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Hayat MSSASSI, Senior Consultant, Coach, Trainer in Strategic Portfolio, Program & Project Management

Hayat MSSASSI

Senior Consultant, Coach, Trainer in Strategic Portfolio, Program & Project Management·MHINITIATIVE

Switzerland

Master's degree, MSc in project Management (Professional Master as the MBA)

Work experience

Total years of experience: 26 years, 11 months

Senior Consultant, Coach, Trainer in Strategic Portfolio, Program & Project Management

July 2014 - Present

MHINITIATIVE

Belgium

July 2014 - Present

Roles:
Provide project management consultancy services worldwide to help customer companies remain competitive, maintain successful business activities as well as initiate strategic changes
Achievements:
• Since July 2014:
- Customizing and deploying the appropriate project management methodology and framework in customer companies as the PMBOK, PRINCE2, SCRUM or Waterfall for examples. Setting PMOs but also the required strategic portfolio management processes. Adapting the business processes and service management methodology to cope with the induced functional and organisational changes.
- Training and coaching program, project leaders and customer employees to use tailored project management methodologies and frameworks, providing the related material as well as the required templates to be used to handle project management activities
- Providing consultancy services to manage customer projects but also large scale and complex programs in any domain such as but not limited to IT, security, education & research, consumer goods, engineering, bank, construction, pharmaceutical, medical & health care, luxury or oil & gas.
# Currently successfully acting as External Advisor until the 1st of August 2015 (consulting contract) and reporting to the Senior Management Staff (CFO & General Manager) of the BIA Group S.A., an International Company in the Civil Engineering and Construction Industry:
 Managing the global SAP IT & Functional SAP ERP program deployment across all enterprise entities. This includes providing best practices guidance to setup and manage the technical infrastructure but also the adequate organisational structure and business processes changes as well as to deploy customised project and service management methodologies supporting the new company related strategy.

Company industry:
Management Consulting
Job role:
Consulting

Program Management & Organisational Transition

January 2011 - July 2014

PHILIP MORRIS INTERNATIONAL

Switzerland

January 2011 - July 2014

Roles: Lead complex IT Programs with $million budget, multiple subprojects, stakeholders located worldwide and working on virtual teams. Promote the global project portfolio governance and train newly engaged IT employees
Achievements:
• Completed the Alignment and Custom Migration programs to new Data Center for all application infrastructure services, as SAP or SharePoint installations, without customer impacts and as per the new technical standards and requirements
• Completed the SQL 2008 R2 Migration program of all critical SAP services landscapes without customer impacts taking into account the technical pre-requisites and quality management requirements
• Organised and managed the integration management meetings attended by the company VPs and related initiatives to assume the global project portfolio governance and foster the company organizational awareness program. Ensured that the appropriate follow up is done at management level and the required solution is brought in response to the raised concerns
• Conceived and planned the courses catalog for new employees of the IT Department. Provided Service Management, SAP and procedural trainings

Company industry:
IT Services
Job role:
Management

Project Management & Service Provisioning

January 2009 - January 2014

PHILIP MORRIS INTERNATIONAL

Switzerland

January 2009 - January 2014

Roles: Lead projects and service provisional activities with stakeholders located worldwide and working on virtual teams to support SAP services provided to all customers and used by all company employees
Achievements:
• Directed the customisation, enhancement and maintenance of the SAP HR infrastructure landscapes focusing on customer needs and satisfaction. Conducted and coordinated upgrades and improvements of the related technical installations and architectures (SAP ERP, Portal, LSO, Java/J2EE, Web Dynpro, CRM and BW solutions) to provide innovative end users modules and functionalities

Company industry:
Management Consulting
Job role:
Management

Project Management & SAP Technical Support

January 2004 - January 2009

ALTRIA ITSC (MERGER OF KRAFT FOODS AND PHILIP MORRIS INTERNATIONAL)

Switzerland

January 2004 - January 2009

Roles: Lead projects and operational activities with stakeholders located worldwide and working on virtual teams to support SAP services provided to all customers and used by all company employees
Achievements:
• Managed and supported the enhancement, installation, configuration and maintenance of several SAP infrastructure landscapes: Portal, Java/J2EE, BI, PI, ECC6, ERP, Solution Manager, SCM, APO, CRM, GRC and DUET solutions with the related Oracle and SQL server databases

Company industry:
IT Services
Job role:
Information Technology

Incident, Change, SLA, Problem, Configuration Management: ITIL Methodology

July 1999 - January 2004

ALTRIA ITSC (MERGER OF KRAFT FOODS AND PHILIP MORRIS INTERNATIONAL)

Belgium

July 1999 - January 2004

Roles: Lead service management activities provided to all customers located worldwide
Achievements:
• Created, implemented and supported the processes and procedures related to the service level agreement, incident, change, problem and configuration management domains
• Provided service management trainings to the newly engaged employees joining the IT Department
• Administered issues, instabilities, changes and configuration items to support the installation, configuration and maintenance of the servers, network, storage, SAP, automation, database and security infrastructures

Company industry:
IT Services
Job role:
Information Technology

Education

UNIVERSITY OF WALES, ROBERT KENNEDY COLLEGE

May 2013

May 2013

Master's degree, MSc in project Management (Professional Master as the MBA)

Switzerland

Master of Science in Project Management (Professional Master as the MBA) • Thesis: Prerequisites to the implementation of technical infrastructure projects necessary to host ERP software landscapes

COURS INDUSTRIEL DE BRUXELLES

July 2002

July 2002

Bachelor's degree, Bachelor (‘Graduat’) in Computer Science, Projects and Programming Techniques

Belgium

Bachelor (‘Graduat’) in Computer Science, Projects and Programming Techniques

HAUTE ECOLE FRANCISCO FERRER

July 1997

July 1997

Bachelor's degree, Bachelor (‘Regendat’) in Mathematics-Physics

Belgium

Bachelor (‘Regendat’) in Mathematics-Physics

Skills

Consulting
Expert
Consulting
Expert
Coaching
Expert
Coaching
Expert
Training
Expert
Training
Expert
Service Management
Expert
Service Management
Expert
Project Management
Expert
Project Management
Expert
Conflict Management
Expert
Conflict Management
Expert
Time Management
Expert
Time Management
Expert
Presentation & Performance
Expert
Presentation & Performance
Expert
Management & Leadership
Expert
Management & Leadership
Expert
Communication
Expert
Communication
Expert
Influencing
Expert
Influencing
Expert
Negociation
Expert
Negociation
Expert
Consulting
Expert
Consulting
Expert
Coaching
Expert
Coaching
Expert
Training
Expert
Training
Expert
Service Management
Expert
Service Management
Expert
Project Management
Expert
Project Management
Expert

Languages

English
Expert
French
Expert
Arabic
Intermediate
Dutch
Intermediate
Spanish
Beginner

Training and Certifications

Certifications
ITIL Service Management Service Design
Mar 2012
George Washington University School of Business: Master Certificate in Project Management
Jan 2013
Project Management Institute: Project Management Professional
Apr 2009 - Apr 2018
ITIL V3 Foundation
Jan 2012
SAP Netweaver Technology Consultant
Jan 2004 - Jan 2007

Hobbies

  •  Project Management, new technologies, sciences, sports, travel, voluntary work