Nexans – Desclos Consulting

Contract with Nexans

Nexans S.A. is a global company in the cable and optical fibre industry headquartered in Paris, France.

The group is active in four main business areas: buildings and territories (construction, local infrastructure, smart cities / grids, e-mobility), high voltage and projects (offshore wind farms, subsea interconnections, land high voltage), data and telecoms (telecom networks), data transmission, FTTx, LAN cabling, renewable energies, petroleum, railways and rolling stock, aeronautical and automation.

It is the world’s second largest manufacturer of cables after Prysmian S.p.A. In 2017, the Group had industrial presence within 34 countries with over 26,000 employees and sales of around €6.4 billion. Nexans was founded in the year 2000 as a business unit of the telecommunications firm Alcatel after its acquisition of a number of companies in the cable sector. It was spun out and listed on the Paris stock exchange the following year. It is currently listed on Euronext Paris, Compartment A. Nexans will supply and install HVDC cables for EuroAsia Interconnector, the longest and the deepest HVDC subsea cable project ever, with bi-pole cables of 2x900km.

Visit the website of Nexans

Hosting & Cloud Senior Consultant - [11 Months]

Interim Management

Hosting & Cloud,
- Department strategy and organisation,
- Definition of Solution Delivery processes.
SDM in charge of the service provider in charge of Hosting & Housing,
- Monitoring orders and production start-ups,
- Reviewing and revising the service contract.
Monitoring Cloud Azure activity
- Validation of project documentation,
- Orders and monitoring of production start-ups.

Deployed technologies : Active Directory, Azure, ITIL, Windows

Used languages : English, French

Back to Hosting & Cloud Senior Consultant

Global Programme Director - [21 Months]

Implementation and management of a global reversibility programme for all telecoms services,
Research and selection of new service providers,
Migration of infrastructure services [DNS, NTP, Sécurité, UCC, LAN, WAN, téléphony…],
120 sites, 60 countries,
Management of 3 experts (security, networks, telephony),
Areas of responsibility:
- budget, resource allocation,
- deliverables, planning, leading steering committees,
- drawing up and analysing invitations to tender (SD-Wan, WAN, Zscaler),
- risk, communication, change management,
- migrations, procedures, quality…

Deployed technologies : Alcatel, Blue Coat, Check Point, Cisco, Forcepoint, Ipanema, Office 365, SD-Wan, Webex, Zscaler

Used languages : English, French

Back to Global Programme Director