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IT Executive with more than 15 years of experience
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US-Virginia
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Director of IT / Consultant (Las Vegas, NV & Washington D.C.)
2007 Present
PINNACLE ENTERTAINMENT Inc. - $1B Hotel / Gaming Corporation operating 10 properties.
Direct report to the CIO. Collaborated with executives and business management to develop IT strategic plan integrating key business initiatives ($22M department budget).
Managed system, development and network project teams.
Created and directed overall operations including the Project Management Office, Help Desk, and SOX / PCI policies (including Change Control and SDLC).
Directed a staff of 10 department personnel including managers.
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Managed and provided technical support on high-profile IT initiatives, including:
a $500M property opening, $3M Enterprise Data Warehouse (I-Series / SQL server environment), $2.3M Call Center, $1.6M Campaign Management application, $1.2M Content Management application, and $1M mail server migration (Microsoft environment).
Created Casino in a Box tool used to build all IT components in casinos, including budget, resources, IT requirements, systems, applications, and infrastructure.
Authored VoIP and Digital Signage Request For Proposals. Managed vendor selection process.
Designed and implemented companys project management methodology.
Established companys Help Desk. Defined and implemented processes and procedures (ITIL) and department dashboards. Managed migration to new ticketing system (Track-It).
Director of Strategy & Operations (Atlanta, GA)1998 2006
FRANCE TELECOM GROUP ORANGE BUSINESS SERVICES
Telecommunications Carrier (220 countries, $62B annual revenue).
Direct report to the COO. Supported with international operations management of 2,100 professionals who deliver installation and maintenance services to multinational corporations in 220 countries ($285M division budget).
Represented COO at key strategic meetings worldwide, coordinated and ensured global consistency with finance, HR and communication divisions.
Developed operations business strategy, organizational design, profit and loss analysis and supply chain processes. Performed competitive analysis and benchmarks. Defined and implemented department Key Performance Indicators (KPIs). Managed vendors, customers and partners.
Redefined the corporate business model from carrier-oriented to services-oriented model.
Outcomes:
Outsourced operational functions in India, Egypt and Brazil; directed plan to reduce operating costs by 30% in less than two years.
Renegotiated contracts with other carriers and customers to reduce the costs of circuit inventory; generated savings of more than $950K.
Oversaw Canadian circuit inventory cleaning; attained 96% accuracy within six months.
International Program Director (Philadelphia, PA & Paris, France)
FRANCE TELECOM GROUP Continued.
Successfully led worldwide deployment and operational management of two major data networks, Total-Fina-Elf (Oil & Energy) and Carrefour (Retail) networks.
Projects included oversight responsibility of up to 1,600 sites across nearly 50 countries, management of global teams of 24-36 staff, and accountability project budget of $17M - $27M.
Composed project study to ensure on-time delivery within budget and customer specifications.
Defined project, migration, and resource plans; monitored project implementation and scope changes. Managed deployment and operations project teams.
Developed work processes and procedures, including Help Desk structure.
Project Manager (Paris, France)
FRANCE TELECOM GROUP Continued.
Managed worldwide French Reuters (AFP), French Maritime Fret (CMA-CGM), Luxemburg TV channels (Media) and Gemplus infrastructure deployment.
Designed, implemented, and integrated more than 200 sites and value-added services, such as firewalls, DNS and mail servers, and domain migrations.
Information Systems & Network Engineer (Paris, France)
1996 1998
VIVENDI CEGETEL Media / Telecommunications
Carrier (75 countries, $25B annual revenue).
Designed and specified company network, systems and services, including ATM backbone of 50+ nodes, network operating system and service specifications.
Defined and deployed Synchronous Digital Hierarchy (SDH) network and management systems.
Served as auditing member of the ATM forum.
Network Engineer (Paris, France)
1993 1996
SNCF French Railways ($27B annual revenue).
Authored RFP to interconnect 300+ sites to X25 backbone of 150 nodes. Selected supplier, deployed and configured multi-protocol routers, switches, and platforms. Specified and designed complex LAN/WAN interconnections. Supervised test platform.
Managed team of 12 IT experts.
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Information Technology Executive with 15+ years of diverse experience in Telecommunications, Media, Hotel/Gaming and Oil & Energy industries.
Thunderbird M.B.A. in International Management and Master of Science in Computer Science and Telecommunications with expertise in:
IT Strategy /Budgeting
Network & Systems
Project Management (PMO)
IT Services & Operations Management
Software Development
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M.B.A. in International Management, Thunderbird, School of Global Management (Phoenix, AZ)
Master of Science in Computer Science and Telecommunications,
Ecole Polytechnique Fιminine (Paris, France) and Virginia Tech (Blacksburg, VA)
B.S. in Mathematics and Physics, Lycιe de Plaisir (Versailles, France)
Technical Skills: SDH, SONET, X25, FR, ATM, TCP/IP, IPX, VoIP, Wireless, PBX, Radio, Video, C++, C, Assembler, UNIX, SQL, Dbase, Oracle, Microsoft, Exchange, IIS, I-Series, ACSC, LMS, Infinium, Cognos.
Languages: Native French speaker with fluency in English and basic knowledge of German.
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11.12.09 |
Hi Anne
We are looking for a senior engineer with experience in developing managing and implementing Information Technology systems for a Maritime project (VTMS) A vessel traffic and managment system it will take place of an 8 weeks period early next year. are you available can you contact me back at rhanime1@aol.com |
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