Vincent Doffey

Experience

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  Ecole hôtelière de Lausanne

  Nov 1991 - Aug 1995

  Analyst developper

  During 4 years, I worked as analyst programmer with the oracle tools for the IS department of the Ecole Hotelière de Lausanne while improving the applications for : General Ledger, Account Receivables, Inventory management, Library, Alumni association and Grading.

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  Centre International de Glion

  Sept 1995 - Nov 1997

  Head of IT

  As head of IT for the Center International of Glion, I revamped the IS organization in 2 years. I build applications to facilitate the administration of the school (CRM, Grading, AR) while taking care of the improvement of all the IS infrastructure (100 Computers, 3 servers, WAN) and giving support to the users. (40 Employees and 200+ students). While the company was facing financial difficulties, I covered most of these tasks without external help.

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  André et Cie

  Jan 1998 - Aug 1998

  Business Analyst

  During my tenure for André and Cie as a business analyst, I build some knowledge of the trading world and worked more particularly in the freight, financial instruments and contract management area while developing with the oracle tool kit.

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  SAGE S.A.

  Sept 1998 - Sept 1999

  IT Consultant

  While I was employed by Sage SA, I was offering development services for various customers. This experience allowed me to understand better how the software industry is operating. In a few months I had to work on the following modules: Trading, Accountancy, Salaries for various customers. After I enhanced my knowledge of the press industry while working abroad on improving financial reports. I was developing on a 4th generation language (Magic) and using oracle databases.

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  Stryker

  Oct 1999 - Jan 2001

  Enterprise systems manager

  I coordinated the support that was provided by the e-Business team. (ERP, Output management system, a bar-coding solution, an executive information system and various groupware applications,…) to our EMEA locations. I lead task forces to help locations in difficulties with their IS systems. In parallel, I was responsible for the document generator project and provided support for the financial module of Mfg/Pro (ERP).I led two projects related to introduction of the Euro. The 1st one aimed to convert the base currency of our ERP to the Euro for 8 sites. All the conversions were handled according to the schedule and with no significant issues. In October 2001, I took over from the Finance department the project “Trading in Euro” at the European level. On the 1st of January 2002, we were ready to trade in Euro. Show less

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  Stryker Europe

  Feb 2001 - Jun 2004

  Member of the IS management team and responsible of the support at a functional level for the department, I improved the satisfaction of our customers regarding the support services provided. To do so, I focused on: enforcing a Service Level Agreement, reducing the time to propose solutions, formalising policies and procedures, developing a customer oriented attitude supported by account managers, improving the communication, organising a systematic review of the root cause of support requests to improve processes or applications.I lead a project to review the implementation of Mfg/Pro in Greece in order to solve important issues in the financial area. Additionally, I participated to a strategic project aiming to identify improvement for our supply chain at a European level. Show less

  • Corporate project leader (Complaint handling)

    Jan 2003 - Jun 2004

  • Locations support manager

    Feb 2001 - Feb 2003
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  Stryker

  Mar 2003 - Sept 2007

  When Stryker started to work on the Oracle e-business suite implementation (ERP), we had to confirm the scope of the implementation and to agree on common processes at European Level. I prepared the budget, to support the migration from mfg/pro to the Oracle e-Business suite, (45 M USD) and managed it as controller. As Implementation Coordination Lead, I facilitated the organization of these sessions and I also coordinated a number of meetings with business representatives in order to inform them about the progress we were making and the way the implementations were going to be handled. I lead the team working on Program planning, Reporting, Resources management (consultant sourcing) and Logistics. Show less

  • Security and control and SOX Lead

    Nov 2006 - Sept 2007

  • Implementation coordination lead & PAU Lead & Program Controller

    Oct 2004 - Oct 2006

  • Services and support manager

    Mar 2003 - Dec 2004
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  Stryker Europe

  Oct 2007 - Mar 2010

  Management of team spread over 4 countries and supporting the mfg/pro ERP in 8 countries. Lead the business team (25 persons) working on the implementation of the Oracle e-business suite (ERP) in the BeneNord Area (Belgium, Netherland, Luxembourg, Sweden, Finland, and Norway). We went live on time, on budget and without major business issues. Responsible of testing at EMEA level, I reviewed the testing strategy, processes and testing tools. For our Oracle e-Business suite implementation (ERP) in Spain, I coordinated the Integration Testing and System Acceptance Testing with a team composed from more than 20 individuals. Later on, I coordinated the regression testing of France and Spain, reviewed proof of testing for production changes.

  • Mfg/pro support manager

    Jul 2009 - Mar 2010

  • Area Lead

    Sept 2008 - Mar 2010

  • Testing Manager

    Oct 2007 - Jul 2009
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  Biosensors International

  Aug 2010 - Jan 2014

  Global IT Director / Director IT Europe

  -IT strategy definition and Formalization of IT policies-IT infrastructure improvements to increase resiliency and proper disaster recovery planning, including Outsourcing of Biosensors E-mail to the cloud-Automation of intercompany processes-Set up of new ERP instances to support German and Spanish Business. -Alignment of ERP Instances versions (Core Model) -“Zero paper” for the customer service operations-Enlarge scope of business intelligence tools in various areas : budget follow up, AR, AP, Inventory management, Customer service KPI’s-Set up of IT support and operations processes and tools based on ITIL principles to improve response time and quality of the services provided.-Improvement of warehouse user’s productivity and product traceability capitalizing on barcoding solutions-Improvement of the productivity of our customer service and sales team in the context of consigned inventory-Improvement of the productivity of the safety team regarding the submission of reports to competent authorities Show less

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  Stryker

  Feb 2014 - Mar 2016

  IS Program Manager

  Successfully implemented on time and on budget (2 M USD) a solution which enables Stryker to meet the Turkish Ministry of Health’s Labeling regulations (including the Instructions for Use). Program involved more than 30 IT teams members from 4 teams (ERP ,PLM ,Middleware, Labelling) based in Europe and in the USA. Coordinated of the EDI/Middleware activities for a time critical project involving the redesign of Stryker’s supply chain. Currently program manager for the electronic invoicing projects (France, Spain, Italy, Nordics countries). Show less

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  Smith & Nephew

  Jul 2016 - Sept 2016

  IT Project Manager

  As a contractor, helped Smith & Nephew to launch an RFP (Request for proposal) related to the hosting of the ERP (Microsoft AX) for its emerging markets division

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  Merck Group

  Nov 2016 - Mar 2024

  Leading 3 programs for the healthcare divison with a yearly budget of 2M Euros : Data Historian (PI Osisoft) , Scientific Data Management Biotech (Discoverant + Pipeline Pilot + Simca Online), Scientific Data Management Pharma (Statistica)Data historian : Improved the rollout management process (5 new sites) in order to improve right first time ratio and overall lead time. (Dev reviews session, Tool to collect requirements and check against configurations).SDM Pharma : Supported the rollout the automated CPV (Continued process verification) solution in European facilities and China. (4 locations). Implemented a Real Time Monitoring solution in Semoy.SDM Biotech : While reducing significantly implementation cost (30% savings) continued to rollout Discoverant to ensure full coverage of Merck's Biotech Division from a product perspective. Increased scope to environmental monitoring and stability data collection. Show less

  • IT Program Manager - Data Historian & Scientific Data Management Programs

    Jul 2020 - Mar 2024

  • IT Program Manager Supply Chain

    Mar 2019 - Jul 2020

  • Head of supply chains solutions, Architecture & Programs

    May 2017 - Feb 2019

  • IT Program Manager

    Nov 2016 - Apr 2017