Expériences professionnelles

12/2020 – 02/2022: CEO Citegestion, EDF Group

• Have strategic customer projects be under control

• Remobilization of management and operational teams in collaborative mode

• Restructuring of the company through the SAFe framework

• Strategic repositioning within the EDF Group and reorientation of governance between the subsidiary and the parent company

• Reconstruction of the subsidiary's financial history and implementation of an analytical accounting structure

• Construction of the medium-term vision and definition of the Business Road-Map

• Restructuring of customer, service provider and partner contractual elements with internal and external legal experts

​

06/2017 – 12/2019: European CIO for GOJO Industries

• Integration of European entities post acquisition with the US headquarters;

• 3000 people WW, 400 in Europe, central IT team 9 employees + contractors, 3 factories, European HQ, 1 microbio research and analyze laboratory, 3 warehouses in France, 1 logistic site in Germany, 1 other in UK, 1 Sales office in Lisbon;

• Modernization of usages (cloud, collaborative work, digital, e-commerce);

• Change management in organizations

  • Prepare the global organization in order to deploy a global SAP project. Strong work to train all business teams and bring the change in practices (like better usage of the Information System);

  • Set a CRM (Salesforce) and train the sales team;

• Rebuilt French site’s technical infrastructure (WAN, LAN, WLAN, VOIP, systems);

  • WAN between 4 sites using SDWAN techno over diversified links (Fiber, DSL, 4G);

  • LAN, change all boxes, create VLANs, add firewalls, add fibers and other cabling;

  • WLAN, optimize WiFi coverage following site surveys, setup controllers and secured access control;

  • Change the VOIP infrastructure (CISCO, redundant call manager, unified messaging, IP phones, Lone Worker Protection Devices, conference and Visio conference devices);

  • System infrastructure mixed between Cloud and OnSite relying on virtualization;

  • Backup solution using VEEAM to do backup to tape to cloud;

  • Set a security infrastructure (NextGen antivirus, Umbrella proxy, Strong authentication, firewall, bastion, …);

  • Set a system to manage access rights at every level (Filer, Database, AD, Cloud, …) based on Varonis;

  • Normalize client deployment, configuration & update management with full security (encryption, BIOS password, double authentication);

• Built the European IT Team (infrastructure / projects / ERP / Helpdesk / security);

• Organize a helpdesk team relying on ITIL practices, relying on IT partners in other countries;

• Set up cyber Security, GDPR & resilience of systems; Organize Penetration Testing on physical sites and on web sites;

• Create a response plan to cryptovirus and build a strong Disaster Recovery Plan;

• Act as permanent member of the Group crisis committee;

• ISO pilot and member of the Team working on business certification (global ISO9001/2015, ISO 14001:2015, ISO 22716:2007);

 

09/2016 – 04/2017: CTO for Deveryware SAS

• In 2017, Deveryware decided to create a subsidiary to manage their mobile app portfolio

  • SAIP: government app to alert population in case of crisis (terrorist attack, natural disaster)

  • Notico safe: manage safety of employees in a company, or population of a community

  • Notico city: manage relationship between population and collectivities

  • Notico delivery: manage package delivery for logistic companies such as Mondial Relay

• 3 locations (Paris, Barcelona, Madrid) ; 5 PMs, 5 POs, 1 planner, 2 Team Leaders, 6 Ops, 2 DevOps, 9 Dev + 2 Dev Cies outsourced + 2 consultants in real time location

• Audit of the dev & delivery

• Teams reorganization relying on Agile methodology (Scrum)

• Server platform modernization (Azure)

• Improvement of the mobile delivery factory with reduction of technological debt

 

 

03/2014 – 05/2016: CTO for AGESYS (IT services Cie of 50 people)

• France and Europe

  • Manage the technical team (45 tech & system engineer)

  • Develop customer portfolio and support recurring business

  • Transform internal organization from startup to Lean management

  • Act as a technical coach

• China

  • Manage all preparation steps to create a subsidiary in China (Shanghai): administrative & legal ; Partner research ; Portfolio adaptation ; Business development

  • Create opportunities to accompany French and European companies in China

  • Coordinate efforts between headquarters and subsidiaries of existing customers

• Main projects

  • Remote helpdesk for several Saint-Gobain entities

  • Operate remote system supervision and 24/7 on call support for numerous customers in Europe

  • Build the project to migrate part of SGD systems in AZURE Cloud

  • Virtualize local infrastructure for a Unilever factory

  • Manage global laptop renewal for Groupama (800 laptops, direct swap to the end user)

  • Setup and run a remote support to manage monthly software upgrades for VGF

  • Build the cut-out plan to prepare the sale of a worldwide entity of SGD

​

​

​

01/2010 - 02/2014: Head of architecture & MES for L’Oréal industrial sites worldwide

• 40 factories WW, several industrial warehouses, around 200 IT people under functional management. 6-8 experts in direct management + suppliers & IT services provider companies

• Architect for local system of industrial sites:

  • Define technical orientations

  • Manage life cycle of hardware and software

  • Audit

• Manage deployment of new functionalities, new systems across industrial sites in cooperation with local teams

  • Manage IT deployment team.

  • Coordinate local IT teams.

  • Change management

  • Local IT & IS training

• Central team management

  • Responsible for the software delivery factory

  • Warrant of health and security of systems running locally on industrial sites in high availability.

  • Support local teams

  • Manage incidents with suppliers

• Involved in recruitment of new IT people in every country

• Budget management

 

 

10/2005 – 12/2009: IT manager of a L’Oréal plant in France

• Warrant of security and health of information systems of the plant in high availability.

• Interlocutor of ComEx for applications, systems, network, IT security, IS budget.

• Manage IT & IS team (8-10 pers.) and Key Users (30 pers).

• Manage relationship with suppliers, headquarters and other entities.

• Manage change on site

• Manage IT budget (3,5 M€)

• Technical environment: UNIX, Windows, CISCO, Oracle, SQL-Server

• Representative of the Mass Market Division for the worldwide IT security committee

• Technical leader inside L’Oréal industrial division

• Main projects

BUILD

• Production InHouse (component supplier installed on site and interconnexion of systems)

• AGV (Automated Guided Vehicles)

• Automated palletization and truck loading

• SAP ERP & Flexnet MES deployment

RUN

• UNIX Cluster (2 nodes active/active), 2 EMC storage in active/passive mode

• Windows Cluster (2nodes), 1 HP MSA as storage

• Networker backup solution

• 40 servers, 50 software

• 300 computers (MS Windows) + VDI (VMware)

• 25 packaging lines, 10 mixing tanks, >1 million unity a day.

• 24*7

 

 

 

 

2002 to 2005: Functional and technical project manager in a L’Oréal plant

Technical projects

• Manage helpdesk

• Maintenance of 40 servers including multiple migration (Intel/Windows, Unix, MPE)

• Migrate 2 HP server from UNIX 10.20 to 11.0

• Develop a framework (C + UNIX scripts) to test the proper behavior of servers and network, localize issues and restore nominal functions

• Write UNIX shell to make some software cluster aware

• Management of backups, setting up a centralized infrastructure of backup based on Networker

• Define and set up a high availability architecture based on 2 MDF (cluster, redundancy)

• Leverage and organize Disaster Recovery Plan + yearly full off-site test

• Leverage network backbone (OM3 fiber optic loop, spanning tree)

• Setup of external warehouses (remote architecture, WAN, WiFi, apps, EAI)

 

Functional projects

• Deploy B2B application based on Web Methods (plant with suppliers) as pilot. Manage deployment in all European mass market factories.

• Develop and Deploy systems to manage feasibility of processing and packaging, and indicators to follow it.

 

Mission for L’Oréal European Mass Market Division

• Act as the technical expert for Europe

• Representative of the Division for the worldwide IT security committee

 

 

2004: Missioned to restore IT & IS services in the L’Oréal Welsh plant

• Restore information system efficiency.

• Rebuild IT team.

• Train the new hired IT manager.

 

 

1999 tot 2001: IT contractor

• Several mission in different client (especially L’Oreal and France Telecom)

• Software development (OpenRoad, Ingres, HP-UX). Specialist for UNIX interfaces & scripting

• UNIX administration

• SGBDR administration (Ingres, MS SQL)