Christian Baker

IT Project Manager and Solution Architect.

Paris, Île-de-France, France

About

IT architect and project manager with 25 years of experience in complex systems delivery, now focused on renewable energy technology and cybersecurity. I have spent my career designing and delivering enterprise solutions — cloud infrastructure, ERP implementations, API integrations, data architecture — for major organisations across Europe and beyond. Over the past four years I have redirected that expertise toward the energy sector, completing an MSc in Sustainable Energy (Centre for Alternative Technology, Merit) with a dissertation on cybersecurity for grid-scale Battery Energy Storage Systems in the French and UK markets. I am building a GitHub portfolio of projects applying AI, data analysis and application development to renewable energy challenges — grid security, storage systems, and energy management — and am looking to bring my technical and project delivery background to organisations working in the clean energy transition. My strengths: cloud architecture and migration, systems integration, cybersecurity, and the ability to manage complex technical programmes across multilingual European teams. Fluent in English and French, based in Paris, and open to roles across France, the UK, and Europe.

Experience

  • Redfaire (24 yrs 5 mos)
    • Project Manager and Solutions Architect
      Sep 2014 - Present · 11 yrs 10 mos

      Project management, Technical Solutions and presales expertise for different European businesses in the Redfaire Group. Covering the areas of the Oracle Enterprise One, Financials Cloud and Fusion Middleware technologies.

    • Technical and Functional Consultant
      2005 - Oct 2014 · 9 yrs 10 mos

      Providing functional and technical consulting for Oracle JDEdwards roll-outs. Work with Redfaire Technologies to develope Datawaire enterprise archiving solutions..

    • Director of Finance
      Feb 2002 - Aug 2005 · 3 yrs 7 mos

      Joint-founder of Redfaire (formerly Whitehouse France) Developing the consulting business for the French market. Managing finance and business reporting Technical and Functional JDEdwards Consulting

  • Founder at Association Robert Vazille
    Nov 2015 - Feb 2020 · 4 yrs 4 mos

    Founded a Coder Dojo in Creil & Senlis. A grass roots non-profit making charity (Association Robert Vazille) which encourages children in the Oise region to learn to code through the Irish 'Coder Dojo' initiative. Monthly meetings with coding based projects using Python, HTML and CSS as well as Arduino. We also sent French children to Dublin once a year to take part in the annual Coder Dojo projects competition.

  • JDEdwards Consultant at Pristine Concepts (UK) Ltd
    1999 - 2002 · 3 yrs

    Finance Consultant in JDEdwards Software in the UK. Position held until leaving for France at the beginning of 2002

  • Accountant / Credit Services at Budget Rent A Car
    1996 - 1999 · 3 yrs

    Work to create a European Shared Services centre. Later moved onto a JDEdwards migration project.