Freelancer profile translated to English.

Description

Expert in infrastructure project management, I support companies in their technological transitions: Datacenter migration, Cloud (Azure, AWS), virtualization, application integration, and security.

With 19 years of experience in Infrastructure and over 11 years of project management experience, I ensure end-to-end infrastructure management, from scoping to go-live, guaranteeing quality, performance, and on-time delivery.

- Key Skills: Infrastructure, IT Production, Hybrid Cloud, Network, Security, DevOps, ITIL, Agile, Scrum

- International Experience: Fluent English, collaboration with multi-site teams

- Versatile Profile: Ability to coordinate technical and business teams, optimize processes, and ensure service continuity

Languages

French
Native or bilingual
English
Fluent

Workplace preferences

Can work on-site

Paris (up to 50km)

Chanel
Infrastructure Project Manager
July 2020 - Today (5 years and 11 months)
Management of an infrastructure project portfolio
• Management of the Datacenter migration project
• Infrastructure representative and key contact for business teams
• Mediator between business and infra stakeholders (specifications, planning, support, ..)
• Infrastructure manager for the outsourcing provider
• Go-live responsible
• Management of IT, Cloud (AWS, Azure), Data, RPA projects and roadmaps
• Project stakeholder management: client relations, technical teams, reporting
• Organization, coordination, and facilitation of project teams and steering committees,
• Supervision of action progress and project schedule monitoring, respecting milestones,
• Facilitation of technical/functional design phases,
• Monitoring of deployment and go-live phases,
• Project documentation and financial tracking,
• Technical study management ○ Requirements gathering ○ Coordination of technical partners to ensure study completion ○ Workshop facilitation ○ Cost estimation, scoping, and budgeting
• Management of Infrastructure projects and transformation roadmaps
• Technical study management and requirements gathering
• Cutover Plan writing for Deployment and Go-live phase monitoring,
• Assistance in defining strategic project needs with business and infra stakeholders
• Coordination of security milestones, securing tasks in global projects: planning of pentest dates and milestones, counter-audits with security, working with vendors for remediation,...
• Coordination with vendors, integrators (SIEMENS) for strategic Channel projects
• Coordination of tasks performed by Integration teams: Updating evolutions and implementing new application flows (Biztalk interfaces),...
• Coordination of tasks performed by Technical Architects: Server onboarding management (AWC Infrastructure, training tools,...), server delivery, certificates,...
Sysco France
IT Project Manager
January 2020 - April 2020 (3 months)
Management, coordination of technical teams to prepare and execute the migration of the Sysco IT system to the new Data Center, Migration of certain applications to a hybrid cloud.

• Management of the Datacenter migration project
• Design, implementation, and organization of migration
• Understanding of the existing Datacenter
• Workshops with Infrastructure and Operations Directorate managers
• Operational implementation of the migration of infrastructure and application servers from the Datacenter (50 physical servers, 100 VMs, 200 TB of data)
• Definition of migration strategies
• Technical scoping of the Datacenter migration (rationalize, ensure consistency of technical choices, ...)
• Creation and development of the technical and application mapping
• Creation of roadmaps for the sequence of operations to be carried out during the move
• Implementation of a backup solution to secure the move (Veam, P2V and VmWare)
• Coordination of technical teams
• Support and monitoring of reversibility between the two outsourcing teams from Atos and Oxya
• Implementation of quality and service continuity processes during the transfer of responsibility
• Preparation of target servers up to the cutover operations to the new Data Center
• Interventions on virtualization issues (Vmware)
• Facilitation of weekly project committees and task distribution via task planner
• Facilitation of working sessions (inventory of applications, hardware, network, ...)
• Implementation and application of processes, best practices, and documentation (Rewriting of Operational Guides, creation of Operational documents, ...)
• Change management steering
• Quality and deadline monitoring
• Action monitoring/review: no NOGO/rollback after cutovers

Technical Environment: Linux, Oracle 12g, Windows, PaloAlto, Fortigate, ESX (VmWare), SAP, Veam, Netbackup, Ansible, Centrion, Shell …
France Télévision Publicité
IT Project Manager
March 2019 - December 2019 (9 months)
Datacenter outsourcing project, definition of the new architecture, implementation of DR/BCP, overhaul of production resources.

• Management of Datacenter Outsourcing and Production Resources projects
• Design, implementation, and organization of migration
• Understanding of the existing Datacenter
• Workshops with Technical Directorate managers
• Inventory and sorting of Datacenter equipment
• Inventory of software applications, telecom/network links, and impact on the outsourced Datacenter
• Definition of new architecture towards a Hybrid Cloud for the IT system
• Target definition and writing of the Specifications for the outsourced Datacenter for a Hosting tender
• Creation of a grid with qualitative evaluation criteria and a financial grid: Hosting provider specifications and telecom link specifications.
• Organization of workshops (contract review with legal department..., facilitation of weekly monitoring committees
• Consultation of hosting and telecom providers
• Management of external suppliers on all project phases (expression of need, consultation, and go-live)
• Selection of service providers
• Calculation of project return on investment (ROI)
• Negotiation and finalization of the contract with the hosting provider.
• Preparation of the operational and network budget for the next 3 years.
• Consultations for the purchase of hardware and software for operations and network.
• Implementation of the organization and schedule for migration to an outsourced Datacenter
• Coordination of internal teams (Development, Production ...)
• Communication to stakeholders
• Implementation and application of processes, best practices, and documentation
• Quality and deadline monitoring
• Change management steering

Technical Environment:, Isilon, Nutanix, Unix, Aix Oracle 12g, Windows Server, PaloAlto, Exteme, ESX (VmWare), Azure, AWS, IBM, Grille, MAM…