Athlon (Groupe Mercedes) – Desclos Consulting

Athlon Car Lease is an international leasing company with over 500 employees in the Netherlands and over 120,000 leased cars. It is part of Mercedes-Benz Mobility AG. In mid-2016, Rabobank reached a sales agreement with Daimler Financial Services (named Mercedes-Benz Mobility AG from 1 February 2022), which acquired Athlon Car Lease in its entirety. It is headquartered in Almere.

Athlon had over 500 employees in the Netherlands in mid-2016 and managed more than 120,000 leased cars. The company operates in 20 European countries. Besides the Netherlands, the company operates internationally with offices in Germany, Belgium, Luxembourg, France, Poland, Portugal, Spain and Italy and in the UK also Athlon Car Lease offers leasing and rental products and services.

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Move to Cloud Project Director - [28 Months]

Migration of on-prem infrastructures to the Azure cloud,
- Analysis of the existing situation, reverse documentation,
- Definition of network and security architecture,
- Choice of security technologies (Palo Alto, Efficient IP, F5 Voltera…).
Ensuring compliance of existing applications,
- Migration of applications to full API mode,
- Separation of exposed public and private areas.
Definition of standards and operating model,
Project monitoring and reporting to management (local and international).

Deployed technologies : Active Directory, Azure, Citrix, Efficient IP, F5 Volterra, Palo Alto

Used languages : English, French

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Head of Production and Support, Information Security Officer - [20 Months]

Interim Management

Operational management of the support team (4 analysts, 2 DBAs),
- Recruitment of two DBAs,
- Setting annual targets and end-of-year interviews,
- Setting up progress plans

Operational governance of production,
- Defining KPIs and setting up dashboards
- Setting up a production schedule (Control-M)
- Optimisation of treatments
Migration and integration of production into the Daimler environment
Responsibility for local IT security
- Monitoring external and internal audits
- Local group safety correspondent
- Implementation of Group security policies

Deployed technologies : Active Directory, Citrix, Control-M, Dell, ITIL, Windows

Used languages : English, French

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