
Florent Cantin
Senior IT Project Manager | Cyber-Security
Salary / Daily rate
91150 Étampes, France
Freelance
Can come onsite
Skills
Languages
About me
Intro
IT Project Manager with 20+ years expertise in cyber-security, infrastructure, and datacenter projects. Successfully delivered €3M+ projects including DORA compliance, datacenter relocations, and IAM implementations for major banks. Specialized in risk management, team leadership, and turning complex IT challenges into business success.
Work experience
Cyber-Security Project Management Expert
Henner SAFreelance
Sep 2024 - Jun 2025
10 months
Vétheuil, France
DORA compliance project management (Henner SA - 4 people, 200 K€): - Audit of the existing system, incorporating the ISO 27001 ISMS, gap analysis, and development of an action plan based on the four pillars: Resilience, Major Incident Management, Third-Party Risk Management, and IT Risk Management. - Coordination of project resources and stakeholders: Information Security, Business Units, Compliance, and Legal. - Management of the project schedule and risks, and organization of governance bodies (Project Committee, Steering Committee). - Regulatory watch on the transposition of the European regulation in French Senate and Assemblée Nationale.
Senior Information Technology Project Manager
BNP Paribas
Jun 2018 - Oct 2024
6 years 5 months
Rueil · Hybrid
Cyber-security project management : - Vulnerability management : Qualys probes setup, remediation procedures setup, automated vulnerability allocation to identified teams, vulnerability closure follow-up - Scoping of the Identity & Access Management (IAM) program: Gathering of Group-level requirements, workshops organisation, partners coordination to establish related procedures. Risk assessment to prioritise and onboard applications and users into IAM tools. - Patching management project: towards automated patching on Windows and Linux servers. Priority updates download, automated tests and deployments. - Identity & Access Management processes definition Obsolescence program management, hardware & software : CMDB interfacing for obsolescence scoring, risk scoring, project prioritization, project consolidation and reporting. Software development projects : Electronic signature roll-out, securitization setup (UK). In an Agile@Scale transition context, in collaboration with Product Owners et Scrum Masters in each squad. European Project Expertise Center co-management (20 project managers) : - Tribes focal point, staffing qualification, hiring and onboarding - Partner relationships, RFP setup and follow-up - Project managers coaching
Senior Information Technology Project Manager
DFI
Oct 2013 - May 2018
4 years 8 months
Meudon (92) · On-site
Project management delivery on sensitive, high risks and English speaking projects : - Managed services transition from IBM Global Services to D.FI for Zodiac Marine & Pool (+100 K€) - Backup infrastructure overhaul for National Space Center (CNES, Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales) (+3 M€) - Storage infrastructure overhaul for SDV LTD in London (UK), for TOTAL in Berlin (Germany) (+500 K€) - Desktop infrastructure renewal for 83 agencies (+200 K€) - Backup infrastructure renewals (+100 K€) Apps / DevOps Consulting : - ERP scoping study (SAP vs Sage) in agro-food sector (50 days) - Software development project management procedures setup and follow-up using Agile (Scrum) methodology. 6 months outcome : significant increased web development capacity (+20%) Head of Governance and Methodology departement (6 project managers, 4 service delivery managers, 2 project coordinators), I manage all governance related activities, professional services projects and managed services contracts. Governance best practice setup and outreach. Project management procedures design related to ISO 20K/27K and Prince 2 standards. Team organization and coaching. Pre-sales technical proposals validation. 1 year outcome : Better and unified project management (at-risk projects lowered from 70 to 30%), reinforced internal and external communication, greater profitability (15% to 18% margin).
IT Project Manager
Econocom
May 2008 - Oct 2013
5 years 6 months
Noisy-Le-Grand Area, France · On-site
Project management with several teams, on high risk projects. Responsible for transverse internal company projects. Involved in pre-sale, and Cisco Silver certification audits. - Infrastructure renew and headquarters relocation (Vinci Autoroute, 2013) : This motorways company renews the major Paris region tunnel IT infrastructures, and transfers her headquarters. Project management on the customer behalf (1,5 M€). - Agencies rollout (MMA, 2012) : This major French insurance group, in Le Mans (72), entrust us her new desktops rollout, for her agencies network (1 M€, 1800 sites, 17 000 items). I manage the project, in particular : Contract set-up, team and sub-projects set-up, Phasing and planning, Project management tools set-up, Governance management. - Datacenter relocation (Crédit Agricole, 2011) : This major bank delivers in 2011-2012 a relocation project for 5 datacenters from Paris to Chartres (Centre region), for 4000 equipments. I managed the physical relocation project (2,2 M€) : Contract set-up, Associated projects installation and follow-up, Validation of specifications, Governance management, Monthly reviews preparation and animation with customer program manager, Contract follow-up and extension of agreement, Customer billing tracking, Quality management and SLA monitoring. Infrastructure and virtualization projects, in particular : - Infrastructure overhaul : Virtualization, Active Directory migration, AS400 evolution (Baxi) – 400 K€ - VMware / DoubleTake virtualization and replication solution set-up on 3 sites and 6 IT rooms (ALCAN) – 180 K€ - Active Directory and Exchange infrastructure overhaul in France and Belgium (PANAVI) – 110 K€ - VMware / EMC virtualization and replication solution set-up (SONEMA) – 90 K€ - Server park virtualization (Budget Telecom, SOMECO, COMECA, Winsoft, British American Tobacco, SADA, Bureau Central de Sécurité) - Migration and AS400 backup site set-up (ALD Automotive)
IT Project Manager
ARES
Jul 2004 - May 2008
3 years 11 months
Les Ulis, France
IT architecture projects, with : - Desktop infrastructure overhaul with meta directory set-up (Novell eDirectory), collaborative suite (Oracle Collaborative Suite), and Novell 4.11 migration to Novell OES Linux for 150 sites (Ministère de l’Emploi, de la Cohésion Sociale et du Logement) – 800 jh. - Datacenter IT services on SAN, AIX, Linux, Oracle, networks, load tests, Tivoli Storage Manager (SETRA – Ministère de l’Equipement) – 250 jh. Access infrastructures and virtualization projects, with : - Active Directory overhaul and statistics servers consolidation (GazTransport et Technigaz), on HP Blade architecture – 40 jh. - Citrix Metaframe Presentation Server 4.0 infrastructure set-up and Active Directory 2003 migration (Eurofeu) – 30 jh. Relocation and deployments, notably : - Consolidation and relocation for 4 datacenter rooms (1500 servers) to 1 national datacenter (BNP Paribas) – 800 K€ - 1600 thin client roll-out on 8 european countries (Europcar) – 360 K€
IT Project Manager
Bouygues
Jun 1999 - Jul 2004
5 years 2 months
Conakry (Guinée), Bamako (Mali), Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (78) · On-site
Project manager on IT decentralization and LAN/MAN extension, group CRM quality manager. 4 years expatriation in West Africa gave me a true open-mindedness, and a strong change management ability, still very useful today.
Education
ESIEA - École d'Ingénieur·e·s d'un numérique utile
Engineer
1993 - 1999
6 years 1 month
Lycée Mansart, Saint-Cyr-l'Ecole (78)
Baccalauréat avec mention
1990 - 1993
3 years 1 month