Richard McLaughlin

Current

Infrastructure PM, Consultant, IT Director at Active Job Seeker

Past

English Professor at Lycée Jeanne d'Arc Saint Aspais
International Project Manager at Microsoft
Senior Consultant Manager at Capgemini

IT Director Software Development Director at Attitude
IT Manager at Disney Consumer Products
IT Manager at American University of Paris
Sergeant, Platoon Leader, Body Guard at United States Marine Corps

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Education

American University of Paris
Ursuline High School

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Connections

500+ connections

Industry

Information Technology and Services

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Richard McLaughlin’s Summary

Porject Manager and Consultant for several Fortuen 500 companies, I am looking for my next move, probabaly somewhere in Europe, but I don't feel restricted - the world has become a pretty small place.

Richard McLaughlin’s Specialties:

Project Management IT Director, Infrastructure Consultant, call center manager, data center manager, project manager

Richard McLaughlin’s Experience

Infrastructure PM, Consultant, IT Director

Active Job Seeker

(Information Technology and Services industry)

August 2009 — Present (5 months)

Infrastructure PM, Consultant, IT Director. Bilingual English & French and I have American and French passports. 100% travel does not bother me.
English Professor

Lycée Jeanne d'Arc Saint Aspais

(Information Technology and Services industry)

2008 — August 2009 (1 year )

My daughter's school did not have an English teacher and she is doing her baccalaureate this year. I have taken a year out of my career to be sure that her class has the best chance to successfully complete their baccalaureate.
Teaching English to 6 classes of 3 different age groups.
International Project Manager

Microsoft

(Public Company; MSFT; Computer Software industry)

October 1999 — September 2007 (8 years )

After outsourcing call centers for Microsoft France, UK and Germany I was hired to run the EMEA telecom team. This position quickly changed to running all large or complex project for Microsoft EMEA IT.
PM'd projects to build all EMEA call centers. Data center migrations. Software development for internal use and more.
Senior Consultant Manager

Capgemini

(Public Company; CAP; Information Technology and Services industry)

1998 — October 1999 (1 year )

Hired becasue in my previos position I developed a multi-cast video conferencing solution and my call center experience I worked on projects for Nestle, Accor Microsoft and others.

I was primarily responsible for building call center solutions and implementing EMEA or Global WAN solutions.
IT Director Software Development Director

Attitude

(Privately Held; Information Technology and Services industry)

1997 — 1998 (1 year )

Directed the software development team that created end user solutions
- Multi-cast video distance learning solution for FNAC
- Secure video conferencing solution for Société Générale
Internal IT Director responsible for infrastructure supporting 2 outsourced call centers
IT Manager

Disney Consumer Products

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; DIS; Consumer Goods industry)

1996 — 1997 (1 year )

Bilingual Help Desk supervisor
Responsible for email system
Network & Telecom administration
IT Manager

American University of Paris

(Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)

1990 — 1996 (6 years )

Taught technical writing and desktop publishing for the continuing education department.
Managed academic computer lab
Managed 50+ part time employees
Sergeant, Platoon Leader, Body Guard

United States Marine Corps

(Government Agency; Military industry)

1981 — 1989 (8 years )

Hold Final TS security clearance, which appears to be still valid.
Marine Security Guard N'Djamena Chad 85-86 and Dublin Ireland 86-89
Spent most of my time in a glass case that had a sign on it reading "Open only in case of War".