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Description

I am a Freelance IT infrastructure project manager.

I have 27 years of experience in IT infrastructure and 13 years in project management.

I have carried out application integration projects at Airbus as well as large on-premise infrastructure migration projects at La Banque Postale and BPCE-IT, reporting to the CIO.

I quickly understand the challenges and establish a rigorous framework to achieve objectives, bringing my agility.

My daily rate as a Project Director will be €100 higher than the indicated rate.

I am available within 1 month (currently on assignment at La Banque Postale).

Industry field of expertise

Languages

French
Native or bilingual
English
Fluent

Workplace preferences

Remote only

Primarily works remotely

La Banque Postale
IT Infrastructure Project Manager
BANKING AND INSURANCE
October 2021 - Today (4 years and 8 months)
Toulouse, France
• Lead the selection of the new DC for the 3rd regional site.
• Lead the exit from the Trélazé datacenter (infrastructure scope) from the DSIBA rooms (€540 K OPEX, 8 months duration, 90 stakeholders).
• Lead a project to relocate the interbank DR site from Trélazé to HPID (€735 K OPEX, 2 years, 70 stakeholders).
• Lead a €5M project (including €4.5M CAPEX, €0.5M OPEX equivalent to 800 man-days) to create 2 new machine rooms with 3 project managers for coordination, 100 stakeholders, in waterfall mode, for a duration of 1.5 years. Implementation of racks, LAN and WAN upgrade, virtual infrastructure, orchestration, physical servers, firewalls and load balancers, supervision and monitoring.
• Lead a project to reduce storage and backup footprint for a ROI of €200K, with 1 project manager for coordination, 50 stakeholders, in waterfall mode.
• Participate in the drafting of the hosting strategy tender for datacenter renewal by 2030.
• Lead and coordinate several network projects: public IP address change impacting financial transactions for 2000 bank clients.
Tender Writing Datacenter Datacenter Relocation Complex Project Management
BPCE-IT
Project Director
BANKING AND INSURANCE
April 2018 - June 2021 (3 years and 2 months)
Toulouse, France
• Lead and coordinate a 3500 man-day project to migrate the obsolete SAN infrastructure to a new SSD infrastructure. Duration: 2 years; Project team: 100 people. Scope: 1400 physical servers/LPARs, 900 ESXs; Waterfall method: project plan development, industrialization, deployment, continuous improvement, monitoring, reporting, closure.
• Lead and coordinate a 3500 man-day and €250K (CAPEX) project to replace the Tina backup and archiving infrastructure with IBM Spectrum Protect, Rubrik, Oracle-ZDLRA infrastructures; Duration: 2.5 years; Project team: 100 people; Stakeholders: 400 people; Scope: 4000 configuration items migrated. Hybrid method: waterfall for construction, Scrum for migrations. Prepare/present steering committees with the presence of the CEO; Draft a tender.
Backup Solutions SAN Digital Archiving Complex Project Management
AIRBUS Defence & Space
Transformation Manager
AVIATION AND AEROSPACE
June 2017 - April 2018 (10 months)
Toulouse, France
• Iteratively transform production tools and the operating mode of the Paris team to standardize practices across the contract.
• Transform project billing from actual costs to fixed price.
• Lead 3 projects: “dedicated project management tool”, “billing tool”, “MFT”.
• Processes used: integration, scope, cost, planning, quality, human resources, communication, risks, stakeholders.
• Prepare and participate in agency and client steering committees (transformation, RUN KPIs).
• Monitor employee career development (annual reviews, training plans, feedback).
Change Management Project Management