Thierry FLORENTIN

25 years of experience in IT Operational Management, Program Management and Consulting in international environments (Europe, Asia, US)


Professional Experience
European IT Management :
• Essilor 1998-2007 (Europe CIO)

Interim / Transition Management :
• Europcar 2008-2010 (Program Director)

Software Delivery Management :
• Digital Equipement Corp. 1987-1992 (SW Delivery Mgr)

Consulting :
• Euriware 1997-1998 (Senior Consultant)
• Sybase 1995-1997 (Senior Consultant)
• Digital Eq. Corp. Consulting 1992-1995 (Senior Manager)
• Orgaconseil 1982-1987 (Senior Manager)
Skills • European IT organization creation and management (9 years)
• Infrastructure and Applications centralization and standardization (europe wide)
• Set up of offshore software development center in Asia (Singapore)
• ERP (and business specific applications) program management Europe wide, in Asia (Japan) and in the US
• In depth experience in Supply Chain and Order Management, Finance/Accounting and Consolidation, BI
• Business Process Design / change management : supply chain and finance
• Consulting : IS master plan, governance, audit, Activity Based Costing implementation for IT, services centers
Industries • Distribution & manufacturing ; Ophtalmic industry (lenses) : Essilor
• Car rental services : Europcar
• Software editor : Sybase
• Computer and Software manufacturer : Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)
• IT services company : Euriware
• Manufacturing : Michelin
• Others through various consulting assignments : Banking, Distribution, Public sector, Pharmacy, Nuclear industry…
Languages • French (mother tongue)
• English (professional)
Education • Ecole Supérieure de Commerce de Rouen (78)
• Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris (80)
Others • Oracle Applications (EBS R11&12), SAS, PeopleSoft (HR), HFM, MS.net toolkit, Informatica (ETL), Project Portfolio Management System (PPM)


KEY CREDENTIALS
Europe CIO (Essilor)
Essilor : world wide leader of the ophthalmic industry ; 3 b€ turn over (1.5 b€ in Europe), 30.000 employees.
Set up and management of the European IT organization (15 subsidiaries). 30M€ budget, 100 people -including sub contractors- (25% delocalized). Coordination of the local / subsidiaries IT departments. Member of the European Execom.

• Head of the European IT organization ; budget and human resources management, coordination with local IT departments of European subsidiaries
- Management of the IT organization :
• SLA and services re billing to internal clients
• Software development skill centers creation (Oracle Apps., SAS, MS .NET)
• Set up of the IT organization : mutualization of resources through skill centers (functional domains,development, support, production)
- P&L responsibility for all Europe IT activities : rebilling based on ABC accounting
• Set up of the Offshore support and maintenance center (Singapore) in 2004 : 35 employees (internal and sub contractors), development, maintenance and support of back office applications :
- 2 goals : development cost reduction and development organization and methods (contract management)
- Creation (processes, administrative, logistics and human resources set up the delocalized center
- Financial follow up
• Global transformation of IS/IT components in Europe (within 6 years) :
- Master plan and implementation strategy for european subs
- IT infrastructure and applications centralization according to the group strategy
- Design and implementation of group core systems for Europe for BtoB order management, supply chain & manufacturing, finances and reporting (new BI architecture based on SAS)
• In charge of the HR, R&D and Finances systems (Essilor Group)

Program Director (Europcar, Essilor)

• Europcar : European Program Manager (2008-2010) for Finances systems transformation (based on Oracle EBS 12) . Europcar ; car rentals european leader with 2