Flavien BAU

MISSION STATEMENT

Lead and manage a highly innovative and effective information services organization that leverages employee talent, technologies, best practices, and collaboration to create productive, efficient, and robust administrative services and support for a premiere institution.

SAMPLING OF ACCOMPLISHMENTS

• Challenged with the turnaround of a company after years of losses, declining sales, I Initiated the Linux-Oracle project which significantly cut MIS budget by reengineering old legacy applications. Oracle ERP apps and Oracle DB were moved from Thu64 Unix/Compaq Alpha platform to Linux Red Hat AS 3.0/Intel platform.

• Facing the increasing needs of a fast growing company, with challenging users (games developers) I formulated, defined and implemented company’s new corporate network (IP VPN Technology). This unique network architecture reduced IT maintenance costs while providing a new level of performances and reliability.

CORE BUSINESS COMPETENCIES

• Skilled Professional with over twelve years experience in the Information Technology field.

• Strong communication and organizational skills acquired in a multinational company.

• Proven ability to implement technology-based solutions for business problems. Developed policies and procedures for cost reduction and improved efficiencies.

• Systems Design – IT Security – Strategic Planning – Linux Expert

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

TEMENOS, Geneva, Switzerland                                                                    October 2005 to present

TEMENOS is a leading global banking software company with a firm foundation and strong financials. The Company’s core processing products encompass all banking segments. TEMENOS has a global presence through 35 offices in 5 continents with an international client base.

Corporate IT director

• Managing 13 direct reports, 46 operational reports spread on 11 countries

• Ensure strategic development and supervise execution of all issues of general organizational importance for IT operations

• Coordinate the IT activities between subsidiaries

• Serve as liaison between the Executive management and IT departments

• Provide guidance

• Define corporate standards

• Lead global projects (Oracle E-Business, Document Management Systems)

• Monitor the developments of IT applications

Atari Inc / Infogrames, New York, USA                                                           July 2000 to June 2005

New York-based Atari, Inc. (800M€) develops interactive games for all platforms and is one of the largest third-party publishers of interactive entertainment software in the U.S.

Global IT Director and IT Security Officer

• Oversaw Atari and Infogrames global IT infrastructure and systems, reporting directly to the Atari’s Chief Information Officer

• Chairman of Atari IT Executive Steering Committee which was in charge of Global IT strategy.

• Instigator of strategic moves towards Open Source Software (Linux) for mission critical applications.

• Managed 3 direct reports, 20 operational reports spread on 15 countries. This includes

  • Developing proposals, documents, and best practices for IT Infrastructure projects on a global basis.

  • Proficiently encouraging teamwork, providing guidance to technical staff, formulating, defining and implementing company IT security policies over 30 locations worldwide

  • Interacting with providers to select best technology

• Managed and oversaw Microsoft Active Directory deployment, followed by Microsoft Exchange upgrade (Exchange 5.5 toward Exchange 2003). This implementation spread across 12 locations is based on Windows 2003 servers.

• Responsible for information security for entire group (Atari/Infogrames) including: risk assessment, vulnerability assessment, penetration testing, recommendation of operational and policy risk mitigation measures; compliance assessment; coordination of computer security incident response; implementation of protection of critical systems (system architecture and firewalls); definition and promulgation of best security practices

• Designed and successfully implemented a global security strategy for Atari/Infogrames’ group.

  • Netscreen security appliances were rolled out on more than 15 locations

  • New IP-VPN design, more reliable, more efficient, easier to manage (Netscreen security manager)

  • Configured and installed Network Intrusion Detection Systems (NIDS) probes (Netscreen/Snort)

Infogrames Entertainment, Lyon, France                                                        July 1996 to June 2000

Infogrames Entertainment SA, (700M€) is one of the world's leading publishers and distributors of video games for all consoles.

European IT manager

• Designed, implemented VoIP solution for the whole Infogrames group. Infogrames’ headquarters’ location was the biggest Cisco VoIP deployment in Europe (700 IP phones) at that time.

• Formulated, defined and implemented company’s corporate network (IP VPN). This unique network architecture reduced IT maintenance costs while providing a new level of performances and reliability.

• Created global replication system to ensure all worldwide servers are up to date. This was done through customized scripts (Perl/Bash).

• Researched industry business/IT trends, providing IT strategies and goals.

Iris, Lyon, France                                                                                      January 1993 to June 1995

Network and System Administrator, Project Manager

• Responsible for installing, troubleshooting, optimizing and maintenance of a farm of 50 UNIX servers in a 24h/365 day environment.

• In charge of backups, systems tuning, monitoring activities, daily administration tasks.

• Proficient in formulating system architecture recommendations (TCP/IP network)

• Served as point person in IT problems management.

 EDUCATION

• Entrepreneur workshops : Lyon - 2005

• Professional Management: New York - 2004

• Linux Certifications:

  • Linux Professional Institute, New York - 2003,

  • RHCE (Red Hat Certified Engineer) : New York - 2004 (Verify here)

• Oracle 9i, New York - 2003

• Microsoft Certified Professional (Network essentials / TCP-IP / IIS), Lyon, France - 1998

• Associate Degree in Business Management, University of Saint-Etienne,  France - 1991

• Associate Degree in Science, University of Annecy, France - 1989

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Operating Systems: Windows (all versions), Citrix, SunOS 4.1.x, Solaris 2.5/2.6, HPUx 10.2+, Compaq True64 5.x+, SCO Unix, Linux Red Hat (all versions), SUSE Linux, Debian

• Networking: LAN/WAN/Wireless, TCP/IP, WINS, IPsec and SSL VPN, DHCP, DNS/Bind, NFS, Active Directory, OSPF, T1, DS3

• Security: Cisco PIX, Checkpoint, Netscreen, Nmap, Net IQ, IDS, IDP, IPtables, Nessus, BigBrother, Snort, Symantec Enterprise Security Management

• Hardware: DELL, HP, Sun, Compaq Alpha, NAS, SAN (EMC, IBM DSseries, EMC, HP Storageworks) Storageteck libraries, Cisco Routers & switches, Blade servers, Brocade switches

• Programming languages: HTML, Perl, Awk, PHP, Shell programming

• Network Application Software: MS Exchange 5.5/2003, OWA, Oracle, HP Open view, Time Navigator, Backup Exec, Netscreen security Manager, Cisco Call Manager (VoIP)

• Miscellaneous: IIS, Apache, Squid, Samba, Microsoft Suite, Visio, MS Project

INTERESTS & LANGAGES

• Traveling, swimming, skiing, reading: High-Tech/Economy/Business and Science

• Team Manager and player in a competitive soccer league (New York)

• Fluent in English, French, Italian. Beginner in Mandarin

REFERENCES

References and performance reviews available on request

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Contact: flavien [at] flavienbau.com