Nicolas - Chef de projet NOVELL

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Hired as an Enterprise Architect Functional delivering an integrated future state architecture for finance & risk.
• Supporting the business with gathering business requirements and creating a global IFRS17 Project Start Architecture.
• Co-ordinating global touch points with local architecture-function and solution design processes.

WORK EXPERIENCE (continued)

• Determining the to- be business, application, technology and data architecture on Group and CC level based on the architectural requirements.
• Translating the Global Finance Strategy and Finance & Risk business objectives into a global IFRS 17 Business and IT architecture in order to makes sure that all Finance & Risk initiatives are coherent and mutually strengthening

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• Hired as Global Enterprise Architect and Program Manager across Governments and Administration; responsible for architecture assessment of a European Union agency.
• Incorporated As-Is, risk analysis, gap analysis, benchmark against life critical apps in healthcare, recommendation, and cost and project.
• Managed cross-functional team of seven members, improving infrastructure and raising funds from the European Union to implement the application.
• Identified problem areas and devised approach methodologies in accordance with budget and tight deadlines.
• Monitored staff members throughout the process and prioritised IT tasks according to company objectives.

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• Employed as Global Enterprise Architect across Electronics, Aerospatiale, Avionics and Defence; responsible for assessing potential new projects for incorporation into the customer public cloud Digital Factory initiative.
• Involved functional and non-functional requirements, roadmaps, buy vs build, AI, IoT, encryption key management and data architecture.
• Played an instrumental role as Product Owner Digital Security, also across Electronics, Aerospatiale, Avionics and Defence, securing entire customer Digital Factory Platform from DevSecOps to infrastructure.
• Incorporated CI/CD security, encryption IaaS and PaaS (HDD, VM, FS, Apps), SOC & SIEM, reporting, security patch management, security governance, firewall / WAF and data security.
• Secured the CloudFront edge location, ensuring reliable sensitive data protection, as well as a decrease in latency.
• Defined, structured and managed the concept and implementation of the Security Operation Center (SOC).
• Oversaw daily publishing operations for internal cybersecurity magazine, distributed to 65,000 readers, including layout, content strategy and editing.
• Responsible for speaking on company’s behalf at important networking functions, handling key demo organisation.
• Defined and managed the Digital Initiative data protection project. Reviewed of GDPR requirements and their impacts on practices and processes.

COGNIZANT TECHNOLOGY – Worldwide
Global Enterprise Architect Director (Retail, Electronics, Textiles, Chemistry, Services, Retail Sales);
Global SAP Taskforce Director;
Global Demand and Portfolio Management Director (Retail, Electronics, Textiles, Chemistry, Services, Retail Sales) Jun 2016 – Nov 2017

• Reduced global operation costs by 60% when managing an annual budget of $22.8 million.
• Supervised an international team of >160 on an onsite/near-shore/off-shore model.
• Performed usage analysis to rationalise infra by 30%.
• Led and managed SAP taskforce to continually improve SAP systems, implement best practices and enforce entire SAP landscape stability.
• Significantly enhanced the credibility and productivity of the SAP taskforce by leveraging SAP expertise.
• Mitigated business risk and strengthened internal controls by recommending multiple high calibre security solutions.

WORK EXPERIENCE (continued)

• Reduced global operation costs by 40% and managed overall program of $30 million.
• Implemented cutting-edge governance and project methodologies to improve program delivery times by 30%.
• Successfully reduced overall program running costs by 15% through the implementation of cost analysis while redefining requirements gathering.
• Architected and managed digital transition to world-class public cloud infrastructure.
• Architected and managed IoT implementation and security.
• Reduced third-party vendor prices by 25% on average by entering into effective negotiations.

Program Director – Enterprise Architect (Energy – Upstream); Program Director (Media)

• Managed transition in 100 days for a total budget of $11.5 million/year operation, reducing global operation costs by 60%.
• Rationalised infra by 30% by performing usage analysis (19 sites, 450 HPC nodes, 900 servers, 1.5 PB storage).
• Managed overall program of $70 million, focusing on global operation cost reductions of 40%.
• Orchestrated transition of in-house developers to outsourced model, reducing overall operational costs by 60%.
• Managed the takeover of 19 sites and 3 hubs with an overall team of 120+ employees.
• Designed next generation of Supercomputer/HPC in alignment with business structure/requirements.
• Architected and managed digital transition to world-class public cloud infrastructure.

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Authorised Representative, Team Leader Infrastructure

Service Desk, 1st Level Support and Network Operator

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