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Alain Balaguer

Program Director - IT Project Director

€890/day
Paris, FR
15+ years

Average response time: 1 hour

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About Alain

Hello,

Graduate Engineer ENI Brest and EM Lyon, I work as Program Director, IT projects and Governance, IT Technical Director.
I have 37 years in IT, in the CAC40 sectors of telecommunications, Defense, Industry, Luxury and in the Public Service, involved and constantly concerned with the excellence of the work and service delivered.

My areas of intervention:
- Transition management in Outsourcing
- Transformations: Digital, move to cloud, datacenter
- IT Technical Architecture
- Project management: budgets, schedules, governance, risk management, ...
- IT strategic plan (operational plan, execution and management)
- Bid and pre-sales

My Certifications:
- Project Management Certified: Prince2
- Cloud Certified: AWS, Azure
- Agile: Certified SAFe, Scrum master and Product Owner.
- DevOps: Certified SAFe DevOps

My Technical Skills:
- Base and OS: Unix, Windows, Oracle, VMWare, AWS, Azure, ESX, Apache,
- Dell Emc Storage, Netapp, Hitachi, Cisco
- Tools: MS project, Jira, ServiceNow

My spoken languages:
- English level B2
- Native French
- Fluent Spanish
  • English

    Fluent

  • French

    Native or bilingual

  • Spanish

    Native or bilingual

Can work on-site
Paris (up to 20km)

Experience

  • Thales
    IT Transition and Transformation Program Director
    DEFENSE AND MILITARY
    June 2024 - Today (1 year and 11 months)
    Élancourt, France
    Preparation for the Transition and Transformation of the IT infrastructure of a subsidiary of the Thales group: implementation of the European project, establishment of the strategy and plans, service recovery strategy, recruitment of technical and functional profiles, documentation, cost estimates / P&L / SLA: scope of 5 countries, 2500 servers, network, backup&storage, supervision/monitoring tools, applications.
  • Fujitsu
    Program Director, projects and Governance transition and transformation Western Europe
    DIGITAL AND IT
    June 2022 - April 2024 (1 year and 11 months)
    Paris, France
    Program Director Transition/ Transformation (Western Europe):

    Kering: migration of services to India (7 months)
    • Implementation of the organization and governance of the program: steering committee, reporting, workload plan, risk and cost management.
    • Program managed in Agile - Scrum mode
    • Taking into account/inventory of infrastructure services managed in Russia (Legacy, DevOps, O365, security, monitoring) to switch them to the Global Delivery Center in India, tests and acceptance.
    • Optimization of processes (ITIL) post migration

    Safran: DC move to AWS public cloud program (6 months)
    • Implementation of the organization and governance of the program: steering committee, reporting, workload plan, risk and cost management.
    • Program managed in Hybrid mode (Scrum/WF).
    • Review of Landing Zone documents
    • Management of the Assessment, Mobilize and Execute phases for the migration of eligible applications to switch to the Safran AWS Cloud,
    • Implementation of a migration Factory,
    • Migration by waves and acceptance/post migration tests.
    • Active Directory/AWS project: Architecture design and deployment in the Safran Landing Zone of an AD for applications migrated under AWS.
    • Transition of services to the DevOps teams of the Global Delivery Center in India: MVP and implementation of CI/CD and access to Safran's GitLab.

    Pre-sales: response to Call for tenders

    - Louboutin(SAFe migration Streams): 6 months of pre-sales
    • Migration of Azure services, Network
    • Migration of Network services
    • Review of Landing Zone documents
    • SDWAN migration study
    • Move DC to DC of Legacy VMs

    **- Daher**: migration of ServiceNow to ITSM EasyVista in Agile mode by waves,

    **- Suez**: Migration of services to N2 and N3 Support for the Azure, Digital Workplace/O365 and security technology domains

    - Various Pre-sales companies in the public, private and international sectors:Switzerland, Australia, Belgium, India, Portugal, Spain, ...
    Pre-sales AWS Azure Agile method SAFe Scrum Cloud computing Program management International context English Spanish Microsoft Project Bid management Risk management Crisis management
  • Atos
    Program Director, projects and Governance Southern Europe
    DIGITAL AND IT
    October 2019 - June 2022 (2 years and 8 months)
    95870 Bezons, France
    Transformation Project/Program Director, Orchestrate and lead a set of Cloud transition and transformation programs and Move DC to DC / Move to Cloud, Pre-sales and Bid management:

    Hachette Group(6 months):
    • DC move to DC Atos France of Legacy servers
    • DC move of eligible VMs to Atos Private Cloud - France and Spain
    • Implementation of the organization and governance of the program: steering committee, reporting, workload plan, risk and cost management.

    Safran SED(8 months):
    • Project for the design and deployment of the PLM infrastructure (3D Experience) under the Safran private Cloud (200 VMs), Accenture being responsible for the delivery of the functional part of the PLM application.

    Naval Group(3 months):
    • Strategy analysis and development of the IT operational Plan
    • Deployment of an ITSM Easy Vista infrastructure in Agile mode (Scrum/JIRA)

    Ile de France Regional Directorate(8 months):
    • Implementation of the organization and governance of the program: steering committee, reporting, workload plan, risk and cost management.
    • Design and implementation of an N0/N1/N2 service center in partnership with SPIE.
    • Network and security deployment strategy on IDF pilot sites,
    • receipt.
    VMware vSphere Datacenter SAN storage Backup solutions IT architecture IT strategy Strategic planning Microsoft Project PLM Networks Network security Pre-sales Bid management Crisis management Risk management

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Education

  • Executive, Information Technology
    emlyon business school
    2018
    Cadre dirigeant, Technologies de l'information
  • Engineering degree, Computer science, electronics
    Ecole nationale d'Ingénieurs de Brest
    1986
    Diplôme d'ingénieur, Informatique , électronique

Certifications

  • SAFe DevOps 5 practitionner
    SAFe
    2023
  • SAFe agilist
    SAFe
    2020

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