Career path

Team Leader IT Project Office – from Mai 2011 – Kudelski Group

Missions :

• In  Corporate IT Department of Kudelski Group, I’m in charge of “IT Project Office”, leading IT projects for all Kudelski group’s departments.
• 30 to 40 ongoing  projects for every departments of the Kudelski Group, with stakeholders on the five continents.
• Management of a team of 7 Project Managers : 3 in Lausanne (Switzerland), 3 in Paris (France) , 1 in San Francisco (US, CA).
• I personally manage few projects.

• Before projects start, I am a major actor of the IT Project Portfolio Management
• Collecting new project requests, Requirements analysis
• Project benefits analysis
• Building a complete Business Case   : Benefits / Project Approach / Scope / Costs / Delays / Quality / Risks/ Communication

• On ongoing projects, I am accountable of projects managed by project managers.
• Validation and commitment of all project’s stakeholder on an initial Business Case.
• Control that projects are managed accordingly to their Business Case.
• Change Management on Business Case in case of new decisions.
• Project management : Planning, Budget Control, Resource management, Quality Management, Communication, Risks Management .
• Part of the Quality management for IT Operations for every new Service in operation.

• I am responsible of the implementation and enhancement of Quality processes for Project Management,  Project Portfolio Management and other operational processes of IT Corporate.
• Prince 2 ®
• ITIL V3 ®

Projects :

• Applications Projects : ERP, CRM, BPM, SOA, CMS, Supply Chain
• Communication Tools: Email, Telephony, Audio Conferencing , Video Conferencing, Instant Messaging, Unified Communication.
• Workstation: Email, Workstation management, Office 2010 and Windows 7 Migrations,
• Support for Research and Development Teams : Development Platforms, Dedicated applications, Software Engineering Framework.
• Infrastructure projects: High Availability Data Center, Dedicated Networks, Data centers  for subsidiaries.
• Subsidiaries integrations, Application integration,  Site moves.
• Implementation of IT Processes (ITIL, Prince2) in Corporate IT Department

Project Manager – 2007 to June 2001 – Kudelski Group

Missions :

• In IT Corporate Department of Kudelski group, Project Manager of various IT projects.
• Project Management on 5 or 6 simultaneous projects

• Before projects start, I am involved on Project Portfolio Management
• Collecting new project request, Requirement analysis
• Benefits analysis
• Building a complete Business Case   : Benefits / Project Approach / Scope /Costs/ Delays / Quality / Risks/ Communication

• Project management
  • Validation and commitment of all project’s stakeholder on an initial Business Case
  • Control that projects are managed accordingly to their Business Case
  • Change Management on Business Case in case of new decisions
  • Project management : Planning, Budget Control, Resource management, Quality Management, Communication, Risks Management .
  • Part of the Quality management for IT Operations for every new Service in operation.

• I am involved in the implementation and enhancement of  Quality processes for Project Management,  Project Portfolio Management and other operational processes of IT Corporate
• Prince 2 ®
• ITIL V3 ®

Projects :

• Office 2012 upgrade on 1500 workstations. Change management and User adoption
• New  Windows 7 platform definition, deployment. Change management and User adoption.
• New infrastructure (network, servers, applications) for SmardCard production.
• Implementation of Configuration Management (ITIL Methodology) in IT Corporate
• Merge of Software Configuration Management tools, in collaboration with development teams

Software Engineering Tools Expert –  2002 to 2007 – Kudelski Group

• Expert in software engineering tools. Support to development teams.
• Conception, development and support of a software engineering Framework.
• Methodological support to development teams.

Administration of Development Tools – 2000 to 2002 – Canal+ Technologies

• Expert in software engineering tools. Support to development teams.
• Methodological support to development teams in Software Configuration management and Change Management.

Software Engineer – 1997 to 2000 – Consultant at Alcatel for Coframi

• Software Engineer in development and integration on Satellite Telecoms Systems
• Languages C, C++, SQL, Network Algorithms , Telephony.

Software Engineer – 1995 to 1997 – Consultant at Thomson Communication (now Thales) for Coframi

• Software Engineer in development and integration on Military Telecommunication System PR4G-RITA
• Languages C, Shell script, Unix System Solaris, Real Time Embedded Development.

Software Engineer-  1992 to 1995 – Consultant at Sagem (now Safran) for Coframi

• Software Engineer in development and integration on Mission Preparation Systems SLPM and SLPRM for Mirage 2000 military plane.
• Languages Fortran, C, Unix System HPUX,

Software Engineer-  1991 to 1992 – Consultant at Thomson RGS (now Thales) for Coframi

• Software Engineer in development and integration on Military Telecommunication System PR4G
• Languages C, Shell script, Unix System Solaris, Real Time Embedded Development