Coordination of projects - France and International - negotiation and mediation
Assembly or resumption of multi-field projects
Consulting for architecture of projects, mediation, to control multi-field projects

To analyze needs, faults of networks and systems; recasting according to the applications and trades needs

NTIC and new networks technologies

To find, appraise, validate and recommend emergent technologies for trades & business applications

Information System evolution and impacts

IS Maps, coherence diagnosis and IS evolutionarity, recasting and impacts - organization and RoI

Security

Technological survey and choices, overall security policy, solutions implementation and maintenance

Novatome-Framatome, Thomson/Thales, ACOFA, CEPIA/ Air Liquide, TMI/ 9TE/Bouygues, FT, HP, ETPM/ Stolt Seaway,
Société Générale, COLT / LD-COM, Mitsubishi Electric, PWC, Karavel, Dimension Data / SFR, INERGY, NATIXIS.

mailto:patrick@groshens.org

Coordination of projects - France and International - negotiation and mediation

Assembly or resumption of multi-field projects

- Management of 5 to 40 people, interns and sub-contractors - Teams, hierarchical and transverse projects – coordination,
- Networks, data processing and IS, applications CAD/CAM -SAP, Database, mail, Internet, Extranet/Intranet,
- Telecom Leased Lines - Frame Relay – VSAT satellite - MPLS, systems, safety on sites and nomads – Outsourcing.

Consulting for architecture of projects, mediation, to control multi-field projects

- Resumption of projects with history/conflict context/ Mediation on Department / corporate level,
- Negotiation: technical, contractual /legal and financial / contracts, quality, SLA / QoS – CoS / TCO and budget, delay,
- Selection of operators and partnerships to manage projects, convergence of Information system and rationalization

To analyze needs, faults of networks and systems; recasting according to the applications and trades needs

- Coordination between persons in charge of sites, internal resources, subcontractors & operators, directives on the staff level.

- Diagnostic, planning, managing: evolution of LAN & WAN, expertise with specialists and subcontractors.

- Definition and coordination of networks delivery on customer sites, deployment, testing, deadlines and budgets
- Animation of the steering committees: recommendations, convergence, rationalization and global policies.

NTIC and new networks technologies

To find, appraise, validate and recommend emergent technologies for trades & business applications

- Diagnosis of customer needs and status: context, organization, resources, recommendations, anticipation and Feasibility study.
- Monitoring and capacity planning, alarms on services and LAN/WAN networks connections, Cisco & CoS / MPLS.

- Risk Analysis, implementations impacts, improvement of quality of services, management of evolutions and TCO,
- Applications: CAD/ CAM, SAP, HR, In/Extranet, Mail, safety, PKI, remote access, overload risks of networks.and impacts.

Information System evolution and impacts

IS Maps, coherence diagnosis and IS evolutionarity, recasting and impacts - organization and RoI

- Analysis of the solutions in place: safety, process maps and flows between trades & business applications
- Management of coherence of evolution: diagnosis, inter-working of IS components, gaps, rationalization & outsourcing
- Installation and managing of migration/integration, with impacts from IS to new trades & business solutions, ITIL, PMI

Security

Technological survey and choices, overall security policy, solutions implementation and maintenance

- Operational and organizational dysfunctions or lacks of detection: continuity and quality of service, reactivity
- Definition and management of flows of Quality of service - Classification by priority of significant or critical business needs

- Tools implementation for supervision and alerts +SMS with systems of escalation /helpdesk & specialists, crisis management
- Research and installation of safety solutions, from the policy and organization to the technical and resources solutions

20 years of experiment in industry between operational, IS and NTIC for efficient services, trades and business

Novatome-Framatome, Thomson/Thales, ACOFA, CEPIA/ Air Liquide, TMI/ 9TE/Bouygues, FT, HP, ETPM/ Stolt Seaway,
Société Générale, COLT / LD-COM, Mitsubishi Electric, PWC, Karavel, Dimension Data / SFR, Inergy, Natixis.

Network project manager – Natixis - MPLS –France- EU - Afrique 2007/07-10

Resumption of invitation to tender and providers selection : Orange, BT, COLT, Verizon Business

- Resumption of needs evaluation, adding VzB operator and selection: SLA, High Availability, CoS, phonie, costs…

- Perimeter: Consumer credit, Data Center/ Hub close to Paris, partners in Italy, Europe and North Africa …

- To anticipate the evolutions / reorganization of the Natixis group and its partners in terms of data and voice exchanges.

Network project manager – INERGY Monitoring and Verizon/MCI MPLS 2007/04-07

Transfer of the monitoring activity and networks components for 60 sites: Europe, Americas, Africa, Asia.

Communication of information to a new operator MCI Verizon within the framework for a Frame Relay migration towards MPLS, monitoring of WAN and additional LAN components. Helpdesk escalations ...

Project manager – Dimension Data / SFR New networks services management 2007/02-04

Dimension Dated project management for the SFR “IP Backbone”; materials impacts and configurations:

- Direction of new projects: project definition and quotation on a new design on two main sites of the network,
- Direction of customers projects: operations and configuration management on sites of the operator.

Telecom manager – PWC - PriceWaterhouseCoopers, Paris. LAN / MPLS WAN & VoIP 2005/05- 06/01

Team Management: 7 Wan/LAN and Phone + VoIP specialists, 40 sites in France, with management of the relocation from La Defense to Neuilly (2000 p.) / Paris, checking, receipt of the new main site.

Main challenge: to reorganize reporting and project management methodologies of a specialists team, relations with Accounts Managers and internal customers in France to manage budgets and costs affectation to Lines of Services. Security audit. Management / switching to “new MPLS network” implementation with FT in a production context, crisis negotiation between FT and end customers / sites directors: new WAN/LAN network design, implementation, supervision & capacity planning taking in account existing & new applications, secure VPN for remote laptops …
Packetshaper & different tools like Cacti & Nagios to improve the quality of the infrastructures and backup capabilities testing toward full redundancy: Disaster Recovery Plan & Business Continuity with a new COLT site, load balancing …

Project management - MPLS & CoS– Karavel Paris – Travel Agency – 7 Sites 2006/03-08

New contract with COLT for a MPLS WAN deployment over 6 Sites, Data and Voice/ VoIP, CoS and capacity planning: 2 main production sites – MPLS- & 3 Agencies with SDSL - in Paris, Call center in Vichy, Web hosting with 50 front servers in Vélizy/ Paris, VoIP DSCP tagging implementation for CoS management & Alcatel PABX.
Impacts on the LAN & design: old central connection on a single Linux server/Fire Wall instead of CPE routers.

Main challenge: to negotiate with COLT the way to minimize the impacts of COLT difficulties to manage the customer delay constraints & SLA for some FT / France Telecom Links interface from Paris to Vichy with back-up lines & VoIP.

Security consulting – Personal project with small & medium enterprises 2004 - 2005/05

Freelance market study and proposal to small & medium companies to check and increase human, computers & network security with easy and cheap or external solutions in a top down approach.

Infrastructures Architect - Mitsubishi Electric Telecom Europe 2000-2003/08

Diagnosis & redesign of LAN & WAN for the factory (1600 p), HQ (40 p) & R&D (600p), international remote connections, Nokia Firewall with anti virus implementation in factory without services interruption, security, laptops remote connection (FT, Infonet, ..), monitoring and SMS alerts, new networks flows classification with CoS / routers, PacketShaper & MPLS providers, negotiation with MCI & FT about SLA, negotiation about technologies and pricing,

On sites and international level with Mitsu / EU & Japan. Convergence to a single phone provider: -20% reduction.

Comparison between French and international providers SLA & costs, comparative analysis about phone providers, VoIP opportunities, new technologies about WAN, LAN & QoS / SLA, security solutions like PKI, needs, predictions and evolution analysis about WAN/LAN & critical users applications & architectures, comparison and proposal from technical, evolution and financial point of view: providing advise to IS manager, requirements and conformity to Mitsubishi's France, Europe & MELCO/Japan technical standards, guide lines and local constrains.

Network project manager - Société Générale, Colt Telecommunication  2000/01-06

SG: 2 teams project manager: 40 p. depend on 2 directions. - Novel/IPX to Win./IP migration management.
Colt: Network project manager as COLT provider, implementation of a new optical fiber for new customers & backup from Paris to Marseille with 12 relay-sites, new partnership with LD-COM.
Responsible for delay, budget, testing and receipt, production and end customers delivery.

Areas Data Manager – North Sea, Africa - CAM & telecom – STOLT / ETPM 1998-1999

Implementation of a new central stock, furniture & maintenance management tool to reduce costs and increase visibility for purchases department on barges, reduction of costs communication with VSAT satellites for mail, internet, voice, Notes and Oracle replication between 10 sites and barges – 200 to 400 p. - from North sea to Africa including Paris HQ.
- Entreprise de Travaux Pétroliers et Maritimes – Lyonnaise des Eaux , now solt to STOLT Seaway.

Data management Consulting – ACOFA- CEPIA/Air Liquide - TMI– FT - HP 1996-1998

Hewlett Packard HP TopTools: a new project for network management & implementation in Europe.
France Telecom PO & “Leased Lines Supply” projects architecture with Lucent US and SEMA Grenoble.
Telecom Media International – Telecom Italia & Bouygues Telecom to 9TE: Over 50 sites implementation with Frame-Relay network: supply, and installations, partnership with Unisys et Bay-Network sub-contractors.

Air Liquide – CEPIA Lotus: Notes DB Project: “Business, Marketing & Technical Enterprise memory” for 33 sites in F.

ACOFA: Consulting to directors for Offices reorganization and security on accountancy of European aids: 15 sites. .

Projects manager, CAD and I.T. coordination THOMSON 1989-1995

In charge of resources rationalization at the Thomson-CSF Task Force Staff level: Suppliers – budget - resources - tools, methods & data - VMS to UNIX upgrade for electronics and mechanics CAD/CAM, industrial guidelines and repository consolidation.

Coordinate RoI and development coherence, development between engineering, design and manufacturing: CAD/CAM hard & software in concurrent engineering for electronics, electro-technical and mechanics.

Negotiating with customers and Matra Datavision partnership: Specification, plan, follow-up, services review & validation, implementation in concurrent engineering for 3 D wiring: 4 sites & teams support, ORACLE DBA; costs reduced over 50%.

Total Quality management: creating teams, dysfunctional analysis and solving: -20% spare on 2 MF components stocks.

Software development engineer - CAD project manager – FRAMATOME 1981-1989

Design and implementation of a new 3D CAD system for pipes. Testing and support: 20 users for Daya-Bay I - China contract: nomenclatures and quotation of 600 drawings in 3 months.
Finite element criteria automated analysis software: design and quotation: 3 teams, 75 p.; quality and reliability, gain over 80%.

Education and training

INSA Lyon GMD 78 Engeneering: Institut National des Sciences Appliquées 1973-1978

TH- Technische Hochschule Karlsruhe Sholarship, exams 1976-1977

ETH Zürich Institut für Mechanik Assistant and research on servo-mechanism. 1978-1981

CESI Gentilly Enterprise policies and managing, diagnostic, 1996-1997
strategies, marketing, budgets management, teams & meetings... training

patrick@groshens.org +33 660 751 711 Projects and architectures management for IS & NTIC