Alain Ducasse's Resume

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Alain Ducasse

55, rue Notre Dame de Nazareth
75003 Paris Birthday: July 20^th, 1971

Alain.Ducasse@achats.usinor.com
Tel: 33 1 41 25 97 09 (Office)
Tel: 33 1 40 29 46 05 (Home) Bilingual French/English
Notions of German and Japanese

Professional experience

Nov. 96- Now	Usinor Achats (Purchasing and Procurement Division of the Usinor Group)
	Assistant general manager of the Strategy Department
	Leader, or team member, of various key Purchasing projects for the Usinor Group: International Trade and Finance: Negotiation and implementation of a financing scheme for the imports of Acesita, Brazilian stainless steel producer, minority affiliate of Usinor group (operational control) · Globalization: negotiation of a proxy agreement for the purchase of the main raw materials of Acesita · Energy: Negotiation of a 500-800 MW power plant to burn the coke oven and blast furnace gases of the Dunkirk plant of Usinor. Negotiation of a global natural gas contract. · Information Systems: selection of a Supplier for a groupwide ERP system, negotiation of project proposals with Baan and SAP. Market analysis : liberalization of the European natural gas market, scraps transportation and logistics (feasibility of an optimization of this supply chain), electric-arc furnace dust recycling processes
Sep. 95- Jul. 96	École Polytechnique
	Teaching assistant at the computer-science department
Mar. 95- Jul. 95	University of Illinois at Urbana Champain
	Programming Internship at the Concurrent Systems Architecture Group Development on the Illinois Concert System's Concurrent Aggregate compiler (Lisp programming) (object-oriented compiler for large-scale concurrent systems and parallel supercomputers)
Aug. 92- Aug. 93	40^th Régiment de Transmissions (Military service)
	First lieutenant, head of a training platoon

Education

1994-1995	DEA d'Algorithmique (Masters of Algorithm) (joint master degree of the Universities of Paris XI, and of the École Polytechnique)
1993-1994	École Polytechnique, general engineering degree, computer science major
1989-1992	Classes préparatoires at the Lycée Michel Montaigne, Bordeaux (Preparatory classes for the “Grandes Écoles”)
1989	Baccalauréat, série C, mention Bien (High school diploma, maths and science major, with Honours)