Highly skilled senior IT manager with over 10 years experience developing and executing IT strategies in alignment with corporate objectives. Successful in global manufacturing environments during all cycles of business, including high growth, downturns and acquisition integration. An established record as a leader & business partner who collaborates with other executives to use information and communication technology to transform and simplify business processes while delivering an understandable and measurable benefit for the corporate management. Solid project management skills, with the ability to deliver milestones on-target and under budget. Strong talent for process reengineering and optimisation, focused around cost reduction and improved efficiency. Able to work with multicultural and international teams to achieve common ground and meet company objectives.
Lead strategy and development for the group distributed IT infrastructure. Direct the French IT infrastructure team, global corporate teams, and international outsourced teams in implementing infrastructure processes, systems, and services. Plan and allocate resources. Manage all aspects of networking, communication, messaging, and distributed IT services for 55 sites in 14 countries. Negotiate and maintain supplier contracts. Track system performance against KPIs.
• Changed Group messaging strategy for 3500 users, moving to the Cloud (SaaS). • Revolutionised the entire group-level networking strategy. • Eliminated €300,000 in annual costs by introducing VoIP. • Within 1 year, grew IT services by 200% and launched IT security processes. • Rescued a nonfunctional outsourcing contract via negotiation. • Facilitated acquisition of France Champignon by merging their infrastructure with existing processes. • Drove collaboration between team members on infrastructure initiatives.
