September 1999 → 2012

IT Director at L&L Products Europe, european headquarter of an american automotive supplier working for all automotive OEMs, and which produces engineered acoustic, sealing, anti-flutter and structural materials.

• SAP, EDI and all IT Department implementation (strategy, controlling and organization)
• Member of Group IT Board and Aerospace Board
• Team management: animation, recruitment, coaching, training and development
• Budget management and optimization (~1M€ a year < 1,5% of turnover)
• Key performance indicators and dashboards implementation for Europe Head and Management
• Propose and implement IT solutions meeting operational needs (change management, budget and project time management)
• Drive IT suppliers (3% productivity per year)
  
• Security / Continuity (backup, backup plan, ...) - IS compliancy to ISO/TS 16949:2002 and ISO 9001:2000 Quality norms
  

Corporate projects deployed :

• SAP implementation (MM, WM, FI, CO, SD, TR, BC, PP, codebar readers, ...) - Upgrade to SAP ECC6 in 2008 achieved within 40 days
  
• Commercial, technical and banking EDI setup (~ 1000 messages a day)
• Collaborative portal dedicated to business applications, workflow and document management
• Virtual infrastructure platform and private cloud (reducing power consumption, cooling and carbon footprint by 35%)
• Corporate group directory centralizing 750 user accounts with Single Sign On
• Next generation Zimbra mail system deployed at group level
• Public web sites, intranets and extranets
• Deployment of mobility tools (smart phones, etc ...) - synchronizing contacts and mails real time
• Build up, optimize and secure global network (with no use of expensive leased lines)
• Phone over IP deployment among Europe (free inter-sites communication)
  

For further SAP details, please have a look at SAP Experience page.

October 1990 → August 1999

IT Manager and Project Manager at Alsatel's R&D Department. Alsatel is a telcom company,  developping industrial and security oriented software for high risk locations.

• IT Manager in charge of the Novell network, IT infrastructure and telecom systems
• Engineer, project manager and finally chief software development manager
• Among other ones, I have developped following softwares :
  • a centralized alert controlling system for chemical and nuclear locations
  • a complete Computer Telephony Integration (CTI) for helpdesks & CRM
• Tutor at University of Haute Alsace for IT doctorand student

1989 → September 1990

• Scientist for the French Army : Setup of IT network of the 1rst Army - Congratulations
• In charge of Artificial Intelligence Cursus at CNAM University