Julien Cyr

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Lycée Jeanne d'Arc d'Argentan

SUPINFO - The International Institute of Information Technology

Chief Innovation Officer at Holberton

San Francisco, California, United States

Holberton

Chief Innovation Officer

General Manager

Oversee the Operations for Holberton HQ and all campuses worldwide, with a focus on automation and scale (exponential growth, from one to thirteen campuses in less than 12 months). Manage Ops and Marketing team.

- Handle the day to day of Operations

- Marketing and Communication

- Global Facilities.
Design processes, policies and ensure business continuity & security on all campuses. Maintain the DNA and the values of the company across offices.

- Information System.
Design, deploy and maintain all IT, network, AV and automation systems. Provide tools to the teams to operate efficiently within the organization.

- Business Intelligence.
Collect, analyze and report to the managers of each business units on KPIs using Business Intelligence (PowerBI essentially).

- Procurement.
Select manufacturers & products, identify suppliers, negotiate contracts & pricing, distribute to campuses over 5 continents.

- Support.
Provide 24/7 support to staff and partners regarding IT and Ops.

Holberton School

Director Of Operations

Management of new Holberton School campuses opening:
- Design, plan and implement office systems, layouts, and equipment
- Work with designers, architects, contractors, building management, and leadership to plan and execute building renovations (draw the layout in Autocad & Revit, and generate 3D rendering)
- Develop and manage campus launch budget; track expenditures and analyzes variances
- Manage relationships with vendors, service providers and landlord
- Hire and train local staff
- Coordinate Marketing (advertising campaigns, press release, etc.) and Events
- Deploy the Technical Package (select, buy and on-site configuration)
- Effective launch on time of 7 schools in USA, LATAM and Africa

Global Network Management & Centralized Management for all IT and AV systems (Crestron, Fortinet, etc.).

Data Analytics for the company to take the right decisions concerning expansion (risk management, business analytics, performances KPIs).

Customer Success Manager by interim for 6 months on top of this position.

Technical deployment includes: network infrastructure (Fortinet firewall, switches, AP - centrally managed through FortiManager), servers (VMware ESXi, Windows & Linux VMs), computers deployment (using JAMF and MDS for Apple devices, and Ninite and SCCM for Windows machines), building automation (Crestron Programming), AV setup (Allen & Heath mixer, Dante network, Shure microphones, LG video wall, Panasonic & NewTek NDI setup, and more!).

School Deployment Senior Manager

Design and implement technical solutions for the school (infrastructure, automation, IT - both On-Premises & Cloud - AWS/Azure).

Individual contributor on special projects:
- Real Estate. Identify potential locations, lease negotiation.
- Events. Organize Grand Opening for San Francisco campus, launch party for new curriculum, celebration party with board of Trustees.
- Advertising & Growth Marketing. Imagine & execute on advertising campaigns to increase student acquisition (online & offline).
- Re-Branding. Work with founders and communication agency to re-brand the company (messaging and visual identity).
- Financial Projections & Business Development. Work with the CEO on financial projection for the expansion of the company, drive initial conversation with partners for the opening of new campuses.
- Business Intelligence with PowerBI. Engineered a process to collect data over multiple platform for analytics purpose (student acquisition, student success, etc.).

Chief Engineer

Culture Tech Event provide technical support for cultural events (ballet, opera, concert, etc.). The technical scope covers lighting, sounds system, FX and video. From design to implementation.

Culture Tech Event

President

Internal & External communication for the Dragonfly group (Intrinsec, Cloud Temple, Cloud Temple Tunisia, Netixia), including branding, advertising, CRM, events (hold one conference everyday for 3 months - on-site & multi-cam streaming), happiness in workplace.

Work with a distributed team of 7 people in Nanterre & Tours in France and Tunisia, and a major PR agency in Paris.

Dragonfly

Chief Communication Officer

Advise and help the founders on space design and IT infrastructure.

Advisor

Product Owner, Sales & Technical support for all telecom related offers (Interco, Transit, IP services, UCaaS).

Pre-Sales engineering for private cloud offers: technical architectures, proposal writing, pricing (private and public sectors - 0.5M EUR to 4M EUR contracts).

Cloud Temple

Head of Telecom Department & Pre-Sales Engineer

Time 2 Dream is an event agency specialized in high end projects (fashion show, corporate events, weddings, etc.), bringing dreams to reality by offering "turn key" solutions. The technical knowledge of the team allows to produce events that sounds impossible to do, in locations and venues not initially built for those.

Time 2 Dream

Co-Founder

Design multi-tenant private cloud infrastructure for critical information system (datacenter Tier3+, multi-site, PRA/PCA), were cyber security is vital (SOC, ISAE 3402, ISO 27001).

Design and implement multi-tenant UCaaS platform (including mobile phone convergence services as MVNO).

Pre-Sales support (network & system architecture for on-premise to private cloud migration).

- Interim CIO for the company during a year. Hire a team and build process.---

Systems & Unified Communications Architect

Teacher for SUPINFO International University. Give lectures on all the metropolitan campuses on Microsoft Technologies (AD, Exchange, SharePoint) for the Bachelors and Masters program, as well as Corporate Training programs.

SUPINFO

STA - Instructor for Microsoft AD, Exchange and Sharepoint courses

Technical support, consulting and integration services around Microsoft technologies (100+ projects for more than 50 clients, in private and public sector).

Intrinsec

Network & System Engineer

Sales for the main phone provider in France. B2C sales (Internet, Mobile, Landline).

France Telecom

Sales

Develop, design and implement VoIP solutions for corporate.
Consulting services in network & system infrastructures.

Convergent Galaxy

Founder

Network and System Administrator for ADAPEI de l'Orne (2000 people over 30 sites - both offices and industrial warehouse).

ADAPEI DE L'ORNE

System & Network Administrator

Network & System administration for a law firm in Paris (30 people).

CEJ-DA

MC DANSE is a private dance school based in Normandy, France (family business). The school organize multiple shows every year over the region, and participate to many as guest. There is two technical side: shows (stage layout, lighting, video, sound systems, etc.) and IT for the studios. I also manage all the marketing for the company (brand, advertising, social medias).