Philippe Girard

Provide companies with consultancy/contracting IT related services in fields of developing the right IT strategy aligned to the business goals for hyper growth and international expansion companies, system scalability, due diligence for acquisition and integration, delivering digitals transformation, innovation focused.

Extend global information technology (IT) services to an organization with 43 thousand employees in more than 500 locations throughout the world. Manage 80 colleagues across continents to maintain three co-located datacenters hosting 2500+ virtualized servers, providing 300 mission critical web applications, and reaching more than 1 million customers every month. Administer an $ 8 million annual IT budget, manage change, and coordinate with multiple teams, business units and stakeholders

Delivered operational support, projects, and services in a region which generated more than half of eBay’s worldwide revenue. Managed a team of 50 which in turn advised 5500 employees in 15 locations. Provided high quality guidance, support, and resources to European business leaders. Defined the region’s IT strategy and administered a $12 million budget.

Executed responsibility for IT infrastructure and services with regional budgets of millions of Swiss francs. Supervised 17 colleagues while supporting 1 thousand staff people at 31 sites. Determined regional strategy and project roadmaps. Administered a production environment encompassing file, web, and mail servers as well as desktop personal computer and UNIX systems, LAN, network and voice services, and the PBX solution.

Introduced Microsoft NT and Exchange mail services at SGI through the NT Domain and Exchange server architecture design and coordinated the deployment and implementation across all the EMEA based offices.

Oversaw IT operations, support, planning, design, and implementation throughout Europe. Managed multiple technologies while handling logistics for the annual meeting of the European Users Group

Customer demonstration and support of specialized computer programs for the chemical and pharmaceutical research industry. Gave internal and external training classes in the application of chemical database systems. Supported and maintained of in-house business applications

Employed a specialized personal computer program to develop a new process for controlling the growth of light sensitive silver crystals

English

English

Programming, Pascal/C

Organic and analytical chemistry