Didier Durand

Current

• Head of Architecture & Technology / Business Engineering at Publicitas
• Member of the Board at MediaConnect SA / PubliGroupe

Past

• Head of Business Engineering at Publiconnect - A PubliGroupe entity
• head of R&D and Technology at Consultas SA / PubliGroupe
• Head of R&D at Consultas SA / Publigroupe

• Managing Director at MediaConnect SA / PubliGroupe
• Head of Networking at Consultas SA / PubliGroupe
• Head of Distributed Architecture at AXA - Direction centrale des Systèmes d'Information (Paris - FR)
• Supervisor SIC (Système Informatique de Commandement) at French Army - 1°CA - Metz

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Education

• University of Wisconsin-Madison
• ESIEE (Paris - FR)
• Lycee Pergaud - Besançon (FR)

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• My Blog

Didier Durand’s Summary

. Design of global & efficient IT architectures from desktop to mainframe incl telecom services

. Application of state-of-the-art technology to business to create new revenue streams or improve its efficiency

Didier Durand’s Specialties:

From my 14+ years @ PubliGroupe: media (newspapers and print magazines) business models and technologies. Online (portals, search engine, etc...) & Mobile Services design and operations

From my IT & telecom engineering background, computer systems architecture & Open Source Software, Data/Telecommunications networks (esp TCP/IP) & Internet, Mobile (data) services
Mobile communications services

Applications of newest technologies to media/publishing business: traditional (print) & online.

Didier Durand’s Experience

• Head of Architecture & Technology / Business Engineering

  Publicitas

  (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Marketing and Advertising industry)

  January 2008 — Present (2 years )

• Member of the Board

  MediaConnect SA / PubliGroupe

  (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Newspapers industry)

  January 2000 — Present (10 years )

• Head of Business Engineering

  Publiconnect - A PubliGroupe entity

  (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Newspapers industry)

  January 2005 — December 2007 (3 years )

  In this position, I create, then drive the implementation of the news IT systems of Publiconnect in order to put them in synch with the new classifieds market needes: real-time production, convergence Internet + print, etc....

• head of R&D and Technology

  Consultas SA / PubliGroupe

  (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Newspapers industry)

  February 2002 — December 2004 (2 years 11 months)

  Responsible of a team of 20+ engineers that design the then implement the entire core IT infrastructure (from desktop to network to servers to mainframe)of PubliGroupe
  
  As Head of R&D, proposes new technologies to develop new businesses for the group: mobile services (Quick&More), Content aggregating, processing & "understanding", etc...

• Head of R&D

  Consultas SA / Publigroupe

  (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Newspapers industry)

  January 2000 — February 2002 (2 years 2 months)

• Managing Director

  MediaConnect SA / PubliGroupe

  (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Newspapers industry)

  March 1996 — December 1999 (3 years 10 months)

  Founder and Managing Director of joint venture between PubliGroupe & SDA-ATS (Swiss news agency).
  
  Network used to transfer all digital material in swiss press indusrty. Still a global reference for Cisco: See http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/hw/modules/ps2643/products_case_study09186a00800cbf68.shtml

• Head of Networking

  Consultas SA / PubliGroupe

  (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Newspapers industry)

  May 1993 — February 1996 (2 years 10 months)

• Head of Distributed Architecture

  AXA - Direction centrale des Systèmes d'Information (Paris - FR)

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Insurance industry)

  September 1988 — April 1993 (4 years 8 months)

• Supervisor SIC (Système Informatique de Commandement)

  French Army - 1°CA - Metz

  (Non-Profit; 501-1000 employees; Military industry)

  August 1987 — August 1988 (1 year 1 month)

  Manager of Système Informatique de Commandement (IT system to monitor in real-time the field engagement of 1st French Army Corp)

Didier Durand’s Education

• University of Wisconsin-Madison

  Master's , Telecommunications & Data Networks , September 1986 — August 1987

• ESIEE (Paris - FR)

  Ingénieur , Computer systems & architecture , September 1982 — June 1986

• Lycee Pergaud - Besançon (FR)

  Baccalauréat C , Section scientifique (Maths & Physics) , September 1979 — June 1982

Additional Information

Didier Durand’s Websites:

• My Blog

Didier Durand’s Interests:

Fencing (competition - epee), downhill ski, jogging & chess My blog: http://media-tech.blogspot.com

Didier Durand’s Groups:

A citizen journalist for AgoraVox (www.agoravox.fr)

•    AA-ESIEE: The ESIEE Engineering Alumni association
•    University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Alumni Association
•    Paadhai
•    Groupe ESIEE Alumni