IT Project Manager

Objective

Seeking to interview for a position where ten years Project Management experience within “Big 5” will add value and bottom line results.

Summary of qualifications

• Methodology:

Macroscope (DMR P+), Agile (SCRUM, TDD), RUP-UML, (good knowledge of ITIL, ERP & Zackman)

Project Management Professional-best practices (PMBOK 3)

Six Sigma

CRM (Customers Relationship Management) – SAP, Pivotal, Clarity, (good knowledge of JDE).

• Desk software:

MS Project (Server), Sharepoint, MS-OFFICE XP (Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint), Visio.

Current Technology Environments

• Full PC’s systems:

Java/J2EE, DHTML, Transaction Servers, TCP/IP, VMWare, Windows NT, XP, Vista, UNIX & Linux of exploitation.

• Extensive programming experience under:

AML, VBA, Matlab, Avenue, IDL, .NET, ASP.NET, VB6 (C, Rational R. – functional)

• Databases (Data Mining KDD & Data Warehouse):

ORACLE9i&10g, Oracle Spatial, dBase IV, IBM DB2, MS SQL Server and Informix.

Key Project Management Qualifications

• 10 years national and international management experience with the ability to “Get things Done”.

• A demonstrated ability to establish and maintain constructive working relationships at all levels of organizations.

• Ability to handle ambiguity in a rapidly changing and dynamic global business environment. Communicates accurately and timely with all stakeholders involved with the project.

• Experience with Municipal and Provincial clients (+26 persons, +$34M budget).

• Effectively plan and schedule the project contract work and controls cost to achieve or improve on project profit.

• Management of internal and external change. Manages all client and third party relationships.

• Experience and conversant with structured Project Management practices; Experience driving process improvement.

• Ability to work on a range of projects simultaneously, experience in PM at all levels and phases of a Project Life-Cycle (SDLC).

• Capable of constructing detailed work break down structures and project plan documents.

• Strong commitment to continuous learning.

Work Experience

Senior IT Project Manager – Project Governance and Strategic Planning

Montreal City Hall, September 2008 to present

Clients: Montreal City Hall – IT Division & Public Works Dept.

• Responsible and accountable for the coordinated management of multiple related projects directed toward strategic business and organizational objectives.

• Provide technology vision and leadership in the development and implementation of the affiliate-wide information technology program based on Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) principles and Rapid Cycle Time (RCT) implementation method.

• Analyze and rework existing business processes, identify and develop the capability to use new tools, with reshape the enterprise's physical infrastructure, identify and exploit the enterprise's knowledge resources (On Line Transaction Process - OLTP).

• Provide program leadership during solution development and deployment.

• Prepare, monitoring and forecast budget, SDLC, WBS.

• Work with stakeholders to gather, clarify and document project requirements.

• Develop, maintain and execute the master project plan and rollout schedule.

• Provide continuous assessment of project risks and mitigation approaches.

• Lead project reviews to assess schedule, solution architecture and process.

• Manage a team of software developers delivering software solutions to the clients utilizing J2EE and .NET reference architecture and Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) framework-principles. Develop the Delivery Plan and outlining the Development Process following the Rational Unified Process (RUP) and PMBOK.

• Design, document & implement efficient IT Service Management relevant processes & procedures and Security Management processes.

• Hand-on: test case (ClearCase), ClearQuest, GUI customize, SQL data mining, JDE installations.

Director Consultant/ Senior IT Project Manager (PDG - Product Delivery Group)

CapGemini Inc (ON), June 2007 to September 2008

Clients: Hydro One (Toronto), Ontario Power Generation (OPG), International Nuclear Waste Institute (INWI), Ontario Geology Ministry, Ontario Transport Ministry

• Define standards and metrics and responsible for reporting on: Portfolio Metrics, Status, Health, Resource Capacity, Prioritizations.

• Managed client engagement services and solution implementations

• Accountable for the preparation of bids to successfully acquire projects in coordination with Project Managers.

• Accountable for the successful execution of assigned projects to include among other measures, acceptable profit and customer satisfaction (OLAP approach).

• Conduct clients’ meetings. Present recommendations to key stakeholders (BIT, LOB).

• Reviews PM’s project proposal or plan to determine time frame, funding limitations, procedures for accomplishing project, staffing requirements, and allotment of available resources to various phases of project.

• Direct the coordination of all implementation tasks involving third party vendors as well as provide consultation to clients on system implementation.

• Reviews status reports prepared by project managers and modifies schedules or plans as required (SDLC, WBS).

• Responsible for insuring the correct technical solutions are implemented to satisfy the client. Conferring with technical personnel across the company or subcontractors to provide technical advice and to resolve problems.

• Manage transition of client from Solutions Implementation to Client Support. Manage the development and maintenance of implementation portions of project (AGILE).

• Execute and maintain program management processes and disciplines in the areas of: program schedule and quality management; communications management; human resource management; cost management; procurement management; risk and issue management; change management.

• Hand-on: Database migration scripts, data mining (SAP), scripts, tests, COTS.

Director – Senior IT Project Manager

ESRI Canada – Enterprise Solution Group – East Canada, February 2006 to May 2007

Director of Development Solution Dept. for Province of Quebec

• Re-engineering the consulting process and solve the client problems.

• Managing projects classes 2&3 by driving internal processes and supervising team.

• Ensure the methodology application.

• Drastically reduce the number of application’s errors by 23%.

• Provide customer training when required.

Clients: 911 Bell Canada (911-Web), Port of Montreal (CRM-SAP)

• Responsible for supervising work progress and developing resources within the group. Responsible for the planning and execution of schedules, budgets and resource management. Additional responsibilities typically include multi-disciplinary project management activities.

• Responsible for directing and supervising company staff, and coordinating sub consultants tasked with project components such as literature and internet research, data preparation and management, technical writing and report composition.

• Define and initiate projects and assign Project Managers to manage cost, schedule, and performance of component projects, while working to ensure the ultimate success and acceptance of the program.

• Monitor costs, progress and quality (QA/QC) of work, create SDLC and WBS.

• Work directly with Account Managers to develop business cases.

• Provide technical writing to support proposal efforts (RFP’s) and project documentation. Prepare project proposals and conduct client presentations. Produce budget estimates and review technical content of project proposals.

• Conduct goal setting and performance assessments.

• Statistics analysis of cost, benefit & controlling budget, management deliverables.

• Conduct workshops & prepare and conduct team meetings.

• Hand-on: ClearCase (tests), ClearQuest, GUI customize, data mining (Pivotal&JDE)

IT Project Manager - Consulting

Fujitsu Canada (DMR Conseil Quebec), February 2005 to February 2006

Clients: MTQ (M. Transport Quebec), MRN (M. Environment), DGE.

• Established Project Management Office at client site, applies SDLC methodology and enforces project standards

• Minimizes exposure and risk on project by effective and timely tracking and communication of issues and risks.

• Acts as single point of contact between the project team and the client.

• Ensures project documents are complete, accurate, current, and stored appropriately.

• Responsible for Time Schedule, Resources Allocation, Changes Plan, etc.

• Schedules and leads detailed project status meetings with client and project team.

• Develops practical working knowledge of client applications supported by organization.

• Hand-on: scripts, tests, COTS.

IT Project Manager - 911 Dept.

Mobilair Inc., October 1999 to January 2005

• Create, supervise and manage a 911 GIS Department with a $1,200,000 budget.

• Prioritize work, schedules and assign tasks to the team, track and report team status.

Canada projects:

• Completed project: 911 GIS Computer Aided Dispatch (CAD) for entire Province of Quebec.

• Design, production and installation of 911 interface - operator for the city of Montreal, Longueuil, Brossard, Quebec, Ottawa, Hull (zone) and other 211 cities on southern of River St. Lawrence (MRC12) (over 600.000 entries).

• Government of Canada and Statistics Canada - TS Project : thematic maps (flood zones, radio zones, census maps, etc).

• Design and setting in function complex GPS applications for the monitoring of police vehicles, ambulance and firefighter for the area of Quebec, Montreal and Ottawa.

• Hand-on: all levels.

International projects:

• Belo Horizonte 911 – Brazil (over 4M entries);

• Forest Park 911 – Boston, USA;

• Thailand, China and Venezuela.

Sr. Analyst – IT integration

Mobilair Inc., February 1998 to September 1999

• Analysis and design specifics classifieds needs (Government, GRC, SQ, EMS, firefighters)

• Support integration assessment workshops within the delivery stream.

• Lead and deliver thorough analysis that assists the management team to address business challenges.

• Take a leadership role in overseeing complex analytical exercises.

Education

Master’s degree in Data Processing & Structure, Laval University (Quebec-Canada), 1999.

Master’s degree in Information Systems, Laval University (Quebec-Canada), 1997

 Project Management Professional (PMP) (course 35 Cr), 2005, 2006 (in progress)

 Six Sigma (course), 2005

Languages

French, English, Romanian, Italian (functional)

 Secret clearance (active)

References and publications available upon request

Disponible aussi en français.

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