Patrice Alain Gauron

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Patrice Alain Gauron

Translator, Computer scientist

Auf Stellensuche (als CIO oder Bereichsleiter IT)

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  • Kiel
  • Germany

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Personal information

Professional experience (19 years, 5 months)

  • Employment status
    Executive

Educational background

  • Languages
    German (Fluent), English (Fluent), French (First language), Spanish (Basic knowledge), Italian (Basic knowledge), Portuguese (Basic knowledge)

About me

Ability is nothing without opportunity (Napoleon Bonaparte)

Welcome to my profile.

Languages: French (native), English & German (full professional proficiency), Italian & Portuguese (survival level).

My last position as Head of Corporate IT was downsized due to the worldwide consolidation of the parent company.

I am looking for an opportunity to manage a global IT within an international environment.

I have progressed up the ranks from a programmer background through to an executive level.

I put my heart into everything I do, like to see the job done right and have always exceeded all expectations others put on me.

My multicultural experience has turned me into an open-minded person. I understand the importance and complexity of bringing people together for a common cause.

I am highly mobile, open to relocation almost anywhere in the world (primarily in Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, New Zealand, Norway, Singapore, UAE) and willing to travel extensively. I have lived and worked in several countries and can pick up my new duties in a foreign cultural area very quickly.

Feel free to contact me at patrice.gauron@web.de.

Executive summary
• 10 years of ever increasing responsibility at management level
• A wide experience in defining IT strategies
• Extensive experience in determining business requirements
• Experience in negotiating competitive regional and international deals
• Experience in managing periods of rapid growth and integration of operational IT environments
• A broad expertise in managing complex cross-functional projects spanning several countries
• Extensive experience in leading multinational and culturally diverse teams
• Experience in prioritizing and looking at the big picture
• Ability to evaluate talent and superior performance
• Ability to foster an atmosphere of teamwork and collaboration
• Ability to influence others by persuasion rather than authority

Assets
• Proven targeted approach
• Commitment, fair play, assertiveness and enthusiasm
• Down to earth
• Pragmatic
• High standards of personal and professional integrity
• Ability to communicate effectively across language and cultural borders
• Ability to work with all levels of staff and management
• Strong negotiation and mediation skills
• Eager to learn from others

Honors and Awards
• Scholarship awarded by Rutgers University
• Best IT Manager, Oxford Automotive (audit performed by Professional Resources Inc., South Bend, USA.)

Objectives
• Management of and overall responsibility for a global IT
• Provide the vision and leadership to drive business growth
• To combine my next challenge with a long-term perspective
• To thrive in a dynamic and multi-national environment

Specialties
• Cross-cultural management / cooperation
• IT strategy & transformation
• Process improvement
• Vendor & supplier management (incl. outsourcing, RFQ, POC)
• Cost reduction
• Data Center management, consolidation & support
• High Availability / Business Continuity / Disaster Recovery
• Security & Risk Management
• Audits: APACS, GCB, MasterCard, SAS, Visa...
• ERP (SAP, BPCS, MAPICS, XPPS)
• EDI (TradeSync Integration Manager, Future Three, AutoFlow, Seeburger)
• DMS (windream, d.3)
• iSeries (AS/400)
• SAN Storage & Virtualization

Flexibility to travel
Worldwide


Employment History

02/2011 onward
Seeking employment
 
10/2009 – 01/2011 Head of Corporate IT (CIO)
Sagem Orga GmbH, Flintbek (Germany)
 
- Head of IT for 30 sites
- Manage a staff of 51 direct/sub reports 
- Define and steer a flexible IT strategy
- Assess current IT landscape (application, data and technology) and recommend improvements
- Drive or head up crucial IT projects essential to the company’s goals and objectives
- Create and promote Corporate Guidelines and Policies
- Integrate the subsidiaries (Brazil, Dubai, India, Portugal, Romania, Senegal, USA)
- Identify potential synergies
- Budget operational IT costs and plan IT investments (€9M)
- Ensure compliance with client and accreditation audits
- Manage and motivate cross-cultural teams and reinforce their standing in the company

Major achievements
Worldwide SAP roll-out (except India and South America).
Worldwide Active Directory deployment (except South America).
Worldwide Lotus Notes deployment.
VoIP implementation in South America.

05/2003 – 09/2009 IT Manager Business Group Europe North
Rieter Automotive Systems, Rossdorf-Gundernhausen (Germany)

Reporting directly to the CIO
Member of Executive Committees

- Head of IT for 19 sites in 9 European countries
- Manage a staff of 29 direct/sub reports
- Define and execute the overall Europe-wide IT strategy
- Liaise with Group IT for implementing operational improvements
- Coordinate global projects as per business plan priorities
- Assess new technology and its relevance in terms of performance and cost
- Manage and implement the budgets (€4.5M)
- Explain the competitive advantage and ROI achieved through various alternatives
- Integrate the subsidiaries
- Identify potential synergies
- Restructure the existing departments into a global support team
- Optimize the use of resources while ensuring quality of service
- Manage cross-cultural teams (time, budget and capacity plans)
- Identify and exploit the company's knowledge resources
- Ensure maximum availability of the critical IT systems
- Ensure all procedures are in place and well documented
- Analyze and re-engineer existing business processes
- Ensure compliance with client audits (Ford, Peugeot, VW)

Major achievements
Development of a single European Data Center helpdesk (SPOC).
Implementation of a High Availability environment.
Development and implementation of a Disaster Recovery Plan (incl. BIA).
Hardware and software standardizations across all sites.
Considerable savings in hardware and software licensing costs.
Europe-wide Active Directory deployment.
Implementation of an Internal Controls System.
Implementation of a mobile barcode solution in several plants.
Worldwide deployment of a new anti-virus solution.

01/2001 – 02/2002 International Project Manager
Oxford Automotive, Turin (Italy)

Reporting directly to the CIO

- Spearhead the MAPICS roll-out throughout Europe
- Steer an international team of 21 employees and 5 consultants
- Implement Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) with FIAT
- Secure the integration in the European Local Area Network

Departure in February 2002 following Oxford’s insolvency and subsequent Chapter 11 reorganization.

01/2000 – 12/2000 Information Systems Manager
Oxford Automotive, Nagold (Germany)

Reporting directly to the CIO
Responsible for 4 staff members

- Plan and manage the country IT budget (€1M)
- Identify system weaknesses and recommend solutions
- Implement validation procedures and KPI reporting
- Reorganize the IT department
- Develop helpdesk activities
- Develop, document and implement IT policies and standards
- Manage relationships with suppliers and service providers

Major achievements
Within a year, I revitalized a poorly performing IT department, upgraded staff morale and produced substantial gains in end user satisfaction.
Following an external audit performed by PRI Audit & Control (South Bend, USA), I received the best marks that have been received by any site, anywhere to-date at Oxford Automotive.

07/1999 – 12/1999 European Project Manager
Oxford Automotive, Elancourt (France)

Reporting directly to the CIO

- Liaison role between the local facilities and the US headquarters
- Perform Year 2000 audits in the French and German facilities
- Share activities for the XPPS implementation in the French facilities

02/1997 – 06/1999 AS/400 Senior Analyst
Lear Corporation, Ginsheim-Gustavsburg (Germany)

- Share activities for the CISC/RISC migration
- Share activities for the BPCS 4.0 to BPCS 6.1 migration
- Ensure Year 2000 compliance of internally developed software

My superior joined Oxford Automotive and I followed him.

04/1996 – 01/1997 Freelancer
DATA BECKER, Düsseldorf (Germany)

08/1994 – 03/1996 Project Manager International Business
DATA BECKER, Düsseldorf (Germany)

- Coordinate the projects
- Acquire new foreign license partners (Italy, Sweden, the United States)

06/1992 – 04/1994 AS/400 Programmer
Dart Europe, Division Tupperware, Joué-lès-Tours (France)

I started as intern after graduation and was hired for an 18 month term.

07/1989 – 05/1991 Technical translator
Tradutours (Translation agency), Tours (France)

I left the company to pursue graduate studies in Computer Science.


Education and Qualifications
 
Université François Rabelais, Tours (France)
Ruhr-Universität Bochum (Germany)
Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ (USA)
Franco British Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Tours (France)
Centre d’Etudes Pratiques de Langues Vivantes (College for interpreters), Tours (France)
 
Post-graduate degrees:
1989 - Diplôme de Licence L.E.A. (Combined Major in English, German and Commerce)
 
Other diplomas:
1992 - Diploma in Computer Science (Major: AS/400)
1985 - Diploma of the Chamber of Commerce
1985 - Diploma in Translation (Combined Major in English and German)
 

Languages
 
French: native speaker
German: full professional proficiency
English: full professional proficiency
Italian: basic knowledge
Portuguese: basic knowledge
Spanish: basic knowledge
 

References
 
Available upon request


Additional Information
 
Associative activities
 
1998 – 2001 Unsalaried activities in the nonprofit ‘Simon Bolivar’ association in Mayence (Germany). Mission: to finance orphanages and schools in Latin America.
1989 – 1994 Unsalaried activities at the ‘Studio’ movie theater in Tours (France)
1982 – 1985 Child care worker at the kindergarten in Fondettes (France)
1975 – 1982 Member of the Fondettes City Orchestra (France), eventually as principal trombonist
1971 – 1982 ‘Conservatoire National de Tours’ (France), trombonist
 
Sports & leisure time
 
- Biking, hiking, dancing
 
Military Service
 
1985 – 1986 West Berlin (Germany)

 

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