christophe kabut

> Professional Objectives

Develop and share my business & technical experience of Information & Communications Technologies (ICT)


> Work Experiences

from July 2006

ICT Business Development Manager / Senior Consultant for Sofrecom Polska (France Telecom Group) - Warsaw, Poland

  • Strategic consulting missions for
    • Polish Telecom : networks & services rollout, Service Management Center
    • France Telecom : Network Master Plan Methodology
    • Orange Senegal & Mali : m-payment
    • Orange Jordan : VoIP strategy
  • Business Development on ICT consulting services
    • implementing and pursuing ICT consulting strategy for key and business customers
    • developing new business opportunities
    • preparing commercial offers and leading negotiation
    • managing the relationship with decision-makers
    • ICT team & competencies building
    • participating on ICT projects as a project manager or technical expert

December 2003 - July 2006

Telecom & Security Manager for Euro Information (Credit Mutuel - CIC International Bancassurance Group) - Strasbourg, France

  • Managing a team of 20 telecom and security engineers based in France

  • Strategy & Project Management
    • LAN / WLAN / CAN / MAN / WAN design for data/voice/video flows
    • critical application network architectures design (Mainframe, SAN)
    • IP Telephony architecture design for 4700 banking agencies and head offices
    • unfified communication solutions analysis
    • network security architecture design (VPN, NAC, Firewall, IPS)
    • network security policy and disaster recovery procedures design
    • network assurance tools integration (HPOV, Network Vantage)
    • architecture design of several transverse projects (EuroGIX.net, DSP Alsace, MVNO NRJ Mobile)

  • Operations & maintenance management
    • IP/MPLS VPN network for 4700 banking agencies & 50 head offices
    • Private IP/MPLS VPN backbone network connecting IT sites all over France
    • Dozens of Check Point Firewalls and proxy-squid servers
    • Thousands of Cisco and Alcatel Ip phone

  • Training sessions for the first level support

  • Managing outsourcing contracts

November 2000 - November 2003

IT Manager for Geant Polska (Casino International Retail Group) - Warsaw, Poland

  • Budgeting, cost controlling and management of 40 IT polish specialists and project managers. Definition of the IT strategy in Poland

  • Strategy & Project Management
    • technical and functional integration of ERP GOLD (Aldata Solutions) used for supply chain management and business operations
    • design of the IT architecture for loyalty and revolving cards programs
    • integration of the accountancy, financial and pay roll software packages
    • integration of data warehouse and data mining software applications
    • conception of the Internet, Intranet, Extranet architectures

  • Operations & maintenance management
    • IT &Telecom architecture of the 3 warehouses and 20 hypermarkets
    • 20 Mid-range servers for 950 workstations
    • IBM Mainframe and Storage Area Network architecture
    • 1200 IBM points of sales and 450 Avery Berkel scales

  • Organisation of trainings and help desk for final users and of e-learning sessions

  • Contract negotiating with external constructors and integrators

August 1999 - October 2000

Network Manager for Geant Polska (Casino International Retail Group) - Warsaw, Poland

  • Migration from the X25 satellite network to Frame Relay terrestrial network

  • Design and integration of the LAN/WAN architecture for 17 hypermarkets, 40 supermarkets and 2 warehouses

  • Configuration of Cisco network equipments (routers, switches)

> Education

1994 - 1999
  • Masters Degree in Telecom Engineering at Telecom Lille 1 (France)

1993 - 1994
  • A Level with honours (Mathematics, Physics)

> Language Skills

  • French : mother tongue

  • English : fluent (785 points TOEIC)

  • Polish : fluently spoken. Intensive courses

> Professional Certifications

  • CCNA

  • PRINCE 2

> IT Knowledge

  • Software : Microsoft , Open Source & Web2.0 applications, BSS, OSS
  • Operating Systems : Windows, UNIX, Linux
  • Networks : Cisco routing & switching, IP networks & transport (MPLS, ATM, Frame Relay, SDH), VoIP (Diffserv architecture, SIP, H323, SIGTRAN), Video on IP, Cisco Call Manager, Alcatel Oxe, IPTV/VoIP Probes & Robots, Italtel & E/// Call servers
  • Security : Security Policy (ISO 27001 norm), business continuity plan (BS 25999 norm), Checkpoint Firewall and VPN SSL, Cisco VPN, NAC, Application traffic management systems (BigIP, Alteon), AAA, 802.1x
> Others

swimming pool, guitar, literature