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Experience

Three decades, one thread: understand and deliver.

From Sun Microsystems to Exaion, from HP Tunisia to directing projects for major accounts: a trajectory built around technology, product and people.

Trusted by

A non-exhaustive selection of clients — directly under the Squitel name, or as subcontractor via Atos, Bull, Sogeti and HP.

Assignments & roles

  1. January 2022 – Present 3+ years

    Innovation consultant — cybersecurity prototypes

    Exaion · France

    Designing cybersecurity equipment prototypes. Innovation projects around Industry 4.0, quantum computing, HPC and energy performance.

    • Cybersécurité
    • Quantique
    • HPC
    • Industrie 4.0
  2. Nov 2015 – Dec 2021 6 years

    Innovation consultant — IoT prototypes & operations tooling

    EDF · France

    Improving operations tooling for EDF datacenters: reporting automation, SCADA (Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition) industrial dashboards, IoT electronic developments.

    • IoT
    • Datacenters
    • Automatisation
  3. Oct 2013 – Oct 2015 2 years

    Project director & Change management lead

    Atos · France · Squitel (S/T pour Atos)

    Change management for a SaaS enterprise email archiving project with legal probative value, directly affecting the group’s top 5,000: risk analysis, strategy, communication, training, coaching, resistance management.

    • Change
    • Direction de projet
    • SaaS
  4. Jul 2012 – Jun 2014 2 years

    Operations tooling lead & Project manager

    Bull · France · Squitel (S/T pour Bull)

    Overhaul of EDF’s storage and backup infrastructure. Multi-stakeholder project governance.

    • Stockage
    • Infrastructure
    • Gouvernance
  5. Oct 2011 – Mar 2012 6 months

    Transition manager / AMOE

    SFR · France · Squitel

    Supporting Sogeti (MCO and supervision project for SFR). Transition management, process adaptation, consultant ramp-up, KPI negotiation, client relationship.

    • Transition
    • AMOE
    • Télécoms
  6. Aug 2009 – Sep 2011 2 years

    Application maintenance lead

    SFR · France · Squitel

    Evolution relevance for SFR service platforms. Management of HP France / Tunisia consultants. Project reporting, incident resolution leadership.

    • TMA
    • Management
    • Télécoms
  7. May 2007 – Jan 2008 6 months

    Manager / Nearshore lead — HP Tunisia setup

    HP · Tunisie / Tunisia · Squitel

    Setting up the first HP consultant team in Tunisia. These engineers are now recognised and routinely called on by HP entities across EMEA.

    • Nearshore
    • Management
    • EMEA
  8. Mar – Jul 2006 5 months

    Senior ITIL consultant

    Banque privée — Genève · Suisse / Switzerland · Squitel

    ITIL study (request & incident management, service catalogue, change management) and support for implementation in the selected HP tool.

    • ITIL
    • Banque
  9. Mar – Jun 2005 2 months

    Senior marketing consultant — national operator

    Opérateur national · Burkina Faso · Squitel

    ADSL commercial launch in Ouagadougou: marketing mix, Internet portfolio restructuring, distribution and channel strategy, communication and advertising.

    • GTM
    • Marketing
    • Télécoms
  10. Feb – Jun 2003 4 months

    Marketing consultant — Gabon Télécom

    Gabon Télécom · Gabon · Squitel

    ADSL commercial launch in Libreville: service catalogue, distribution policy, communication, activation procedures, SLAs.

    • GTM
    • Marketing
    • Télécoms
  11. 2005 – 2015 various

    Expertise, audit and crisis resolution assignments

    Sanofi Aventis · HSBC · HP · Bearing Point · France / Europe · Squitel

    Point expertise, audits and crisis resolution on sensitive projects. ITIL training and active participation in itSMF (2008-2012).

    • Audit
    • ITIL
    • Crisis
  12. Jan 2001 – Jul 2002 1.5 years

    Expert network & telecom supervision consultant (EMEA)

    Nortel Networks · Valbonne (06) — France

    Expertise on Nortel supervision products and their integration with third-party products. Advising EMEA pre-sales engineers. Interface between product divisions (North America) and EMEA region. Leading client meetings in English.

    • Supervision
    • EMEA
    • Réseaux
  13. Nov 1997 – Dec 2000 3 years

    Integration project manager & Supervision consultant

    Hewlett Packard · Les Ulis (91) — France

    Project management, pre-sales, consulting. Architecture definition and integration of supervision solutions (HP Openview). ITSM / ITIL practice implementation.

    • HP Openview
    • ITSM
    • Intégration
  14. Jun 1995 – Oct 1997 2.5 years

    UNIX SOLARIS support engineer — critical clients

    Sun Microsystems · Vélizy (78) — France

    Expert-level Solaris technical support for Sun’s strategic clients.

    • UNIX
    • Solaris
    • Support expert

Education & certifications

  • 1993

    General Engineering degree in Electrical Engineering — Artificial Intelligence track

    ESIGELEC — École Supérieure d’Ingénieurs en Génie Électrique

  • 1988

    Preparatory classes (Classes Préparatoires)

    Intensive 2-year programme leading to the competitive entrance exams for French engineering grandes écoles

  • 1986

    Baccalauréat F2 — Electronics specialisation

    French upper-secondary diploma — equivalent to UK A-levels / US high school diploma

  • cert.

    ITIL certified

    Actively applied with banking, telecom operators and large accounts

Working languages

English at C1 level — 955/990 on TOEIC (2001), working language for 2 years at Nortel Networks on the EMEA region.

FR

Native

EN

955/990

ITIL

Certified

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