Consultant Program Director
Consulting
Total years of experience :14 years, 7 Months
For a leading EUROPEAN BANK, Project rescuing taskforce providing the client with the relevant planning and risk assessment for an agreed scope which will allow meet the planning project go live date
Project size : €3M
Technical environment : Peoplesoft, Tuxedo, Linux
Facing several delays in the start of the testing activities, the client requested an audit and a support to secure the go live date :
Project Management plan
Ways to integrate key persons into the project -
Stabilize and finalize scope (both Business & Technical)
Risks assessment along with Risk Mitigation plan
Planning (taking into account actual availability of project and partner team members - summer leaves)
Supporting HCL to prepare statement of work, detailing organization, planning, deliverables and P&L for a Phase 2 of a large collaborative platform implementation program at IOC in Switzerland
Project size : €15M
Technical environment : SharePoint
Following a first phase, developing a Proof of Concept, my client requested my support to build a proposal for the phase 2 roll out, allowing :
Efficient governance and communication
Challenged implementation planning and cost
Project Management of the business team for a DWH project supporting Policy administration processes
Project size : €2M
Technical environment : Cognos 10
The project is aiming to implement the first brick of the enterprise DataWareHouse (DWH).
I was in charge for the whole project (Business and IT) to set up necessary PM processes, methodology and templates for this project and reusable for the upcoming new extensions supporting the remaining business processes (CRM, Risk, etc).
Main role and activities :
Set up PM processes, and delivery methodology including synchronization points, deliverables definition and templates set up
Project Kickoff and planning set up (High level and detailed including all the dependencies with external projects)
Project management:
o Planning and budget follow up
o Coordination of various teams (IT, external projects)
o Reporting to the project sponsor and the Steering Committee
o Users Tests set up and coordination
Project Management of a reporting rationalization project for all the entities and functions in the group
Project size : 500 k€
Technical environment : SharePoint
The project is aiming the centralize and share a global, comprehensive Management reports directory, and provide guideline for reporting optimization in order to reduce the cost and ensure effectiveness of the management reports production within the group
Reporting to the Group Board of Management as sponsor of the project, my main role and activities :
Consolidation of a unique inventory of the management reports within the group
Review and harmonization/simplification potential identification with the group
functions
Recommendations finalization to improve reporting maturity in the group
Project management:
o Planning and budget follow up
o Coordination of various teams (Legal, Finance, IT, Marketing)
Set up of the target governance and processes for the contract management for IT services (France)
This project is aiming to audit the existing contract management processes and governance, set up target processes and organization for the contract management for IT services in France.
Main role and activities :
Coordination and support of the different stakeholders in the contract elaboration
process
Target contract management processes and organization definition
o Contract management Governance set up (organization, roles and responsibilities)
o Processes description and definition
o Templates set up
Reporting to the CIO and to the Executive Committee
o Contracts portfolio status
o Quality and SLA metrics
Set up of Central Project Management Office processes within the client’s organization in order to meet the company’s strategic objectives and secure the return on investment on projects (France, International)
Project size : €1M
Technical environment : Planview
Supporting the implementation of the global group strategy, and in order to ensure the alignment of the investments with this strategy, we set up a Central PMO in order to establish and steer the investment initiatives and control the group resources utilizations.
Reporting to the COO, my main role and activities :
- Establishment and running of a sustainable approach to project selection, approval, alignment and monitoring
- Providing a transparent view of the entire project portfolio performance
- Set up of processes and tooling support for risk management
- Set up of KPIs and reporting for investments follow-up and budget impacts
- Definition of a new budgetary control process
- Set up of a project portfolio management system based on Planview with focus on the demand management process, project progress tracking, reporting & scope management
- Consolidation of existing project practices at the client, assessment of gaps and identification of required levers of improvement
Supporting an international group wide program aiming in deploying a common business platform, I was in charge, from the start of the program until the first successful go live, of the PMO team, enlarged to the program manager coaching and leading the roll out activities.
Main role and activities :
- Identification and implementation of the program-wide support functions for the PMO
- Establishment of the program management infrastructure (management processes, governance structure, tools, procedures, …)
- Leading a complex implementation project within the program
- Set up and coordination of process optimization and change management activities to realize the expected business benefits of an implemented application
- Regular reporting to the Group management board of the client
- Set up of the business case for the international roll out of the application, considering the implementation in the foreseen Business Units
- Serving as a point of contact for the stakeholders. Monitoring, understanding and ensuring the fulfilling of stakeholder expectations; managing corrective action to address gaps
- Supporting the program director in diverse program related topics
- Keeping track and management of inter-dependencies on program and project levels
I played several roles starting with PMO member, evolving to PMO lead and project lead of diverse teams (Business and IT support, Migration, Functional and technical Testing including performance tests)
Reporting to the Program Manager (CIO), my main role and activities :
- Lead of the implementation support team
- Lead of the data migration team
- Lead of the PMO team
- Lead Performance test team
- Supporting the program director in diverse program related topics
- Establishment of the program management infrastructure (--management processes, governance structure, tools, procedures, …)
- Keeping track and management of inter-dependencies on program and project levels
- Set up the testing strategy for data transformation
- Serving as key contact for the BUs (GB, USA, Italy, etc.) providing support both on business and IT side
- Monitoring, understanding and ensuring the fulfilling of stakeholder expectations; managing corrective actions to address gaps
In charge of Identification of investment opportunities, and end-to-end project delivery management
The challenge is to help the bank in creating a proper business deals generator by identifying investment opportunities considering the cost factors and investment financial advantages set up at the country level to attract FDI (Foreign Direct Investments). From the identification of the business opportunities to their realization, I was dealing with all the aspects of new business set up.
Reporting to the CEO, my main role and activities :
- Identification and realization of projects in diverse industries
- Elaboration of business plans
- Assessment of advantages of diverse sectors; securing the of necessary know-how and ensuring the access to target markets
- Project funding elaboration (Short, Medium and long term financing) but also equity.
Master of Engineering in Automatic and Information system from Ecole Central de Lyon