Freelancer profile translated to English.

Description

I support organizations in clarifying and structuring their IT strategy.

As a former CIO, I bring a pragmatic approach to conducting audits, establishing a strategic vision and roadmap, and transforming organizations.

I use Enterprise Architecture, among other tools, to intervene on:

• alignment of strategy-business-IT

• definition of target vision & roadmap

• governance and prioritization

• capacity analysis & transverse organization

• breaking down silos and enabling agile to be fully effective

My goal: to provide a framework, meaning, and coherence in complex environments, to help management decide, prioritize, and deliver value.

Languages

French
Native or bilingual
English
Fluent

Workplace preferences

Can work on-site

Paris (up to 50km)

FLV Consulting
Freelance - IT Consulting, Part-time CIO/CTO, Enterprise Architect, Transition Manager
February 2024 - Today (2 years and 4 months)
Paris, France
Audit and Consulting Missions
- Audit and support for a (virtual) mobile operator for scaling up

- Consulting for a social finance player on a tender for management software development

- Technical/organizational audit (build & run) of a photovoltaic power plant management platform. Strategic recommendations to finalize a software redesign project and reposition the solution against competitors

- Technical/organizational audit (build & run) of a web platform for operating energy communities (B2B and B2C) to confidently address growth

- CIO advisory for an ESS (Social and Solidarity Economy) organization: guiding its IT strategy with an agile Enterprise Architecture approach rather than rigid planning through a master plan

- CIO advisory for a neobank - reflection on the implementation of a CIO Office and an Enterprise Architecture approach

- Consulting for a retail company on reorganizing its IT department

Part-time CIO/CTO
- Support for an SME in the audiovisual/video publishing sector. IT audit, local infrastructure redesign, Data project, service provider coordination, IT strategy support.
Architecture d'entreprise it-strategy Audit IT
Enercoop
CIO
ENERGY AND UTILITIES
March 2019 - January 2024 (4 years and 10 months)
Paris, France
Management of an IT department of approximately 35 people.

Crisis Management
Customer billing crisis. Impact on revenue and customer relations.
- establishment of an IT + business crisis unit,
- coordination of actions,
- prioritization of fixes,
- scaling-up strategy.

IT Department Transformation
- return to agile fundamentals, collaboration with business units, Lean, MVP, iterative and incremental,
- governance and internal coordination within the IT department, breaking down team silos, redefining roles,
- revision of the organization: Run, DevOps, infrastructure automation (infra as code and cloud), supervision/monitoring strategy,
- cost optimization through service review,
- architecture approach - architecture committee - dissemination of best practices,
- scaling up the IT department from 16 to 36 people - strengthening expertise, integrating senior profiles, and supplementing with external services.

IT Governance, Strategy, and Master Plan
IT is seen as a cost center with a lack of governance
- communication and evangelization with the Executive Committee, business departments, and the cooperative network,
- implementation of IT governance at the Executive Committee level and with the cooperative network,
- definition of a strategic vision and an IT landscape plan - 3-year master plan aligned with the organization's strategic plan,
- strategy for resolving technical and functional debt within the IT system
- digitalization and automation of business operations,
- risk and compliance management,
- technological rationalization,
- implementation of a Data strategy, sustainability of predictive AI for consumption/production,
- annual steering and roadmap.

Technical and software stack:
Zoho CRM, Zendesk
Headless CMS: Prismic.io
Ruby On Rails, Java, Spring Framework
RabbitMQ,
Data: Python, Tableau, PostGreSQL
Supervision: Sentry, Elastic Search, Icinga, Cacti
ADIE
CIO
BANKING AND INSURANCE
January 2005 - February 2019 (14 years and 1 month)
Paris, France
Microcredit for business creation.

**In 2019**:
- 500 employees - 1300 volunteers,
- 130 sites in mainland France and overseas territories,
- 2 internal call centers,
- 21,000 microcredits granted in 2017, outstanding balance of €134 million,
- approximately 20 people in the IT department.
IT strategic vision - alignment with the organization's strategic plans
Definition of methods and technologies - deployment of agile
Risk management, IT security, and regulatory aspects (including GDPR)
Definition of infrastructure, telecommunications, and hardware fleet strategy

2013-2019: Second IT System Transformation
Growth of the IT department from 8 to 20 people
- redesign of certain IT system components (call center, loan application processing, ...),
- deployment of a Document Management System (GED) and Customer Portal.

2008-2012: First IT System Transformation
Growth of the IT department from 4 to 8 people
- transition from a monolithic IT system to an urbanized IT system,
- deployment of market software on-premise and SaaS (Salesforce, Google Business Suite, ...),
- in-house development of necessary functional components,
- definition and deployment of the Data strategy,
- deployment of a call center,
- deployment of a subsidiary in Belgium with a "twin" IT system.

2005-2007: Establishment of the IT Department
4 people in the IT department
Internalized maintenance of the Core Banking System and addition of functional components