Olivier Sanche

Current

Global Data Center Director at Apple

Past

Senior Director Data Centers Services and Strategy at eBay
Operations Director at Telecity Group
Director of Global Data Center Operations at AT&T

General Manager East Region & Europe at AT&T
Technical Training COE, District Manager at AT&T

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Education

Institut des Sciences de l'Ingenieur de Montpellier

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Information Technology and Services

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Olivier Sanche’s Summary

Sustainable design, construction and operation of large scale mission critical data centers...

Olivier Sanche’s Specialties:

Sustainable Data Center Operations and Services
Data Center Design, site selection, evaluation, consolidation and relocation
Vendor management
Systems design and development

Olivier Sanche’s Experience

Global Data Center Director

Apple

(Public Company; AAPL; Computer Hardware industry)

September 2009 — Present (7 months)
Senior Director Data Centers Services and Strategy

eBay

(Public Company; eBay; Internet industry)

April 2008 — September 2009 (1 year 6 months)

Responsible responsible for eBay's global data center Operation, Architecture and Strategy.

As part of eBay’s overall commitment to environmental responsibility, my team and I were focusing on energy efficient designs and delivering world-class availability to the eBay site.

A strong advocate for green initiatives and an engaged member of eBay’s employee Green Team, I was actively involved in the construction of eBay’s newest datacenter, scheduled to open its doors in early 2010. This new center is built to meet LEED Gold standards. We broke ground in late-2008 and we are on track to deliver state-of-the-art efficiencies in cooling and power management.

Our Data Center team has contributed to large-scale energy efficiencies across eBay’s global footprint that have, when combined with the company’s conservation, facilities management, solar installations, and high-quality offset program, contributed to eBay’s ability to be a carbon neutral company since 2007.

I was actively involved in The Green Grid, where I served as the first Vice Chair for the advisory council, reporting to the board of directors.
Operations Director

Telecity Group

(Public Company; 51-200 employees; TCY; Information Technology and Services industry)

August 2007 — March 2008 (8 months)

Responsible for all aspects of operations across all UK and Ireland data centers.
Director of Global Data Center Operations

AT&T

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; T; Information Technology and Services industry)

July 2005 — May 2007 (1 year 11 months)

Provided a secure and resilient environment for over 200 premier hosting customers across Europe and the Asia Pacific region. Accountable for the life cycle management of our clients services through planning, installation and maintenance in owned or outsourced models.
• Managed the performance and delivery of services in sites outsourced to 11 vendors, in 9 countries in Europe and AP, as well as owned data centers.
• Supported a diverse and variable workforce of well over 100 employees and contracted resources worldwide in a dedicated or matrix managed mode.
• Re-engineered the end-to-end customer supporting processes and procedures to a scalable model, increasing productivity and reliability while enabling growth.
• Supported customer growth by overseeing site expansions in Hong Kong, Singapore and the UK, as well as the opening of three data centers: two in China and one in Canada.
• Successfully rolled out the SAS 70 program for all AT&T Internet Data Centers worldwide.
General Manager East Region & Europe

AT&T

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; T; Information Technology and Services industry)

July 2002 — July 2005 (3 years 1 month)

Responsible for the operation of 7 domestic Internet Data Centers and associated infrastructure, managing a total of 122 employees and contracted resources, with an operating budget of $30M.
Worked in close partnership with the product house, the sales channel, the engineering team and the Network Operations Centers to ensure the successful lifecycle management of over 1000 customers.
Accomplishments
• Sustained significant customer growth over a period of 3 years leading to full occupancy in most centers.
• Outsourced building services to third party vendor.
• Implemented disaster recovery procedures.
• Led datacenter consolidation efforts across the firm to migrate internal data centers to common model.
• Integrated the UK data center into the enterprise hosting portfolio.
Technical Training COE, District Manager

AT&T

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; T; Telecommunications industry)

April 2001 — July 2002 (1 year 4 months)

Leading a team of over 100 associates, responsible for the overall program management and delivery of technical training activities to nearly 60,000 employees across AT&T.
Accomplishments:
• Led the migration from instructor led courses to e-learning and distance learning.
• Supported the implementation of a new corporate wide Learning Management System
• Contributed to the consolidation of all corporate learning functions into a single training entity serving the firm, generating a $50M savings by year two.