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Industrielle Alliance
- Senior IT Project Manager
Quebec
2012 - maintenant
In the IT department of Financial Group Industrielle Alliance (Quebec - Canada) that offers insurance and investment products in Canada and United States (4 million clients, more than 5000 employees) :
Program management for optimization of asset management systems that consolidates several evolution project for applications used by the investment department
=> Budget and team management : 7000 man-days per year, 30 peoples
=> Governance setup (role and committee definition with all stakeholders)
=> Change management follow-up
=> Preparation and leading the monthly executive committees with directors and vice presidents
=> Participation in recruiting and coaching project managers
=> Provider relation management (SOW, invoices follow-up)
Project management to set up inbound and outbound streams for the program of integration of a new asset management suite (Eagle) : integration with external data providers (index, stock exchange, Bloomberg). Management of post-production delivery for entire program
=> Budget and team management : 5000 man-days over 2 years, 12 peoples
=> Detailed planning management and progress follow-up (earned value indicator)
=> Weekly reporting to program manager and project director
=> Organization of business needs and process definition
=> Use of Agile methods and tools (Scrum, visual management)
Scrum Master for the maintenance and evolution team for the digital process platform that consolidates applications to digitalize, save and process the insured clients request and documents
=> Team activities organization with Scrumban method (Scrum - Kanban)
=> Lead retrospectives and organize improvement of work process of the team (production delivery process, estimation tools, new tool to manage tests and issues) in a company culture of continuous improvement (Lean management)
RFI and RFP management to select the vendor for the new Human Resource Management System for the company
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KPN
- IT Project Manager
2009 - 2012
In the Spanish subsidiary office of Nederland telecommunication operator KPN (Madrid - Spain) :
Management of evolution projects for technical platform and for Web applications CRM and Online sales Portal for Mobil Virtual Network Operators in Spain (simyo.es) and in France (simyo.fr, ortelmobile.fr)
=> Analysis and definition of the requirements according to the business needs expressed by users
=> IT providers management during all the phases of the projects (follow-up meetings, validation of solution and offers, validation of documents, deliveries control, third party acceptance control and go live phases, SLA)
=> Definition and improvement of process of change management
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SOPRA GROUP
- IT Project Manager
Paris
2005 - 2009
In the Nearshore software development centre of the IT consulting company SOPRA STERIA (Madrid - Spain) :
Management of maintenance and evolution projects for Web applications and Internet websites for sales and configuration of telecommunication services for major French operators Orange and SFR (Java, J2EE, Oracle, Unix)
=> Management of project transfer from France to Spain in order to apply an Offshore strategy to reduce development costs
=> Project and team management (10 peoples) in international environment and multi-sites
=> Planning management according to priority and deadline
=> Validation of key steps of projects : cost estimation and commercial proposal, specifications, conception, acceptance
=> Setting of methods and tools (release management, environments management, bugs tracking and workflow)
=> Client relationship management (weekly and monthly follow-up committees, SLA follow-up)
=> Reporting management to the direction team (economic dashboard, risks and alerts dashboard, resources management)
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ATOS
- Software engineer
Bezons
2000 - 2004
In the development centre of the IT consulting company ATOS (Lille - France) :
Development of stock exchange orders routing software to connect Boursorama Internet website to market access (NYSE/NASDAQ – Knight Securities) : implementation of financial protocols (FIX, GL) (Java, Sybase)
=> Development of prototype websites for assets portfolio management and optimisation for the French bank Société Générale and French insurances company AXA (UML, Java, HTML, JavaScript, Oracle)
=> Realisation of all steps of projects : specification, conception, development, documentation, unit tests, acceptance tests, delivery in production, corrections
=> Strong quality requirement for stock exchange applications
=> Learning and using of methods and quality rules
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LIVERMORE SOFTWARE TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
- Software development - internship
1999 - 2000
In the company LIVERMORE SOFTWARE TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION (San Francisco - California), with the development team of the software LS-POST :
Software tests. Design and development of web pages for an online help system (Perl, HTML, JavaScript)
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DEXTRA ASIA
- Management information systems - internship
1998 - 1999
In the Management Information Systems department of building materials company DEXTRA ASIA Co., Ltd. (Bangkok - Thailand), with the manager of information system :
Upgrade and maintenance of the network and computers (4 servers, 80 PCs) to prepare the switch to Y2K, and set up a WAN to link the 2 company sites of Bangkok. Training and users’ assistance
