2011 - maintenantInstructor (Two separate terms), 20 students; all native French speakers
• Authored and taught Project Management Fundamentals and Expatriate Advice for Living Abroad courses in English.
SFR (Rennes, France)
- Programme Manager
2011 - maintenantDirected and coordinated deliverables, testing defect resolution, and reporting.Managed external suppliers in Rennes and India.
Mobistar (Brussels, Belgium)
- Business Analyst
2010 - 2010Spearheaded client workshops to define business requirements, as part of an international team tasked with the Comverse 3.5 CRM system implementation.
Vodafone Group - Content Services (London, UK)
- Programme Manager
2008 - 20101) Improved processes and communications in a culturally diverse and geographically dispersed team of product managers and marketing experts charged with the development of the content services portfolio for global implementation. (Team facilitated the creation of new propositions and their translation into a product vision following a normal product life-cycle).
2) Turned around team’s image within the organization; improved teamwork, communication, and issue resolution.
3) Conceptualized and implemented new procedures for reporting, escalation, product demonstrations, new hire practices, and internal issue resolution.
Team locations: London and Dusseldorf
Team cultural background : British, Spanish, Portugese, Italian, Australian, American and German.
AT&T Wireless Group (Seattle, USA)
- Project Manager
1999 - 20061) IT Security - Managed on-time and within budget development of a BI system designed to measure IT security posture.
2) IT Security - Successfully led efforts to pass internal and external Sarbanes Oxley audits.
3) Service Desk/ITIL - Spearheaded and drove tremendous data improvements through collaboration with technical owners, design and implementation of a quality control process, and process efficiency; increased incident management data integrity by more than 75%.
4) SDF and Cognos/Informatica Business Intelligence system deployment - Authored enterprise-level metrics requirements and ensured quality control and compliance of deployment; passed all quality gates.
5) Authored user guide, administrator guide, test plan, and online help for an enterprise configuration management application
SR Piche Training & Consulting (Victoria, Canada)
- Owner
1997 - 19991) Managed communications and training project as part of a 15 million dollar CDN GIS consulting project at the Ministry of Forests in British Columbia; developed evaluation criteria and analyzed training manuals; managed external supplier and launched training across all Ministry sites; coordinated with 5 project teams to ensure projects were in synch; developed communications and reporting disseminated to Ministry employees.
2) Designed and taught custom training courses for small businesses including the British Columbia Nurses Association.
ESRI Canada
- Product Coordinator and Technical Writer
1996 - 19971) Developed installation and end user guides.
2) Produced French and English PR material and developed modern logo and packaging.
Formations
Lake Superior State University LSSU (Sault Sainte Marie)
Sault Sainte Marie1992 - 1994MBA
Business and marketing - International business
Minor in marketing
University Of Windsor (Windsor, Ontario)
Windsor, Ontario1988 - 1992Bachelor of Science
Science - Degree was in Science, Technology and Society. Minored in French