Nicolas Coucke

IT Project Manager

Paris Area, France

Current
Past
  • CISO (Cheif Information Security Officer) at Optimum Média Direction
  • Chief Networking Officer at E-AuctionRoom
  • Security Consultant at Newlink
Education
  • Stevens Institute of Technology
  • EPITA: Ingénierie Informatique
  • Ecole pour I'Informatique et les Techniques Avancées
Connections
103 connections
Industry
Information Services
Websites

Nicolas Coucke’s Summary

Always customer focused, but still business oriented, my favorite playing fields are Information System Management and business alignment where I like to help business to increase competitive advantage.
I am always happy to manage teams meeting the state of the art and reducing costs as well as addressing business's needs in managing / directing Projects or drawing strategies.

Please connect by requesting contact at : nicolas.coucke@st-groupe.fr

Nicolas Coucke’s Specialties:

Specialties:
Customer relationships (including Customer Loyalty)
IT Gouvernance & IT Operational Direction
IT Security deep knowledges
Management of Project Portfolio
Team Coordination and Application management



CTO / technical manager / DSI / TAM / Director


Nicolas Coucke’s Experience

  • IT Project Manager

    St-Groupe / TOTAL Holding

    (Privately Held; 10,001 or more employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

    June 2005Present (4 years 6 months)

    As an IS senior consultant, I got through differents positions

    - Team Leader for TOTAL Holding Projects Integration Entity
    - Project manager and Group Financial Consolidation IS Manager at TOTAL
    - Project Manager for the Euopean Governemental Cabinet (SGAE)
    --> Redesigned the CoreBusiness Software
    - Technical project manager at Atos for 9 telecom.
    - Team Leader at Atos for 9 telecom.
    - Security consultant at Aéroports de Paris.
    - Security consultant at VediorGroupe France.
    - Project director for Tax Free World Association's main IT projects.

    As a team manager at TOTAL Holding, I can improve processes and sharpen my management skills with the 4 people's within the team. Moreover, I am coordinating TOTAL technical people

    As a PMO, an Application manager and a Team coordinator at Daimler fleet, I worked on the whole portfolio of IT projects to reduce cost, improve quality, keep projects on time/on budget.

  • project manager

    ST Groupe

    (Information Services industry)

    2005Present (4 years )

  • CISO (Cheif Information Security Officer)

    Optimum Média Direction

    (Privately Held; 201-500 employees; OMD; Information Technology and Services industry)

    March 2002September 2005 (3 years 7 months)

    Increased significantly IT security and availability
    upraised IT quality and process maturity
    Brought IT Monitoring, metrics and dashboard with Key Performance Indicators
    Created a disaster recovery plan

    Communication / Marketing representative
    Creation of IT guidances (Security policy, Usage policy,..)
    Management of Infrastructure contracts with the CTO

  • Chief Networking Officer

    E-AuctionRoom

    (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Arts and Crafts industry)

    January 2000December 2000 (1 year )

    Chief Networking Officer and Chief of Information Security Officer
    Redesign IT Infrastructure:
    Improved security and connected the main office with our two other buildings.
    integrated a free telephony network between theses 3 buildings and contracted with a new telephony provider.
    Increase the security level of a realtime Website’s platform externally hosted

  • Security Consultant

    Newlink

    (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer & Network Security industry)

    September 1999December 1999 (4 months)

    Pre-sales Engineer
    Hotline for security products
    ISS & Checkpoint certifications


Nicolas Coucke’s Education

  • Stevens Institute of Technology

    Master in Science of Information Technology , Information Technologies ,IT/Business Alignement ,International Project Management , 20012001

    passed TOEIC with 850 pts
    Graduated with a 3.7 GPA

    Activities and Societies:
    Membership in Jefferson, cinema and theaters, Big Apple's lifestyle
  • EPITA: Ingénierie Informatique

    19982001

  • Ecole pour I'Informatique et les Techniques Avancées

    Engineer , Télécom, Network & Security , 19982000

    Coding of a Unix like shell in C language
    Undertaked the creation of a real company (aborted).
    directed and co-writing a paper about firewalls, intrusions methods and network protection, published in CDROM-TELECOM (state of the art in cutting edg technologies available in a CDROM for professional).

    I had a great experience of long term Flate Sharing (with 3 Roomates)

    Activities and Societies:
    Financial officer of the EPITA TELEVISION Association
    Webmaster of the EPITA CDROM Télécom Association
    BEEP Team active member (Links with the Student Office)
    Worked for 3 month at In-Technologies, formerly known as Newlink, Value added resseler , leader in security technologies market place.
    Worked for some missions for Morse.
    Certification : ISS realsecure, Checkpoint CCSE

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Nicolas Coucke’s Interests:

Business & IT Alignment, process optimisation, Process automatisation, customer oriented, service level agreement, proactivity, IS Strategy, management of projects, Mac addiction, Photography, Snowboard, Golf, new technologies, home automation, and my baby cat.

Nicolas Coucke’s Groups:

EPTV, EPITA CDROM TELECOM, BEEP.

  •    EPITA Alumni
  •    Friends of TOTAL

Nicolas Coucke’s Contact Settings

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