Florent Ducroizet

Engagement Manager at Google

St.-Maur-des-Fossés, Île-de-France, France

About

• 20 years of experience in innovative solutions adoption and business tranformation, in international environments, as Delivery, Presales and Sales. • Double Major in Telecommunications, and Projects and Business Administration, fluent French and English. • After HP, CA Technologies, then Red Hat, now helping clients drive better business outcomes with Google Cloud technology.

Experience

  • Engagement Manager at Google
    Jul 2021 - Present · 5 yrs

    Helping large accounts transform and innovate with Cloud and AI, by aligning Google solutions and project roadmaps to their strategic business objectives and constraints. Our Google Cloud Consulting teams and partners help accelerate and secure adoption while driving the best outcomes.

  • Red Hat (4 yrs 8 mos)
    • ORANGE Consulting Partner
      Dec 2019 - Jun 2021 · 1 yr 7 mos

      Now focusing on bringing value and helping ORANGE accelerate and succeed in its "Engage 2025" roadmap worldwide, with Red Hat Telco, the Open Source way

    • Territory Services Manager at Red Hat
      Sep 2017 - Dec 2019 · 2 yrs 4 mos

      I work at Red Hat, the world’s leading provider of open-source software solutions. Within Red Hat Services, I’m responsible for crafting successful innovation and digital transformation projects leveraging on our best-in-class Cloud, DevOps and Application Integration solutions for enterprise customers. I'm surrounded by awesome Red Hat Services people: everyone at Red Hat promotes and embodies our commitment, transparency, and meritocracy values, everyday. And Red Hat offers the only fully open technology stack, from operating system to middleware and api management, from storage to cloud and virtualization. We also provide a variety of services, including award-winning support, consulting, and training. That's why more than 90% of Fortune 500 companies rely on Red Hat.

    • EMEA Technical Project Manager
      Nov 2016 - Sep 2017 · 11 mos

      With Red Hat's EMEA teams, I contributed to the adoption of the latest open-source enterprise technologies, at the earlier stages. My mission included: - improving decision and implementation experience for our EMEA customers with PoC and appropriate project preparation - supporting our EMEA Solution Architecture team activities - supporting our EMEA Sales teams with implementation matters Red Hat partners with its customers to help implement optimized scalable infrastructures (based on our storage, OS, virtualization & Cloud solutions), and all the tools needed for their application environments and DevOps processes (application environments including mobile, middleware, API management, PaaS and container technology...)

  • Services Project Manager at CA Technologies
    Jun 2014 - Oct 2016 · 2 yrs 5 mos

    I worked on infrastructure management, service assurance and service management, application delivery, service virtualization and automation problematics, with CA solutions, delivered on various infrastructures from mainframe to SaaS, and for all kinds of industries and markets. My responsibilities included: • preparing and proposing service offers to deploy CA Technologies solutions for our French customers • delivering projects on target, handling all project management aspects, and internal reporting • managing customer relationship

  • Hewlett-Packard (Paris Area, France)
    • Presales - ProjectManager - Technical Consultant
      Jan 2011 - Jan 2014 · 3 yrs 1 mo

      • Participation in the pre-sales process of all implemented solutions • Acting project manager for projects up to 1M€ for our large accounts, in charge of client relationship, planning, quality and cost. • Management of local contractors, development projects and other procurement tasks • Management of change towards the use of new Off-Shore resources (HP China and Russia) and « near-shore » (HP Tunisia, new team) o Team building and ramp-up • Various consulting missions in OSS (solve clients' issues with processes and solutions) • Implementation of new project processes in the teams for quality improvement (delivery and support phases)

    • Technical Consultant
      Jan 2005 - Jan 2011 · 6 yrs 1 mo

      • Freelancer for a year, then hired by HP to deploy and migrate network management solutions: o Analysis/Audit of the existing solutions o Planning and deployment/migration strategy o Design and Integration of new software, client on-site delivery o Test, validation and deployment processes o Formation of client users and help for operations • Consulting missions in OSS, express clients' needs, help analyze, design, and implement processes and solutions to reach client's key performance indicators • Planning and design of solutions in the pre-sales process • Crisis management and critical environment business (supervision of telecommunications networks), key player for certain technical implementations of HP CMS solutions • Contribution to the technical support of the solutions • Solution deployment and migration including hardware