Charles Rapp

Senior Solutions Architect | AWS

Salary / Daily rate

Strasbourg, France

Freelance

Remote only

Skills

AWSDevOps

Languages

English (Native)French (Native)German

About me

Intro

8x AWS Certified Senior Solutions Architect with 15+ years in cloud computing and digital transformation. Led modernization projects for CPG, Retail, and Hospitality industries, trained 300+ professionals, and developed high-traffic e-commerce platforms. Delivering expert cloud architecture that drives business growth through AWS technologies, DevOps practices, and microservices implementations.

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Work experience

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Jul 2020 - Present

6 years 4 months

Paris, France

Senior Solutions Architect

Dec 2022 - Present

3 years 11 months

Paris, France

Skills: Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Solutions Architect

Jul 2020 - Dec 2022

2 years 6 months

Paris, France

• Helping customers from CPG (Consumer Packaged Goods), Retail and Hospitality industries in their cloud journey from migration to modernization through the creation of modern architecture, acting as trusted technical advisor for them. • Lead in France community on Modern App/Serverless and Retail/CPG • Deliver one to many technical workshops on AWS topics (over 300 people trained) • Writing for AWS blog • Participate actively interviewing process 8x AWS Certified

LCMH

Apr 2009 - Present

17 years 7 months

Mulhouse, France

Founder and main shareholder

Jun 2021 - Present

5 years 5 months

Mulhouse, France

Step back to shareholder • Follow key customers accounts • Ensure the durability of current partnerships (AWS Selected Partner, Shopify Partner, Google Partner)

Founder and Managing Director

Apr 2009 - May 2021

12 years 2 months

Région de Mulhouse , France

Projects and team management, development of web/mobile applications and e-commerce solutions Consulting about business web problematics Establish LCMH as an official Google Partner

Pernod Ricard

Nov 2014 - Jul 2020

5 years 9 months

Paris, France

IT Solutions Architect

Jan 2020 - Jul 2020

7 months

Paris, France

• Define architectural recommendations for digital projects at Pernod Ricard • Help teams from technical specifications to development and deployment and finally RUN of their projects • Lead DevOps/FinOps & Developers team • Manage and optimize hosting platforms at Group level (AWS, Azure, Pantheon)

Tech Lead - Digital, Sales & Marketing | IT Solutions Group

Mar 2018 - Jan 2020

1 year 11 months

Paris Area, France

• Provide technical guidance to project managers and help them during both conception and delivery phases of the projects • Contribute to build and harmonize the IT landscape of the IT Digital Sales Marketing in tight coordination with project managers • Incarnate innovation and high-level technical skills with 100% DevOps spirit • Coordinate tightly with Head of IT Architecture to ensure consistency of the technical choices • Contribute to the Group IT architecture roadmap • Empower project managers by bringing technical skills • Team management up to 9 persons: Devops & Developers

Web and Content Project Manager | IT Solutions Group

Nov 2014 - Mar 2018

3 years 5 months

Région de Paris, France

• Design & deploy WebFactory services at group level including : - hosting services with AWS/Pantheon/Azure (up to 150 websites) and CDN services - development guidelines for Drupal 7/8 & industrialization processes - development of global tools such as Drupal modules, Age Gate, ... • Management of HQ, HCI, MMPJ & SPI web properties and digital initiatives • Advocacy of IT Group tools for all affiliates (GAP, GTM, DMP, ConsumerDB, etc..) • Product owner of ClickToBuy solution generating over 1M€ leads/month • Team management up to 4 persons : DevOps & Project Managers

Martell Mumm Perrier-Jouët

Nov 2012 - Oct 2014

2 years

Paris Area, France

IT Digital Solutions Manager

Feb 2014 - Oct 2014

9 months

Paris Area, France

• Support and maintain technical relationships with Pernod Ricard’s digital agencies • Technical project management for all activations using digital assets in the subsidiary : Web Development, hosting, SEO, SMO, China web acceleration (ICP & CDN) • Implement and develop new ways to optimize UX and bounce rate on the Company’s websites • Set of tools developed for monitoring on the digital ecosystem of the 3 brands (statistic tools using API) • Conduct case studies on several subjects: BigData, Unique cookie, eCRM • IT support for top-level managers (CEO, COO ...)

IT Project Leader

Nov 2012 - Jan 2014

1 year 3 months

Paris Area, France

• Support and maintain technical relationships with our digital agencies • Technical project management for all activations using digital assets in the subsidiary : Web Development, hosting, SEO, SMO • Implement and develop new ways to optimize UX and bounce rate on our websites • Set of tools developed for monitoring on the digital ecosystem of the 3 brands (statistic tools using API) • Conduct case studies on several subjects: BigData, Unique cookie, eCRM • IT support for top-level managers

Social Media Marketer

Orange

Oct 2011 - Oct 2012

1 year 1 month

Technocentre Orange - Chatillon

• Creation and implementation of audience acquisition strategy via Social Media Optimization (SMO) • Creation of monthly dashboard for Orange performance review on social media • Set of tools development for monitoring on social media (statistic tools using the Facebook Graph API) • Creation of SMO guidelines for Orange group employees working on social media • Conception and project management of the first Twitter application for Orange Group. Perimeter: +100 pages FB, +8M fans, 20 countries, 15 languages, +90 Twitter accounts, +850k followers

Web developer

Mitaani

Jun 2011 - Oct 2011

5 months

ESCP Europe Incubator

• Development of the website Mitaani.com and its mobile version, UX improvement • Communication strategy drafting of Mitaani platform • Set up Mitaani Campus campaigns, involvement in press release

Web Developer

RBS

Mar 2010 - Jul 2010

5 months

Région de Strasbourg, France

Développement autonome d'une application web aidant à la gestion du câblage en datacenters Utilisation des frameworks Symfony 1.4(PHP), jQuery (JS) et Doctrine.

Full Stack Developer

MOBILIER EUROPEEN M.E.

Jul 2008 - Jul 2009

1 year 1 month

Mulhouse Area, France

Development of the Group websites (including fly.fr, meublesatlas.com, crozatier.com) with the framework Smarty and setting up new BackOffice

Education

HETIC

Expert en Ingénierie et Management de la Communication Numérique

2010 - 2012

2 years 1 month

SUPINFO

Computer Science

2007 - 2010

3 years 1 month

Licenses & certifications

Mentoring Training

Issued: Sep 2023

Certified by Chronus