My Resume

Christophe VERDIER

Mobile +33 6 7891 4682 27 rue Robespierre

41 year old Mantes La Ville, Yvelines 78711, France

Married, 2 children verdier@free.fr

Executive Summary

IS professional with a strong technical background that spans over 16 years in critical time & quality constraints industries. Management experience includes international team management. Head of IS with 8 years of experience demonstrating continuous growth, achievement, and leadership in the management of complex IS activities within the Formula One critical industry. Solid business insight with the ability to ascertain and analyze needs, forecast goals, streamline operations, and envision new program concepts. Proficient in the management of a diverse range of departments, professionals, and programs. Adept at setting, expecting, and achieving high standards of quality.

Professional Background

 

Head of Quality, Methods & IS             2008 to present

Valode & Pistre   architectes            Paris, France

 

Quality, Methods & IS/IT management for the 1st architectural group in France (45th in the world, 280 people, 8 companies).

Leads all the IS & Method related projects for the group, in France, China (Beijing & Shanghai), Spain, Russia, and Poland.

Re-build from scratch the entire Information system in 10 months, using mainly Microsoft solutions (Exchange, AD...)

Introduced 3D digital mock-up system to speed up Architectural design (40% of productivity gains)

 

Head Of IS                        2001 to 2007

Renault F1 Team (2005 & 2006 World Champion Formula One team)                        Viry Chatillon, France/Enstone, UK

Member of the senior staff of this medium company of 800 employees, in charge of all the IS/IT, in a strong time/costs constraints environment, manage more that 50 engineers on the two sites of the company in France & UK. Responsible for all the IS budgets on both sites.

·       Introduced massively aerodynamic calculation clusters in both engine & chassis design, reducing overall product development time, and improve directly its performance

•      Managed all the IT/IS security

•      Managed software development, network architects, and related personnel

•      Took the best performance of new technologies for the specific software development of the team (XML, XSL, JAVA, J2E, XUL...)

•      Wrote IS strategy for the entire car related processes from the design to the track

•      Negotiated strategic, technical and marketing partnerships with computer manufacturers and ISV

•      Managed the SAP implementation project (finance, accounting, supply chain) for the French Site

•      Responsible for the Digital Mock-up projects on both sites (based on Dassault Systems Catia & VPM tools)

Head Of IS                        1998 to 2000

Prost Grand Prix (Formula One Team)                        Guyancourt, France

Responsible for all the IS/IT related projects for the 350 employees company, managed four engineer.

•      Project leader for the off-car telemetry system introducing new technologies approach (XML, XSL, Java...)

•      Managed the IS/IT security

•      Managed the SAP implementation (finance, accounting, supply chain)

•      Pioneered a new cluster calculation solution, reducing aerodynamic & structural calculation by half

Senior Software Engineer                        1997 to 1998

InfoVista                        Les Ulis, France

Software engineer in charge of the server side developments

•      Acquired senior C++ developments skills

•      Acquired senior Java developments skills

 

 

 

Network Professor/Network Administrator                        1995 to 1997

Ecole Centrale d'Electronique                        Paris, France

A spitted role of professor & network administrator for the 400 students & users, member of the pedagogic council in charge of writing the technical courses

•      Systems & Network professor for the engineer students

•      Project leader for the industrial projects developed with student team for external company

Industrial IS/IT Professor                        1993 to 1995

E.C.T.E.I                        Paris France

Member of the pedagogic council, in charge of writing most of the technical courses.

•      Developed the degree course of Master of Technical Engineering (BAC+4)

•      Professor in C/C++

•      Professor in network management

•      Professor in numerical electronic devices & micro-controllers

•      Introduced Linux & Java in the students courses

Software Engineer            1992 to 1993

Rapid Action Force                        Maison Laffite, France

Software Engineer on an ammunition logistic management application in CLIPPER & C for the French Army in a war environment (Somalia War)

UNIX/X-Window software Development professor                        1991 to 1992

Chambre de Commerce des Yvelines                        Mantes, France

Professor in X-Window & Unix application programming

C language on Unix Professor                        1991 to 1992

E.C.T.E.I                        Paris, France

Professor in C programming language for BAC+3 students

Computer Knowledge

Languages: Java, Objective C, Flex, C++, C, Javascript, Perl, PHP, Smalltalk, XML/XSL, SVG, CSS, Lisp, Asm

Network & Services: Internet/Intranet, Mail systems (POP3, SMTP, IMAP4), Directories (LDAP, AD),

Private Networks: (VPN, PPTP, FrameRelay), Firewall (GNAT, Iptables), Routers, Bridges, Wifi, Microsoft Networks, TCP/IP

Wan & Telco: High Speed Satelitte links, xDSL, RNIS, RiverBed

Hardware: MAC, PC, IBM, SUN, SGI, NeXT

Operating Systems: UNIX (Linux, MacOSX, Solaris, AIX, IRIX, HPuX), Windows, DOS

Databases: Oracle, XHive, MySQL, Sybase, Object Store

Digital Mock-up Systems: Dassault System software (Catia), Autodesk products (Revit)

Graphical Interfaces Developments knowledge: Cocoa, X Window, Windows

ERP: SAP, SAGE

Education History

BAC G2                        1987

Lycée Jean Rostand                        Mantes, France

 

2nd year D.E.U.G                        1988

PARIS VIII                        St Denis, France

Linguistique Informatique

1st year License                        1992

PARIS VIII                        St Denis, France

Informatique appliquée aux sciences humaines

Professional Development

Certificate                        2004

ESCP-EAP (European Business School)                        Paris, France

General Management: Finance, Accounting, Legal, Marketing, HR

Certificate                        2005

ESCP-EAP (European Business School)                        Paris, France

Management & Motivation (on-going): HR Management and motivation, coaching.

 

Licenses

•      Car & Bike Driving License

•      Boat Driving License

 

 

Activities and Interests

Sports

Mountain Bike, Ski, Water Skiing, Tennis

 

Misc

·       Co-founder of DirectBikes, to sell high end mountain bike online (2007)

·       iPhone developer with a very good success on few applications : SamFLoppy software (2007)

·       Development of embedded solution for the consumer market (spare time).

Languages

French: Mother Tongue

English: Fluent

German: Scholar level