
Gilles Belard
Cybersecurity Program Manager - Project Manager
Salary / Daily rate
Paris, France
Freelance, open to permanent contract
Can come onsite
Skills
Languages
About me
Intro
Senior Security Executive with 20+ years of experience in cybersecurity, risk management, and program leadership across global enterprises. Currently managing data breach remediation and IAM programs across 29 countries, with proven expertise in ISO 27001, GDPR compliance, and security governance. Offers strategic security leadership combining technical expertise and business acumen, with a track record of successful program delivery and team management.
Work experience
HOPicker ITFreelance
Aug 2023 - Jul 2025
2 years
Hybrid
Data Breach Remediation Program Manager GDPR & IAM (Bank) - CyberSecurity - 29 countries
Feb 2024 - Jul 2025
1 year 6 months
Hybrid
- Strategic Program - Program Building - Project Buiding - Project Managers Management - Lean Management - Management of 4 projects (Retention, IAM, Segregation of Data/Duties) - Partnership Management (IBM) - Budget 2M€
Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) (Luminess company)
Oct 2023 - Mar 2024
6 months
Hybrid
- Transition Management - Management of 3 cyber security engineers and a Deputy CISO (operational side) - Working on ISO27K1 – HDS renewal and non-compliant points remediations - Optimization of security processes and transversal management with HR, IT (OPS/DEV/SDM) and Business entities - Definition of strategy for the next 3 years - Driving instances to CODIR (Operational Steering Committee & Strategic Steering Committee) - Supporting Sales teams (pre-sales, security surveys, Security Assurance Plan…) - Managing security incidents (GDPR, internal…) - Participation in projects kick-off (internal &external) - Validation and management of ISMS documentation - Organization of the awareness support deck - Managing Audits (organization, scope, planning…) - Managing Phishing campaigns
Global Security Manager (OCD company)
Aug 2023 - Oct 2023
3 months
Hybrid
- Transition Management - SPOC for CyberSOC - Incident investigations - Remediation plans and action plans follow-up with L1 & L2 teams and customer - Security reports (news, threats, vulnerabilities, logs, customer activities…) - Monitoring and analysis alerts and events by risks (business & technical impact) - Management of 3 security engineers (EMEA, AMERICAS, APAC) - Driving instances to CISOs - Continuous improvement of security & cybersecurity Company: Luxury industry
Capgemini
Nov 2017 - Jul 2023
5 years 9 months
Hybrid
Risk Manager
Jan 2023 - Jul 2023
7 months
Hybrid
2022 (Crédit Agricole SA) - Review of all KPI/KRI and dashboard for COMEX IT and other management levels (risk commission...) - Strategy definition according to ISO2K1, ISO2K2, COBIT 2019, NIST, 31000 and CIS 8.0 (Vision Scope & Mathematic Model) using DMAIC approach (Lean Six Sigma) 2023 (Enedis) - Maintaining, adapting and optimizing the processes and the existing governance of Control Plan Cyber for the entire company - Management of the delivery of Control Plan by contributing in the management of audits deliveries, their definitions and expectations as well as the monitoring of Remediation Plans - To animate, follow the revision of the three-year Cyber Audit Plan on the basis of the evolution of the risk; threats, existing enterprise-wide service and product ecosystem - To contribute (capitalization) to the development of the cyber risk treatment plan of the teams in charge of it - Ensuring the efficiency and effectiveness of IS security processes of all kinds (Tertiary, Industrial, Business, Technical, Organizational) - To facilitate and coordinate interactions between departments within the Cyber Pole, as well as into the ISD entities and regionally - To bring my knowledge in CyberSecurity in the field of control and expertise on the technical and organizational aspects - To compile and feed the reporting of my activities for CODIR Cyber and CODIR DSI Companies: CREDIT AGRICOLE SA (2022) & ENEDIS (2023)
Security Services Manager & Deputy CISO & IT Cyber Resilience Program Manager
Jun 2022 - Dec 2022
7 months
Paris, France
Companies: ANDRA & SOCIETE GENERALE
Security Services Manager & CSO (at Cloud Infrastructure Services - CyberSecurity dept.)
Jan 2022 - Dec 2022
1 year
Paris, France
Major cybersecurity crisis management on Cloud solution. Company: TOTALENERGIES
Security Services Manager & Cyber Defense Program Manager
Feb 2020 - Dec 2021
1 year 11 months
92130 Issy-les-Moulineaux, France
- Three-year Strategic Program - Program Management (Technical & Functional Security) - International context - 7 Security Projects (ISO 27K1, CIS, SOC, CyberArk, EDR...) - 7 Project Managers - Audit Issue Solver - Risk Management - Servant Leader #Cybersecurity #Infrastructure #IoT #Cloud #Lean Six Sigma #AWS #Project Management #Program Manager #ISO27001 #ISO27005 Company: AXA
Chief Security Officer (CSO) & Global Project Manager (EMEA, US, LATAM, APAC)
Jul 2018 - Jan 2020
1 year 7 months
Issy-les-Moulineaux, Île-de-France, France - Clermont-Ferrand, Puy-de-Dôme, France · On-site
- Strategic project - Security Governance - Project Management (Security & Cloud Infrastructure) - International Context - 4 Project Managers (EMEA, US, LATAM, APAC) - Risk Management - Tool development for project management automation using Monte Carlo simulation method - Servant Leader - Trainer (DevOps, Cloud Computing, IoT and Active Directory) #Cybersecurity #Infrastructure #DevOps #IoT #Cloud #Lean Six Sigma #AWS #Project Management Companies: RENAULT DIGITAL, TF1, MICHELIN
Senior Solution Specialist Consultant
Nov 2017 - Jul 2018
9 months
92210 Saint-Cloud, France
- Technical, functional and organizational Audit - Analysis of business needs and processes - Understanding of business and IT issues - Improved Performance of people, processes and functions - Design and Construction of technical, functional and organizational solutions - Governance, Commitments and Project Management (Integration and Deployment) - Management and Development of people - Advice and Support of client - Trainer on Cloud Computing, IoT and DevOps topics for Capgemini 's consultants #DevOps #Infrastructure #IoT #Security #Cloud #Lean Six Sigma
Managed Services Practice Manager - Infrastructure & Security Solutions
AZEO - talents & technology
Mar 2017 - Oct 2017
8 months
92100 Boulogne-Billancourt, France
- Bid Manager Activities - Managing People (10p - Direct Management) - Developing Added Value and Service Offerings - Development of Partnerships - Writing technical proposals Have created Managed Services activity from scratch Company: TOTAL
Business Unit Manager - Infrastructure PreSales - Cloud, Facilities Management & Security
Ozitem
May 2012 - Mar 2017
4 years 11 months
Courbevoie Area, France - Levallois Peret Area, France
- Bid Manager Activities - Presales Activities (Infrastructure, private and hybrid clouds, migrations, security,...) - Managing People (Direct Management) - Developing Added Value and Service Offerings - Development of Partnerships (Microsoft, Dell Software, different Software Vendors) - Writing technical proposals Market Segments: CAC40 and Middle Market (Bank, Manufacturing, Services) Fixed Price Projects Annual Sales: + 3M€ Last Biggest Project sold: 1000 man/days + TRANSITION MANAGER and PROJECT DIRECTOR on the projects I sold Have created Fixed Price Project activity with this business unit from scratch + ISO 9001 initialization (Pilot of Pre-Sales process) Companies: ALTAREA COGEDIM, TOYOTA, MGEN TECHNOLOGIES, LABORATOIRES SERVIER, SOCIETE GENERALE, MALAKOFF MEDERIC, LABORATOIRES CHIESI, GEODIS...
Business Unit Manager - Infrastructure & Support
EXAKIS NELITE
Jul 2010 - May 2012
1 year 11 months
Paris Area, France - Biarritz Area, France
- Managing People (20p) - Developing People - Writing technical proposals - Developing Added Value and Service Offerings - Pre-sales Activities - Direct & Remote Management - Crisis Management T+M Fixed Price Projects + FR IT MANAGER (acting during 12 months) Accounts managed: CLUB MED, CASINO, QUIKSILVER, SANOFI, GROUPE SEB, LA POSTE COURRIER, LFB...
Dedicated Technical Account Manager - Service Delivery Manager
Microsoft
Feb 2002 - Jul 2010
8 years 6 months
Les Ulis Area, France - Issy-les-Moulineaux Area, France
I was responsible for the strategy and the business development of my account(s). I needed to have an excellent knowledge of systems infrastructure, and to perfectly know how customer IS works and is organized, because that enables customer's trust. So that, you have the ability to inform and advice him regarding recommended changes (methodologies and/or organization and/or technologies), in order to better sell the right service which meets customer's needs. Accounts managed : RENAULT, ESSILOR, CREDIT MUTUEL (Euro Information)
Account Support Engineer
HP
Mar 1999 - Jan 2002
2 years 11 months
Les Ulis, France
- Primary support contact for Proactive 24 and Critical Services customers - Managing the delivery of technical and proactive services for improving availability - Managing capacity - Planning for change - Addressing security - Reviewing Mission Critical Service purchased by customer - Developing/maintain an account support plan which defines the computing environment - Supporting services and delivery Schedule + TEAM LEADER (10p) (developing a portfolio of ~100 accounts)
IT Technical Support for Network, Deployment and Architecture
France Telecom - Orange
Dec 1997 - Mar 1999
1 year 4 months
Créteil Area, France
Technical Representative
IB2 TECHNOLOGIES (ETDE-IBM)
Jan 1995 - Mar 1995
3 months
Cergy, France
Education
CESI École de Formation des Managers
Manager of Information Systems (Master 2 - Level 7)
2021 - 2022
1 year 1 month
CAPGEMINI INSTITUT - Train the Trainer
2018 - 2018
1 month
University of Paris I: Panthéon-Sorbonne
Law degree - Year 1
2015 - 2016
1 year 1 month
CAPGEMINI INSTITUT - Sécurité des Systèmes d'Information
2015 - 2015
1 month
Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers
Informatique Option Systèmes d'information
2008 - 2010
2 years 1 month
CESI Ecole d'Ingénieurs
People
2001 - 2002
1 year 1 month
CNED - Centre National D'enseignement à Distance
BAC+2
1994 - 1996
2 years 1 month
Pass the COBIT 5 Foundation certification (SI governance) (ISACA) - Validated by CERTyou and ISACA
2019 - 1900
Lean Six Sigma (IASSC) - Validated by PeopleCert and CERTyou
2018 - 1900
Prince 2 - Validated by PeopleCert and CERTyou
Foundation & Practitioner
2018 - 1900
ISO/IEC 27005 Risk Manager - Validated by PECB and Sekoia
2018 - 1900
ISO/IEC 27032 Lead CyberSecurity Manager - Validated by PECB and Global Knowledge
2018 - 1900
Pass the CISSP security certification (ISC²) - Validated by CERTyou
2018 - 1900
Pass the PMP certification (PMI) - Validated by CERTyou
2018 - 1900
AWS : Architecture sur Amazon Web Services (Validated by Global Knowledge)
2018 - 1900
ISO/IEC 27001 Lead Auditor - Validated by PECB and Global Knowledge
2016 - 1900
Licenses & certifications
ISO/IEC27001 Senior Lead Auditor
Issued: Jul 2022
ISO/IEC 27032 Senior Lead Cybersecurity Manager
Issued: Apr 2022
ISO/IEC 27005 Risk Manager
Issued: Aug 2021
ISO/IEC 27032 Lead Cybersecurity Manager
Issued: Jun 2020
COBIT 5 Foundation
Issued: Jan 2019
ISO/IEC 27032 Provisional Cybersecurity Manager
Issued: Jul 2018
ISO/IEC 27001 Lead Auditor
Issued: Jul 2018
ISO/IEC 27005 Provisional Risk Manager
Issued: Jun 2018
IASSC Lean Six Sigma Black Belt Certificate (English version)
Issued: Apr 2018
IASSC Lean Six Sigma Green Belt Certificate (English version)
Issued: Mar 2018
PRINCE 2 Practitioner
Issued: Feb 2018
PRINCE 2 Foundation
Issued: Feb 2018
IASSC Lean Six Sigma Yellow Belt Certificate (English version)
Issued: Jan 2018
ISO/IEC 27001 Auditor
Issued: May 2016