
Senior PMO Consultant - Vodafone
Milan Area, Italy

Senior PMO Consultant - Vodafone
Milan Area, Italy
Senior IT Manager with 18 years of international experience in the IT sector with top companies: IBM, IKEA, Edelman, Randstad, H3G, Vodafone.
Used to coordinate teams of employees and consultants in large long term projects. Focused on developing concrete solutions in good collaboration with all the other actors of the business and its partners.
Project Management. ERP migration and roll-out's, Business Process Management, IT Audit.
Fluent in English, French, Italian and Dutch.
(Public Company; VOD; Telecommunications industry)
January 2008 — Present (2 years )
* Assisting Vodafone Global in its Project Management Office (BMC Remedy)
* Past IT Audit missions (for the following clients since 2008: Assystem France, The Nice Airport, H3G Italy, Arpa Lombardia) with particular focus on :
IT Controls & Strategy (COBIT - Val IT)
Service Management (ITIL V3)
Asset Management (EAM)
Business Process Analysis (BPM)
(Staffing and Recruiting industry)
September 2004 — December 2007 (3 years 4 months)
Randstad Italia has 700+ employees, 3,700 active clients and 12,000 temporary workers. IT Budget: 3.6 M euro/year.
Growth in 2007 was 24%. 2008 will be even better.
(Privately Held; 1001-5000 employees; Public Relations and Communications industry)
May 1998 — August 2004 (6 years 4 months)
Coordination of a team of IT Managers in the European region (12 offices, 500 users). Specific responsibilities :
• selection & guidance of these IT Managers, their application of corporate protocols & standards
• confirmation that efficient user assistance and training solutions are in place
• planning and application of business continuity measures, the monitoring, forecast and budgeting of resources
• management of IT projects such as the unification of the financial systems, email and servers migrations, implementation of a central asset & helpdesk solution, client cross-selling database, media contact databases, client extranets, online surveys, etc.
• management of supplier relationships (AT&T, Colt, Dell, IBM, Microsoft, MCI)
(Privately Held; Retail industry)
January 1996 — April 1998 (2 years 4 months)
• Coordinated the technical aspects related to IKEA’s first website conception: www.ikea.com. (a 14 months/1M$ project). Provided support for its rollout to franchisees based on the corporate template created.
• Main technical advisor for:
> the construction of in-store self-service kiosks to promote and sell sofas.
> the creation of a customer loyalty card for direct marketing purposes
> the Brent Park (UK) call center installation
> CDROM-based catalogue investigations (3 prototypes produced)
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; IBM; Information Services industry)
September 1993 — December 1995 (2 years 4 months)
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IBM develops benchmark database models for the international insurance industry (IAA).
My role was to build prototype applications to investigate how data modeling methodologies and an object oriented programming language like Smalltalk could ease end-users navigate through the complex IAA database.
(Educational Institution; 51-200 employees; Primary/Secondary Education industry)
September 1993 — December 1995 (2 years 4 months)
Part-time position, after my full time job at IBM. Taught computer programming classes to High School students, preparing them for the Baccalaureate exam.
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; IBM; Information Services industry)
September 1990 — August 1992 (2 years )
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As pre-sale consultant, I helped market IBMs latest interactive technologies to corporate clients. This meant
> demonstrate the products functionalities
> organize marketing actions, fairs and special events
> run professional training courses
> advize potential client on technology uses
> provide follow-up support
In this framework, I also contributed to the creation of sample computer based training courses both on videodisks and CD-ROM's.
Diploma , Change Management & Business Strategy , 2000 — 2002
First half of the OUBS' MBA curriculum.
Degree in applied computer sciences 1987 — 1990
Thesis: "Cooperative data processing between personal computers and the AS/400".
credits only , Astrophysics, chemistry, statistics , 1985 — 1986
1982 — 1985
1980 — 1981
IT Governance Master (Workshop C4) 2008
Preparation to ISACA's CGEIT certification, with Mr. Erik Guldentops and Mr. George Ataya.
Being a Father, Understanding how the world turns, Politics & History, Business Strategy, Biographies, Managing Projects, Sciences & Medecine, Culture Contrasts, Windsurfing, Long Distance Running, Travelling, Soaring
ISACA