Summary
Overview
Work History
Education
Skills
Certification
Accomplishments
Languages
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ANTONIO EGUIZABAL

ANTONIO EGUIZABAL

Summary

Professional with over 30 years of experience in managing complex IT projects across multinational organizations.

Expertise in driving technological and digital transformations in Infrastructure services.

Proven track record of enhancing business value through effective portfolio management and FINOPS practices.

Overview

13
13
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Cloud Officer and FINOPS Leader

PERNOD-RICARD
05.2024 - Current

· Implementation of FINOPS practice, 3.5M EUR savings achievements in Microsoft Azure (Over 15M EUR spent). Microsoft contract renegotiation with additional benefits.

· Vendor Management: Cloud vendor relationship and management (Microsoft, AWS, etc.)

· Contract negotiation (100M EUR in 5 years)

· Stakeholder management: Coordinate relationship with main stakeholders (CTO, CIO, Tech Leadership team) about Cloud strategies and value optimization.

Head of Core Service Delivery and FINOPS

PERNOD-RICARD
04.2020 - 05.2024

· Review and definition of processes associated with Demand, Portfolio and Project Management.

· Selected and implemented DPPM tools (Demand, Portfolio and Project Management). Business alignment and prioritization.

· Reporting and Compliance: KPI Definition and implementation, both operational, delivery and business oriented KPI. Definition of a Data model for IT Operations team. Evolution in Data-driven organization.

· FINOPS Budget control of key services (Azure, Office365). Follow-up, optimization and vendor management.

Head of IT Operations Global Services

PERNOD-RICARD
07.2017 - 03.2020

· Transformation of IT I&O organization (regional based) to become a real global organization.

· Adoption program of new technologies (Office365, Microsoft Teams, Collaboration tools).

· Definition and implementation of mid and long-term strategies around IT Operations.

· Global services are built of different areas of responsibility: Cloud and Collaboration tools. Management of cloud platforms (Azure and AWS), backend collaboration tools (Office365, videoconferencing, etc..), and rest of common platforms (Active Directory, Azure AD.)

· Salesforce technical management. Technical support for Salesforce platform.

· Networking. Definition and managing global networking strategies (MPLS, Internet WAN, SDWAN evolution, Application Delivery).

· Global Security Operations Center (SOC). Managing security incidents in close collaboration with Security Managers. SOC is a hybrid team composed of external/internal resources deployed on a global basis.

· Modern management of devices. Client device strategy and management tools.

· Identity and Access Management platform. Implementation and running of IAM platform (ID Lifecycle management) including HR platforms as Workday and Microsoft Identity Manager.

· Own relationship with main partners (Microsoft, Salesforce, Workday, TATA).

Chief Technological Officer (CTO) for Europe & Africa

PERNOD-RICARD
11.2014 - 07.2017

Group IT Architecture and Service Manager

PERNOD-RICARD
07.2012 - 11.2014

Education

MBA MASTER -

ESEUNE
Getxo, Spain
01.2001

Bachelor of Science BSc (Honour) - COMPUTER SCIENCE

Deusto University
Bilbao, Spain
01.1990

Skills

  • IT Transversal Background
  • Change Management
  • Vendor management
  • Negotiation skills
  • Communication skills
  • Stakeholder collaboration
  • Cost efficiency strategies
  • Value metric definition
  • Common Sense

Certification

  • FinOps practitioner

Accomplishments

    Projectum Event

    DPPM experience in Pernod-Ricard

    Gartner

    · Infrastructure, Operations and Cloud Strategies Conference 2019

    Business Case: Myths versus Realities of using Cloud services at Pernod-Ricard

    · Barcelona Gartner Symposium 2018

    Zscaler and Pernod-Ricard business case

    · Infrastructure & Operations Management Summit 2016

    Business Case: Are cloud services providing new features and changes too fast?

Languages

Spanish
First Language
English
Proficient (C2)
C2
French
Elementary (A2)
A2

Timeline

Cloud Officer and FINOPS Leader

PERNOD-RICARD
05.2024 - Current

Head of Core Service Delivery and FINOPS

PERNOD-RICARD
04.2020 - 05.2024

Head of IT Operations Global Services

PERNOD-RICARD
07.2017 - 03.2020

Chief Technological Officer (CTO) for Europe & Africa

PERNOD-RICARD
11.2014 - 07.2017

Group IT Architecture and Service Manager

PERNOD-RICARD
07.2012 - 11.2014

MBA MASTER -

ESEUNE

Bachelor of Science BSc (Honour) - COMPUTER SCIENCE

Deusto University
ANTONIO EGUIZABAL