Summary
Patrick BERNARD is an experienced IT and systems administrator based in Lausanne with over a decade of hands-on experience and a career pivot from civil engineering into IT that began in 1994. He has led IT functions for printing and architecture firms, balancing infrastructure design, complex project delivery, budget management and vendor negotiations while maintaining a pragmatic, people-centered management style. Known for being frank, curious and optimistic, he excels at making creative technical solutions operational and cost-aware across multidisciplinary teams. His background as an engineer and additional management training give him a rare combination of technical rigor and organizational insight, enabling him to act effectively as an intermediary between leadership, users and suppliers.
10 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Management (training), Management (training) at Psychologie du Management
Technical, civil engineering, Technical, civil engineering at Institut Universitaire de Technologie - Grenoble
Diplôme d'ingénieur, Civil Engineering, Diplôme d'ingénieur, Civil Engineering at INSA Lyon - Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de Lyon
French, English, German