Marie-Therese VALENTE

En résumé

Entreprises

• Backbase - Project Consultant at Backbase

  Amsterdam 2013 - maintenant

• Xaton BV - Senior IT Consultant

  2009 - 2013 My company provides software solutions and services to various industries: Nederlands Bureau voor Toerisme & Congressen (NBTC), KPN, Ziggo...
  Each project follows Agile methodology i.e. SCRUM and RUP.
  My role and responsibility are adapted to each project need, size and budget for which I would play one or several of the following roles:
  Project Management- Scrum Master: communicate efficiently the scope of each phase and give clear status about on where the project stands in term of development, test and delivery and what potential risks jeopardize the project.
  Pre-sales: Understand clients business process and strategic success keys to propose adapted IT solution and services
  Business Analysis & functional design: Capture business requirements in order to realize new solution functional design.
  QA/Test - Functional and Graphical Validation: Elaborate functional test plan and test cases to perform product functional validation against captured requirements.

• UPS Supply Chain Solution - Sr Business System Analyst and UX Expert

  Plaisir 2008 - 2009 Skills developped:
  - Supervise and coach business analyst team members’ activity
  - Gather & define project plans and cost estimates for the analysis phase of each development project
  - Lead IT projects and communicate efficiently with Business, Development and QA representants at project level
  
  Business Knowledge gained through projects:
  - Spare Parts Logistics management and strategy
  - Financial system decommissioning in several EU countries (Coda to Oracle 9i)

• Amadeus sas - User Experience & Usability Lead

  Sophia Antipolis 2006 - 2008 My mission was to ensure all Airline IT and Distribution core products’ efficiency and usefulness for the end-users. In order to achieve this goal, I have put in place a user experience design process and the organization that make this goal possible.
  - Supervise and coach UX team members and UX coordinators
  - Develop and communicate usability and user experience design methodology: promote and introduce user-centered design process throughout the functional analysis and development teams.
  - Plan and manage screen design activities for each product development process
  - Identify key user experience considerations and customer business objectives across products and provide consistent UI guidelines adapted to each group of products
  - Ensure that deliverables follow thoroughly user experience design methodology i.e. organize/lead customer review sessions as needed.

• Amadeus sas - Airline IT Services Business Analyst

  Sophia Antipolis 2002 - 2006 As part of one of Amadeus core project in Airlines IT services my work globally consisted in:
  - Business and Functional Analysis of airline’s specific requirements and expectations: understand client's needs in term of product functionality and business requirements- Follow the development of the project
  - Responsibility of the graphical user interface (GUI) harmonization and make that it fits Airlines needs in term of business usability.
  - Ensure validation of quality and efficiency of delivered software on a functional, graphical and ergonomics point of view.
  - Drive projects to ensure timeliness of deliveries.
  - Communicate efficiently with other departments (Marketing and Development) and coordinate activities.

Formations

• Universidad Autónoma De Madrid (Madrid)

  Madrid 2001 - 2002 Fiscalidad Internacional, Gestion de Empresa

• Ecole Supérieure De Commerce CERAM European School of Business

  Sophia Antipolis 2000 - 2003 Master in Management: BtoB marketing and IT strategy

Réseau

• Audrey PELLETIER

• Cecile PIQUARD

• Elise RABIOT

• Guillaume SABLIER

• Laetitia PIN-DUDOUET

• Laura BATTEL

• Maud GAZEL-BATISSON

• Solène RONNAUX-BARON

• Thomas ABRAHAMIAN

• Veronique HEBANT (SOLLAZZO)