Didier - Directeur Informatique

W O R K E X P E R I E N C E

Founder 2022
Premeum Digital Solutions Tangerang, Indonesia/ Offering Trading solutions for retail traders on the Forex market
• Develop algorithms and automated robots for the gold and forex markets

Chief Information Officer / Managing Director 2017 - 2022
CIO at Demeco Group, Orléans / 1st French Leader in the moving and Transportation industry - 1600 employees 60 companies
– €97M revenue in 2017
• Defined the group’s IT Strategy, participated in the group’s strategy (member of the Executive Committee and reporting to CEO), spread the roadmap through the teams
• Boosted a multisite team of 40 professionals (Infrastructures, Projects and Developments, Helpdesk & Hotline, Telephony)
• Forged Business Partner relations with the different entities
• Define and optimize investment and functioning budgets (Opex/Capex) through a ROI approach
• Slashed vendor costs by 30% by negotiating pricing and fees, while ensuring the continuation and enhancements of services.
• Animated and Mentored governance and IT Roadmap:
o Redefined and remodelled the IT teams (organized it like a company within the Group, with own P&L),
o Integrated 7 companies in the IT architecture after M&A,
o Delivered guidance for Leaders of Technical Operations teams for a Kubernetes based platform facilitating CI/CD deployments, both on premises and on a cloud infrastructure (AWS)
o Built up API Management, micro-services and mobile applications in the Cloud,
o Migrated 60 agencies in a private datacentre (renew infrastructure, IP telephony, 2 call centers)
o Managed delivery and SLAs by guiding incident resolution, problem management, maintenance, and enhancement tickets raised by the end users for assigned applications.
• Partnered up to 7M€ contracts (8% of global revenue, for B2B, B2C, B2B2C) with clients and negotiated requirements (ministry of army, Macif, GMF)
• Coach teams on agile development methods and mold a framework development mindset
• Created and coordinated the Marketing and Digital Team for direct marketing (print, events, brand exposure in local and European market), member engagement activities and Digital Marketing (e-commerce, SEA/SEO, social networks, e-reputation):
o Deliver lectures at conferences to raise awareness of franchised (80 companies General Managers)
o Redesigned several websites and created an e-commerce platform (B2C, ********)
 UX, reservation workflow and payment, services choices
 Lead distribution pattern setup to physical agencies and start Visio conferences with clients
 Website factory deployment for the group brands (7 websites deployed in phase1)
o Created a specialized e-commerce platform for the ministry of the French Armies (B2B, B2B2C, ********), +170% revenue in year one and year two, 10M€ market, adapted it to a white label platform CEO, General Managing Director at MP Systèmes, Toulouse / n°1 French moving/Transportation software editing company
• Built an outstanding ERP product: observed, designed product, interacted and acquired users/customers
• Leaded the row of a software development company boat in the moving and relocation industry, 400 clients in France, Spain, Switzerland and Belgium
• Defined the purpose of the voyage, elaborated the company’s business development strategy
o Optimized the P&L to enhance growth, boosted to 40% of the Net Income in 1,5 year
o Enhanced customer experience through creation of Cloud hosting environments and mobile applications

IT Director / Portfolio Director 2014 – 2017
Apprentis d’Auteuil, Paris / Major French education institution - 5500 employees in France (mainland and overseas territories),
200 sites, 24,000 students - €370M revenue in 2015
• Built IT strategies and roadmap aligned with the organization goals
• Managed 15 people in-house and remote team, hired, trained IT staff
• Developed partnerships between teams and state-owned structures
• Managed the company’s Project Portfolio: composed with C-levels, led and coordinate teams, identified internal and external customer needs
• Headed of Enterprise Architecture in the company (changed silos mindsets, setup Datawarehouses)
• Transformed the IT Business Systems and digital applications:
o Launched a new Intranet and several digital applications, headed the change of the company’s practices
o In house business education platform generating 120M€/year, reducing annual charges of 100k€

W O R K E X P E R I E N C E ( C O N T I N U E D )

o Automated Financial workflows and in house “Legacy” systems improving revenue from 80M€/year to 90M€/year, reducing of 144k€ of annual charges (Dynamics CRM + Dynamics NAV)
o Migrated of 6500 mail + content accounts to Office365 and conducted the organizational change
o Automated all HR workflow (IAG/IAM), automated employee’s arrivals and leaves
o Marketing CRM deployment for Philanthropy and big donator teams generating 34M€ per year (Salesforce)

Digital Solutions Director in Freelance 2013 – 2014
Neü, Singapore / Mission: Entrepreneurship counsel, design and build an e-commerce platform for a fashion store startup
• Analysed the market and competitors, identified customer needs and drove the platform creation design and project
• Enabled the right offshore teams and guided them to build the digital solution

Project Director / IT Team Leader 2008 – 2013
Apprentis d’Auteuil, Paris / Major French education institution
• Created the company’s development team and mobilized them in the full lifecycle of many digital and IT projects
• Reduced the IT cost of 23% by reorganizing the teams and vendor management
• Managed large number of whole lifecycle development projects
• Promoted the developments methods and trained the teams to change their practices (UML, project management)

Project Manager / Lead Developer 2003 – 2008
ESCP Europe, Paris / Major Business School worldwide - 300 employees, 4000 int’l students per year, 5 campuses in Europe
• Delivered full lifecycle development projects for educational and tax digital applications, including compiling business users’ needs, statements of work, design, coding, testing, deployments and software training

IT Service Manager 2002 – 2003
Cegid, Paris / In the top 10 European software companies, 2000 employees, €246M revenue (2003)
• Deployed, Installed and maintain Luxury ERP software
• Trained sellers and directors throughout Europe in French, English and German
• Managed the full maintenance and deployment systems of over 2000 various client equipment

Industrial Maintenance Director 2000 – 2002
Lorina, Munster / Food and beverage company – 100 employees, €75M revenue in 2002
• Manage a team of 11 service engineers, coordinated the continuous performance of the production lines

Industrial Service Manager 1998 – 2000
Delphi Automotive Systems, Sarreguemines – 500 employees on site
• Headed the maintenance of a battery production line (by adding robots and optimizing the line)