WILLIAM SANHAJ
28 rue Saint Lambert 75015 Paris France
Mobile: +33 626 100 972
IT INFRASTRUCTURE MANAGER
24 years professional experiences
S U M M A R Y O F Q U A L I F I C A T I O N S
I am a hands-on manager, which I consider to be strength. Strong grasp of the travel industry and the technology that supports it. Ability to ascertain technology trends and use them to achieve company goals. Strong project development and management skills. Ability to manage multiple teams well and act as mentor as well as manager. Strong data center management skills.Impressive record of success in planning, staff management and overall information technology management to ensure the seamless operation of advanced technical infrastructures. Known for optimizing key functional areas and reducing troubleshooting completion times.
E X P E R T I S E
Identify, allocate, and manage company resources to complete projects on time and within budget; build and lead teams of experts to achieve project goals. Develop and maintain mutually beneficial partnerships between business andtechnology groups.
Realize significant improvement of processing efficiency through in-depth performance analysis and code optimization. Design and implement cutting-edge solutions based on technical specifications and thorough research and testing, design long-range strategies based on technical forecasts of industry trends, analyze and re-engineer company business processes for improved efficiency.
Technical leadership, vendor management, contract negotiation, network architecture, business continuity planning, managing support environments, cost containment / budgeting. Project management and monitoring, Budget management and Capex /Opex optimization, Project Reporting, Leadership, Effective Communication, Influence & Persuasion, Relationship Building, Planning & Organising, Results Orientation, Business Acumen.
C A R R E E R E X P E R I E N C E
INFRASTRUCTURE MANAGER
EGENCIA an Expedia Group Corp. Paris, France 2012
(Egencia is the fifth largest travel agency business world).
Manage a team of experts.Build my own team for this project. Security consolidation to meet PCI requirements. Datacenters optimization for redundancy and DRP, Management of Vendors and ISP. Management of infrastructure mergerbetweenEgenciaand Expedia.Follow day to day business operation in compliance with the process and sla. Manage creation/move of branch’s office worldwide. Conf call with head office in USA and send report about project progression. Validate architecture documents and create all documents required by PCI DSS. Capex/Opex optimization for Datacenters project.
SECURITYMANAGEMENT
NATIONAL COMMERCIAL BANK Jeddah, KSA 2011
(The largestinvestment bank in the kingdom of Saudi Arabia).
Manage different security project to reach PCI DSS V2.0 Certification. (Redaction of RFP / RFQ), vendor’s management, deployment planning, IDS/IPS, Firewall Cleansing, Upgrade security infrastructure, redundancy, BCP / DRP. (Redaction of all PCI documents). Manage the day to day operation (Business As Usual). Capex / Opex optimization for Security device implementation.
SECURITYMANAGEMENT
SAUDI TELECOM COMPANY Riyadh, KSA January 2010
(Nationaltelecommunicationsservice providerin the kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
with a workforceof more than 21000 employees servicing their customers.)
US$09.19 billion for FY07)
Provide expertadvice and support to PMO and implementation team on Network and security topics.Provide technical and coordination support for the security aspect of services and links. Validate security solutions from vendors. Review network architecture, expansion strategy and advise management on appropriate course of action based on best-in-class encryption technologies and solutions. Conduct related meeting and discussion required with vendors and various involved departments.
NETWORK MANAGEMENT
ACCENTURE, Inc. Paris, France 2008 to 2009
(globalmanagement consulting, technology services and outsourcing company.
Accenture is a Fortune Global 500 company with more than 86000 people in 52 countries.)
US$23.39 billion for FY08)
Provide RFP for infrastructure solution implementation, consultants and customer’s project. Management of LAN& WAN interconnection (802.1q, 802.1b/g, 802.1d) VPN intersite implementation between different firewall. Management ofInternal & External security (Firewall’s rule, ACL and Policy Routing). Management of technical project (Packet Shaper & Proxy). Project leader for wireless deployment in different building. Redaction & Update for Technical Documentation. Level 3 for Problem Resolution. Manage different project internally for Accenture and external client of Accenture. Management of network & security architecture (GED application).
NETWORK AND SECURITY MANAGEMENT
NATIXIS INVESTMENT BANKParis, France 2006 to 2007
(Freelance contract from November 2006 to December 2007)
Management of LAN (802.1q, 802.1b/g, 802.1d) & WAN (Frame Relay, Tunnel GRE, lease line, etc...) and VPN Network. Management of all security traffic between the bank and financial partners.Manage Support level 2 & 3.
Manage multiple projects (HPCI Architecture, EUREX connection, financial feeds Bloomberg/Reuters/Fidessa/GL).
SECURITYMANAGEMENT
BOUYGUES CONSTRUCTIONGuyancourt, France2005 to 2006
2nd world’s leading construction companies with 49800 employeesand
a turnover of 8.3 billion in 2006.
(Freelance contract from December 2005 to October 2006)
Manage Firewall Cluster in Head office and remote firewalls in all 70 branches. Responsible of all Firewalls Checkpoint
Secure Platform & Proxy ISA around the world. Support Level 3: Problem Resolution & validate architecture documentation.
HEAD OF NETWORK & SECURITY
TERRASYSParis, France2005
Terrasys is a systems integrator, specialized in multilingual and
multinational computing. Most of customers are Japanese companies.
(Freelance contract from January 2005 to November 2005)
(Consulting as a freelance for different Japanesecustomers of Terrasys Company)
Advise for technology to install for interconnectingbranch and head office of Japanese company.
Configure solutions with Checkpoint & Cisco Firewall;Analyze traffic and optimization of security’s rule.
Audit & Training for local staff. DisasterRecovery Plan Project.
NETWORK AND SECURITY MANAGEMENT
COFACE Corporate La Defense, France 2000 to 2004
(salary position from January 2000 to November 2004)
In charge of maintaining the head office’s local network and remote network around the world (64 countries); Manage a project forupdating the Local Area Network from ATM/FDDI to Gigabit Ethernet; Creation of many Tunnel VPN Connections between head office and its overseas branches; Creation of administrative and technical procedure for supervising the network and WEB Servers; Supervising the networking technicians.Managing the technicians for daily activities.
HEAD OF NETWORK & TELECOM
ING BANKParis, France 1998 to 1999
(salary position from June1998 to December1999)
Responsible of networking in the 3 main offices,ING Group, Ferri and Bank Bruxelles Lambert in Paris who are interconnected by a MAN and 15 remote branches installed in all French region. Manage Vendors, cost reduction. Responsible for all employee mobile phone administration, auditing cost and negotiating the best offer. Incontact with various network products suppliers. Manage 3 engineers locally and 10 remotely. Manage the activities for all teams with minimum supervision. Creation of knowledge intranet database.
SYSTEM & NETWORKADVISOR
KODAKPATHEParis, France 1997
(temporary contract from January 1997 to May 1998)
Manage 10 Technicians. Technical support for technician’s help-desk, administration, industrialization, switchboard operation and maintenance of the base line Marketing. Client/Server: IBM / Novell NetWare/Windows NT.
ASSISTANT HEAD OF IT OPERATION
INDOSUEZ BankParis, France 1996
(salary position from January 1996 to December 1996)
Manage network interconnection between Paris - London - Chicago - Madrid. Manage Mail server remotely(Chicago). Maintenance of office network and financial feeds market network. Manage Etrali phone technology. Intervention on platforms (Reuters, Telerate, KnightRider, Bloomberg, Pitwin). Architecture documentation.
NETWORK PROJECT MANAGER
COUNCIL OF EUROPE Paris, France 1995
(temporary contract from January 1995 to December 1995)
Administrator of Novell 3.12 server, configuration of PC. Installation and parameters: Windows for Workgroups, MSMail, Access, Microsoft Office. Assistance for end users (80 workstations). Reporting of daily, weekly and monthly procedures for better the administration of the networking.
NETWORK PROJECT MANAGER
PARIS STOCK EXCHANGE Paris1990 to 1994
(salary position from June 1990 to December 1994)
Responsible for transactions between MONEP members (Marché des Options Negotiable in Paris) and Paris stock exchange. Daily follow up of the MONEP Network ; i-e 130 workstations designed for negotiation installed in end-users offices and connected to a local network "ARCNET" (DATAPOINT). Responsible for implementation of new application (Relit) on IBM computer, using multi protocol network. Transmission of financial data automatically via specialized line.
Launching European Price Feeds Service Project– Data transfer applications from all European stock exchange market:MONEP, MATIF, DTB, and LIFFE to European Bank via multi protocol network.
NETWORK PROJECT MANAGER
TDT FRANCOMParis & Miami1989 to 1990
(salary position from March 1989 to May 1990)
Before sale’s commercial services and after sale’s technical support on BULL and IBM products. Consultation of call for tender, edition of documents for the media and a competitive study. Report to VP for project progression.
E D U C A T I O N T R A I N I N G
MBA - Computer Science
EPITA Technology Management University ofParis, France1986 to 1988
BA of Information Technology
ESMIComputer Science University ofParis, France1985
CEH V7, IDS/IPS, Splunk, Algosec, Tufin, Training Certified Professional 2006 - 2012
ITIL, Cisco, Checkpoint, Juniper, Tuxedo, Oracle 8i, TrainingCertified Professional 2000- 2004
Linux, Unix, Alcatel Network Equipment, Training Certified Professional 1999
L A N G U A G E S K I L L S
Native French Speaker, Fluent in English and Japanese beginner’s level
R E F E R E N C E S
Available upon request