Aristide S. Santos

In charge of : Delivery, Infrastructure, Operational Security, Support, Operations, Office Automation, Cross-functional programmes and projects for the Group Management of teams of 70 people spread across two continents (UE, Africa) Coordination of local IT departments and teams in subsidiaries (SEN, CIV, MLI, BFA, NIG, COD, MDG, CHN); external service provider (for MicroCred TUN) Definition and deployment of the 3-year IT strategy IT transformation : - restructuring of activities and teams - digitisation of front-end systems (web and mobile applications, including USSD) - migration (redesign and migration) of critical applications (including the Core Banking System); - deployment of CRM application - deployment of real-time monitoring; transformation to a micro-services architecture - industrialisation of RPA - AI (for monitoring) - decentralisation of IT at subsidiary level - Implementation and deployment of partnerships with schools and ESN Key figures: Deployment of Agile methodology: from 0 to 5 areas covered Growth of the IS with budget control: x6 applications/services (75), +37% usage, -6% Cloud bill (€1.8M) Annual budget of €10M (CAPEX + OPEX), including 20% on the cloud Stability of incidents despite growth in scope and volume +200 projects / year, including 30% larger than 100 man-days

Management of a wide area of critical applications covering Front (CRM), Middleware and Back Office (rating/billing) areas, devoted to french B2B and B2C markets Lead of Transformation with succesful results, implementing several delivery models depending on efficiency and cost reduction targets (offshore, nearshore) Team Management of technical & functional experts, and project leaders Contract management of offshore and nearshore providers Strategic Program Director, with large sucess achievements such as : * Transformation of a large an critical single centric COBOL-coded monolistic application into several wide and specialised open systems, * Digital innovation and transformation to move towards DevOps, K8s, KAFKA, VMWare technologies * Full availability and high level of security access (including over two distant sites) Budget : over 5M€

Manager of several projects over Europe (Spain, Portugal, Italy, Sweden, Norway, France) and Mexico. Billing expert & architect on Infranet (product of Portal Company)