite / Offshore delivery [France, Morocco]