Dipl.-Ing. Olivier GRESSÉ

• Established our Swiss presence in 4 months, ensuring compliance with local regulations and achieving 100% legal adherence. • Entered successfully the market and acquired our first 2 major domestic customers. • Integrated (via an M&A) and led a high-performance team of 30 engineers and testers. • Optimized operational processes and minimized operational risks resulting in zero legal disputes or penalties.

• Laid successfully the foundation for a seamless transition to the cloud by following SAFe Agile principles and framework. • Mediated between stakeholders and all different teams involved, leaving no stone unturned to make sure that all interests were taken into consideration. • Set up meticulously the governance and the team of architects and engineers. • formulated the roadmaps and budgets and forged strategic partnerships with key providers, which are essential to ensure the project's success.

Leading 21 IT Architects across two countries for all sectors and industries. Reshaped assignments minimizing costs, fostering continuous improvement. Securing 60MCHF revenue per quarter in CH, 30M€ revenue per quarter in AT. • Define strategies, set objectives, push innovations, develop and transform business • Drive productivity, efficiency, standardization • Set clear performance goals • Talent management strategy, reduce turn-over • Optimize and transform to be future-ready

• 100% occupation for all team members • Recognition by internal and external customers (dedication, efficiency, skills, trust, loyalty, visions, achievements…) • Conversion of 2 subcontractors to IBM employees; developed 2 employees towards a manager role • Organized the ISO 27001 re-certification for Switzerland • Supported Security related projects for Swiss banking customers

Responsible for leading up to 100 staff members. • ‘Passed’ the 3 audits we had and all the quarterly financial reviews • Achieve >7% savings on resources by transforming the delivery model (vendorization) • Achieve >5% savings YoY when renewing a service contract • >83% employee satisfaction in my teams; very low attrition; support employee development, certification and promotion • Setup and maintain a 24x7x365 operations level for our customers • Coordinated activities and resources in the organization

Contributed to a smooth transition of the Novartis infrastructure to IBM while maintaining the required level of operations and compliance (security and regulatory levels). • Ensured know-how transfer of the global architecture, concepts and processes to the 10 key team leaders, created new ways to automate the Wintel server build (setup time reduced by 15%) • Actively collaborated with Delivery Center’s to build-up and train the near-shore operation teams (>70 persons via a “train-the-trainer” approach)

•Following corporate and industry standard methodology focusing on delivering the highest quality planning and coordinating for some of the Top 10 IT projects •Supporting with Program or Project Managers recruitment •Key contributor of the Global Project Office development and team leader deputy •Coach for peers •Leading a global integration project as part of a company acquisition process: 4100+ end-user machines, 2M USD

•Responsible for the definition, optimization, standardization and promotion of the IT architecture on a global basis within the global directory and server environment infrastructure used worldwide •Ensure viable global IT strategy and standards (integration, infrastructure, data, application, and business process) which meet the ongoing and future needs regarding the standardized server software and hardware environment •Provide high-level expertise, support and consultation to the regions, countries

•Audit and analyze of the existing infrastructure. Build up solutions, write the corresponding offerings •Rollout of the solution, scripting, tests and performance optimization in the respect of costs and deadlines •Studies, concepts, specifications, development, tests, support and documentation… •Configuration and administration of NT servers •Documentation, presentation and reports for the customer •Technical and QA documentation

•Technical support for the sales force and the customers •Recruitment and management of the implementation team and the outsourced coworkers at the customer’s site •Project management in close collaboration with the sales force and the customers •Relationship management with hardware and software suppliers •Study, development, rollout, test of global solution •Migration from OS/2 LAN Manager to Windows NT v3.1 and subsequent migrations to Windows NT v3.51 and v4.0 •Security management and admin.

•Security management, maintenance and administration of OS/2 LAN Manager networks •Technical user support (by phone and on site)

Thesis: “Finite element modelling, dynamic vibration analysis of circular saws to optimize their conception”