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Setting the course.
Driving
your infrastructure projects.

IT Project Manager

20 years of experience

  1. Support
  2. Systems engineering
  3. Project management since 2017

Before managing projects, I administered systems. That technical grounding is now a real asset when running your projects.

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01 / SELECTED PROJECTS

Project management,
in practice.

Three recent projects. For each one: my role and the results achieved.

01APPLICATION TRANSITION
AXAAXA · 2025

Organising an
application transition.

My role Governance, tracking of the schedule, deliverables and risks, and organisation of the handover of responsibilities.

Project background

A cross-functional, international project at the interface of technical teams, business units, security and compliance. Contribution to identity governance and to simplifying IT and security processes.

  • Governance
  • Transition
  • International
RESULTApplication scope transferred

Scope clarified upfront and responsibilities handed over securely.

02IDENTITY & INFRASTRUCTURE
PathéPATHÉ · 2020 - 2024

Unifying identities.
Modernising access.

My role Scoping, organising the work with teams and suppliers, and follow-up through to deployment.

Project background

Merger of two entities: migration and consolidation of Active Directory into a single Microsoft tenant. Application access control through Entra ID (Azure AD).

  • Active Directory
  • Entra ID
  • Microsoft tenant
RESULT2,000+

accounts standardised after the merger of two entities. Lower operating costs and stronger access control.

03FINANCE SYSTEMS
PathéPATHÉ · 2020 - 2024

Connecting treasury
to business systems.

My role Needs analysis, coordination of business and technical stakeholders, planning and tracking of the work.

Project background

Led the roll-out of Diapason, a TMS (Treasury Management System), and its integration with the group’s ERPs in France and abroad (Abacus, Sage, Cegid, Microsoft Dynamics) through SFTP and API flows.

  • Diapason
  • ERP
  • API & SFTP
RESULTCentralised treasury

Group-wide, including internationally: optimised payments, harmonised processes and financial reporting.

02 / EXPERTISE

The big picture.
Technical roots.

Understand the need.
Structure the project.
Coordinate the action.

A TEAM EFFORTBringing teams together, from defining the need to go-live.

As a project manager, I sit at the centre of exchanges with business units, technical teams and external suppliers throughout the project. Select a group to stop the rotation and see examples of stakeholders and their contributions. Select it again or press Escape to close it. The examples come from my projects and are not exhaustive.

Pick a team to see examples from my projects

Scoping · coordination · follow-up

  • Finance and treasuryRoll-out of the Diapason TMS
  • LegalContract management with Legisway
  • Customer servicePhone journey with Genesys
  • Human resourcesInternal processes
  • Identity and directoriesActive Directory, Entra ID, Okta
  • Systems and virtualisationWindows servers, VMware
  • DevOps teamsReleases and go-lives
  • Security and complianceAccess control, identity governance
  • Software vendorsOkta, Diapason, Legisway
  • IntegratorsERP integration
  • DigitisationOver 800,000 archive pages

Just a few examples: every project brings its own set of stakeholders.

01

Scope & lead

Turn a request into a clear, costed project: scope, specifications, schedule and budget. Everyone knows what is expected, and by when.

02

Coordinate & unite

Get business units, technical teams and suppliers moving forward together. Committees that help decide, and dependencies dealt with before they block progress.

03

Evolve the IT landscape

Modernise infrastructure, identities and applications with minimal disruption to the business: migrations, version upgrades and legacy decommissioning, carefully prepared and supported.

How I work

  • Communication
  • Collaborative leadership
  • Analytical mindset
  • Prioritisation
  • Decision-making
  • Adaptability

Methods and tools

Technical environments

Languages

  • French native
  • English fluent
  • Spanish fluent

03 / CAREER

From the field
to leadership.

From my first support roles to cross-functional projects, I have built my career alongside teams and systems.

4certificationsScrum PSPO I, DevOps, ITIL V3, Active Directory

Since 2017IT project management

  1. AXA

    Project Manager
    Application transition

    Cross-functional coordination in an international context.

    See the full project
  2. 2020 - 2024Pathé

    Infrastructure Project Manager

    Identity and access, finance, legal and document management.

    Assignment details
    • Requirements gathering, specifications, technical and budget scoping
    • Tenders: specifications, supplier presentations and selection
    • Coordination of internal teams and suppliers, running follow-up and steering committees
    • Other projects: Okta authentication, contract management with Legisway
    • Digitisation of over 800,000 archive pages and roll-out of a SharePoint document management system

    Covered above: Active Directory merger and Diapason treasury

  3. 2017 - 2020AXA

    Delivery Project Manager
    Insurance applications

    Property and casualty insurance applications: enhancements and go-lives.

    Assignment details
    • Scoping, planning and budget tracking
    • Coordination of DevOps teams and suppliers
    • Presenting and approving changes at the Change Advisory Board (CAB)
    • Organising go-lives and tracking releases
    • Anticipating risks and managing cross-project dependencies
    • Major version upgrade of Genesys, the customer service telephony platform, with a redesigned customer journey
  4. My technical foundationsFrom support to systems engineeringShow rolesHide roles
    1. 2014 - 2017

      Systems Engineer

      Bank branch infrastructure and virtualisation.

      Assignment details
      • Deployment of bank branch servers
      • Technical lead for server virtualisation, including the move from Windows 2003 to Windows 2008
      • Writing technical procedures and handling requests (ITSM Remedy)
    2. 2011 - 2014

      Systems Engineer

      Server support and leading a decommissioning project.

      Assignment details
      • Expert (level 3) support for servers and the VMware environment
      • Led the decommissioning of Windows Server 2003 servers
      • Oversight of monthly Microsoft security patches across all servers
      • Environment: Active Directory, DNS, DHCP, GPO, SCCM
    3. 2010 - 2011

      IT Technician

      On-site support and email migration.

      Assignment details
      • User support and scheduling of interventions
      • Migration of user mailboxes
      • Microsoft Exchange and Active Directory environment
    4. 2007 - 2010

      IT Technician

      Level 2 support, accounts and business applications.

      Assignment details
      • Level 2 support: incident resolution, Active Directory account and access management
      • Server monitoring (Nagios, OCS Inventory)
      • Backups with NetBackup

Certifications

  • Product OwnerProfessional Scrum Product Owner I (PSPO I)
    What this certification covers

    Scrum is an agile way of working: the project moves forward in short cycles, with regular adjustments. The certification validates mastery of the Product Owner role, the person who sets priorities so that what brings the most value is delivered first.

  • DevOpsDevOps Institute
    What this certification covers

    DevOps brings together the teams that build applications and those that run them, to deliver more often and more reliably. The certification validates knowledge of these principles.

  • Microsoft Active DirectoryExam 70-640
    What this certification covers

    Active Directory is Microsoft’s directory service, which manages a company’s accounts, access rights and security rules. The exam validates the ability to configure it.

  • ITIL V3IT service management
    What this certification covers

    ITIL brings together best practice for managing IT services: resolving incidents, controlling changes and improving the service delivered to users. The certification validates knowledge of this framework.

04 / CONTACT

Have a project in mind?
Let’s talk.

Looking for an independent IT project manager? Tell me about the context, the challenges and the scope of the assignment.

cyril@proustconsulting.fr