Denis Lacroix Email & Phone Number

Madrid, Es

President for Amadeus' 4,300 employees in France, including Amadeus two R&D sites in Nice, and our commercial organization in Paris and Schiltigheim

Madrid, Es

• Led all aspects (commercial, technical, strategic) of the Cloud RFP which resulted in Amadeus partnership with @Microsoft announced in February 2021: the largest Cloud deal in Europe till now• Now leading Amadeus' largest technology shift, moving all Amadeus products and services primarily to Azure, but also to GCP and AWS

Madrid, Es

• Member of Amadeus' Executive Committee• Head of Amadeus’ second largest Engineering division, with 2000+ engineers in 6 countries.• Global responsibility for Amadeus’ core capabilities used across all its businesses (GDS, Airline IT & Payment): reservation, ticketing, pricing & shopping and payments.

Madrid, Es

• Global Engineering responsibilities of Amadeus’ core business ("The GDS") with 1,500 engineers.• Led the transition of Amadeus’ core reservation capabilities from IBM mainframes to a large network of Linux machines (“TPF decommissioning program”).

Madrid, Es

• Member of Amadeus’ Management Committee; key contributor to the company’s overall commercial and technical strategies.• Full budgetary and staffing autonomy: yearly budget in excess of €85 million, with 800+ software engineers, systems engineers, development leads, architects and program managers in France, Germany, USA and India. • Led the creation of Amadeus’ Labs in Bangalore, India, including location scouting and recruitment of the Labs’ head, staffed up and operating now with 3,000 engineers.

Madrid, Es

• Appointed managing director jointly with the Head of Sales in 2005; previous Engineering lead position was expanded to full P&L accountability.• Having achieved full maturity and profitability with revenues close to Euro 100 million, the e-Travel Business Unit was folded into Amadeus’ main line of businesses in 2007.

Madrid, Es

• e-Travel was an Amadeus autonomous business unit, which I joined at its inception, focused on delivering travel e-Commerce solutions to airlines, online agencies and corporations worldwide.• Contributed to e-Travel’s overall strategy, played a key role in pre-sales activities for large RFPs and contracts; lead the migration of e-Travel’s Product Portfolio from a C++ code base to a re-engineered Java J2EE code base.• Full budgetary and staffing autonomy: 190 software engineers, systems engineers, development leads, architects and program managers.

Madrid, Es

• One of four development divisions at Amadeus, the Distributed Systems division oversaw the world-wide definition, construction and deployment of all professional front-ends to the Amadeus system. The division comprised 130 individuals in multiple countries, including subject matter experts, software engineers and support personnel.• Overall responsibility of the life-cycle of a portfolio of 15 to 20 products. Entry point for all Amadeus subsidiaries where the division’s products are deployed (currently over 60 countries, with 130,000 workstations installed).

Madrid, Es

• Lead a team of 20 engineers assigned the task to investigate the potential of Internet technologies (TCP/IP, browsers, PKI infrastructure, etc…) for the distribution of Amadeus products to all travel professionals worldwide.• As a consequence, Amadeus re-aligned and re-defined its mid-term technical strategy, and embarked on the industry’s first fully browser-based professional booking environment.

Madrid, Es

• The department, comprising 15 software developers and subject matter experts, defined, built and deployed Amadeus’ integrated “front to back” offering for travel agencies: booking environment, accounts receivable & payable, general ledger. The product follows the client-server model, using a Windows NT-based relational database (Sybase) and OS/2 workstations.

Madrid, Es

• Led a team of 5 software engineers to develop Amadeus' first generation travel agency front office systems on OS/2 and Unix platforms.

Maynard, Ma, Us

• Developed an "out of the box" app for DECwindows / OSF' MOTIF in the Computer Assisted Software Engineering team (part of VMS Engineering) at Digital Equipments Corporation.• Managed the program for an Ethernet / PABX gateway, utilizing pre-ISDN standards

Paris, Fr

Can't say what I did there!

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

Wrote several DOS utilities (i.e; SubtreePlus) and contributed to the IBM PC/VM Bond product which allowed a PC to use VM/CMS storage as a virtual disk