
Mathias Drillon
Senior IT Infrastructure & Transformation Consultant
Salary / Daily rate
Luxembourg
Freelance
Can come onsite
Skills
Languages
About me
Intro
IT Infrastructure & Transformation Leader with 20+ years driving data centre, cloud, and cybersecurity excellence. Former VP at CHAMP Cargosystems, led 50+ team managing €11M+ budget, delivered Tier IV migrations and strengthened security posture in SLA-critical SaaS environments. Now delivering independent consulting in infrastructure change management, PMO, ITIL optimization, and interim IT leadership for concrete results.
Work experience
Creator & Founder of VITAforIT | IT Infrastructure & Service Management | PMO Excellence
VITAforIT
May 2025 - Present
1 year 6 months
Luxembourg
Mission: Driving IT excellence at the heart of your IT operations by providing services such as: – IT Infrastructure Change Management & Security: Managing your major infrastructure transformation projects: – Data Center relocations, migrations to public or private cloud environments. – DRP & BCP definition and implementation. – Strategic changes to your low-level technology stack, including telco challenges, from product selection to operational deployment. – Support during negotiations with suppliers to optimize contractual terms. – Security audits of your installations and recommendations for concrete improvements. – PMO (Project Management Office): Coordinating and managing IT projects, both in program management and project management, to secure timelines, costs, and objectives, with a constant focus on customer satisfaction. – IT Service Management: Review and Improvement: – Auditing and optimizing your IT operations. – Implementation or re-implementation of ITIL processes. – Incident management, problem resolution, SLA management, and operations supervision, with a focus on efficiency and compliance. – Review of supplier portfolios and cost structures. – Budget management methodology and renewal tracking. – Customer Service Management: – Managing the contractual relationship between the client and the provider. – Rigorous monitoring of SLAs, in compliance with signed agreements. – IT Management, short and medium term: – Day-to-day and medium-term management of your IT teams. – Implementation of best practices and continuous process optimization. – Supplier relationship management. – Cost and budget management. – Presales Support: – Technical advice and development of proposals tailored to the specific needs of each project. My goal is simple: Obtain concrete results, in a healthy environment.
Vice President Technology Services
CHAMP Cargosystems
Sep 2023 - Mar 2025
1 year 7 months
Contern, Luxembourg
– Promotion to VP Technology Services, with extended leadership scope and executive accountability.
Director Technology Services
CHAMP Cargosystems
Sep 2017 - Aug 2023
6 years
Luxembourg
– Operating at the intersection of infrastructure, network, cloud and cybersecurity, in a highly demanding SLA-driven SaaS environment. – Led a 50+ people organisation delivering infrastructure, network, cloud and cybersecurity services in a global 24/7 SLA-critical SaaS environment. – Managed €11M+ budget and a portfolio of 80-100 initiatives across data centre, connectivity, cybersecurity and platform operations. – Delivered two large-scale Tier IV data centre migrations. – Designed and operated complex multi-data centre connectivity architectures. – Strengthened security posture and governance. – Supported the evolution towards CI/CD-driven SaaS delivery models. – Implemented structured service delivery governance.
Senior Project Manager
EBRC - Data Centre, Cloud & Managed Services
May 2014 - Sep 2017
3 years 5 months
Luxembourg
Specialist in ICT solutions in the heart of Europe: from Data Centres, to Cloud, Managed Services and Business Continuity, EBRC helps their customers to meet their most demanding IT challenges and the project managers are there to work at the success of these endeavours. – Delivered PCI-DSS compliant infrastructure and network architecture for an online banking platform, ensuring audit readiness and regulatory alignment. – Deployed Tier IV data centre environments supporting business-critical production systems with high availability and resilience requirements. – Implemented enterprise ITSM platform (ServiceNow), structuring service delivery processes and operational governance. – Supported fintech clients in building secure cloud and infrastructure platforms within regulated environments.
Group IT - Infrastructure Manager
Moog Inc.
Jan 2012 - May 2014
2 years 5 months
Luxembourg
– Led infrastructure and industrial IT transformation across a global manufacturing organisation (3000+ employees, 27 countries), supporting ERP platforms and production environments. – Defined and executed infrastructure strategy in alignment with business and industrial requirements, managing multi-site operations and distributed teams. – Delivered large-scale ERP consolidation into a centralised multi-country platform, enabling global standardisation and multi-currency operations – Designed and implemented multi-data centre architectures, including active/active production environments with real-time replication – Built global EDI capabilities integrated with ERP systems, significantly improving operational efficiency and scalability – Established centralised infrastructure and shared services model, replacing localised IT organisations
Data Center Operations Manager
Moog Inc.
Jan 2006 - Dec 2011
6 years
Luxembourg
Technical Manager ERP system
Moog Inc.
Jan 2002 - Dec 2005
4 years
Luxembourg
ASI Informatique
Jan 1997 - Jan 2002
5 years 1 month
Luxembourg
IT Manager Luxembourg
Jan 2001 - Jan 2002
1 year 1 month
Luxembourg
Software Engineer
Jan 1997 - Jan 2001
4 years 1 month
Rennes Area, France
– Mission: Development of professional company software. – Achievement: Development of a management module to control the warehouse for a chain of stores.
Education
Ecole Nationale d'Ingénieurs de Brest
Ingénieur, Computer Engineering
1995 - 1998
3 years 1 month
IUT Brest
Bachelor's degree, Industrial Mechanics and Maintenance Technology
1992 - 1993
1 year 1 month
Licenses & certifications
ITIL Foundation
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Prince2 Registered Practitioner
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Prince 2 Foundation
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