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Julien Charles-NicolasJC

Julien Charles-Nicolas

Freelance IT Project Manager

€550/day
Lyon, FR
3-7 years

Average response time: 1 hour

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About Julien

Freelance IT Project Manager, I have been involved for 6 years in strategic projects for large accounts (SNCF, Bouygues Telecom), with a specialization in IT resilience, transverse management, and technical team coordination.

Specializing in pseudo-agile or DevOps project management, I am comfortable with transverse management, budget monitoring, service center management, and stakeholder relations.

✅ Transverse Project Management & Complex Action Steering
✅ Business/Technical Interface & Provider Coordination
✅ Budget Monitoring, Risk Management & Continuous Improvement
✅ Critical Environments (railway production, telecommunications)
✅ Large Account Culture & Consulting Posture

I am available to discuss your projects and challenges.
  • French

    Native or bilingual

  • English

    Fluent

Can work on-site
Lyon (up to 50km), Aix-en-Provence (up to 50km), Paris (up to 50km)

Experience

  • SNCF
    Application Manager & Transverse Project Manager
    TRANSPORTATION
    October 2022 - Today (3 years and 8 months)
    Lyon, France
    📌 IT Project Manager – IT Security Resilience & Railway Production

    SNCF (via Solutec) – Lyon – 10/2022 to present

    Context:
    Steering of critical RUN and BUILD projects for the Railway Production and Rolling Stock Personnel IT systems, with a strong focus on IT security resilience, cloud migration, and security compliance. Complex context, multi-stakeholder, with business continuity and operational security challenges.

    Responsibilities:
    • Full project management for 5 critical applications + transverse coordination on a portfolio of 90 applications
    • Implementation of cloud migration projects / on-premise hosting, Disaster Recovery Plans (DRP), PaaS/IaaS backups
    • Coordination of actions for OPS, IT departments, DEV & operations service centers, security, hosting teams
    • Facilitation of committees (weekly, monthly) and daily stand-ups with OPS
    • Monitoring of action plans related to cybersecurity audits
    • Budget monitoring for applications with budgets ranging from €100k/year to €2M/year

    Environment:
    • Methodology: Hybrid Agile/DevOps
    • Tools: Jira, MS Project, Excel, ServiceNow, Confluence
    • Stakeholders: Business, Development, Cybersecurity Department, Hosting, Transverse Services

    Deliverables:
    • Committees, steering reports, continuous improvement initiatives
    • DRP documentation, restoration test results
    • Training sessions for onboarding new employees

    Results:
    • 80% reduction in major incidents
    • 100% validated resilience audits
    • Project management recognized as a key success factor in a highly fragmented context (multiple entities, divergent processes, human and political challenges)
  • SOLUTEC
    Continuous Improvement Coordinator for the eSNCF Competency Center
    CONSULTING AND AUDITS
    June 2024 - Today (2 years)
    Lyon, France
    • Steering and coordination of continuous improvement projects for the competency center comprising 30 IT Infrastructure Project Managers
    • Lead of the competency center's technical referents
    • Participation in the drafting and presentation of the ESN's calls for tender
  • OneLife limited
    Self-Employed
    September 2021 - March 2023 (1 year and 6 months)
    Tech project launch (2021–2023): scoping, strategy, profitability testing, personal discipline

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Education

  • General Computer Science, Engineering Degree
    INSA de Lyon,
    2019
    Informatique généraliste, Diplôme d'ingénieur
  • Engineering Sciences, High School Diploma with Honors
    Lycée Joseph Zobel
    2014
    Sciences de l'ingénieur, BAC mention Très Bien

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