Marie Alessandri

Senior Data Protection Officer | GDPR, ISO 27001

Salary / Daily rate

Paris, France

Freelance, open to permanent contract

Can come onsite

Skills

Cybersecurity

Languages

EnglishSpanish

About me

Intro

CIPP/E certified Data Protection Officer with 8+ years of GDPR expertise, currently managing compliance for Paris 2024 Olympics. Delivered 20+ privacy impact assessments and implemented data protection programs across major organizations. Specialized in privacy by design, breach management, and regulatory compliance for complex international projects.

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Work experience

Data Protection Officer

Paris 2024 - Comité d'organisation des Jeux Olympiques et Paralympiques de 2024

Sep 2021 - Present

5 years 2 months

Paris, France

- Integration of GDPR compliance principles into project delivery. Privacy By Design and Privacy By Default, context analysis, recommendations, documentation. - Privacy Impact Assessments: identification of risks, documentation, development and monitoring of remediation plans, - Personal data breach management: identification, follow-up and resolution. - Data processing register management - Drafting and implementation of policies and procedures adapted to the specific challenges and schedule of the Paris Olympic and Paralympic Games. - Organization of data protection awareness training for teams during the various stages of the Paris Olympic and Paralympic Games (preparation, delivery and closing phases). - Management of requests to Data Subject Right Requests. - Management of relations with the french data protection authority (CNIL). - Coordination with legal, compliance (ethics and internal audit) and cybersecurity teams. Participation in drafting contracts (partnerships, subcontractors).

GRC consultant

NTT Ltd.

May 2019 - Oct 2021

2 years 6 months

92160 Antony, France

Data privacy advisory: Ensure customers personal Data processing both comply to the GDPR and enable them to build a consistent data strategy. - Assistance to the DPO daily tasks, - Data Privacy audits and policy management (data breaches policy, Data subject request management, - Data privacy integration to the projects, - Data Privacy Impact Assessment delivery, - Data processing record implementation, - Privacy by design advisory, - Accountability practices: assistance in implementing appropriate privacy governance - Data processor control, and audits Governance, Risk and Compliance consultancy: Develop security programs for customer by auditing existing security programs; conducting gap analysis with desired final state based on the ISO 27001 and 27002 standards. - Identify, analyze and reviewing potential threats. - Provide directive for the protection of customers' assets, the adoption of risk management practices, and crisis management processes. - Risk management :Identification of customers' major assets, identification of major potential threats, risk assessment and risk treatment options.

Data Protection Referent

Natixis

Jul 2018 - May 2019

11 months

7620 Paris, Denmark

-Conduct Privacy Impact Analysis on a portfolio of the most sensitive data processing activities. - Define PIA process: deliverables, project steps, roles and responsibilities, milestones, communication with data processing operational management. - Manage the PIA projects with stakeholders - Data Access request management process implementation. Achievement: - Delivery of 20 DPIAs

CM3 Ingenierie

Apr 2016 - May 2019

3 years 2 months

Paris, France

GDPR Compliance Consultant

Apr 2016 - May 2019

3 years 2 months

Paris, France

- GDPR compliance project management. - Audit of the data processing activities. Risk analysis and DPIA. Data Breaches management. - Contract compliance management. GDPR Awareness management.

IT Project Manager

Apr 2016 - Mar 2017

1 year

GDPR Compliance project manager

Franprix - Groupe CasinoFreelance

Oct 2017 - Jul 2018

10 months

Paris, France

- Organization data processing activities Audit and gap analysis, - Compliance project scope identification and formal description, - Project streams identification and resource allocation: accountability, governance, IS security - Project stream prioritization

GDPR Compliance consultant

AXATECH

Apr 2017 - Dec 2017

9 months

la defense

Procurement service GDPR Compliance project management. (500 providers, subsidiary companies in 14 Countries) - Contract base audit, compliance objectives identification and priorities adoption, - Risk identification and Risk management, - Compliance management monitoring, - Procurement processes review and upgrade.

Mairie de Montreuil

Jan 2012 - Mar 2016

4 years 3 months

78000 Versailles, France

Data Protection Officer

Feb 2013 - Mar 2016

3 years 2 months

78000 Versailles, France

- Data Processing identification and records - Compliance to the legal requirements - Advisory for the adoption of new technology practices within data processing activities - Information security enhancement in order to comply with data privacy requirements - Data processing record implementation and update - Compliance project of the information notice and data retention policy - facilitation and internal advisory for the adoption of new personal data processing activity Achievements: - Audit of the Data processing activities carried out within 3 months - Report on the adoption of automatic computer based towing system - Internal Video protection system analysis, and report including recommendations - Implementation of internal privacy processes

Territory Digital development officer

Jan 2012 - Mar 2016

4 years 3 months

78000 Versailles, France

- Internal New technology project management, - Benchmarking of intelligent city management tools, - local FTTH deployment projet follow uo with french main operators - Mobile 4G deployment follow up with main operators - Technical support service optimization based on ITIL standard - Team management (25 people). Achievements: - Negotiation with mobile operator regarding BTS implementation - Tactical analysis regarding local telco operator FTTH deployment - Internal Service center implementation

PMO consultant

Alyseo

May 2008 - Jan 2012

3 years 9 months

78000 Versailles, France

- Internal governance procedure enhancement, - Customer project management. Achievements: - Internal audit and control implementation, - Mail box migration project management for a customer (10 Month duration).

Project Manager

easynet

Sep 2006 - May 2008

1 year 9 months

92000 Nanterre, France

- Customers hosting project management - Customers MPLS solutions deployment management - Customers follow up. Achievements: Hosting of institutional websites (Lenore, But, Valeo), European MPLS deployment projects

Project management tutor

UTS: University of Technology Sydney

Nov 2004 - Dec 2005

1 year 2 months

Greater Sydney Area

- Research assignment Contribution to Project Management practices applied to internal ongoing operations within different organizations (Managing Organizations by Projects), - Training delivery to Master Students, Achievements: - Contribution to the 2005 PMI study : "exploring the rôle of the executive sponsor"

Technical Support Engineer

NetCentrex

Sep 2002 - Oct 2003

1 year 2 months

7620 Paris, Denmark

- Technical support service management - Level 1 and 2 technical support - New versions test and validation - Service Level Agreement set up management

Technical Assistance Manager

Tellabs

May 1999 - Aug 2003

4 years 4 months

78280 Guyancourt, France

- Customer Management - WAN deployment projet management - VOIP project management - Level 1 & 2 technical support Achievements: - SDH network infrastructure deployment within 6 months - Customer Level 1 and 2 technical support contract negotiation - Technical training delivery


Education

Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers

DPO reponsibilities and mission

2018 - 2018

1 month

University of Technology Sydney

Project Management

2004 - 2005

7 months

SKEMA Business School

Master of Science (M.Sc.)Project and Program Management

2003 - 2005

2 years 1 month

ESIGETEL

Ingénieur Genie Informatique et télécommunications

1996 - 1999

3 years 1 month

ORSYS

ISO 27001 Lead Auditor training

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