OLIVIER COLARD

Brussels, Belgium olivier.colard@gmail.com +32-475-966 739

IT MANAGER/DIRECTOR
IT Manager/Director with 10+ years of proven results in all aspects of top-level IT leadership in many business sectors, including consulting, healthcare and banking environments. Combines knowledge of current technologies, applications and business processes. Strong leader with excellent communications skills; true multi-cultural background, able to comfortably manage relationships and drive consensus among cross border cultural and functional differences. Looking for management position in a leading organization, contributing to business value by developing and executing a strategic, long-term vision, while leading the teams to achieve measurable business results and growth, effectively managing the IT portfolio of investments.

SUMMARY
LANGUAGES
Fluent in: French English Dutch

POSITION HELD
IT Director, Healthcare (2009-2010) IT Management, Finance (2007-2009) Owner and Principal Consultant, IT Consulting (1998-2007) IT Manager, Luxury and Leisure (1992-1997)

SKILLS AND BUSINESS AREAS

Strategic Planning IT Governance Team Leadership Project Management Process Improvement

INDUSTRIES
Automotive Finance Healthcare Consulting Luxury and leisure Distribution

EDUCATION
Master degree in Computer Sciences, University of Mons, Belgium Executive Master in IT Governance, Solvay Business School, Belgium SAP Certified Application Associate (FI, MM) ITIL Foundation certification

PROFICIENCIES
CobiT, ITIL, PMBOK, Prince2, Broad knowledge of ERP, trained as SAP ERP Consultant: FI (certified), MM (certified), SD, BW, BO Working knowledge of many operating systems, technical environments, programming languages and DBMS

More information and references available on request.

IT ICT MANAGEMENT MANAGER DIRECTOR EXECUTIVE BOARD HEAD BUSINESS LEADER TEAM COORDINATE DEVELOP SOLUTION BUSINESS SOFTWARE INFRASTRUCTURE MULTILINGUAL FLUENT FRENCH FRANCAIS ENGLISH NEDERLANDS DUTCH ERP SAP CERTIFIED UNIVERSITY DEGREE MASTER COMPUTER SCIENCES GOVERNANCE ITIL COBIT PMBOK PRINCE2 DEFINE STRATEGY RESPONSIBLE BUDGET COST PROFIT MANAGE INTERNATIONAL LEAD PROJECT MANAGEMENT PEOPLE MANAGEMENT COMMUNICATION PRIORITIES CONSULTING AUTOMOTIVE FINANCIAL BANKING HEALTHCARE CUSTOMER EDI LAN WAN TCP MS WINDOWS SERVER LINUX ISERIES OS/400 AS/400 DB2/400 RPG COBOL JAVA VISUAL STUDIO VMWARE VIRTUAL CL OUD COMPUTING WEBSPHERE NETWORK SECURITY DRP DISASTER RECOVERY BCP BUSINESS CONTINUITY SUPPORT HELPDESK SERVICE COMPLIANCE BEST PRACTICES

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PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Clinique Notre-Dame de Grce, Hainaut, Belgium Privately owned, 200-bed, multi-specialty hospital with staff of 500. 2009 2010

IT Director, Member of the Board of Directors Responsible for budgeting and managing E2E all organizational IT strategy and implementation, including needs analysis, planning, budgeting, design and scheduling of all systems implementation and integration with all operations functions as required to maintain leading-edge IT. Developed strategic orientation and master plan with focus on continual reduction of operational costs and increased systems availability. Fortis Bank, Brussels, Belgium, 2007 -- 2009 Part of Benelux-based, banking/insurance/investment conglomerate with operations in 30 countries, 70,000 employees worldwide. Divisional Technical Competence Center Manager, Merchant and private banking, 2008 -- 2009 Promoted to create and lead Belgian J2EE/Websphere development center. Built successful center responsible for developing and maintaining solutions. IS Development Team Leader, Merchant and private banking, 2007 -- 2008 Built and lead team of 20 for implementation of MidasPlus back office system for foreign subsidiaries. Created a group of 20 from 10 countries into coordinated, effective team for successful SDLC process implementation. Created stronger processes for improved deliverable quality and shorter delivery schedules.

Semaphore Solutions, Brussels, Belgium 1998 2007 Consulting company focusing on SME IT services with particular emphasis on expansion of business management. Clients across Belgium in IT, fashion, business services and manufacturing companies. Owner and Principal Consultant Founded, grew and managed and sold successful, niche consulting firm. Major deliverables included leveraging Y2K and Euro conversion needs to grow company into areas of software development, infrastructure design and systems integration. Full operational P&L responsibility. Key projects: Industrial Cleaning industry: Comprehensive operations automation full project realization including needs analysis, infrastructure and software development. Fashion industry: Software development for customer management, data search, query tools and integration with point-of-sale software. Paper industry: Customized sales and invoicing software development, WAN implementation. Distribution: Customization of local ERP product and interfacing for shipping routing and EDI communications.

Blue Production, Brussels, Belgium Creator of well-known luxury garments and French brand distributor.

1992 -- 1997

IT Manager Recruited to build rapidly growing companys first IT department, insourcing all previously outsourced IT functions. Built and led team to design, implement new LAN/WAN infrastructure, automate all warehouse operations and deliveries as well as many office processes. Selected and implemented a new accounting and controlling software. Increased delivery accuracy from 85% to 99%, improved data access and provided accurate sales and inventory data for better planning.

IT ICT MANAGEMENT MANAGER DIRECTOR EXECUTIVE BOARD HEAD BUSINESS LEADER TEAM COORDINATE DEVELOP SOLUTION BUSINESS SOFTWARE INFRASTRUCTURE MULTILINGUAL FLUENT FRENCH FRANCAIS ENGLISH NEDERLANDS DUTCH ERP SAP CERTIFIED UNIVERSITY DEGREE MASTER COMPUTER SCIENCES GOVERNANCE ITIL COBIT PMBOK PRINCE2 DEFINE STRATEGY RESPONSIBLE BUDGET COST PROFIT MANAGE INTERNATIONAL LEAD PROJECT MANAGEMENT PEOPLE MANAGEMENT COMMUNICATION PRIORITIES CONSULTING AUTOMOTIVE FINANCIAL BANKING HEALTHCARE CUSTOMER EDI LAN WAN TCP MS WINDOWS SERVER LINUX ISERIES OS/400 AS/400 DB2/400 RPG COBOL JAVA VISUAL STUDIO VMWARE VIRTUAL CL OUD COMPUTING WEBSPHERE NETWORK SECURITY DRP DISASTER RECOVERY BCP BUSINESS CONTINUITY SUPPORT HELPDESK SERVICE COMPLIANCE BEST PRACTICES