
Vincent LEFRANCQ
Senior IT Infrastructure Architect & Project Manager
Salary / Daily rate
Namur, Belgium
Mobility: Belgium, Luxembourg
Freelance
Can come onsite
Skills
Languages
About me
Intro
IT Infrastructure Project Manager & Architect with 20+ years delivering enterprise solutions for banking, telecom, and insurance sectors. Founded and scaled Neko-San to 20+ professionals, managing international infrastructure projects across 15+ countries. Expert in VMware, disaster recovery, business continuity, and cloud migrations—driving secure, scalable IT transformations for Fortune 500 clients.
Work experience
Company management/Project Management/Architecture
Neko-San (sprl)
Jun 2016 - Present
10 years 5 months
Luxembourg
– Providing IT services to banking, telecom and insurance companies – 20 employees and freelancers across Belgium and Luxembourg – Managed multiple international projects – Designed IT infrastructure (network, system, storage, etc...) for large entities – Created the Belgian company in June 2016 – Created the Luxembourg branch office in April 2018
Infrastructure Architect / Project Manager
CACEIS: Investment Company
Nov 2013 - Jan 2023
9 years 3 months
Luxembourg
– Migrated IT infrastructures (Servers, Network, VMware, desktops) to new providers – Managed multiple international migrations and deployment projects – Coordinated migration teams over 15 countries – Acted as interface between business and IT teams – Implemented Business Continuity Plans and Disaster Recovery Plans – Analyzed/audited infrastructure security – Participated in the design of new infrastructures for offshored IT – Participated in the design of the new global infrastructure – Designed and coordinated implementation of business continuity solutions – Created architecture documentation of existing and future environments
Infrastructure Architect
Vodafone Group
May 2013 - Nov 2013
7 months
– Designed disaster recovery solutions for multiple global applications – Designed infrastructure for future growth of large scale application (Vodafone Telecom Manager) – Followed up the deployment of proposed solutions – Audited and provided high availability recommendations for critical services
Integration Architect
CACEIS: Investment Company
Apr 2011 - Dec 2012
1 year 9 months
Luxembourg
– Designed virtualized desktops infrastructure for offshoring of development to India – Designed new trading-room based on Blade Workstations – Implemented Business Continuity Plans and Disaster Recovery Plans – Migrated IT infrastructure (Active Directory forest, Network, Exchange) to a new provider – Managed the audit team to analyze the enterprise infrastructure to improve performances and security – Prepared and implemented business continuity plans over multiple sites and countries – Developed and documented procedures for operational teams
Senior Systems Engineer
European External Action Service (EU embassies)
Jun 2008 - Mar 2011
2 years 10 months
– Deployed a new datacenter in HQ site – Managed distributed teams involved in different deployment projects – Designed, tested and implemented backups and disaster recovery site and procedures – Consolidated and virtualized headquarter servers – Provided third line support to remote sites' administrators – Developed and documented new procedures – On site missions to standardize and audit Embassies (worked in Afghanistan, Uruguay, Iraq, Moldova, Yemen, USA, etc...)
VMware Trainer
Centre supérieur de formation professionnelle Léonard de Vinci
Jun 2008 - Jun 2008
1 month
Montreal, QC, Canada
– Prepared and provided one week of virtualization training to 5 teachers – Designed VMware infrastructure for the training center to host labs for students, intranet site, mail servers and file servers
Virtualization consultant
CACEIS
Aug 2007 - Jun 2008
11 months
Luxembourg
– Designed and consolidated server infrastructure – Designed, tested and implemented disaster recovery site – Managed the creation of a new data center (Wintel part) – Managed team involved in the deployment of the Wintel infrastructure – Developed and documented new operational procedures
Systems Engineer
Halian (Sun Microsystems)
Feb 2005 - Jul 2007
2 years 6 months
Luxembourg
– Designed and implemented disaster recovery procedures – Virtualized of server's infrastructure – Tested, deployed and maintained Windows servers
Systems Engineer
Merck (Pharmaceutical Company)
Sep 2003 - Feb 2005
1 year 6 months
– Managed migration projects to Windows 2003, SMS 2003 and Exchange 2003 – Managed team involved in deployment projects – Actively participated in Active Directory design – Consolidated domains across EMEA – Managed headquarter servers and provided third level support – Designed, tested and implemented multiple disaster recovery procedures
Desktop Support / Systems Administrator
AUSY Belux
Sep 2000 - Sep 2003
3 years 1 month
Belgium, WI, USA
– Migrated servers to Windows 2000, workstations to XP, and domain to AD – Installed and maintained servers, desktops and laptops – Created procedures and manuals for end users
Education
ILMH (Brussels, Belgium)
Clinical Psychology, Neuropsychology
Licenses & certifications
ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
Issued: Dec 2025
Microsoft 365 Certified: Teams Administrator Associate
Issued: Jun 2021
Microsoft 365 Certified: Enterprise Administrator Expert
Issued: Jun 2021
MCSA: Server Infrastructure (Windows 2016)
Issued: Sep 2017
MCSE: Microsoft Certified Solution Expert (Exchange 2016)
Issued: May 2017
VMware Certified Professional (VCP6)
Issued: Feb 2012
TOGAF 9 Certification
Issued: Sep 2011
CISSP (Certified Information Systems Security Professional)
Issued: Sep 2010
MCITP Enterprise Administrator (Windows 2008)
Issued: Jan 2010
Prince 2 Certification
Issued: May 2007
Cisco Certified Network Professional (CCNP)
Issued: Dec 2006
ITIL Certified
Issued: May 2006
Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA)
Issued: Dec 2002