Corporate Vice-President Information System (Chief Information Officer)
Guyancourt (78) - France
Thanks to a team of high professionals, I have established an exclusive partnership with Atos Origin India (now ATOS), for our development center in India, strengthening the overall IS performance and efficiency.- It has helped us to regularly reduced our overall IT costs while widening the scope of our responsibility, by integrating in our budget engineering and telephony domains for example.While improving service delivered, despite decreasing our overall IT spending, we were able to manage various critical projects like : · Development of a new data enter based in Singapore with full technology refresh program (HP Blade, SSD Drives, Data Domain Replication device, Riverbed appliances) in order to target full virtualization of FCI systems (ERP included)- Virtualization of all FCI applications, first, in our former US data center and their transfer to our new data center based in Asia (more than 200 VM were created for all FCI needs, validated and transferred in less than 15 months)· During this project, all applications were upgraded to their latest release, to comply with latest servers firmware. For example, old EDI systems was replaced with latest Sterling Integrator's solution, Oracle Internet portal and IBM (Commergent) catalog were migrated to the latest version without any incident.- Some ERP were upgraded to the latest release and fully virtualized in our new data center in Asia. · Improved network performance (and contain cost) by integrating Riverbeds equipments on all sites, · Deployed Data replication across two continents to feed our "Disaster Recovery" data center in real time.Over the last six years, I had the opportunity to manage two new companies integration (Smartag and Anytek) and I participated to the divestiture and transfer of four FCI divisions (Military and Aerospace, Electrical, Microconnection and Automotive) to new owners like Souriau (Private Equity), Burndy (Strategic), Lynxens (Private equity) and Delphi.