Damien GARCON - Project Manager
Salt Lake City, UT LinkedIn +1-385-***-**-** ******.******@*****.*** EDUCATION
EDHEC Business School Nice/Lille, France
Master’s in Marketing Intelligence & Innovation 2022
● Major Projects: Harvard Change Management, L’Oréal Consulting Project
● Core subjects: Design thinking; Innovation management; Data analytics; CRM WORK EXPERIENCE
BioMérieux Salt Lake City, UT, USA
Project Coordinator – In vitro Diagnostics October 2023 - April 2025
• Led Deployment: Successfully led the deployment of the SPOTFIRE solution in the USA, ensuring seamless integration with existing systems.
• Stakeholder Engagement & Requirement Analysis: Facilitated in-person workshops with senior-level leaders to align project objectives and gather comprehensive user requirements, writing detailed URS for project phases.
• Project Launch & Hypercare: Conducted Hypercare activities post-launch, ensuring smooth transitions and promptly addressing any issues for a critical phase of a 5-year project.
• Enhancement Management & Process Optimization: Collected, prioritized, and monitored enhancement requests, ensuring day-to- day performance of end-to-end processes, and quickly resolving incidents to maintain operational efficiency.
• Testing Coordination & Change Management: Led solution testing activities, contributing to change management efforts through communication strategies, training programs, and user support to enhance adoption and minimize resistance. Amazon Luxembourg
Project Manager - Operations Engineering January 2023 - July 2023
• Managed 3 major projects, reducing costs by 20%.
• Developed change management strategies, reducing project delays by 30%.
• Conducted data analysis, reducing costs by 15% and increasing satisfaction by 30%.
• Introduced new tools, improving team collaboration by 30%. Nestlé Paris, France
Innovation Lead - Food January 2022 - July 2022
• Provided data analytics for innovative concept development, creating 20+ viable concepts.
• Executed 5 media campaigns on Instagram using the Meta Business Suite and prioritized them with relevant KPI’s.
• Conceived Business Plans and PNL’s to justify the coherence of projects.
• Conducted a well-received Growth Hacking masterclass with exercises for 10+ colleagues.
• Represented Nestlé at expos as the innovation lead and detected key partners for major innovation projects. BtoTree Tokyo, Japan
Marketing Coordinator - Business 2020 –2021
• Researched 10+ industries, prospecting 100+ clients daily with a 67% response rate. LEADERSHIP EXPERIENCE
Un Sourire pour un Avenir (Non-Profit) Nice, France COO 2018 – 2019
• Acted as COO, helping sick children at Lenval Hospital, raising 1500€ for the hospital's needs. Head Waiter France & Russia
● 5+ years of experience in various structures: beach clubs, cafes, gastronomic restaurants, private catering.
● Managed team of up to 10 clerks, organized and catered to events of up to 150 people. SKILLS & INTERESTS
Tools: Microsoft Suite Canva Qualtrics Meta Business Suite Asana PowerApps Agile Project Management Languages: French – Native Speaker Russian – Native Speaker English – Fluent Spanish – Intermediate Interests: Project Management Tools & Processes Change Management Travel Sports & Fitness