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Infrastructure & IT Transformation Project Director

Do you have a critical IT project, an infrastructure transformation, or a program with high stakes in security, service continuity, or compliance?

Are you primarily looking for reliable management capable of securing deadlines, risks, and decisions.

I act as an IT infrastructure and transformation project director, to structure your complex projects, align stakeholders, and give you a clear and actionable vision for serene management.

Ability to take over and secure sensitive or troubled projects

My approach is pragmatic and results-oriented:

➡️ anticipate risks,

➡️ establish effective governance,

➡️ arbitrate between technical, business, and budgetary constraints,

➡️ avoid unpleasant surprises.

What sets me apart

Over 15 years of experience on complex and critical IT projects

Strong expertise in infrastructure program management

Accustomed to multi-stakeholder, multi-supplier, and regulated environments

Natural interface between Management / IT / Business Units / Service Providers

I don't replace teams: I structure them, protect them, and make them succeed.

Types of missions

IT infrastructure project and program management
Network, cloud, security, datacenter transformations
IT modernization and rationalization projects
Projects subject to regulatory and compliance constraints
Takeover of drifting or strained projects
Deliverables & concrete contributions
Project/program governance
Roadmaps and target trajectories
Planning, budget, and risk management
Management / Executive Committee dashboards
Arbitration and decision-making support documents
Coordination of internal teams and suppliers

💬 Objective: to bring you structure, clarity, and peace of mind on your strategic IT projects.

Industry field of expertise

Languages

French
Native or bilingual

Workplace preferences

Can work on-site

Tremblay-en-France (up to 10km), Paris (up to 10km)

Orange OCWS
Infrastructure Project Manager
CONSULTING AND AUDITS
November 2022 - December 2025 (3 years and 1 month)
Massy, France
■Implementation of the second state backbone across France
Client relations, Collaborative project, trust relationship
■Budget: €14M 3000 person-hours
oPre-sales, workload estimation
oPurchasing management, orders, stock monitoring, budget monitoring, residual budget monitoring
oMonitoring of acceptance certificates and invoicing.
oFacilitation of Project and Steering Committees
oOperational management of network engineers
oMonitoring of financial KPIs and P&L.
■Improvement Plan
oCentralization of client needs expression and validation with Pre-sales.
oObjective: 100% success of network interventions in DINUM data centers
oChange in project management method -> Agile
oImplementation of checks before interventions by network engineers and subcontractors
oBackbone audit by Orange engineers and proposal of technical improvements
■Projects
oRouter implementation (13 sites across France) (configuration, routing, ...)
oMigration of 10Gb links to 100Gb, N1, N2, and N3 interconnection between each site
oImplementation of Segment Routing, ECMP, L2VPN, L3VPN in the RIE Backbone
oHarmonization of VRFs for backbone loops
oRouter migration at the Élysée Palace
oImplementation of ZAI Juniper Routers on four sites (configuration, routing, ...)
oImplementation of audits, improvement plans, and implementation
oProduction deployment, supervision, deliverables for the RUN team
■Subcontracting
oDC relocation and decommissioning, datacenter cabling matrix creation
oImplementation of a staging and hardware installation subcontracting in DCs
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■Inter-departmental Build Run Improvement Plan:
oBuild/RUN weekly communication and CAB
■Project: Implementation of SD WAN Solution (Meraki) for the Mesnil St-Denis network infrastructure
■Project: Implementation of the telephony replacement in favor of the TEAMS Phone System solution
Leadership and Team Management Rigor and Autonomy Project Management Project Governance Budget Management
Open
OPEN Project Director
November 2021 - Today (4 years and 7 months)
Tours, France
■ Build project management for the State IT and Financial Agency (TNCP)
o Dozens of projects up to production deployment
o Support and monitoring of project managers
o Definition of objectives, decisions, risk management
▪ Communication, stabilization of client relationship
▪ Project costing (UO), financial monitoring
▪ First quarter objective: obtaining undelivered documents, limiting deviations, financial balance
▪ Second quarter objective: Project costing towards profitability target link: the-webinar-transformation-numerique-de-la-commande-0
▪ Participation in transformation projects for the Tours service center
▪ Post-production deployment
o Monitoring of thirty unfinished projects (networks, systems, applications, documentation, performance indicators, Elastic Search APM, ...)
o End of April objective
o Constrained budget.
Open
IT Project Director
DIGITAL AND IT
November 2021 - July 2022 (8 months)
Tours, France
■ Around forty projects under my responsibility
o Evolution projects up to service opening to clients
o Support and monitoring of project managers
o Definition of objectives, decisions, risk management
o Communication, improvement of client relationship
o Project costing (UO), financial monitoring (monthly income statements)
o First quarter objective:
o Obtaining undelivered documents, limiting deviations, financial balance
o Second quarter objective:
o Project costing towards profitability target
o 38% margin for all projects
o Post-production deployment projects
o Monitoring of thirty unfinished projects (networks, systems, applications, documentation, performance indicators, Elastic Search APM, GSLB...)
o End of July objective
o Constrained budget.
■ The following link presents all projects under my responsibility for the AIFE client:
Project Management Communication Financial and Budget Management

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Information Systems Engineer degree specializing in Business Intelligence
Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers
2010
Curcus ingénieur système d'information option informatique décisionnelle
Teams Telephony Training
Microsoft
2021
Formation téléphonie Teams

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