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.
• 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.
• 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.

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.
• 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 &.

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