Objectives
The sectors that interest me more specifically are:
Banking / Finance Services / Insurance
IT and Telecommunications
Act as a leader to promote project and portfolio management excellence while focusing on the following missions:
1/ Providing PM management tools, best practices, process and methodology to the organization in order to enable Project Manager to successfully deliver projects.
2/ Providing expert assistance in the form of mentoring and coaching to Project Managers within the organization. In some case, also provide guidance to achieve project recovery and help develop workaround plans, new estimates of costs, resource allocations, and re-planning.
3/ Providing an audit function for existing projects to determine how effectively the project management process is being utilized within the organization (compliance).
Specialties
Project Management
Project Governance
Project Risks Management
Education
INSTA
September 2001 - June 2003
Master degree in System and Network engineering
Area of specialisation: computer Sciences
Experience
PMO Manager - Consultant
Mission: Implement PMO methodology, processes and templates for a Treasury and Capital Market Transformation Programme. Create and Consolidate Global Project Health status and Reporting for the intiative.
Means: Responsible for creating, maintaining and enforcing PMO templates, toolkit and processes
Responsible for creating and maintaining the programme budget, planning, resource plan, action items list and artifacts.
Coordinate 15 project managers and gather information to provide a global centralized reporting
Provide visibility to Management thru weekly reporting (PowerPoint presentations)
Escalate to Management action items, risks, issues and touch-points for proactive decision making
IT Infrastructure Project Manager – PMO
Mission: Manage multiple infrastructure projects across the organization and assist in building a PMO office.
Means: Responsible and accountable for delivery projects on-time, on-budget, and meeting functional and quality specifications
Used approved processes, templates, and tools to execute project delivery and receives waivers for acceptable exceptions
Used established scheduling techniques to derive the project schedules, identified the critical path and potential risks.
Effectively applied the scheduling standards and enforcing them with the project teams
Identified resources needed to complete work and collaborates with resource manager(s) to assemble appropriate skills/teams and resources
Assisted in implementing a PMO group in the organization
Facilitated Project Reviews
Head of IT Project Management Office VP
Societe Generale Investment Bank
Mission: Implement a centralized PMO office for IT with standard methodology, processes and tools for the organizations. Create and maintain global reporting for the entire IT project portfolio.
Means: Managed the Project Management office; supervised a team of 5 project management officers and supported about 30 project managers, 50 projects a year and a 40 million project budget envelope to develop 3 main internal clients
Led and organized the Portfolio Review Committee with C-Level executives across the organization on a weekly basis; delivered key messages via efficient PowerPoint presentations, top level management decisional reporting and Executive Summary Memos
Mentored and trained Project Managers of the organization through individual sessions and large group presentations
Built Project Management tutorial tools as website, leaflets, documentations and PowerPoint presentations
Built Project Management Presentation Deck to increase project committees’ efficiency and decision making
Appraisal: SGCIB received the Project Management Institute's 2012 Distinguished Project Award
IT Chief of staff
Societe Generale Investment Bank
Mission: Implement standard reporting and processes. Oversee Financial Management, Resource Management, Audit and Security Compliance Reporting and Project Portfolio Management
Means: Supervised a junior staff, reported to the CIO, supported the Equity Derivatives IT department representing 100 staff, its CIO, its 2 deputies and about 15 managers with a yearly budget of 25 million USD
Managed the operational financial reporting for both the main business clients and the IT managers
Used Excel and PowerPoint extensively; used the Activity Based Costing (ABC) principles, methodologies, practices and applications
Managed a 18 month staff landing plan and reporting on the pipeline
Managed Discretionary costs and spending; implemented policies to reduce spending by implementing innovative best practices
Managed Project Management office with providing to the IT department project methodology, trained and coached on project related tools and processes, mentored throughout the project lifecycle specifically on planning, estimating, risk management and governance
IT Service Manager
Societe Generale Investment Bank
Mission: Managed and implemented a global framework Agreement to provide IT Services and Service Level Agreements for Societe Generale internal clients.
Means: Managed relationships between the Investment Bank IT department and Société Générale's subsidiaries worldwide and promoted services for the Group’s best interest and a cost efficient model
Implemented and reported a Key Performance Indicator Dashboard to our main clients
Appraisal: The initiative enable the organization to save about $20M / year
IT Project Manager - Consultant
Geodis
Mission: Build and deploy desktop services to 6, 000 users cross 7 regions for GEODIS (transport and Logistics Company)
Means: Managed a 3 million Euros project that aimed at deploying user desktop services to 6, 000 users cross 7 regions for GEODIS (transport and Logistics Company); supervised a team of 3
Designed and implemented a Windows 2003 Microsoft Architecture (Active Directory and terminal Services) and Neoware thin clients
Led the project and managed the scope, governance, budget, planning and risks, coordinated the project team
Organized training sessions for users and user documentation
Managed reporting to project stakeholders and the project communication plan
Technical Support and System Administrator - Internship
Groupecyber
Mission: Support 50 users
Means: Administrated the IT systems (NT and Windows 2000) and technical infrastructure (Network, backup, proxy, etc)
Supported 50 users with MS Office, Internet access, mail, security, etc
Languages
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French
Speaking competence: Native speaker , Written competence: Native speaker -
English
Speaking competence: Fluent , Written competence: Fluent
Computing skills
Software
MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio), Microsoft Project, HP PPM, Outlook, Lotus, Sharepoint