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Transition IT Director and Programs Director in complex environments
25 years of experience as CIO in leading companies in their markets.
My areas of expertise:
- crisis management
- implementation of IT strategies and team organization aligned with business challenges (transformation, operational excellence, financial management, ...)
French
Native or bilingual
English
Fluent
Can work on-site
Lille (up to 50km), Paris (up to 50km), Lyon (up to 50km)
Experience
- LEAN ON METRANSITION MANAGEMENT AND IT CONSULTINGJanuary 2025 - Today (1 year and 5 months)**June - November 2025**: Transition CIO at Ingenico, a leader in payment terminals: replacement of the outgoing CIO pending the recruitment of a new CIO:
- Relay and crisis management mission.
- Management of strategic global IT issues.
- Securing IT infrastructure and operations.
**April 2025**: IT Systems audit mission at a highway concessionaire in France:- Organizational diagnosis
- Recommendation of an action plan to optimize the operational excellence of the existing IT team.
- NHOOD (EX CEETRUS – IMMOCHAN)GROUP CIODecember 2019 - December 2024 (5 years)Lille, FranceAFM Real Estate CompanyRevenue €160M, 1300 employees – $14B assets managed in 11 countriesGroup CIO60 TO 120 EMPLOYEES – ANNUAL BUDGET ≈ €20MSupporting Nhood, a real estate company, in its ambition to become a recognized player in the real estate services sector (international scope of 11 countries): restoring trust from senior management, securing project roadmaps, controlled management of IT budgets, implementation of a structured, robust, and efficient IT organization.Context:Transition from a real estate company logic receiving "guaranteed" rents from its parent company Auchan (Revenue €600M) to a service company logic aiming to diversify its client portfolio and seeing its revenue divided by 4.Mission:Equipping the business with its core activities, industrializing the IT department, and regaining control of its projects and finances.Results:➔ Implementation of a multidisciplinary corporate governance for digital project management➔ Deployment of business ERPs in the most important countries (Oracle Finance in 8 countries, Yardi for Property Management in 7 countries, Soneka for Asset Management in 9 countries)➔ Implementation of a structured and stable IT organization – best employee satisfaction scores in the company in 2023 (8.6/10), despite a context heavily disrupted by 2 major strategic reversals initiated by senior management in 4 years: strong resilience and ability to be a recognized leader manager➔ Establishment of a global budget construction and monitoring process to evaluate the overall economic performance of the digital business: IT cost / Revenue 2024 < 10%➔ Organization of the divestiture of the Hungarian subsidiary (Carve-out)
- COFIROUTE (VINCI AUTOROUTES)DIRECTOR OF ENGINEERING AND INFORMATION SYSTEMS - MEMBER OF THE MANAGEMENT COMMITTEESeptember 2012 - December 2019 (7 years and 4 months)Rueil-Malmaison, FranceFrench highway concession operator - Revenue €1.4B - 1300 employees (in 2019)Director of Engineering and Information Systems - Member of the Management Committee100 EMPLOYEES - ANNUAL BUDGET ≈ €20MStabilizing the IT team's expertise, which is crucial for the company's business operations, in a technical environment that is both aging, specialized, and highly visible to the public.Context:
- Resignation of the previous CIO – numerous departures of IT experts due to an ambitious cost reduction program
- Participation in management on-call duties (highway crisis management) - numerous events managed: significant knowledge of the core business, strong adaptability to emergency situations, rapid decision-making ability, mastery of major principles of external and internal communication
- Major real-time stakes: toll collection ≈ 100% of company revenue (€150k/hour)
Mission:Ensure the functioning of the company's digital factory, vital to its activity (Cofiroute is an OIV = Operator of Vital Importance)Results:- Stabilization of the IT organization, in synergy with other VINCI Autoroutes companies
- Securing IT teams after a disruptive period of cost reduction
- Automation of toll stations: €80M investment program aimed at developing automated payment (credit cards / electronic toll collection) and optimizing traffic flow: PCIDSS certification, civil engineering works under high operational constraints, public procurement tenders
- Development and deployment of a remote operation solution for controlling toll equipment across the entire highway network
- Management of a pilot project in partnership with PSA for the first passage of an autonomous vehicle through a toll booth in France (St Arnoult en Yvelines 2017)
- Instrumentation of connected rest areas (VINCI Innovation Award 2017)
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Education
- EngineerEFREI1992