VP, Global Infrastructure Services at Coty Inc.
Greater New York City Area
VP, Global Infrastructure Services at Coty Inc.
Greater New York City Area
Goal and result oriented multi-lingual Senior IT Executive with 25 years of demonstrated international experience in planning, designing, implementing and supporting company critical infrastructures. Develop strategic plans for worldwide implementation and operation of Data Centers, Networks, Systems, Messaging and other infrastructure services. Initiate and enforce strict budget controls to ensure maximum return of investment, including outsourcing or off-shoring if required. Adept at crisis and disaster recovery management, trouble-shooting and problem-solving. Ensure strong partnership with all development teams to ensure seamless application development, delivery and support. Champion of change, encouraging and leading teams through company changes ensuring positive work environment. Experience in benchmarking, capacity planning, project and resource management. Masters degree.
* International
* Multi-lingual
* Leadership
* Budgeting
* Consolidations
* Restructuring
* Data Centers
* Networks
* Process Oriented
* Crisis Management
* Problem Solving
* Cost Control
* Systems
* Projects
* Executive Support
* Champion of Change
* Helpdesk
* Messaging
* Outsourcing
* Vendor Management
(Privately Held; Cosmetics industry)
September 2007 — Present (2 years 4 months)
Globally responsible for the company's infrastructure services covering disciplines such as data centers, host systems and storage, database administration, networking, remote access, messaging, active directory, anti-virus/SPAM, help desk and deskside support services.
Recently taken over the Information Security department too.
(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; EMI.L; Entertainment industry)
May 2003 — September 2007 (4 years 5 months)
Senior member of EMI’s global central IT team with responsibility for all the company’s major data centers and the wide area network infrastructure globally. The role is to provide an infrastructure to support the company’s global applications while consolidating the existing infrastructure into a smaller footprint.
(Public Company; RTR.L; Financial Services industry)
July 2001 — June 2002 (1 year )
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Entertainment industry)
August 1994 — June 2001 (6 years 11 months)
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
December 1990 — August 1994 (3 years 9 months)
EMEA System integrator
(Public Company; CAJ; Information Technology and Services industry)
December 1985 — December 1990 (5 years 1 month)
(Consumer Services industry)
September 1984 — December 1985 (1 year 4 months)
Masters , Science, Information Technology , 2003 — 2006
Latin - Sciences 1970 — 1983