Samir - Chef de Projets

EXPERIENCE

Binary Tree Inc now QUEST and One Identity (USA) Engagement & Project Manager EMEA | APAC regions within
Professional Services team
20-02-2015 – till date
• Engaged with business development and presales team to scope and secure opportunities, up to 10M USD projects/year
• Led project management sessions with clients
• Defined backlogs, project plans, capacity planning, progress dashboards and continually working with clients to report progress and resolve risks and issues
• Improved the workload of the Professional Services team from 1 to 3
• Strong IT and cloud solutions background in the email and collaboration industry leveraging this knowledge to remove blockers during projects lifecycle
• Some of my projects customers: Air France, BNPP, LA POSTE, MAIF, SAVENCIA, HERMES, Danone, Singapore Airlines, ABS-CBN (Philippines), Maxlife (India), SBI (State Bank of India), ORICA Australia, AMMROC (UAE), Lazard Bank, Covea, KLM, BOLLORE, SAVENCIA,
YFAI (China)
Wave Labs FZE (UAE) various projects in Europe
Plastic Omnium 20-10-2014 – 31-06-2015 Project Manager for
• Led project implementation team to migrate their email system from one provider (Capgemini) to another (Orange Business Services).
• Improving client satisfaction ensuring the solutions is delivered on-time, within scope, budget, and avoid penalties for extending the intial contract
• Technology: Migration Exchange 2007 to Exchange 2013
• Change of provider and data centers

Airbus 20-12-2013 – 30-09-2014 Microsoft Exchange Expert
• Migration Exchange 2007 to Exchange 2013 for 140,000 users
• Resolving migration issues with Binary Tree consultants
• Improving the migration processes

Societe Generale 04-2013 – 15/12/2013 Project Manager Migration Domino to
Exchange for SGCIB (UK, IN, FR)
• Move Exchange 2007 to Exchange 2010
• Consolidation and move users across departments and countries
• Migration of applications and Mail-in database to SharePoint
• Follow-up project consolidation of 15 IAM to enforce security while provisioning users

Capgemini 11-2011 - 04-2013 Technical Project Manager
• Monitoring implementation and adherence to deadlines
• Solution design and deployment Planning
• Deployment of the solution and KT to L3 in India
• Implementation of Lotus TRAVELER 8.5.2
• Upgrade and move of users from BES 4.7 to BES 5.03

Wave Labs FZE 01-2005-11-2011: Internal Professional Services projects
• Head of Professional Services leading 70 people in Orlando (FL), London (Staines, Sophia Antipolis, Tunis, Dubai and Hong Kong
• Led Presales, preparing offers and SOWs, ensuring the delivery is in line with the company engagements and customer expectations, measuring the risks.
Some of my customers include AIRBUS, OBS/Equant/SITA, LVMH, SAGEM, RHODIA, SGS, Salvation Army, ASICS, ALCAN/ NOVELIS, BNPParibas Lease
Group, Michelin.
Project Manager mobile software development with teams located in TN, IN and Dubai
• MyLink for Android (Technologies: .NET, Java, SQLite, MySQL)
• MyFE for Android (Java, SQLite, MySQL)
• MyLink for Blackberry (.NET, Java, SQLite, SQL Express)
• CWLN, CWO and ConsoPST migration software (Lotusscript, .NET)

Alcatel 2003-2004
• Lotus Domino Consultant
• Migration Lotus Domino of R5 to R7 ALCATEL
• WW servers consolidation
• Incidents resolution

HSBC France 2001-2002
• Head of Groupware – Managing 12 engineers
• Migration Groupwise to Notes for 13 000 users
• Recruitment of the team and making procedures and documentation -

Architecture, built recovery plan for Messaging infrastructure
AXA Assistance 2000-2001
• Head of Groupware and Security
• Responsible to rebuild IT infra and secure it
• 50 offices worldwide
• LAN/WAN/Groupware
• WW servers consolidation

Lotus Software 1999 – 2000
• Analyst Domino R5 & R4 for Domino, Notes, 4 and 5, InterNotes, LEI, Workflow,
Domino.Doc, Sametime,
• Quickplace…
• Server crashes specialist, messaging specialist
• Support for European customers

InfoData Systems Romania 1995 – 1999
- Lotus Notes and Data Security consultant for Global One and SITA Equant

My hobbies: I like playing chess, but IT and the technology are definitely my favorite occupations. I also like to travel and live abroad. I used to live in Norway (3 years), Romania (4 years), Ireland (2 years), Germany (1 year), UAE (12 years), Ukraine (5 years).