Romuald - Chef de projet DATACENTER
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57970 YUTZ
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Chef de projet, Assistant à maîtrise d'ouvrage, Consultant (49 ans)
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Totalement mobile
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Bientôt freelance
WORK EXPERIENCE
03/2020–Present
ICT & data center consultant (Freelance)
REAHM DEVELOPMENT, Paris (France)
Mission: Feasibility study, Project Development. AMO (Assistant à la maitrise d’ouvrage).
▪ Create a Business Plan with planned sales revenues, define OPEX/CAPEX. Negotiate with potential
investors (private equity and debts) and public and European & public administration for funding the
projects
▪ Build a sound business development strategy, data centre commercial strategy and manage
business development
▪ Meet and exchange with clients to build the right Data Centre Services portfolio
Mission: Project Management
▪ Manage a team of technical experts responsible for technical design and studies for the data centre.
Validation of detailed designs and Studies.
▪ Plan the management and administration of construction and design functions for the new data
center project
12/2018–02/2020
Chief technology officer, Project Manager
ADRIF, Paris (France)
▪ Assisting the President in the day-to-day management of ADRIF
▪ Oversee the management and administration of construction and design functions for the new
HPC/Big Data BDC1 and BDC2 data center in France
▪ Create a Business Plan. Negotiate with potential investors (private equity and debts) and public and
European & public administration for funding the projects
▪ Build a sound business development strategy, data centre commercial strategy and manage
business development in cooperation with the sales manager
▪ Meet and exchange with clients to build the right Data Centre Services portfolio
▪ Manage a team of construction directors, architects, technical experts, delegated contracting party
and relevant authorities responsible for each campus. Validation of detailed designs. Studies and
tender documents were awarded with building permit requests being granted and administrative
authorisation being validated
▪ Define Maintenance and Operation RFPs, contracts and support with ENGIE & DALKIA M&O
service providers based on FDX 60-000 standard and local regulations. I have defined processes
and GMAO to support maintenance operation services and follow Data centre infrastructure
corrections and updates.
▪ Hold teams accountable to manage overall campus CAPEX budgets and ensure projects comply
with financial controls and policies
▪ Drive teams to execute all phases of construction including pre-construction, competitive Bidding,
team selection, construction, commissioning, and project closeout
▪ Act as thought leader and drive coordination and integration of internal stakeholders across all
regions
▪ Responsible for ensuring standards for operational performance in the areas of safety, security,
availability, productivity, capacity, efficiency, and cost of an expanding portfolio of data centers in the
Europe
▪ Successfully ensure customers are satisfied and any issues with their services are remediated in
future builds (customers surveys & lessons learn process)
05/2017–06/2018
Chief technology officer
SOOBAYA, Luxembourg (Luxembourg)
▪ Co-founder of Soobaya company to develop High Power data centre projects in Europe
▪ Work with internal and external technical teams to identify, define, and pursue new site selection
projects and initiatives necessary to meet Soobaya's ongoing data centre needs, including the
procurement of traditional and green energy for existing and new sites
▪ Create and conduct a Business Plan with planned operational and capital expenditure. Present and
Negotiate with potential investors (private equity and debts) and public and European & public
administration for funding the projects
▪ Build a sound business development strategy, data centre commercial strategy and manage
business development
▪ Identify sites with “high green IT” potential to welcome the infrastructure (district heating network,
incineration plant, swimming pool…) and integrate the data centre in the city and country ecosystem
▪ Lead the data centre site evaluation and selection process from start to finish, monitoring progress
against objectives, providing regular status reports, and championing financial metrics to support both
site and energy-related portfolio decisions.
▪ Lead the acquisition of appropriate lands, and develop strategic agreements with vendors,
landowners and key suppliers for space and utility services.
▪ Manage the strategy for ongoing growth at existing sites, develop metrics for mapping, tracking, and
championing of a broad range of portfolio
▪ Manage challenges regarding site/infrastructure development.
▪ Run discussions and studies with power grid and energy companies (ENEDIS and RTE), developers
(Bouygues, NGE group) to design & built Energy positive data centres
▪ Meet and exchange with clients to build the right Data Centre Services portfolio and gain letter of
intent and reach a presales rate for data center space and power capacity.
11/2016–04/2017 Data centre UPI &Operation Services manager
CONOSTIX, Bettembourg (Luxembourg)
▪ Coordinate the implementation of IT projects and maintain Operational readiness
▪ Maintain constant communication with management and staff to ensure proper projects
implementation and operations
▪ Develop, implement, and maintain quality assurance protocols
▪ Actively pursue strategic and operational objectives
▪ Manage ongoing technical requests and act as a point of escalation for Demand Management
▪ Analyse project implementation metrics, activities and team Capacity
▪ Produce and present status reports
▪ Accountable to maintain the infrastructure secure, compliant, robust, reliable, scalable and efficient
▪ Plan and implement upgrades needed to maintain service levels.
▪ Ensure that systems, processes and methodologies are implemented for projects
▪ Lead the Operational process of implementing project scopes, system designs, business &
technology analysis, system development, and testing throughout the system's lifecycle.
▪ Review progress, and direct changes in priorities, schedules, procedures to meet deadlines.
▪ Motivate staff by setting and achieving challenging goals
▪ Lead change management and risk management, identifying appropriate resources and developing
schedules to ensure timely project completion.
▪ Support standards, business continuity, and disaster recovery.
▪ Serves as a technology ambassador by establishing and providing proactive communication
▪ Provide excellent customer service
▪ Build and Developer relationships with various teams and stakeholders
▪ Drive continuous improvement activity
▪ Provide input to strategy setting and decision-making processes
▪ Performance management of key vendors such as colocation datacentre service providers (eBRC
and LuxConnect), Infrastructures and system and network devices (Cisco, HP, EMC, Brocade,
Checkpoint, Panduit, APC, STULZ, Emerson, etc…) and maintenance vendors in line with
operational and SLA goals
▪ Executing the infrastructure operations support component of new datacentre space launches, and
existing datacentre expansions
▪ Design & built Energy positive data centre. Meet & exchange with clients to build the right solution
and design
▪ Managed complex IT and Datacentres Infrastructure projects
▪ Develop Conostix colocation solution and Data Centre services portfolio
▪ Proposing and complying with agreed operational performance goals relating to safety, security,
availability, capacity, productivity, efficiency, and cost.
09/2011–10/2016 BDM UPI and Data centreServices
DIMENSION DATA Luxembourg, Capellen (Luxembourg)
Business Development for UPI Business Unit:
▪ Creation and development of the UPI (Unified Physical Infrastructure for datacentre) Business Unit
for BENELUX.
▪ Definition of UPI strategy, solutions & portfolio with the Go-to-market strategy.
▪ The objective was to promote the organisation’s Physical Data Centre solutions and services in such
a way that it was accessible by different stakeholders with different levels of technical expertise
▪ Keep capital expenditures and operating expenses in line with management targets for the BU
Data center Services Manager for UPI Business Unit:
▪ Creation of a set of tools to design, audit and assess data center physical and organisational
infrastructures. For these integrated services, we were preferred by clients and even approached by
constructors to design innovative solutions and efficient and sustainable data centres.
▪ Operation and maintenance of data center mechanical, electrical, and controls systems to include
preventive maintenance, corrective maintenance, emergency maintenance, and change
management
▪ Oversight of teams responsible for installation, repair, and decommissioning of data center hardware
and network devices
▪ Leading, managing, coaching, and developing the data center cluster operations management
teams
▪ Performance management of key vendors such as colocation data center service providers and
maintenance vendors in line with management goals
▪ Executing the infrastructure operations support component of new data center cluster launches, new
data center launches, and existing data center expansions
▪ Proposing and complying with agreed operational performance goals relating to safety, security,
availability, capacity, productivity, efficiency, and cost
▪ Supporting the physical security safeguarding of the people, assets, and customer data in data
centres
▪ Operations budgeting and management of capital expenditures and operating expenses in line with
management targets
▪ Contributing to continuous improvement of operational processes, procedures, methods, and tools,
including those related to safety, security, and availability incident/event response, management,
recovery, and resolution
01/01/2009–28/08/2011 Support & ServiceDirector
NextiraOne Luxembourg, Munsbach (Luxembourg)
▪ Lead and Manage the services and support teams to provide Professional & Managed Services to
Clients via Network Operation Centre. A total of 25 engineers under my management, all of them
experts in either network, security, data centres, voice or system.
▪ Design and implement Global TechnologyStandards
▪ Optimizing and leveraging existing global IT Infrastructure
▪ Management of 3rd parties and outsourced services
▪ Manage complex IT project, companies digitalisation and data centre relocation
▪ Maintain and optimize a global client's network around the world
▪ Design, Implement and maintain cloud-based solutions (private, public & hybrid)
▪ Monitor and trigger quality of services
▪ Active player in innovation programs and concepts
▪ Manage RFP’s
▪ Supplier and vendorcoordination
▪ Working in virtualized organizations and international clients and colleague
01/01/2003–28/12/2008 ICT Presales Manager
NextiraOne Luxembourg, Capellen (Luxembourg)
▪ Define and implement NextiraOne LAN/WAN and Professional Services solutions and framework,
drafting and managing policies, procedures, and guidelines. Maintain the framework aligned within
NextiraOne portfolios and sales profit
▪ Conduct opportunity analysis, in-depth risk assessment and initial due-diligence for any prospected
projects and IT outsourcing activities, including a full assessment of client’s needs & requirements,
expected results, service-level agreement, and a detailed evaluation of the risks.
▪ Perform continuous oversight on all the LAN/WAN/Professional services
▪ presales activities, including opportunities review and bid-no-bid process, client on-site visits, Proof of
concept, maintenance and agreements renewal
▪ Actively propose ideas for improvement and optimisation of the existing processes and services in line
with IT infrastructure policies and procedures
▪ Run and support various proof-of-concept initiatives and evaluation of new ICT solutions and
technologies
▪ definition of procurement and service contracts, including procuring hardware and services in a public
and private sector environment
01/04/2001–31/12/2002 ICT network engineer
UNISYS BeLux, Luxembourg (Luxembourg)
▪ Design, installation and support LAN&WAN Network infrastructure (Cisco, Nortel, Alcatel, Enterasys)
▪ 24/7 network Maintenance with on-duty call
▪ Technical Support for Answering RFPs
▪ Network LAN/WAN Proof of concept
▪ contact with Manufacturer, suppliers and Support Network Operating centre
▪ CISCO CCNA/CCNP/CCDP certified
▪ CIENA Optera Metro DWDM installation Certified Engineer
▪ Nortel Network LAN Certified installation Engineer
01/08/1999–28/03/2001 Senior ICT networkengineer
Dimension Data Luxembourg, Luxembourg (Luxembourg)
▪ LAN/WAN installation and support
▪ Complex network design and project management
▪ on-duty call for Network Operating Centre
▪ Dimension Data European expert for WDM, BGP and service provider technologies (centre of
excellence)
▪ Technical support for Presales and RFPs answering
01/09/1997–29/07/1999 ICT network engineer
Decathlon International, Villeneuve d'Ascq (France)
▪ LAN&WAN Network installation and support for international stores and warehouses in Europe, USA
and Asia
▪ Cisco Network Devices expert
▪ On-duty call for Network Maintenance
▪ IBM OS400 TCP/IP network Engineer certified
EDUCATION AND TRAINING
01/09/1992–15/06/1997 Telecom & Network Engineer EQF level8
Institut Mines & Telecom Lille Douai - Université Lille1, Lille (France)
▪ Network LAN/WAN/MAN
▪ Telecom, Voice andcollaboration
▪ Project Management and ITILv3Certification