Laurent Venier

IT Manager

mail: lav@saashup.com
ph: +352691482900

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About Me

Welcome, my name’s Laurent and I’m a senior IT Manager. As well as managing people, I also have experience operating systems and developing software and web apps. I have worked at a number of companies gaining teamwork and leadership skills.
I am most skilled in: Work and Sports


Skills

Management

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Technology

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Personality

Team spirit :black_circle: :black_circle: :black_circle: :black_circle: :white_circle:

Patience :black_circle: :white_circle: :white_circle: :white_circle: :white_circle:

Stubborn :black_circle: :black_circle: :black_circle: :black_circle: :black_circle:

Language

French :black_circle: :black_circle: :black_circle: :black_circle: :black_circle:

English :black_circle: :black_circle: :black_circle: :white_circle: :white_circle:

German :black_circle: :white_circle: :white_circle: :white_circle: :white_circle:



Experience

saashup.comSaashup

CTO

September 2022 - Present

Provide standard Cloud apps for developpers and It manager

IT Product Manager focus on strategy, Design, Developement and Operations
Comply with Micro Service Oriented Architecture and latest Technology
Manage Product Releases and Deployments
Participate to developments and operations if required

redspher.comRedspher

yoctu.com

IT Manager

Mai 2018 - August 2022

Provide standard Cloud apps for developpers and It manager

IT Product Manager focus on strategy, Design and Operations
Comply with Micro Service Oriented Technology
Manage Product Releases and Deployments
Define and Follow Budget, Revenues
develop and operate if required

flash.globalFlash Europe International

flash.global

CIO

Nov 2015 - Mai 2018

Logitics company specialised in Premium Freight

Manage 30 people with various profiles as developers, support and infrastructure.
Migrate to major cloud provider
Implement Agile to the development team
Support and Challenge Infrastructure and development team in Technical Orientation
Migrate monolithic CRM to SOA
Support HR for recruitment, job description and career plan
Convert Company strategy and vision to IT plans
Arbitrate Business/IT decisions

atos.comATOS

atos.com

Lead of IS Customer Services for European Commission

Apr 2012 - Nov 2015

IT Company - Formerly Bull by acquisition

Responsible for the “IS Customer Service” operational service at the European Commission within the agreed budget and SLAs.
Managed the Transition from T&M to a Managed Service
Manage/Implement ITIL processes (Change, Request Fulfillment, Configuration and Capacity Management).
Lead Project/Change Managers and service desk agents profiles
Manage critical projects (migration, development, transition…)
Coach, support and develop team members
Ensure discussions, decisions and escalations to deliver projects/changes successfully
Coordinate with internal and external customers and/or stakeholders
Improve Methodology and/or workflow/processes/procedures

tcs.comTCS

tcs.com

Team Leader

Jan 2010 - Apr 2012

IT Company - Branch of TATA group

Responsible for the “Backup & Storage” operational service at the European Commission
Manage Transition from/to Managed Services
Responsible for the SLA with the European Commission - reporting: weekly, monthly and specifics (supervision, validation and presentation) - improvement and adjustment according to the ITIL standards.
Team leading including organisation Setup, Task assignment and daily follow up of activities
Responsible for main ITIL processes implementation (Incident, Change, Problem, Configuration, Capacity Management..)

dimensiondata.comDimension Data

www.dimensiondata.com

Team Leader

Apr 2009 - Jan 2010

IT Company - Branch of NTT group

Responsible for the “Backup & Storage”operational service at the European Commission.
Responsible for the SLA with the European Commission - reporting: weekly, monthly and specifics (supervision, validation and presentation) - improvement and adjustment according to the ITIL standards.
Team leading including Organisation Setup, Task assignment and daily follow up of activities
Responsible for main ITIL processes implementation (Incident, Change, Problem, Configuration, Capacity Management..)

sun.comSun Microsystems

www.sun.com

Storage Engineer

Oct 2007 - Apr 2009

IT Company specialized in OS, Servers and Storage

Sun Luxembourg Clients Support Service
Supports hardware servers and storage in Large Data Centers
Supports Software (Operating Systems, Backups..) for Customers
Defines, schedules, and implements advanced infrastructure maintenance
Develops standards and policies
On call activities to support customers infrastructure

SapiensTech

www.sapienstech.net

IT and Project Manager

Feb 2006 - Oct 2007

Fiancial Digital Company

Manage Projects (Migration of the Solaris servers to Linux)a
Responsible for the company’s servers, DMZ clustered servers (LAMT/P), and LAN’s servers (Samba, Ldap, Mail, Dns .)
Manage Infrastructure, Servers, Network (switches and firewalls), Desktops

systemat.comSystemat

www.systemat.com

Linux System Expert

Aug 2005 - Feb 2006

IT company

Meet Customers with Sales Team to support them with technical expertise.
Install and Configure Linux solutions for Customers.
Provide Linux Trainings (Basic and Advanced) to Customers and colleagues.

dell.comDell

www.dell.com

Storage Engineer

Aug 2003 - Aug 2005

IT company providing infrastructure assets

Analyse Linux/Unix/Vmware issues and problems for DELL and EMC’s european customers on Server/Storage/SAN Switch environment.
Work on site to install and configure customer’s systems in large Datacentre
Work on shift for recovery and complex issues (infrastructure,system recovery…)

vivendi.comVivendi Games

www.vivendi.com/en/activities/video-games/

Game debugger and tester

Feb 2003 - Aug 2003

Game producer

Game debugger (Warcraft 3, Final fight, the Hobbit…)
Game tester

tati.comTati

www.tati.fr

Opensystem Lead

Apr 2002 - Dec 2002

Retail Company

Operation lead for Open Systems infrastructure
Management of the Open system team.
Installation/Configuration and Operations of Servers (LDAP, mail,Samba,DNS,FW,DB2, VPN,Firewall, IDS..)
Manage Projects such as Migration from Token ring to Ethernet, Install new Shop infrastructure.

altran.frDatacep

www.altran.fr

Software Engineer

May 2001 - Apr 2002

IT consultanty company

Improvement and evolution of portable Afis system development.
Creation of Afis Protocol system messenger with Specification, Messenger analyse and conception, Development, Test and documentation.
Correction of a radar chip setting software including errors corrections and validation, Creation of tests procedures

sernam.frSernam

www.sernam.fr

Developer

Jan 2001 - Apr 2001

Logistic company

Java Applet development for truck logistic

alstom.frAlstom

www.alstom.fr

Developer

Jul 2000 - Dec 2000

Industry

Intranet Website developement (LAMP)



Education

ULP Strasbourg

Degree Computer Science

1999 - 2000

French University located in Strasbourg

Degree in computer science specialized in parallel computing.

UFR Besancon

Degree in Mathematics

1995 - 1999

French University located in Besancon

Degree in mathematics specialized in applied mathematics



Fun Projects (with my kids)

Gean

play

Game racing car

Simple car racing game done with my kids. Very simplist but good learning path.

Node Red Projects

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Node-red fan. NoCode is the way to go.

I am using NR in many cases: personnal and professional. Love it. Quick and simple. Give it a try. Created few palettes for work.

slotMachine

demo

Just for Fun.

Simple app to demonstrate js coding, socket and chromecast support. Just for the fun of it with my kids. Used to have the yoctu services plugged in as well.

Bash Framework. Do you believe it ?

full Bash web framework. Used to create quick bash apis or cgi script. Simple and easy.



A Little More About Me

Alongside my interests in IT some of my other interests and hobbies are:

  • Familly :)
  • Gaming
  • Working