Georges Abitbol KOUAKOU

11/1996 to 02/2005: CIE Ldt (Sales of 122 M€) – Saur Group
Information System Security Officer – Project Manager
Conceived the Windows 2000 Server Active Directory implementation plan (110 Servers, 2435 Workstations, 70 sites), and directed the Active Directory Infrastructure implementation.

Organized the IT support department in intervention target areas, managed both the Information System functional and the technical consistency, and conducted the IT Department experience feedback. I Supervised the IT infrastructure everyday management tasks (Help desk for end users, optimization, LAN/WAN disponibility, integrity, confidentiality, and disaster recovery as well as backup and restore scenarios).

Formulated and managed the security related recommended practices, standards, processes, procedures and tools as well as the indicators chart and the technological watch to suggest both organizational and technical enhancements. I implemented the security and business continuity strategy, elaborated the disaster recovery scenarios and validated them through security audits. In charge of all security and business continuity matters, ensured company wide security awareness and led on security improvements and monitored progress

Led the Saphir project team (twelve engineers within CIE and SODECI), a Saur Group common project for both electricity and water subscribers (Saur France and its international subsidiaries as Saur UK, CIE and SODECI in Ivory Coast, SDE in Senegal, and EDM in Mali)

Managed the assessment and understanding of operational directions’ requirements, translating them into technological infrastructure solutions (Elaborating the Saphir project budget of 23 M€, setting global & specific planning, wording the terms of reference and specific detailed functional analysis, overseeing the implementation, reporting).

Co responsible in charge of quality control leading within the IT department: Process designing, conducting progress meetings, using such problems solving methods as brainstorming and IJKAWA for team interaction and effectiveness, setting up performance indicators, elaborating and exploiting internal and external communication plan as well as security plan according to the ISO17799 standard.

In a role of ‘’trusted advisor’’ to operational directions, I led customers satisfaction surveys for an in depth knowledge of their needs in order to achieve needed improvements, as suggested in the ISO 9000 PDCA model.

Benefits
(1)Coordinated a thirty member synergy team for CIE-SODECI, standardized processes resulting in a 65% work and procedures organisation time benefit, (2) Customer orientation abilities enhancement to understand objective needs in order to be more reactive and more efficient, (3) Management in a truly international multicultural environment, sharing vision and expecting everyone to deliver, and (4) ISO 9001/V2000 certification for CIE.

Sector: Water - Electricity - Gas

02/1994 - 09/1996: GI2000 LLc (Créteil France)
Entrepreneur – Senior manager
Achieved sales and management responsibilities, followed-up budgets (Elaborated and implemented sales strategy and policy, supervised the customers relationship management). Completed international marketing IT solutions in a multicultural environment (France, Germany and Ivory Coast). Monitored systems and network security, and provided end users training and assistance (50 to 100 people).

Benefits: (1)Team management skills, (2)leadership and international exposure, (3)developed sales of 250 K€, and (4)Novell Netware 3.12/4 and MS NT3.5/4.0 environment.

Sector: IT - Telecommunications

11/1989 – 12/1993: B2I – 19 M€ C.A (Rungis France)
Project manager – Software engineer
Led system and real time applications development (for nuclear power plant controlled zones access, access control aboard aircraft within IER 411 and 457 printers, medical imaging applications at GE-CGR for bosom cancer detection), and managed five to ten member teams for instrumentation applications development in an Unix system V, OS9/68000, VRTX32/68000 and C/C++ environment. Conceived, implemented and administrated NetWare 3.12 and Unix/TCP IP networks. I Maintained applications for automatic workshops management at Pernod Créteil, France in a clustered VAX/VMS, Open VMS and C language environment. Set up communication applications between calculator and production equipments, at Legrand Antibes, France in an IBM Token Ring and C language environment.

Benefits: (1)Managed significant projects in an multicultural environment (Spain, and Sweden), (2)Managed teams.

Sector: IT - Telecommunications

1987 – 1988: Guynemer Institution in Compiègne, France
Maths & Physics teacher
Taught maths and physics (3ème, 2ème and 1ère) at ‘’Institution Guynemer’’ in compiègne.

Benefits: (1)Listening abilities enhancement,(2)Teaching and training skills improvement, and (3)Correct version model of the French Baccalauréat 88 physics tests for “Le Parisien Libéré”, Oise.

Sector: Primary and secondary